Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-08-29
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

life Sunday OF last week, by drowning
in a horse watering tank few hun
dred feet from the residence where
her husband was asleep. Her body
was found by her children, who re-
turning from church and failing to
find her began a search of the premis-
es. She made an attempt to end her
life last year by the same method.
Frank Tyler and Mrs. Josephine
Boyer, affinity pair" recently arrest
ed in Waupun, were sentenced to one
years imprisonment by Judge Fowler,
on statutory charge. Each of the
couple deserted families to establish
the love nest" in Waupun.
Two hundred and fifty owners of
cottages at the Chain o. Lakes near
Waupaca, Wis, have declared war on
vandals who in winter season have
broken into their summer homes and
logged away furnishings. They have
decided to employ a detective to pro-
tect their property.
The civil service commission at
Washington, d. c., has announced that
seven persons took an examination
held recently for postmaster eligibles
at Belleyille, Wis, an office paying a
yearly salary Of $1,700.
With her hair burned off and her
body charred, Mrs. Mary Calkins, SO,
Wednesday was found dead in her
solitary home at Brandon, Wis. She
lived a recluse and had been dead for
some time when found. An overturn-
ed oil stove told of the tragedy.
Death Tuesday of last week ended a
record of 68 years on the same farm
for Mrs Dorothy Janig, sc, pioneer
resident of Centerville, Wis. Mrs.
Janig was born in Germany in 1887
and came to ManitowOc county when
she was 49,
Farmers in Barron, Washburn, Saw
yer and Rusk counties have started to
market the early potato crop. Prices
for the crop range from 81 to $1.oO a
hundred pounds. Within few weeks
the entire crop will begin to move.
Robert Kowalski was arrested last
Thursday in Racine on the charge o.
manslaughter following the inquest
on the death of Elinor Nicholson, who
was killed by Kowalski's automobile.
KowaIski claimed when the acct
dent occurred at Corliss, Wis, he was
driving his car Is miles an hour and
that he skidded 80 feet. The coroners
rate of speed.
The Rev. B. F. Schoenield, pastor
of the First Congregational church,
Park Falls, Wis, holds the angling
record in Price county. In company
with his son, Bud, on the south fork
of the Flambeau, he hooked a mus
kellunge weighing 43 pounds. A full
grown muskrat was found in it's
stomach.
julius Falk, Sc, Lincoln county
! farmer. in a fit of dependency, last
Wednesday held the muzzle of a r.
gauge shotgun loaded with fine shot
below his heart and pulled the trig-
ger. He is survived by his wife and
| eight children, the youngest four.
After having, during the last two
months, stolen a horse, a canoe, burg
larized a hardware store, robbed the
Eau Claire Theater Co. Office, and
| committed a score OF minor offenses,
Clarence Seidler, II, Eau Claire, is on
! his way to the industrial school, Wau-
| keSha, there to remain until he is Is.
| The robbery of the Office of the Eau
| Claire Theater Co. was the last straw,
so to speak He had been given 4
number of chances to mend his ways.
$1,000
in terrible auto crash nine miles
south of Manitowoc, Miss Flva Kuehl,
Is. died of her injuries as she was be-
ing rushed to Holy Family hisp1tal IN
Manitowoc Arthur Bergner, Sheboy-
gan, driver and owner OF the Hlndson
coach, is in the hospital with Gashed
arm, torn legs and bruised body. Miss
Mabel Pitt, Sheboygan, is lying in q
/
a broken arm and bad bruises in St.
Nicholas hospital, where she and Fred
Blanke, Sheboygan, route 3, were
taken after the accident Mr.. Blanke
| left the hospital considerably bruised
about the right side and with possible
internal injuries.
Anna Johnson, who, though blind,
! deaf. having only one leg and having
| lost the sense of touch IN one mana IS
| still happy even though thus handl-
! canped and will be at the Milwaukee
| Goodwill Industries Exhibit at the
State Fair this year, showing line
| exhibit of her hand craft.
Because of it's love for salmon, a
cat at La Crosse has sacrificed one OF
it's traditional nine lives. The cat a
/ large Angora, had been missing for
two days, and search proved futile.
In crossing a deserted lot on the out
skirts of the village boy found the
unfortunate cat with it's head jammed
in a salmon can. When released Il
was too weak to stand, but few min
utes of fresh air and it strolled OFF
purring.
Otto Duggan of Delavan, was pain
fully burned at the Ford garage IN
FNkhorn when a fellow employe light
ed a match while he was washing his
| hands in gasoline to remove grease.
| Flames spread over his arms but were
extinguished when Duggan wrapped a
| coat around himself.
Robbery of the Bower City JobblnS
Co. warehouse, GAINESVILLE, was clear
ed UP with the confession of Jack
Rabyor of GAINESVILLE, who named Jas.
Rabyor. Jack Heating and VIM. Mars
den, all of GAINESVILLE, as his accom-
pIices. Search is being made for the
three men who were tipped off when
Rabyor was arrested. A jack knife
found near the burglarized place on
| -.1.oI, woe ;pcorika5 fhn name Jack