Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-25
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

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$150,000.
By holding up bids on large road
Improvement in Green county the
county road committee took new bids
for $4,000 less than the total OF bids
received a month previous.
H. ]. Baker, Tomah, loading logs at
Oakdale, was perhaps fatally injured
when a load of logs gave away on
f1atcar and pinned him beneath.
Mrs. Katherine Behringer, "a, died
at Oconto of injuries received a month
ago when she slipped and fell down
the steps of her home. She is sur
vived by one son and one daughter.
The body of Oscar Orpin, 65, Clinton
bachelor, was found floating in Rock
river near Beloit. 5000 in pOcketbook
he was known to have carried was
missing. An inquest has been ordered
by the district attorney
In 1914 the average tax on an acre
of Wisconsin farm land was SO cents.
In 1922 the average tax per acre for
the same land was $1.23. These fig
ures take into consideration evry
acre without improvements.
Possessing one bluebill duck during
the closed season was an expensive
proposition for George Haber, Mena-
sha. In municipal court he pleaded
guilty to having such a duck and was
fined $50 and costs, a total of $57O8.
The house and buildings on the
farm of Bert Woodland, Wilton, were
destroyed by a fire that started in an
Overheated incubator in the basement.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodland jumped from
a second story window and escaped
in their night clothes.
The 2-year-old colt of Anton Zabka,
Brentwood, developed a swelling near
its ear and when a veterinarian was
called he felt a hard lump in the CEN
ter of the swelling. Upon opening the
gathering a full grown tooth was To-
Gated and extracted.
Osteopaths licensed to practice Os-
teopathy alone are not entitled to
permit under the Harrison narcotic
law, the attorney general has ruled.
If osteopaths are entitled to practice
surgery as we'll as osteopathy, then
permit under the narcotic law is per-
MISSILE, the ruling established.
Disappointed because Mrs. William
Nault, a married woman, residing III
the same fiat building, rejected his
proffer of profane love, Raymond
Giernat, 10, Superior, attempted sui
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the boys forehead and knocked him
unconscious but he will recover.
Paul Zacharias, farmer living near
Puckaway lake. south Of Plainfleld
lost 10 cows and one horse in an I'M
usual way His COWS and horse were
standing on the ice of the Fox river
drinking when the ice suddenly gave
away, carrying the animals directly
under the ice. All were drowned
Miss Mabel Natvig, 10, Madison tel
ephone operator makes complete de-
NAL of charges made by VIM. Thielke,
farmer, in his suit for $11,500 heart
balm against the young lady. Miss
Natvig also refuses to return a 5000
diamond ring given her by Thielke,
saying it was a Christmas present.
Carl Schwenker, 40, WatertOwn gar
age man, was killed late Friday while
driving a speedster he had just taken
from winter storage. He skidded into
a fence while rounding a turn. A
large timber was driven through thC
mans body Jos. Clemens, a com
panion, escaped without a scratch.
~ L. Simon, secretary of the Simon
Cheese Co. of Appleton, was brought
back from Chicago by deputy sher-
iff after eXtradition papers signed by
NTOV. Blaine ndQ D66u uOuOISu ny GON.
Small of Illinois. Simon is charged
with having violated the state blue
sky" law by filing a false statement
respecting the financial condition of
his company with the Wisconsin rate
commission.
A carload of bulls in which each
animal was found ringless and torn
and bleeding at the nose, is the latest
discovery in cruelty to animals by the
State Humane Officer A. E. Frederick.
The shipment was found in the north
ern part, the state consigned to Chi
cago. That the rings were torn from
the animals noses so they might be
used again, is the opinion of DR.. Fred
erick, who is investigating the case
The rings retail at As cents each.
A verdict of 1925 was returned
by a circuit court jury at Merrill in
a damage suit against Martin Riem-
er, farmer, brought by Ella Quinn,
Florence Guerin and Leona Nordahl,
Lincoln county training school stu
dents. The girls suffered fractures
of their left legs in December, 1921,
on Hathaway Hill, when they were
coasting down the hill and Riemer
attempted to go UP the hill with his
motorcycle The footboard of the
motorcycle struck each girls leg as
the machine whizzed by, according to
Ralph E. Smith. attorney for the
girls, in his argument before the jury
JOS Chowick, on parole from Wau-
pun with a farmer, is at large, having
left his guardian in a surreptitious
manner. Chowick was sent to prison
couple Of years ago and confined
under his parole as criminally insane.
He obtained the name of "belfry dwell
Ter" from the fact that for several
months he made his home in the bel
fry of st. Stephens church at Juneau.
At night he would forage through the
neighboring cellars and pantries for
food. He had bedding, cooking uten-
sils, electric lights, ETC., installed in
the church steeple and might have
been there yet had he not miscalula-
ted and shut off the lights in the
church one evening. A thorough
investigation was made and the un-
asked belfry dweller ordered ont.
The man is known as mechanical
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