Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-31

asleep in his car near GAINESVILLE, with
a quart of moonshine as company. was
arrested and held under $1,000 bonds.
Remember the time when two bits
meant q meal? The old days have re-
turned. One Eau Claire restaurant is
serving 25-cent dinners and making
money.
"a piEts of all varieties of liquor
were destroyed by the GAINESVILLE po-
| lice under orders of Judge Malfield
The stock had been confscated Turing
the past few months and held as evil
dence in various liquor cases.
When lightning struck the farm of
| T. Rasmussen, Denmark, two barns
and a machine shed were destroyed
with their contents and the seasons
crops. Two purebred Holstein COWS
also were killed. Volunteers saved
the house and granary.
| Mrs. Fred'Thousand Mt. Horeb, was
hurt and knocked unconscious at
| ball game when she was struck in the
right eye by a batted foul ball. Mrs.
Thousand sat on the base line and did
not see the ball coming. Two stitches
were taken to close the wound.
Police in northern Wisconsin are
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Old, enc of them armed, who are be-
lieyed to have stolen an automobile
and are now attempting to sell it.
The boys were seen near Lake Am
nicOn, inQuiring the way to Rhine
lander.
Grandma" Shields of Green Bay
celebrated her 95th birthday last week
Despite her age, Mrs. Shields is in
| onn1 bno1th 6nnc mot or1o
Up every morning at six, she insists
on doing her share of the housework
She occasionally attends a motion pic
ture show.
Leonard Schmallenberg of Bear
Greek went to the barn to get some
rivets to make harness for his dog.
In the rivet box some dynamite per-
cussiOn caps had been dropped The
boy took one of the caps along with
the rivets not knowing what it was.
Attempting to- drive the cap into the
leather it was exploded and the boys
| left hand torn off.
Robert Pease, g. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
lee Pease, Madison, was rescued from
drowning by his cousin, Ralph Fox,
a. Ralph with Robert and 5-year-Old
! LleWelyn Pease, was out in a rOWbOat,
I $50 feet from shore. Robert fell over
board in attempting to change his seat.
He became caught in the thick weeds
and did not rise Immediately. Ralph
dove twice to rescue him.
Stanley w. Smith, state prohibition
commissioner, has affixed his sigma
ture to 924 physicians permits, to pre-
scribe liquor under the state prohib
ition act. 470 druggists permits have
also been issued. The permit cost is
$40 each. Blanks are being mailed to
all others entitled to permits, includ
ing doctors, hospitals, dentists, veter-
inaries and dealcoholizing plants.
Small boys flying kites were re-
sponsible for large part of the city
of Green Bay being without electric
power for about half day. The boys
flew their kites across the high volt
age wires, disregarding advices to cut
the strings to retrieve them, and
pulled until the electric cables were
pinched together. The resulting short
circuit burned all the wires. The
damage was estimated at $500.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is re-
ported at Mlshicott. Eight cases, two
of them serious, have been reported.
Nurses have been dispatched to the
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boil their drinking water. A sample
of the water was sent to Madison for
analysis. A mothers meeting will be
held in Mishicott this week at which
Viola Muir, County Health Nurse,
will lecture on the care and treat
ment of typhoid patients.
A .32 caliber revolver left with Gill
bert Void, waiter in Stoughton rest
aurant, for safe keeping, was taken out
two weeks later to be returned to the
owner. Void had put the gun in a
paper sack. In removing it the gun
was in some manner discharged. The
bullet grazed the mans hand in which
he held the sack. and then entered
his left knee, blowing a path for some
distance. Void was taken to the hos
pital where an X-ray convinced the
doctors that the best thing to do was
to leave the bullet in his leg.
While repairing a 1890 volt line put
out of commission at GAINESVILLE by
storm, Louis M. Barclay was killed.
He was the second to die from the
storm as Louis d. Hayes, 65, was in
stantly killed when a tree struck him
During the same storm, Mrs. George
Cantwell was injured when a board
from a barn across the road from her
/ house, came through the window and
hit her ON the head. A herd of sheep
belonging to Albert Poegley, Green
county farmer, was smothered when
the barn collapsed. An ice house at
Fontana and hotel at Duck lake
were destroyed.
Despordent over the sudden death
Of Otto Lienkamper, the Lafayette,
Ind. man who died of heart failure at
the wheel of his automobile while rid
ing through Kenosha, Mrs. Tressa
Smith, wife of James Smith, a tenant
on the farm owned by Lienkamper,
committed suicide, after viewing the
body. The woman was of a nervous
/ temperament and talked strangely
to members Of the family upon her
return home. They thought little of
her remarks, believing she was mere
! ly excited over the death of an old
i friend She went to her bedroom and
took q large quantity of poison. Her
husband and two sons survive. Mr..
Lienkamper was prominent and pop
ular in his home city. Friends mo-