Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-01

Fred Schmidt, Oakfeld, the father
of six, pleaded guilty 10 manufacture
of moonshine and was given four
months in Jail.
Fire that destroyed the Longfellow
900 pupils out of school A new
school will be prepared and equipped
in several weeks.
A winter electrical storm at Lar
son, near Oshkosh, caused the loss OF
bolt that struck the barn of Edward
Uvass. The barn did not catch fire.
The large dry goods store of Alex
Kornheiser, Madison, was destroyed
by fire Thursday a week ago with a
loss of $35O000. A striking incident
after the fire were the published ex-
pressions of sympathy from the COM
petitors of the store, with the hope
that it would soon be on its feet.
Horace Howard, Glen Flora young
man who is in the habit of walking in
his sleep, crawled through the upper
sash of a window in his Sleeping room
and plunged to the icy ground, IA feet
below, breaking his collarbone and
fracturing several ribs.
IIIC6 COUNTY VIII CIGdI t,oOO ttCi -
of cutover land this year and plant
the same to feed crops. The county
has been importing $250000 in feed
each year to care for the herds and
the drain is a heavy one to the far
mers. In the future they will at
tempt to be self supporting.
Phillip Johnson, years, EdgertOn,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Johnson, ac-
i IL, II N1Cx- -, ,rr
with a revolver, and died the same
day in a hospital at Madison. The
child took the gun while his father
and older brothers were doing chores
and his mother was i'll in bed. He
was the youngest of seven children.
The bullet entered the child's left
temple.
Punch boards have no legal stand
ing in the circuit court of La Crosse
county, according to Judge e. c. Hi9-
bee, in the case of the Iowa Novelty
Co, Des Moines, VS. Janis Kanilakes, 4
Greek cOnfectioner. The man refused
to pay for the board and $500 prizes
after the outfit had been confiscated
in a raid by the sheriff. The court
took the view that the novelty COM
pany could not recover because it was
selling an illegal cOntrivance.
The increase of automobiles owned
in Wisconsin for 1921, shows gains Of
16 per cent. Green county leads with
one motor car for every 4.25 people.
Green county led the state in 1918
with one car for every seven people
and again in 1919 with one car for
every six people. In 1920 Green was
first with a car to every five and a
fraction persons and in 1921 it again
took the palm as being the most mo-
torized community in the state.
The victim of the Miracle creek
murder, near Palmyra. mas been iden-
titled to be Edward Thielen, Racine.
Two brothers, a cousin and a dentist
who made peculiar gold crowns for
Thielen, completed the Identification.
The nude corpse was found face down
in the waters of the creek with a
.32-caliber bullet in the back of the
head The authorities worked for
two months to identify the body and
will now endeavor to locate the muir
der.
Henry Mauer, 81, Verona farmer.
bled to death when he was caught
between the wheels of his lumber
wagon. An artery in the left leg
was broken. A doctor arrived ten
minutes after the accident but Mauer
had succumbed from loss of blood.
Mauer, who was hauling lumber, had
stopped his team at a rail crossing
while "a train passeC. Stampeded Dv
the train, the horses swung around
and started to run. Mauer was in
front of the team and unable to get
out of the way of the wagon. He
leaves a widow and eight children.
Bonds OF Arthur banks and Mike
Janna, totaling $1,000, were ordered
| forfeited by Judge Grimm at Monroe,
when the men failed to appear in
court to answer a charge Of burglary
of the Ward e KnezeI fur warehouse
at Brodhead, Jan. II. Chas. Esling-
err third member of the trio, appeared
but his case was postponed. The men
were surprised by Marshall Roy Ties
of Brodhead. Ties was bound and
gagged and left in a schoolhouse. Mr..
Ties walked through the deep snow
with a chair tied to his back to give
the alarm. Since then Ties has been
threatened with death by Janna if ne