Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-02-15
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

NJ De1h0 COuuLy.
One person out of eight in Wi8con-
SIN own an automobile and there are
l25 different makes licensed.
The city of Eau Claire has passed
bakers ordinance, regulating the
weights Of loaves sold to 16 ounce,
"a ounce and three pounds. Weights
apply "a hours after baking.
derailed boXcar on the Milwaukee
road crashed into the wall of the Cen
taur Motor Co. at Wausau and moved
the wall 20 feet, causing damage of
more than $4,000. Several narrowly
escaped injuries.
Mrs. Rose Gerlick, 40, Beloit, her
daughter, Ann, 5, are dead and Mike
Gerlich, the husband, and a son. Tony,
y, are in the hospital seriously burned
and may die as the result of a lamp
explosion in the Gerlick home. Mrs.
Gerllck was filling lighted lamp
with kerosene and the oil can ex-
ploded
A manhole in a Green Bay street
embedded under six inches of ice
blew up, hurting large pieces of ice
over buildings. A gas main eXplo-
sion converted the sewer into a huge
cannon barrel and pedestrians thought
a bank robbery was taking place.
Several windows were broken but no
other damage was done
Anton Mailman, native of Coblenz.
Germany, where he was born in 1922,
recently celebrated his Tooth birth
day at the ANNA NJ. Reiss Home for
the Aged at Sheboygan. The old gen
tleman is cheerful and in good health
Home occupants made Mr.. Mallmann's
birthday a gala affair
Mrs. Frank PITT, 27, Lacrosse,
shot and killed her husband as he lay
asleep and then surrendered 70 the
police. PITT had been out of work
for long time mad often threatened
to kill his wife and comitt suicide,
she said.
The city fathers of Lodi are at
tempting to regulate public dancing
by requiring local dances to have a
competent floor manager who will
announce each dance. Any person
or society conducting or permitting
improper dancing will be refused the
use of the city dance hall.
Henry Hansted, 72, Two Rivers,
was frightened to death when a car
driven by Victor Tomek, skidded and
brushed against Hansted and his wife.
Mr.. Hansted tainted and was taken
home where he passed away. An
examination diclosed no injuries
The old lady was not hurt
The children of Mr.. and Mrs JOS
Rudolph and brothers and sisters OF
Cecilia Rudolph, 16, numbering eight,
were awarded $4,000 from the
Northwestern road bv a Milwaukee
jury Thursday. Mr.. and Mrs. Ru-
dolph and four children, driving
~, a1y Nv ~, Of he
Thompson-rd. crossing in January
daughter were killed. Two sons
were injured. The family lived at
ST. Francis.
Sophia Laner, 20, Ladysmith school
teacher who thrashed a five year old
pupil Clarence Meyer, because the
children threatened disobedience, was
disciplined by losing a year toward
her state life teachers certificate,
but vii not lose her school. Miss
Laner used a 30-inch broom handle
on the boy. Her school board eX-
Onerated her. but Supt. Callahan
wrote her a letter OF rebuke
Helmer Colds NTH, employed at the
Old Peoples Home north iof Slough
ton, had a narrow escape from hor-
rible death when a 5year-old bull
broke a chain in a barn and charged
him. Goldsmith saw the animal COM
ing and ran with great vigOr. He
managed to get everything out of the
door but one leg and the bull charged
that bruising the member badly. The
other help drove the bull back with
a pitchfork, rescuing Goldsmith.
A Green county jury will be asked
to settle who died first, husband or
wife, in the family of Henry Butt,
farmers who moved into a new home
last winter and persisted by breathing
coal gas the first night they slept in
the house. Relatives of Butt declare
that the wife and children died first.
Albert Pehl, father of Mrs. Butt, de-
clares that the husband was weak
from the effects of influenza, and per-
ished before his wife, two sons, or his
brother-in-law Edward Pehl. An eS-
tate of $4,000 was left by the family
and its disposal in heirship will de-
pend upon whom passed away first.
the husband or the wife.
A huge timber wolf attended school
at Gould's, north of Merrill, and liked
il so we'll. that although threatened
bv a boy armed with stick, he de-
parted leisurely and then returned
behind the Sch00l 10 the SuI1ounuAl5
wood within hearing distance OF the
class exercises. On his first appear
ance at the school he couched him
self on the steps while Miss Effie Mar
amore and her dozen pupils watched
him through the window, and his feel
ings were so hurt by not gaining en-
trance that he showed his teeth
Miss Cora Simonson, rural school
supervisor of Shawano, was located
in a Rockford hospital after relatives
had searched month for her. The
Young lady is a victim of asphasia
and her sight is seriously impaired
nationwide hunt was begun Jan.
when the girl left Shawano for her
home at Wittenberg but failed to ar
rive at her destination. She had COM
nIained to friends of feeling Ill and
said she was going home to rest W.
The supposition is that she took the
wrong train and wandered. her mind
a blank, until she reached Rockford
where her i'll condition was so appar-
ent that she was sent to hospital.