Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-01
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

VIII De Che largest foundry in the
whole world
In an explosion in a Wausakee pic
ture show five reel film worth $3.50
was destroyed. Bernard Droog. oper-
ator, escaped uninjured The flames
were confined to the fireproof booth
GAINESVILLE will have a referendum
April 4 on the sity manager plan of
government and the women's organ
1zations of the city have expressed
themselves in favor of the plan
James K. Chambers, Beloit railroad
man, has brought action against his
wife, a resident of Savanna, H., who,
he alleges, refused to follow him to
Beloit from the Illinois town when he
received orders to go there.
S150000 damage was done in a fire
that wiped out the village of Spruce.
The village hall, garage, two cafes,
a dance hall, blacksmith shop and six
homes were destroyed. The blaze
started in a hall wnere rehearsals
for community play were in prog
ress.
Reedsburg relatives are searching
for Helen Bennett, daughter of Mrs.
David Bennett, who left home last
Monday and has not been seen since.
The girl was in her second year in
high school. She is said to have
cashed a $50 Liberty bond before
leaving for the west with an elderly
woman
While Mrs. Edor Everson, Slough
ton, stepped to a telephone to an
swer call, her 7-months-old babe
she had left lying in the middle of a
table, while she was bathing him,
wriggled around and fell on small
kerosene stove used to heat bath
water with. From the stove the child
fell to the floor His skin was Sc
verely burned on several parts of the
body but the little chap will recover.
Cutting a path less than 200 yards
in width for mile in length in Os-
ceola township, Fond du Lac county,
a small tornado damaged several
score farm buildings and completely
wrecked telephone property in the
area. The storm was part OF
freak electrical disturbance that
ragged in Fond du Lac county Sunday
a week ago One chicken killed was
the only known casualty in the cy-
clone.
Hartwell Farwell, Windsor slayer
of Theophile Houston, has been re-
COAAA~A
between the state prosecutors and
his attorneys. Bail was placed at
$4,000 and Farwell was released
from Mendoza insane hospital. He
confessed to shooting Houston and
attempting to burn the body in hay
stack he set on fire. A plea OF in
sanity is expected.
Ben Erickson, As, farmer of Eft
rick. was saved from burning to death
by his hired man, Otto ROsendale.
Erickson ran into the house to phone
for assistance when a fire broke out,
and failed to return. The hired man
made three trips into the burning
structure before he found his en-
pIoyer. He carried the UNCONSCIOUS
man to safety. The house was des-
troyed with a loss of $4,000.
The state industrial commission re-
port shows a slight but healthy in
crease in employment and wage sit
uation in the state. SaWmllls, plan
ing mills, foundries and machine
shops showed increases in number OF
EMPLOYEES. The weekly earnings OF
Wisconsin employees during January
averaged 1882, which is $1,000 less
than in August, 1920, when the peak
of wages was reached. Since August
1920 the total factory pay roll OF the
state has fallen ST per cent. Wages
decreased 20 per cent on the average.
Printers lead as the highest paid en-
pIoyes in the state and printing ana
publishing, boots and shoes, hosiery
and knit goods are the only industries
in January 1922 that had more en-
Moves than in July 1920.
The attorney general has ruled that
overdrawing a bank account to pay
hills even though the person drawing
the check knows he has no funds IN
the bank is not illegal when the check
is made to paw a debt established at
some previous time. The intent TO
defraud is a necessary element OF the
crime. In case of attempted payment
although the debt remains unsettled
the creditor is no worse off than be-
fore and no crime has been commit
fed If. on the other hand, goods are
obtained with the plain intent TO de-
fraud nv means of a spurious check
being issued to cover payment, thefe
Is a crime committed and the person
making such check is liable to pros
ecution.
The state conservation commission
has gone on record diScouraglng the
wholesale drainage or lana OIL odolouo
AGRICULTURAL value. 1t is pointed out
that many such lands prove dlsap-
monument from an agricultural stand
noint after being drained. On the
other hand the waste marsh lands
nroyide a refuge and breeding place
for furbearing animals OF all xmas.
One farmer sold $4,000 in muskrat
skins from overflowed acres, a crop
yhe could never have equalled IN val
no from draining and sowing, dlsmis-
SING the cost of reclamation. me
question is also begged as to whether
ar not human beings have the right
DESTROY all animal life to further
unitarian ideas. In other words IS
not monstrous to assume that people
sbouId tear down everything nature
Constructs simply to add to one gen
eration's material wealth? IL mas
baen shown through the destruction
IF snakes and birds that the hne pal
once maintained by nature 10 keep
down insect ravages was upset win
great harm resulting 20 crops Oh al
kinds.