Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-11

Lee Bros, Rutland farmers. lost II
bundles of good tobacco when thieves
invaded their warehouse.
Hugo Millert, bachelor. aged 40,
shot himself at the home of a brother
in Sheboygan while respondent over
poor health.
Bert Terio, Omroe, was sent to
Waupun for two years for not sup
porting his wife and two children.
Baraboo is mildly excited over the
presence in that city of Antonio Lop-
! ez Gonzales, a native of Argentina,
who is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
McGovern. Gonzales is a student at
the University of Wisconsin.
| Roy Westerberg, 16, paroled from
| the Waukesha Industrial School 70 a
farmer of East Troy, was killed by
falling tree.
Private Marcus Hanson, U. SIN. c.,
Icharged with shooting and wounding
Otto H. Lambert, while guarding
mail car at De Pere, was exonerate4
by Naval Secretary Denby.
Jefferson county is observing the
present week as milk Week, in
which the public will be educated as
to the food value and greater uses OF
milk and milk products.
| Louis Rasmussen Delavan, had
| the neighbOring city of Elkhorn agog
when he appeared insisting he was
I'Lucky Tommy O'Connor," and ask
ing to be arrested Rasmussen WIS
examined and sent to Mendoza.
Eight cases of good whiskey worth
Is 500 were stolen from the vault Of
the Kradwell Drug Co, Racine, The
clerk went to the vault to fill a pre-
Iscription and found the vault was like
old mother Hubbard's cupboard.
| Joseph Kidder, La Crosse, former
Madison newspaper man, must serve
six months in the Milwaukee house
of correction for conspiracy to vic
late the federal prohibition laws. Mr..
Kidder was convicted of signing pre-
Iscriptions, using fictitious names.
In the trial of Henry Versemeek at
GAINESVILLE for the murder of Mrs
Christianna Brick, the defense is en-
deavoring to prove that the man was
Is miles away on the night he was
alleged to have killed Mrs. Brick for
a few dollars she had in her purse,
George Doudanis, 33, Lithuanian,
ShebOygan, attended a Christmas feS-
tiva and dance at the home of a coun-
lLT4uiEu, ICJGI bCU0 FiICll fAG LIZ
height of the proceedings, DOudOnis
fell over dead from exhaustion due
to dancing He left four small child
Iren
Mrs. Elsie Trepte, so, wife of a
Milwaukee manufacturer, shot and
KILLED her husband Thursday while
under the influence Of moonshine she
had purchased in a saloon. The un-
fa yy0r1an pTaZp1 with
Igrief when she sobered up and rea-
lized what she had done.
Retail dealers of Neillsville have
Iagreed to handle butter only and to
eliminate oleOmargarine. The local
creamery agrees to pasteurize ana
put out a superior brand OF buttei,
Neillsville people will be asked to
call for the home product when they
need butter. Thus is the dairy in
dustry of Neillsville to be enhanced.
The Neillsville Condensed Milk Co.
made each of it's forty odd employees a
substantial Christmas gift in the way
of $1,000 life insurance policy The
company pays the premium each year
land in addition the policy increases
in size $3.50 for each year that each
emplOYe continues in the company s
service to the end that it may event
ually have a face value of $500 in
case of death. In event Of an emplOye
leaving the company's service, he may
assume the payments on the policy
and thus continue it, but during his
service the company will pay the pre-
miums each year The gift was very
pleasing to the employees.
Births in Wisconsin i'll 1920 num-
bered 57222. while deaths amounted
to 29.437, the state board Of health
states. The comparatively low death
rate is due to the decline in the mum
Der of deaths reported from nOn-COm-
m"nicable diseases. Pneumonia
with 3,407 fatalities, leads all Other
disease. Contrary to general opin-
ion. the 1868 births among Indians,
exceed the deaths by 80. indicating
that the race is not dying out in the
state Similar figures are reported
~ % other states with Indian pOpula-
tons The tuberculosis deaths in 1920
were 2.267 or IS in excess of 1919.
Cancer killed 2.235 in Wisconsin in
1920, exceeding 1919 by SO deaths.
Wisconsin has made valuable con-
tributions of fish to Oregon and Wash,
ingtOn which the fishermen both cOrl-
mcrcial and spOrtsmen, value highly.
A letter to the Wisconsin cOnserva-
ton commission relates that shipment
IOf Mackinaw trout to the western
states several years ago by the con-
seryatiOn commission have proven to
be prize. Fully thousand fisher
men from Spokane annually visit the
Loon and Deer lakes in Washington,
to angle for the Mackinaw They are
one of the best game fishes Of the
west now. They are taken with a
trawI and with live bait or spoons.
in from 90 to 40 feet of water Trout
weighing 80 pounds have been taken.
Six boys whose ages average 10,
were put on six months probation at
Eau Claire for series of thefts COM
mitted by them as an organized gang.
Their depredations ranged from sew
en- sticks of INT to trinkets from 10
cent stores. They admitted thefts of
large quantities of chewing and
smoking tobacco. Judge George L..
Blum required them to abstain from
tobacco. to attend Sunday school reg
ularly and bring him cards to attest
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