Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-06
NE!GHBORHOOD
BREVITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Euents
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Christian Ziegler Of Hof Germany,
Is visiting at the August Hanold home
in Boaz. The young man, who is an
expert weaver and knitter, has come
to America to engage in the arts and
trades at Milwaukee, and it is only a
preliminary to his settling in that city
that he came on to visit his relatives
after having arrived in this country.
Mr. Ziegler relates some mighty in
teresting things concerning prices
now prevailing in his native land. He
wears a pair of shoes that cost 40 900
marks, which amount would mean
$4,000 of our money if the German
mark was at pre-War time par; he
paid for his suit of clothes 100000
marks and the last egg he ate in the
fatherland cost him 800 marks. He
came over on the steamship George
Washington and at his first meal he
was served with more meat than he
had seen for three months prior to his
departure from home. In the town
where he lived, place of 10000 pee
pie, the food is confined to potatoes,
bread, oleomargerine and rice, the
last named article being the extent
of luxury indulged in by the very rich
or only upon rare occasion by those
OI u1OuGIdIG uSdllS. Min ID dlIl1OSI
an unknown commodity in that city
Richland Rustic.
Claiming operations are under way
al along the upper Mississippi and its
tributaries the Wolf, Fox and Wiscon-
sin. Clammers use flat boat. A
canvas frame, Axe feet, is lowered in
to the water, the device pulling the
craft downstream with the current at
gradual but regular rate. The fish
ing apparatus consists of galvan-
lied pipe IL inch thick and about "a
feet long. To this rod are attached
hooks suspended on lines four feet in
length and about six inches apart
The hook is homemade affair and
four hooks are fastened to each cord,
making four exposed prongs. The
fisherman lets his hooks glide over
the clam bed. If the hooks strike u
clam that has it's she'll open for feed
ing the clam closes instantly, Selling
the hook. CLANS ''bite" best after a
storm when the water is muddy and
once hold of hook do not let go.
The catch varies from 800 to 700
pounds a day and the price of mixed
shell is around $28 a ton.
Ex-Mayor A. w. Hoosier, Platte
VILE, is an authority on how to tame
rattlesnakes. While hunting musn-
rooms Mr.. Hoosier noted a RATHER
coiled behind a log. Instead of try
ing to put salt on the reptiles tail
Mr.. Hoosier hunted a forked stick.
He then placed it over the snakes
head and grasping the reptile back of
the head, picked it up. The snake en-
deavored to coil around his arm and
strike, his rattles going incessantly,
but Hoosier kept a firm hold until he
placed the snake in sack. 1t is be-
ing exhibited, eight rattles and a but
ton, in a Platteville store window.
Edmund Schratler, aged ten, died
Sunday night at Mercy hospital at
Dubuque, the result of a gun shot
wound in his leg. The lad had been
fishing and had taken gun along
with him that he lay on some rocks.
The gun was struck in some way and
the charge entered his leg. He was,
rushed to Dubuque, but before the
leg could be amputated the lad died.
Funeral at Dickeyville.-Plat
Witness.
Residents of No. Dewey Ave-, Ga
lena, are subjects to attacks by family
of owls. One boy was struck in the
face and others have been annoyed.
1t is presumed that nest of f1edg-
lings exist in the neighborhood and
the parent birds are attacking pass
ersby in response to an instructive
fear of being molested. Owls so close
to a city are a nuisance and an effort
will be made to drive them out.