Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-02-07
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WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

for use this week. 1000 pupils attend
the school.
Although his eyes were gouged by
a young heifer's horns, Charles w.
Knight, a Barron county farmer, will
not lose his sight, physicians say.
Leslie Vallesky, Collins, Wis school
boy, was hit in the eye by a SNOWFALL
| thrown by playmate. The youth is
now in Manitowoc hospital suffering
from brain conclusion.
Lyle Kramer, Jonesdale, teaching at
Fayette, fell on his head from sleigh
Monday night and was knocked TN
conscious for two days. One ear
drum was broken III the fall.
Joe Capalo, Hurley, tried to pay a
street car conductor with bullets from
his gun when requested to cough up a
nickel. He was given four months.
Oil burning on the Sheboygan river
near the plant of the Falls Motor Co.,
alarmed the citizens, who thought the
river was on fire. The oil, draining
from the plant, became ignited in an
unknown manner.
The Richlanu county board in spec
ial session voted to resurface S. T. l..
No. II from Richland Center to Boaz,
at cost of 100000. Fifteen miles of
all weather road will be provided in
to the county seat
Adj. Gen. Orlando Holway died Sat
urday evening at his home n Madison
after a short Illness with pneumonia.
Mr.. Holway was adjutant general of
the state since 1913. He had a fine
record of patriotic service during the
World war.
Wisconsin took seventh place in the
production Of canned corn in 1922.
| The Badger states canneries produced
| 100000 cases out of the total Of H.
$4,000 cases canned in the United
| States. This means that Wisconsin
canned approximately 100000 No. 2
! cans of corn.
Floyd Anderson, Richland Center
youth, joy riding with two other boys
in a car taken without Ross Snyder's
the owners permission, ran the bus
into a ditch and wrecked it. Ander-
son was placed on probation but will
be dealt with hardly if he comes up
again.
When the farm house of Anton
Henzler, near Flambeau, was des-
troyed by fire, the father, mother and
five children were driven into the cold
in their night clothes. They were
given temporary refuge in school
house. The barn also burned with all
the stock and machinery.
The life of Charles Myers, Oconto
| farmer, was saved when his 14-year-
old son after trying to drive away a
vicious bull with pitchfork, ran to
the house, obtained rife and shot
the animal. Five shots were fired be-
fore the bull dropped. Myers was
badly hurt but will recover.
Miss Ada James of Richland Cen
ter, was reelected president of the
Wisconsin Womens Progressive asso-
citation at the annual convention held
in Madison last week. Mrs. Granville
Trace of Dodgeville, is vice-president,
secretary-treasurer.
A big Omaha freight engine with a
broken wheel did thousands of dollars
in damage to the track between Au-
gusta and Fairchild, six miles in
length Many rails will have to be
replaced. Trains are running over the
faulty track at speed of ten miles an
hour
Assemblyman James Goodman of
Lafayette county has introduced bill
to repeal the dog tax law. The dog
tax has been in operation four years.
During the first year 100000 was col
lected in dog taxes, but practically all
of this money was returned to the
counties where it was used to pay for
damages to live stock.
Independent leaf tobacco buyers in
the La Crosse vicinity are offering 26
and 20 cents pound for leaf tobacco,
and big fight has been opened
against the tobacco pool, which is
paying II cents. Fifteen hundred to-
bacco growers had a mass meeting at
Viroqua and decided to remain with
the pool
Real confidence in the consistent
growth and increasing prosperity of
Wisconsin cities is clearly sounded in
the announcement by w. HI. MCCOY
ern, president of the Wisconsin Tele-
phone company, that the telephone
company plans to spend about $780,
100000 for new construction and adj
ditional equipment in the state in the
next five years.
One million feet of saw logs were
marketed in Richland Center this
winter up to the first of February.
This totaled 500 loads of logs. A. H.
Krouskop bought 168 loads and the
Parfrey and Vernon Lumber Co. in
terests taking the balance. The pre-
vailing price was S55 per thousand
with good oak bringing $40 and choice
sticks 500 a thousand The logs sold
in Richland this year exceed any year
since 1898.
John Minahan Jr., son Of DR.. Nina
han, a prominent Green Bay surgeon,
shot himself to death in Chicago
frat house early Friday. He was a
freshman at the university of Chica-
CO. Circumstances point to suicide as
the young man had been n poor
health The elder Minahan recently
operated on Miss Rose Wendricke, II,
Green Bay girl, who had nail lodg-
ed in her throat for thirteen years.
Previous attempts by Chicago sur
geons to remove the nail by means of
an incision through the back were I'M
availing. DR.. Minaham performed a
tracheotomy. or throat operation, and
was successful.