Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-07-25
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

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juries when he was run over by an
automobile. The lad was playing IL
the road when run down. His skull
was fractured
Louis Renter, Lena, Wis, was pur-
sued from De PeTe to Kaukauna, 10
miles, after he ran into an automobile
driven by Frank KuyZer, Little Chute,
knocking it into the ditch and injuring
Kuyzer. Renter sped away but was
followed by Kuyzer, and placed under
arrest.
Vera Jansen, 6, daughter Of Leo
Jansen Of Racine, choked to death
while eating peanuts at Eagle Lake.
Several women of the resort colony
attempted to dislodge the peanut from
the child's throat but to no avail. She
died before a doctor could reach the
cottage.
Effective July /, a new license fee
for trucks went into effect. IL tons
or less pay $40; ~ to "a Sl5; ~
to tons $40; ) TO tons $50; ana
to tons $45. over tons So plus Tor
each quarter ton or fraction thereof.
Refunds are provided for license paid
this year under the old law.
Peter FIauatynick, IS, was struck
by an automobile and instantly killed
at midnight Sunday during a dense
fog that covered the city OF Hurley.
His neck was broken and his right
arm was fractured in several places.
He died instantly. The driver OF the
car has not been identified.
Daniel Manski, II, was drowned in
the Fox river at Eureka, near Berlin,
Tuesday evening. Manski was bath
ing with several other lads after sup
per, and was seized with cramps.
The river is being searched for the
body by divers with graphing hooks.
1t is the first drowning OF the year IN
Green Lake county.
The Wisconsin State Fair has made
a regulation barring all games OF
chance or so-caIled Skill" from the
grounds. There will be no more
spindle games, paddles, cane racks,
striking machines, ETC., and the car
nivaI and fortune teller will be
thing Of the past. County fairs should
follow their example.
There are now ten Wisconsin coup-
ties in which squirrels cannot be
killed trapped or caught. Jefferson
and Walworth were added to the list
by a bill signed by Gov. Blaine last
week Laws already in effect prohibit
squirrel hunting in Dodge, kenosha
Racine, Waukesha, Washington, Ozau-
kee and Milwaukee counties.
A peculiar accident caused the
death of a valuable driving horse
owned by Mrs. Susie Stutzman Of
Omroe A neighbor noticed her horse
acting queer and a stick appeared to
be hanging from its side. Upon in
vestigation he found that a tive-tined
fertilizer fork had been driven into
the animals body, the entire length
of the tines. 1t died the next morning.
Wisconsin farmers have decreased
their potato acreage IL percent &C
cording to the state crop estimate,
while in the nation the acreage has
been decreased 10 percent. Low prices
and one poor crop are given as reas-
ons for the decreased area in potatoes.
Tobacco, however, has an increase OF
5000 acres, or II percent. Corn has
about the same acreage as last year.
The area in beans will be $4,000 acres
this year, instead OF 5000 acres las,
year.
While his bride OF IL months heIl
his head in her arms, her apron over
his right thigh which was blown away
by charge of buckshOt in the hands
OF Adolph Eckman, Daren farmer
Carl Fritz, Richmond farmer, bled 10
death near Darien last Monday. Eek
man is held in jail at ElkhOrn. Fritz
is said to have tried to enter the Eek
man home in search OF a shotgun ne
claimed Eckman had. Eckman ad-
mits he shot Fritz but declares he die
it in self defense.
The Winnebago county board in a
i mn 40
regulating road houses, dance halls,
bathing beaches, amusement parks
and other public places Of entertain
ment. The ordinance requires per-
mits and licenses to be issued by the
county board. Dance halls must pay
$40 a day for every day a dance is
held. Amusement parks and bathing
beaches must pay fee of $40 year
each. Street Ialrs and carnivals pay
SIS per day The license money will
be used to employ so responsible SUI
pervisors
Harry Henderson, 16, WATERFOWL
high school boy, died in a hospital
Of injuries received when he dived off
a springboard at Rock Lake, near
Lake Mills. He struck bottom caus-
ing injuries to his head and neck.
" III you must make it make it good"
is the moonshiners' motto suggested
at Monroe since the arrest of r. X.
Barnes, who is said to have sold such
poor stuff that the purchaser regret
ted paying SIS gallon and swore out
a warrant for the sellers arrest.
The stuff was rotten" said the dis
gusted buyer as he signed the COM
plant.
AS an aftermath of the marriage
May II, of Mrs. Lola Sarow, James
vile, to the Rev. Leland L. Marion,
former pastor of the First Christian
church, GAINESVILLE, and now pastor of
a Whiting, Ind, church, Attorney E.
d. MCGOWAN made a motion before
Judge Grimm at GAINESVILLE Monday to
set aside the divorce. The court set
aside a previous order that Sarow pay
$40 month for the support of his
child, and gave him custody Of the
child. 1t is contended that inasmuch
as Mrs. Sarow's divorce is not fully
effective until year after judgment
is entered, Mr.. Sarow is entitled to
sue for divorce on the grounds of in
fidelity