Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.


65 years Old
The La Crosse painters union vol
unfairly signed new agreement witt
the contractors accepting a reduction
OF 75c an hour. The new scale is 81
cents an hour.
AS part of a program Of economy
the city of Barron, Wis, has dropped
the services Of city nurse. Miss
Emma L. Pulls, nurse for the past si1
months, will be discharged.
Mark Bunker, II, son Of Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Bunker, Neenah, drowned
Sunday afternoon vile swimming in
Lake Winnebago The boy went in
with companions and succumbed tC
cramps.
A man who gave the name of VIM
Homer, Neenah, was captured al
Oshkosh early Monday after he was
observed chiseling hole in the big
vault at the plant of the Carver Ice
Cream Co.
Wisconsin livestock range from one
per cent to four per cent below nor
NAL healthfulness, the May report OF
the Wisconsin crop reporting service
states The long winter and wet and
cold spring is responsible.
]. L. Parks, Merrimac, was fined
$500 and costs for the manufacture OF
moonshine by Judge andre at Bara-
boo George Dickerson, Sank City
pleaded guilty to making moonshine
and was given 81 months in Jail or a
fine of 500.
William Clark, Baraboo, has rec
ord of never an accident during the
fifty years he served with the North
western road as fireman and engineer.
He recently retired on a pension. Mr..
Clark is 81 years old and went to rail
reading at the age Of IA.
Rudolph Krause, 16, Appleton, died
from broken neck after falling 3
feet down a stairway in new home
which his father was building. No
one saw him fall although there were
several persons within a few feet OF
him. He died in a few minutes.
Louis Stockton, 10, living near Me-
nominee, drowned in the Red Cedar
river at townsville while fishing.
His companions heard a cry as he
slipped off a rock but he was not
see mas he was drawn under by an
eddy and did not rise. The body was
recovered.
The city OF Plainfeld was thrown
into a panic when an Oil truck took
fire while an underground reservoir
at the Rindfeisch garage was being
filled. Walter StillWell drove the
blazing tank outside the city limits
where the blaze was eXtinguished
with chemicals.
William Steensath, Il months, son
OF Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Steensath, Nor
risonville, swallowed a grain OF corn
which lodged in a bronchial tube. The
child was playing with several grains
OF corn when he placed one in his
mouth and inhaled it, Suffering in
tensely the child was taken to hos
ritaI. There the doctors inserted a
brOnchoscOpe and after locating the
offending grain, removed it,
After being in the water for nine
teen days the body Of Warren Curtis,
10, drowned in the Rock river near
GAINESVILLE, was found by Arthur w
Wright, who had been daily at the
task since the accident. The Curtis
LAD was the son of railroad man and
the fathers fellow workers never
gave up the job of searching. The
body was found ten miles below the
city caught in the roots Of a tree.
Miss Mabel Johnson, Madison girl
fell or jumped from a Ford coupe and
sustained injuries that caused her
death The car contained three other
young people, Ella Gnerlich, Alvin w
Hunt and Ray Conlin. All three test
flied that they knew of no reason for
Miss Johnson's act. Miss Gnerlien
admitted that a little drinking had
been done. The matter is still under
investigation. Miss Johnson died in a
hospital with two skull fractures.
Clear more land" is the advice to
farmers in upper Wisconsin sent out
in bulletin from the college Of ag-
riculture. More land must be
cleared more rough feed raised and
more selling done if the new agri-
cultural section is to be developed
fully. Since the war $3.50 families
have settled in the northern counties
Seventeen cut-over counties have tC
buy S5,000,000 worth Of feed for 100,-
00G cattle each year. The plan is tC
develop the country and keep this
huge sum at home.
A masked bandit early Tuesday shot
and robbed VIM. Van Order, 81, Apple
ton, as he sat in his automobile al
Madison talking to John Clark, Mad
ison. A second shot intended for
A1d1 n WSuI Will. Ndu OIu6I WdS
robbed of $40 and a gold watch by
the robber who escaped. The man
had a handkerchief tied over his
face, and neither of the men held UP
could give a clear description of him
other than he was large and appar-
emily young. Van Order was shot
over the heart and seriously hurt
An increase Of 1000 working col
onies of bees over last year is re-
ported by Joseph A. Becker of the
Wisconsin cooperative crop report
ing service. The total winter col.
onies are estimated at 114,000 as
compared to 10000 las year and
81 900 in 1920. Winter loss was rel
ativeIy large this year and Is per cent
or 10000, did not survive until spring
Cherryland in Door county began
TO bloom Sunday and this picturesque
sight will last week Thousands of
Of acres of cherry orchards and now
in bloom. Motorists come miles to
see the beauty and partake of the
fragrance.