Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-09-20

burns received when her clothing TOOK
ire from a blaze she and a brother
Qad built for the purpose OF making
mud pies.
kutn Bowe, 2, was fatally burned
and Earl Hiliman and Rudolph Bowe,
both 10, suffered serious burns when
j boiler filed with water, with which
they were playing, exploded at the
Bowe home in Dressler Jet.
Thieves who broke into the beauty
parlor OF Mrs. Carrie Bergstrom, Ke-
nosha, took a purse containing a very
small sum, and overlooked roll OF
pills amounting to $85, hidden in a
jar containing massage cream.
Ward B. Large, Oakfield, drove his
automobile into a 500 line passenger
train. He jumped just as the pilot hit
the car and escaped with only a slight
cut on his forehead. The automobile
was carried 100 feet on the pilot of
the engine.
The Milwaukee railroad station at
Stoughton was robbed for the second
time in six months early Monday Of
| last week. Thieves gained entrance
through an unlocked window and es-
capped with $23 in cash, taken from a
drawer in the ticket Office.
A heavy cloth cap saved the life OF
John Madesen, %, at Racine, when he
was attacked by Stanley Remkis, who
| had an ak. Both are in Jail. The
| trouble grew out of moonshine max
| ing A still, so gallons of mash and
four gallons of moonshine were found
when deputy sheriffs arrived on the
scene of battle.
Frank Schneider Sr., Oconto hard
| ware man, was painfully burned about
| the arms when a kettle of molten as
phalt overturned as he was about to
raise to the roof the Jail which had
been undergoing repairs. The asphalt
became ignited, the roof caught fire
and it became necessary to call out
the fire department.
Peter Peterson of the town of Win
chester, near Oshkosh, died of injuries
received threshing. In trying to fas-
ten a piece of canvas to the machine
while it was moving along the road
he slipped and the front wheel of the
machine passed along one side of his
body and over one shoulder. His
chest was crushed and several ribs
broken, puncturing his lungs.
Guy Waffenschmidt, H. G. Morrison
Forest Tabor and Frank Curtis, Sank
City, were arraigned at Baraboo for
assault without regard for human life
| The young men are accused or run
ming down H. r. Page, Reedsburg, al
Devils Lake, injuring him, and speed
| ing away after the accident. All but
one of the young men put up $1,000
bonds for their appearance later.
Mrs. Bertha Reichert, 81, Juneau
was instantly killed when she fell
from ladder leading to the haymoW
in the barn on her sons farm. Her
death was the fourth end by violence
| in her family Her first husband
Gustav Rehse, was killed by bolt OF
! lightning A son, Frank Rehse, fell
from ladder and was killed at the
Mayville coke plant. A daughter, Els
Their Reichert, was fatally injured by
fall from a wagon.
Terry Maudrie, champion log roller
of Marinette, put his knowledge to a
good use when he saved two little
children from drowning. He was
crossing bridge when he saw two
children, Dora Lindquist, 5, and her
brother, Andrew, 8, playing on the
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watched the children fell into the
water. Maudrie rode log to where
the children had fallen in, grabbed the
little girl by the hair and then swan
to the boy, bringing both in safety to
the shore.
The Rev. Leland Marion, 27, min
| lister of the First Christian church at
GAINESVILLE, whose name has been
linked with one of the members of his
church, was upheld by the congrega-
ton when it was voted to ask him to
stay another year. Following this &C
ton the members voted again asking
the resignation as elder, of Frank E.
Sadler, who led the opposition to the
pastor. Sadler was trustee, financial
secretary and clerk of the church. He
was also teacher of the Bible school
and designed the church building,
Sadler proposes a fight to a finish.
The Wisconsin department of agri-
culture is taking steps to vigorously
protect the bee and honey industry of
the state. Geo. Zwetig, Fond du Lac,
will be prosecuted for selling bees and
supplies after a permit had been de-
MED him. 1t is also charged that he
violated an order requiring him to ap-
| ply remedial measures to cure dis
eased bees. Edwin Zindars, Water
town, was fined for bringing diseased
bees from Dodge county into an area
which had been cleaned up after g.
year campaign. The infected colonies
were destroyed. Jefferson county api-
aries in which bee diseases had been
rampant for fifty years, were found
practically all healthy this year as a
result of a cleanup campaign, the de-
partment states.
The sheriff's Office of Fond du Lac
county has started war on the prac-
| tice of selling bootleg whiskey to
young men at the country dances
! The move came close on the heels OF
/ a "moonshine party" which resulted
in the wrecking of two motor cars
| and later in the arrest of two young
men. According to Sheriff E. T. Wor-
! thing roadhouse proprietors are just
as anxious to have the sale of moon
sine stopped as are the authorities
In Fond du Lac county and through
out the state it has become common
occurrence at nearly every country
| dance for strangers to circulate in
| the crowd, dispensing half pint and
pint bottles. Frequent fights and i'm
moral conditions at the country af-
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