Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-04
The estate Of Willard S. Heddles,

The estate Of Willard S. Heddles,
Madison, probated at 100000.
! In order to care for 700 pupils in a
school built to house 500 pupils. Eau
| Claire is running the high school in
Two shifts.
/ Roy Olson, II, Merrill, is the envy
! of the other small boys of his town
Roy caught a 28-pound muskie at
Bear Skin Lake.
| Ten COWS on the Thomas Bindl farm
at Spring Green were killed by over
eating after breaking into a field and
! partaking of large quantities of corn
and fodder.
Partridges, frightened by the guns
of hunters have been the cause of
several unusual stories this fall. At
| Hurley a partridge, frightened out of
! the woods, flew into town and against
Ben Kohn, 35, Dodge county farmer,
| is under arrest on a federal warrant
A 30-gallon still, It's gallons of mash
and several gallons of liquor were
| found in a cornfield on Kohn's farm.
A Milwaukee road freight train near
Green Bay, collided with small calf,
| killing the heifer instantly. The en-
! CINE left the track with five cars. The
engine crew were thrown thirty feet
and both men injured.
mil V. Rankin, 48, Brussels, Wis,
was killed when struck and run over
by motor car driven by John Lardi-
nOis, a neighbOr. The car was trav-
cling at high speed when Rankin, who
was crossing a highway, was hit.
| Supervising teachers may legally
provide their automobiles and charge
/ tho counties for thn tho of
ney generals Office rules. Reimburse
ments may be made the teacher on
| the actual cost of operation Of the ma
chine, including oil, gas, repairs, tires
and depreciation.
E. E. Blashek, state treasury agent,
may lose an eye as the result of an
assault made on him at La Crosse by
Louis Klein, fruit peddler. Blashek
! called on Klein to collect a license fee
for selling at the fair. A fight result
| ed. Blashek is in a hospital and his
assailant in Jail.
Pure bred silver black foxes and
other fur-bearing animals will be
raised by new company, the Oneida
! Fox Farm Co., incorpated for $4,000
| al Hazelhurst. The farm will be
started Nov. LIST, with ten pairs Of the
| costly animals. Emerson Zero, fo-
mer game and fire warden, Will be in
charge.
plate glass window in cOnfection
cry store, breaking the plate glass. At
| Stevens Point a partridge flew against
! two windows in home, breaking both
/ glass The bird was captured in a
| dazed condition. At Wausau a part
ridge flew against the windshield on
motor car, breaking the glass and
dropping dead in the car.
Young bandits held up the bank at
townsville and made away with 1925
after locking two bank cashiers in the
vault. Mckinley DissOn, cashier, and
Arthur Sunderland clerk, were forced
/ into the vault at the point of a gun.
| The robbers scooped up all the handy
cash and drove away in a car. The
imprisoned men managed to get out
of the vault and gave the alarm. The
robbers were traced to Durand and
| lost.
State investigators have determined
that potatoes may be fastened toward
maturity by killing the vines before
they naturally wither. This will cause
the tubers to harden before being
dug Certain chemicals have been
| found to do the work satisfactorily.
If experiments are successful Badger
potatoes will compete more success
fully with the smooth western vari-
cites.
Ed. Pistohl, %, Waldo druggist,
was instantly killed under a freight
! train when motor truck in which he
was a passenger ran into a moving
train at Sheboygan. Pistohl was
thrown from the car by the impact
and fell between two freight cars. He
was carried thirty feet and horribly,
mangled. Foster Harrison, driver of
the truck, was not hurt. Harrison
said his car lights went out out just
before he reached the track, making
it impossible for him to see the train.
Town boards are responsible for de-
| fective culverts and towns are liable
tor damages caused through poor Gull
| construction of a culvert on a pub
ais office has ruled. 1t is held that
! the construction of a culvert on pub
lie highway in such a manner as to
cause water to back up on the field of
a farmer, gave the farmer grounds
for cohrt action against the town in
which he resides. If persuasion does
not bring results the damaged person
may file claim and if the claim is not
allowed he can bring court action to
| recover.
The sting of poisonous insect on
the little finger of her left hand, re-
! ceived while she was picking acorns
during an outing with her husband
and daughter, nearly caused the death
of Mrs. Frank Lepke, Neillsville. Mrs.
Lepke, with her daughters help, i'm
mediately lanced the wound. Despite
the lancing her arm swelled to twice
it's normal size and her face also be-
came swollen. The woman was taken
to Pittsville, the nearest town, and
given medical aid. Doctors said the
immediate lancing of her finger was
the only thing that saved her life.
After giving several school children
a ride home from their school near
Egg Harbor, George Rankin Jr., kept
a 13-year-old girl in the seat of his
truck and attacked her, according to
charges made by the district attorney.
Rankin is married and has two child
rem. The parents notified the district
attorney, at first fearing that the girl
was kidnapped, when carried away IN
the truck, as other school children
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