Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-28

Rudolph Dfdricksen met instant
death late Friday when he fell on a
buzz saw in the yards of the Home
Fuel Co. at Neenah. He leaves bride
of two months. who was Frustrated by
the tragedy.
The large barn of John Vissers, Jr.,
DePere, burned Wednesday night, to-
gether with 80 tons of hay and con-
siderable farm machinery. The fam
lily was at church when the fire broke
out. The loss will be more than
$4,000
Mistaken for a deer, Archie Web
ster, 20, Of Cornell, Chippewa county,
was shot in the right arm while hunt
ing near Jump river. He was taken
to a hospital at Chippewa Falls for
treatment The wound proved not to
be a serious one.
Joseph Pecore, 103, the Oldest man
in Barron county, died at the home o.
his daughter, Mrs. Victor Huot, Du-
luth, Mimi, while on a visit there He
was born in st. Lawrence county, New
York, in 1920 and came to Barron
county in 1870. He reared family OF
IA children, nine Of whom are living.
With the aid of acetylene torches,
bandits early Friday forced entrance
to the vault and safe of The State
Bank of HOlcombe and escaped with
$4,000 in cash and $1,000 in negotiable
bonds. The bandits burned their way
through the outer vault, the inner
door. and the strong box door, and did
not use explosives.
Several men are facing arrest at
Sheboygan Falls, following the SEN
sational raid by prohibition agents
that netted 1872 gallons Of moonshine
and 1850 gallons of mash. Six places
including three hotels, were raided.
An elaborate underground distillery
was raided, according to officers, on
the farm Of Nick Opgennorth. The
distillery was located below The
chicken coop, entrance to which they
said was gained by trap door
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Heitzler, of Cop
pingen, in Wurtenburg, German, ar
rived at Stoughton recently and for a
time will make their home with the
latter's sister, Mrs. Frantz Tensfeldt,
and family They left Germany three
weeks ago, but were kept in New
York eight days. They say there is
little work in Germany and prices are
exceedingly high. The paper money
they use takes up more room in the
market basket than do the groceries
they can buy with it.
A number of duck hunters of Osh-
kosh who are not game hogs, claim
few hunters use every possible means
of getting ducks to the detriment OF
the hunters as a whole. They assert
that certain men get good point in
the marsh and hold it night and day
between two or three persons, and
the large numbers of hunters are un-
able to get a good place to shoot even
for a short time. They claim that
many of these -.unters are getting
more than quota, and that the ducks
are taken to Milwaukee and Chicago
to be sold.
Because for a second time she had
washed with soap and water the
mouth of a school boy who used pro-
fame language, Miss Genevieve Ga
bower, a teacher in the Council Creek
district school, Monroe county, was
made defendant in a complaint charg-
ing assault. The parents became
wrathy when upon the first occasion
the teacher applied the soap dlsclO-
line, but the matter was adjusted.
few days later when she applied the
second dose on the boy, Cyril Gerke,
the father, Albert Gerke, swore out
warrant charging assault.