Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-05-02
News FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

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prohibition commissioner and former
chairman of the conservation com
mission. declared before the senate
affairs committee in arguing against
the Smith bill to make the commls-
sion a one-man job at salary OF
AZ 900 a year. Barber declared that
the state now hires three experts at
$4,000 each, but that the one-man
commission might be and might not
be expert" He said that since the
organization of the commission under
Gov. Phillip, there had never Deen a
question of politics in the admlnlstra-
ton of conservation work.
Despondent because the man she
loved did not return her affection,
Grace Stewart, %, Chicago, attempted
to take her life by drinking z ounces
of iodine in the Northwestern depot
at Neenah, Sunday afternoon Inc
young woman went to Neenah sat
urday to visit the man she loved, a
farmer living near the city. she
hoped to win him in final attempt.
AS is usual in such cases she falled'
Instead of returning to Chicago the
girl waited until the station was
clear Of people and then drank the
iodine. Miss Stewart was discovered
and taken to hospital She will
probably recover. The name OF the
man is being withheld pending an IN
vestigation.
In circuit court at Tomah before
Judge C. E. Higbee, Richard Serrur-
Ter. former cashier Of the Wilton
State bank, charged with embezzle-
ment, was sentenced to three years
in Waupun but placed on parole.
It was reported that Serrurier had
made restitution of all the funds.
Judge Higbee remarked on the small
salary paid the defendant, saying 75
a month for a boOkkeeper in bank
was insufficient After pronounclng
sentence he paroled the young man at
once placing him in the custody OF
the sheriff until the parole officer
arrived.
The body of a man taken from Cat
fish creek, near Madison, is beHeVed
to be that of John Scalzo, Italian, VINO
served under the American colors IN
the World war and was committed TO
the Mendoza Psychiatric hospital by
Milwaukee authorities. The conclus-
ion is that the man drowned last 1all
and that his body remained IN the
water all winter. The chest was tro-
zen to the bottom of the ice which
kept the body near the surface. VIM.
ShillinglaW, farmer, found the BODY
AGENTS of one of the largest tobac-
co firms in the country have been at
Pra. du CHEN seeking site Tor a
large warehouse The plans comprise
A building in which $50 sorters can
work at time, and the storage crop
will amount to from $4,000 to $780,
600. Crawford county is noted for us
wrapper leaf tobacco, which IS much
sought after in the east by elght
manufacturers.
The fire of youth undoubtedly stlll
cOnrses in the veins of Andrew Ben
son. so, employee of the Superior city
street department. Mr.. Benson eloped
with Isabelle Johnson, so, a telephone
operator, and was married at Besse-
mer. Mich. Benson, born in sweden
has been married twice before. Botn
other wives are dead.
The three brothers known as the
stevens Point chewing gum bandits,
are again in the tolls of the law. he
leased after the theft of large guam
titles of gum, the boys, one aged y ana
the two others twins, aged 5, USED
mass key to enter five homes IN the
CITY. They confessed and turned over
money and jewels. %
Hunger drove Robert Richards, 81,
Fond du Lac, to crime and behind the
bors He held UP j. L. Vangilder,
AnpletOn grocer, and robbed him OF
sis. Half an hour later he was cap
tured Richards story made SUCH an
impression that his case will be post
poned. pending an investigation.
Ludwig Kravick, Cambridge drug
gist. is the object of a probe in con-
nection with the death of Nordahl Lee
Of Cambridge, who fell from porch
following a drunken spree. Krav1ck,
it is alleged, sold the alcohol used at
the party.
Miss Alice Gross, Peshtigo school
teacher, is defendant in a suit for
$500 damages brought by Louis Mel
son. farmer. Nelson asks $500 dam
age for expenses incurred in the i'll
ness of his son, Orland, aged IL. 1t is
charged that Miss Gross beat the boy
with ruler. ;,
Wolf bounties are paid only on dead
wolves. Charles Wilson, Dan Young
and Henry Van Hooser, Stevens Pit,
who brought seven live, fluffy week
old cubs to the court house, had to
take them outside and kill them be-
fore they could collect a bounty OF
SIS on each.
The playful habit of selling moon
shine in a pop bottle, now common all
all over the state, did not work out
we'll at Manitowoc where Anton No
yak. saloon man. sold a bottle to a
detective. Novak was fined 5000 and
costs.
Enos Behner. Alma saloon keeper,
is on trial at La Crosse for the murder
of one Allen Ganteubein Four months
ago Behner was acquitted of the muir
der of John Gantenbein, father of AL
len. and city marshall, in the same
fight
The Wisconsin legislature has
passed a law establishing a standard
Size for bread loaves. The loaves
will be one pound, one and one-half
nounds and any multiple of pound.
ONLY half of the teaching force of
SAWYER. Wis, have returned their
contracts for another year. Miss May
Colignan has resigned after 25 years
Continuous teaching in the grades.