Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-20
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

The monthly payroll of the CheVro-
let Motor Car O. branch at GAINESVILLE
now totals $4,000. About 1000 per-
sons are employed.
Ray Kneesl, 81, La Crosse, shot
himself through the head in park N
that city. Beside his body was an
empty moonshine flask.
G. Rudolph Haberle and Dorothy
Davenport, Beloit. were killed when
a Rockford interurban express collid-
ed with a motor car Haberle was
driving.
Otto Ramthun, AZ, Watertown,
drank an ounce of carbolic acid when
his aged mother refused him money
to buy moonshine with. He died two
hours later
Arnold Neuwirth, 10, Sheboygan
lad, lost his right leg when he fell
from a freight train he had dipped"
The member was almost twisted from
the little fellows body.
Stepping down to the tongue OF his
wagon to recover the reins, Peter
Kinney, GAINESVILLE, fell and the team
pulled a wagon loaded with gravel
over his body. He died few minutes
later.
f1OWdTu " bIlGu, ~, GI64lW OOu S4CS !,
was instantly killed when he came in
to contact with an electric wire in
garage where he was at work. A 10
volt circuit grounded through the
mans body.
Leslie Delaney, Beloit, believes ne
has the champion household for the
measles, as ten in the family were
down with the disease. 439 cases Of
tO
officer at Beloit during the month OF
May. I'll
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Maloney, a
honeymoon couple, were saved from
drowning by Tom Hayes, a one-armed
man, who plunged into the MISSISSIPPI
pi river near French Island and
rescued the Maloneys when their boat
capsized.
Smoking among the co-eds of the
University of Wisconsin +. has caused
the house mothers to consider cam
paign to eliminate the practice among
the girls in their charge. A meeting
will be held June %, when the matter
will be discussed.
Mrs Frank Warren, lola, former
patient at an insane hospital, slashed
her throat with a bread knife at the
home of sister, where she had been
staying. NeighbOrs assisted in sub
DUNG the woman and she was taken
back to the asylum.
Emil Lange, North Freedom, died
Monday last from injuries received
when he was crushed beneath load
of sand and gravel at a pit Lange,
foreman at the pit, was buried when
a large hopper used in loading gravel,
gave away without warning,
A crowd estimated at from six to
eight thousand people attended the
first of d series OF market days at
Reedsburg. A Ford car disposed Of
by the merchants through coupons
was the main attraction A pavement
dance was held in the evening.
The BOrchert cheese factory at the
village of Wayne, near keWaskum,
was burned to the ground Saturday a
week ago The building, equipment
and supplies, worth $4,000, were a
total loss. The fire loss among cheese
factories is mysteriously very high.
DR.. Gregory Pavich, so, Kenosna,
former physician to Emperor Franz
Joseph, Austria, was rescued by fire
men from a burning rOOming house.
The aged man was cropping his way
through the smoke filled building
when his cries brought aid. The
blaze started in his room where he
had stored chemicals.
G. D. Handshowtte, Watertown sew
ing machine agent, unloading ma
chine from truck, was pinned be-
tween two cars when an automobile
driven by J. P Miner, Madison,
crashed into the rear of the Hand
shewtte car The latter suffered a
broken leg and serious internal in
iuries. Miner was arrested.
VIM. Diver, LadySmith farmer, ad-
vertised by means of a sign in front OF
his house White Mule for Sale.
Passersby saw the sign and in the
evening visitors began TO arrive
When the prospective buyers saw
that Diver actually had white
mule tied in the barn, they left in dis
gust. DIVERS has been an object OF
censure since from both 'wets" and
"drys"
Twelve East side high school pu-
pills, Madison, including four girls, in
yolved in the investigation Of liquor
and petting parties during the last
month, were expelled from school by
order of the board of education last
Tuesday night. Seventeen pupils were
originally in the probe. The four
girls will be given a mental examina-
ton and all u will be given second
rhyslGal examination.
The Wisconsin highway commission
is preparing new signs as a guide to
travel. A circular sign will mean
Railroad crossing Ahead" diamond.
sign SLOW Down; Get Car Under
Control" q square sign Right Angle
Turn Ahead" The signs now being
erected will be one foot outside the
shoulder of the road and plainly Wis
ible. Markers are being put up TO
give The names of lakes and streams
along the highways, and to mark the
points where the state highways
cross the state lines.
A Jew law passed by the state leg
isIature provides that all bread offered
for sale in tha state must be of
weights Of one pound, one and one
half pounds or multiples Of one