Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-14

Five pupils of the Madison high
school were suspended by Vo.ney u
Barnes, principal of the school, as a
result of alleged intoxication at a
class party.
Two strangers, man and woman,
posing as patrons at Rocky Run Inn,
roadhouse west of Stevens Point,
carried off gum vender weighing 80
pounds and containing $50 in change.
In the four years since Eau Claire
went into the coal business, some TO-
900 tons have been supplied residents,
and more than $4,000 profit has been
accrued the city. The city's aim is to
supply good coal at fair price.
Tomahawk spent BUTTERFLIES day
following the night robbery OF the
Tomahawk Creamery Co.'S plant. All
the butter in the factory, 80 lib.
prints, was confscated by the burg
lars who made their escape without
leaving any cleWs.
Too weak to move, Jack Stoddard,
about 40 years old, was found in an
abandoned house along the Wisconsin
river near Wisconsin Rapids last Fri
day, in a half-starved condition His
residence is unknown. Hospital au-
thorities say he will survive.
Waupaca officials are bending every
effort to capture a band of butter
burglars" who are believed response
BILE for the robbery OF number OF
creameries in that vicinity. A number
of tubs of butter and several thousand
dollars have been stolen from various
creameries.
The farm house of Fred Winkler, a
few miles from Peshtigo, Marinette
county, was destroyed by fire Wednes-
day of last week. About 8 p. m.
blaze was discovered and extinguisn-
ed, but during the night fire broke out
again. The believe is the fire was Of
incendiary origin.
Two small boys dressed like imps,
even to horns and forked tails, burn
ed $4,000 worth of mortgage bonds
in the Y. NJ G. A. fireplace at Eau
Claire, Halloween night, at an open
celebration of the close of the drive IN
which 1902 members were obtained
and 1902 were raised.
The first step in his fight to close
up Madison rum shops was taken by
Dist. Atty Theodore &. Lewis Friday,
when he secured a temporary iniunc-
ton from Judge A. G. Hoppmann in
superior court, shutting up the Bel
videre, an Italian cabaret, at sos
Regent street, operated by Tony Lam
OnicO.
August Spohnholtz, so, a farmer,
was buried beneath an avalanche Of
rock and shale when the ledge of a
gravel pit caved in on him near Lo-
ganville, Sank county, Friday. With
|, cd in nV-
cavating gravel for road surfacing.
His left hip was broken in three
places and serious internal injuries
are feared.
Five thousand dollars is asked by
Mrs Cora Wadey wife Of DR.. B. J..
Wadey, of Belleville, of Matte Wilson,
of the same village, for the alienation
of her husbands affections, in a suit
filed in circuit court at Madison. Mrs.
Wadey claims that in 1918, while she
was living with her husband, Matte
Wilson plotted to estrange them.
Alleged to have intercepted and hid
de" mail which was sent to Mrs. Thos
Engel, roomer at her home, from her
husband, who was out of the city, Mrs
Leslie Smith, 1917 E. Mifflin street,
Madison, denied the accusation in
court, and the case was ordered con-
tinued Bail was set at $500. The let
ters were found in clock in the
Smith home.
Kenneth North, real estate man and
son-in-law of Magnus Swenson,
former federal food dictator, was
saved from drowning in Lake Mendo-
to when two University high school
pupils saw him clinging to a canoe
and rescued him in a rowboat. North
was duck hunting. He shot a duck
and when he picked it off the water