Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-27
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest BY Mail
and Telegraph.

Being on the edge Of one of the to
bacco areas of Wisconsin, the follow
ing figures regarding the standing of
Wisconsin in the tobacco industry
viii prove interesting to Grant
county readers: Kentucky, 500, $50,
1872 lbs; North Carolina, 280,163, 432
lbs: Tennessee, 112,367 ,567 lbs; Viz
elnia. 1O2,391 1926 lbs; South Ca-o-
lima, 71,193,072 lbs; Ohio, 64,42O,472
lbs; Pennsylvania, 55,765,851 lbs;
Wisconsin 52,454,246 lbs; Connect
cut, 43,193,196 lbs. Indiana, 1907
zO2 lbs. other states, 66,9 II, 4O5 los
At the Oshkosh Municipal club Ur-
b4a Taylor cranked his car. The
brakes slipped. The car plunged for
ward, knocked Taylor down, ran over
him, struck q tree, negotiated the
gate, crossed Washington boulevard.
mounted the curbing and was headed
directly for the water works plant
when a man jumped in and stopped it
within six feet OF a wall. Taylor es-
caDed with serious bruises The au-
tOmObile escaped with q broken hub
cap.
Free HOchstein, conductor on tJe
HiIlsbcro and North Eastern railroad
lost his foot while engaged in ais
work last week. He is said to have
A empted to stand on the coupler be-
tween two cars and hold the coupler
in position for making a connection,
and had his foot so damned that it
had to be amputated at a La Crosse
hospital, where he was hurriedly
taken by automobile.
An investigation of the Gays Mills
bank robbery reveals the fact that
less than $4,000 woI IN OF bonds and
securities were stolen. The bank Of
fers a reward of $500 for information
that will lead to the arrest and con-
vict0n of the burglars and an addi-
tional reward of $3.50 is posted by the
State Bankers Association.
On Tuesday, week ago, near
cloud burst visited the KickapOo val
ley in the vicinity Of Soldiers Grove
and GAYS Mills. The waters resem-
bled a flood and rose so high that
they flowed over the depot floor at
Bell Center. Passenger service on
the Kickapoo branch was delayed for
several hours by high water.
Backing his automobile to turn
around, Alvin, Grueber, a MedfOrd
youth, ran over and fatally injured
the 2-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. V. Thomas. The child died two
hours later. Size had squeezed her
way through a narrow gate and
reached the street unObserved. Grue-
Der was not blamed.
EIroy has put in bid for the
worlds championship swine litter
following the narrowing of "a pigs by
a SOW on the farm Of Mrs. Edward
Dowd. This record surpasses by
four, the mark claimed by TOmah,
where a SOW owned by Ralph Rhyme
gave birth to 20 pigs.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. JOS.
Daniel had the misfortune OF break
ing his leg above the ankle and put
ting the ankle out of joint one day
last week. He was playing on pile
of lumber when some of it fell on his
leg and inflicted the injury.-CazenO-
via Reporter
The Bekkedal Tobacco Co, to en-
courage farmers in the production OF
tobacco, is advancing money to aid
the farmers in building tobacco
sheds, the money to he paid back IN
annual installments from the pro
Ceeds OF the sale of tobacco.
From Sparta, which has a reput1-
ton for producing fine strawber. les
in large quantities, comes the report
chat the crop is most promising this
YEAR One grower at Sparta has 10
1cres planted to the fruit.
Lightning put the generator of the
Hillsboro light plant out of commits
sion last week. A smaller generator,
which had been displaced, was press
ed into use temporarily.