Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-07-13
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current Inter.
est by Telegraph
and Mail.

Oscar j. DietZ, JaneSVllle hOCel HAIL.
reported to the police that he was III
receipt of a blackhand letter demand
ing $1,000, the penalty for refusal be-
ing harm to his 10-year-old daughter,
Lucille.
James Brooke, Oregon farm hand,
drowned in Lake Harriet, near his
home. while bathing with party OF
friends The body was found tangled
in the weeds in the lake bottom
Brooke was a poor swimmer.
Pagan Chippewa Indians at the Oda-
nah reservation held a pow-WoW to
petition their pagan gods for rain,
which it is reported is badly needed
in that section. The number OF pa
gans among the Indians is rapidly
diminishing and a pow-woW is held
only on rare occasions.
Leo Redbird, %, Winnebago Indi-
Leo Redbird, %, a WinnebagO In
dian, found prowling about the home
or, in Onaiaska, after he had awaken
ed a woman guest in the residence by
brushing her face, was sentenced to
three years at Waupun by Judge Hig-
bee in circuit court.
Jews in Milwaukee will not permit
a Ford car in funeral procession,
neither will thew allow a Ford car
inside of a Jewish cemetery. They
have taken a stand that it is an "un-
clean" thing. This action was brought
about because of Henry Ford's attack
upon the Jews as a race.
Anna, g. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Wickman, living east OF
Grantsburg, was drowned. Mrs. Wick
hut n 70
minutes, went to look for her and
found the body in Wood river which
runs through the farm. 1t is believed
that she fell in while playing on the
bank.
Otto Carson, 49, and Bert Holt, 40
Lakewood, Wis, are in Jail at Mari
nette pending a trial before Judge
Bernardy, charged with transporting
Illicit liquor into Marinette. Accord
ing to the police, the two men drove
into Marinette from Lakewood in a
car with four gallons of mOonshine
which they concealed in the woods on
the outskirts of the city.
Miss Clara Fitzgerald, student at
ST. Mary's Hospital Nurses Training
school, Milwaukee, escaped drowning
in Lake Winnebago when she was
struck in the back Of the head by
one of the slides that descend the
chutes at a swimming school. She
was unconscious as a result of the
blow and sank, but was rescued by
two young men as she was going
down the third time.
WOrkmen employed in the eXcava-
ton of a cellar under a Neenah home
unearthed two skeletons neatly en-
cased in wooden boxes. The skele-
tons are in an almost total state OF
decomposition, but the teeth of the
two bodies are wonderfully well pre-
served. Old residents here cannot re-
call the place ever having been used
as a cemeterye and the source of the
burial of the two persons will prob
ably remain a mystery.
c. P. Gross, travelling salesman OF
Wausau, and Elizabeth Allen, said to
be an emplOye of a manufacturing
concern in Milwaukee, pleaded guilty
to a statutory charge in Green Bay
municipal court. Gross was fined
500 and costs and Miss Allen was
granted her freedom under suspended
sentence. The two were arrested at
a DePere hotel. Edward Vanderberg,
proprietor of the hotel, was also ar
rested, charged with renting a room
for immoral purposes. He pleaded
not guilty and his trial set for July s.
The state spent $2,125,OOO for the
maintenance system of the Wisconsin
highway commission during the fiscal
year ending July /. OF this $1,625, 900
was for patrol maintenance and the
balance on resurfacing old gravel and
Nj, IS
earth road maintenance was $1S7 per
mile; gravel. 1854 per mile; stone
macadam, $40 per mile, and concrete
1920 per mile, of which amount SOS
per mile was for the maintenance OF
the concrete slab and the balance for
shoulders, bitches, etc. The mainten-
ance system of the commission with
its method of patrol was adopted in
1918 and is proving highly satisfac-
tory