Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-04
NEWS FROM ALL
AROUND WISCONSIN

f1fGS caused ny FdLS C1SW ING lil1tC
cles have decreased almost 30 per
cent since 1917, Platt Whitman, state
commissioner of insurance, has de-
clared. Damage resulting from such
fires amounted to $4,000 in 1917,
$4,000 in 1918 and $23, 900 in 1919.
Fires from this source decreased
from 80 in 1917 to 13 in 1919. Use OF
safety matches, lessened the danger.
In the United States rats are destroy
ing $750000,000 yearly. Rats increase
the cost of living and carry disease,
Mr.. Whitman declares. They multiply
rapidly increasing the potential dan
ger about $50 times each year Mr.,
Whitman looks for greater increase
i'm fires as people needing the money
will burn their property. Wisconsin
has an unusually low rate OF loss
this year on account OF hard times III
business.
In 1920 Wisconsin reported 58,697
births to the census bureau, an in
crease OF 1906 over 1919 The rate
Der thousand population was 22.2.
This compares to a white birth rate
0f 31.7 in North Carolina and 1873 in
California, the nigh and low states
from a birth rate standpoint. OF Wis
consin's 58,697 births last year, S.
915 were five and 1882 colored. The
latter included 81 negro, 288 Indian
five Chinese, one Japanese, one other
col0red Among the births OF In
diaus the births exceeued the deaths
by 90
The dome OF Wisconsin's $7,500000
capitol building, said to be the most
beautiful in the country, was flooded
with light Saturday night a week ago
tor the first time since the beginning
Of the war. The great dome stood
out with a brilliancy that could be
seen for miles. 1t is planned to
maintain the lighting system, ar
ranged by j. G. d. Mack, state engin-
eer. j. ID. Morrisey, supt of public
property, agreed to provide needed
electric power, and to keep the equip
ment in shape.
Vigorous opposition has developed
10 the plan of business men to drain
the Winnishiek bottoms on the Wis
GOnsin side of the Mississippi be-
tween Lynxville and De Soto. The
La Crosse Conservation club opposed
the project at preliminary hearing
held in Pra. du CHEN, on the ground
that the Winnishiek bottoms are val
liable breeding places for wild duck
and snipe and spawning ground for
fish
Frank and George Pratt, three
year-0ld twins, and Frank Miller, in
bed with a broken leg, were saved
by Superior firemen when the Pratt
home caught fire. The three were in
bed on the second floor of the home
and all exits leading to the stairs
were in flames. The blaze was dis
covered by Mrs Pratt who sent one
of the other boys to the fire station,
the telephone being in flames.
The family of Joseph KOpfhammer,
Chippewa Falls, father, mother and
six children, appeared in court for
theits Of some two wagon loads OF
merchandise, which it is alleged they
took and sto,e ed during the year The
husband and wife pleaded not guilty.
The authorities claim that the mother
and children acted as shOplifters, the
father acting as a fence" or dispOser
of the stolen property.
Superiority OF southern Wisconsin
cattle is shown in the sales by Tray
nor Bros. Of KoshkOnOng, WalWOrth
county, of QUeenGtone Belle, 5-year-
old milking shorthOrn, and winner OF
the grand championship in the Inter
nationa Livestock Show sweepstakes,
to buyer at Pittsburgh. The Tray
nor brothers bought the cow d year
ago for few hundred dollars ana
sold her for $4,000.
Asserting that she was greatly
Inundated by charges that she was
kissed daily at the place She was
employed. Mrs Caroline DeWolf OF
Fond du Lac has brought suit for a
divorce from her husband Calvin
DeWolf The making Of these UNI
usual charges form part Of her com
plant Of cruel and inhuman treat
ment
Green Bay christmas tree mer-
chants offered trees at what the GUS
toners wanted TO pay as last effor,
to unload Still all the trees didn't
sell ana some of them will have to be
used for kindiing The farmers had
9lutted the market WITH frs when
they found the prices were a bit high
eI than last year. Then came the
slump
Edward Liebnow, farmer living
near Elkhorn, set a lighted lantern
in his barn and walked to the house
for a pail OF water. When he re-
turned the barn was in flames 4
lot OF valuables stock were burned in
the fire that destroyed the barn.
Miss Jennie Bowman of Kilbourne
becomes sole heir to an estate OF
$145. 615.76, which was settled in the
county court. The inheritance tan
amounts to $7732.30 Miss Bowmans
father was a poineer of the region
and wealthy man.
Nearly one hundred years since the
first white man arrived in the village
Ferryville, south of La Crosse, is to
have a church. A fund is being raised
GO build a community church, which
will be either Methodist or Congrega-
tional
Harry Bradley. 20, adopted son OF
Michael Bradley Janesyille farmer
went behind the barn, placed a re-
yolver in his mouth and committed
suicide. He left a note confessing to
an attack on d sister. IS
VIM j. Wegoner, proprietor of the
Independent Oil Co. juneau, died
suddenly at his home in Minnesota
Jet, Christmas day. A bottle of
poison found in his room had led to