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

mGr, QloQ at OuTdnQ from injuries re-
ceived in a threshing machine acct
dent He was caught by pulley on
| the separator and suffered the loss of
an arm, broken leg and internal in
| juries.
Charles Freeman, Marshfield, after
statewide search for his 16-year-old
dauhgter, found her crying hot dogs
at lunch counter on the fair grounds
at Chippewa Falls. The girl was glad
to go home, completely disillusioned
of fair life.
The Boy Scots of La Crosse will fill
the 100 jobs at the La Crosse Inter
state fair this week, making money
for their camping fund next year.
They will serve as messengers, ticket
takers, popcorn and scorecard sales
men and in other capacities.
When their machine went over an
embankment near Cavour, three
young woman of Goodman, Marinette
county, suffered painful injuries. So
phia Fish suffered injuries to her col
| lar bone, Mary Kashka received a bad
cash on one leg and Mile Kopka had
her wrist broken.
Gustav Radel, neighbor of William,
y
people slain by an unknown person,
has gone violently insane from brood
ing over the crime and is in Mendoza
hospital. Radel became obsessed
with the fear that he would be the
next victim of the hammer slayer.
Another epidemic of hog cholera,
with especially heavy losses on farms
near Milton, Avalon and Brodhead,
L. 10 g.,
tiles to quarantine number of herds
to prevent further spread of the dis
ease. DR.. j. T. Purcell, the expert on
swine disease, says it is the worst
time of the year for cholera to get
start
John Kaufman, Pra. du Sac, and
Louis Voss, Sank City, have invented
slot machine for cigarets. The ma
chine will deliver a flag" already TO
smoke for one cent. 1t resembles a
gum vending machine. Kaufman la
bored for months to perfect the me-
chanism to deliver single cigarets
without breaking OF tearing lne
paper wrappers.
Policeman Lennartz, GAINESVILLE, was
seriously injured Thursday night as
he returned from Green Bay where
he had taken prisoner. His car ran
into a ditch at McCarthy's crossing
between Gren Bay and Kaukauna. The
machine turned over several times,
landing Lennertz pinned beneath it.
He received injuries to his chest and
leg but will recover.
After half century of work as sex
ton, William Drake, II, Monroe, has
presented his resignation to the
Greenwood Cemetery association.
During his service he prepared 5000
graves and has never prepared a
grave on the wrong lot. Il have been
at the work long enough" was the
only reason offered by the veteran
sexton as he daid down his tools.
The income of Wisconsin farmers is
exceeded only by Illinois farmers
among the northern states, according
to a report of the national bureau of
economic research. Their average in
come is reported at $1,863. The aver
age wage of those gainfully employed
in Wisconsin was the lowest of the
I've north central states, being Slab.
The total income of this state is given
at 2,00O,O00,00O.
Alton Tyler, 10, died at an Eau
Claire hospital Friday from injuries
received the night before when he
was run over by an auto driven by
Walmark Fletty, a farmer youth.
According to Fletty he met young Ty-
Ter and another boy, each riding a
bicycle, as he turned a corner. The
two separated and he could not avoid
hitting one or the other. Fletty took
the boy to the hospital.
Tho U;roono CoooOr roIofac fbof ~, O
Jim Davis of that city, was nit on the
thumb by a bolt of lightning. Davis
was out motoring when a storm came
up. He got out to put on side cur
tains While so engaged a bolt hit
in the vicinity, charging the whole
body of the car Davis had his thumb
on the curtain snap and got the bene-
fit of the bolt. Davis was turned over
and nearly felled. His thumb was not
burned but for two days it felt as big
as a barrel.
A commission service was held at
the Chetek Methodist church for Miss
Lorraine Vickery, who is leaving there
to enter the foreign mission field at
the Sarah Creighton hospital in Brin-
dahan, India. She sailed from New
York, Sept. Is. Miss Vickery, a grad
uate Of the Chetek high school in 1918,
volunteered for foreign missionary
service while attending Lawrence
college, and was graduated from the
Presbyterian training school for
nurses in 1921.
TIL body Of James McGill, who is
survived by nine children and his
widow, will be disinterred at Colfax
for examination, following charges
made by companion that McGill
died Of poisoning due to drinking
moonshine in Chippewa Falls. Nc
Gill had been working with thresh-
ing crew and it is alleged had drank
some moonshine both before and af-
ter coming to Chippewa Falls, which
left him in such condition that he
| died before he could be taken to his
own home.
F. G. Larscheidt, 30, and Judas w.
Larscheidt, 20, Wausau, accompanied
by Grant county girl accomplice,
confessed to Sheriff Geo. Toarman of
Eau Claire, to a series of swindling
adventures through Wisconsin, when
arrested at the Northern State Fair,
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