Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30

while drunk. In few minutes the
traffic was blocked for blocks. Of
ficer Olmstead lost his star.
Albert Settle of Merrill built a new
dance hall in spite of neighborhood
protests. Threats followed but Albert
kept right on with his jazz palace.
The other morning he went out and
found smoking ruin. Loss $1,000.
A vaUable COW ownei, by WillidIa
Koch of No. Freedom, fell through
planking into a we'll Sunday week
ago and remained there for couple
of days. The COW was finally rescued,
apparently none the worse for her ad-
venture.
Ted Hammett, Sheboygan youth,
speeding through Fond du Lac, was
arrested when he slowed down" to
81 miles an hour enabling motor
cycle cop to catch him. Hammett
drives a big 8-cylinder car. He paid
fine of $25 and costs.
w. A. McAllister, 78, Civil war vet
eran of Dodgeville, died Sunday after
noon a week ago. Remains were taken
to Hanover, ILL.,, for burial. Mr.. Meal
lister suffered a stroke on Memorial
day and had never been well since.
He lived with a daughter, Mrs. John
A. White.
Within 10 minutes after Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Braatz of Fond du Lac, had
started on motor trip to Minnesota,
| their son, Harry e. Braatz, "a, hung
himself in a barn on his farm. Young
Braatz was respondent as the result
of poor health His father and mother
phoned the boy, inquiring as to his
health, just before starting out.
Water power sales for the state
broke all records the first half of the
wear. Good water flow is responsible
the Wisconsin Public Utilities Bureau
states. The April hyro-electric pro
ductfon reached 85,363,000 kilowatt
hours. Total generation, steam and
water power for the month exceed
1874 100000 kilowatt hours compared
to 100000 a year ago.
More than barrel of gasoline per
person was used in Wisconsin the
past year, according to t. ]. Cunning
/ ham, state oil inspector. 3,92S,95O
barrels of gasoline were consumed.
| During the same period the state used
| 991 900 barrels of kerosene. Reduced
to mileage for autos Cunningham says
every person in the state rode an ave-
age of 1000 miles by auto.
A. L. Burd of Chicago, visiting at
Delavan Lake, had a shoe, torn from
! his foot by a bolt of lightning. Mr..
Burd. in company with his children
was lying on his bed during ter
| rife storm. The bolt hit the end OF
| the cottage, tore the casing off the
| window and hit the bed. One shoe
was torn from Burd's foot and he
was severely burned. The children
were driven into Mysteries but I'M
| hurt.
When fire destroyed building at
| Howe and 81 streets, Racine, three
stills and a quantity Of moonshine
were brought to light. The stills
were found in building adjacent to
the one that burned. They were OF
So % and 10-gallon capacity. In the
same room were 1000 one-gallon
! labeled 'Fries-Glow," a dandruff cure
1t is thought the cans were to be be
used in distributing the product OF
the stills.
Chief of Police Norval Mackey of
Monroe, is dead agin big Annie,
meaning that plurality of marriage
| finds no favor in his moral code. A
young man who came to Monroe a
couple of weeks ago and strutted
around as an army lieutenant, was or
dered to leave town when the CHIEF
found he was paying too much atten-
ton to a Monroe girl. Report reach
ed the city that the youthful impoS-
i tor had a wife or two elsewhere. The
"army'' man boarded a train for out
of town.
Josephine Miller, 10, Kenosha girl
attempted suicide in Chicago hotel
when she found she was unable to
pay an day board bill. Josephine
became frightened after swallowing a
small quantity of poison and called
the house doctor She was taken to
the county hospital and will recover.
The girl told police she was unhappy
! in Kenosha since her father and
mother separated, and had gone to
| Chicago in search of a career. She
says she will pay the board bill some
! time or another.
Mrs. Lola Sarow Marion of Whiting
Ind, has been sued for divorce by her
! first husband, Benjamin Sarow, Mil
waukee. The Sarows formerly lived
at GAINESVILLE. There Mrs. Sarow met
and fell in love with the Rev. Leladn
Marion, her pastor. She obtained a
divorce from Sarow in Rock county
in March, 1928, remarrying Sarow at
Crown Point, Ind, some months later.
| The Wisconsin law does not allow a
remarriage until a year has elapsed
and in the eyes of the law of this
state Mrs. Sarow is a bigamist. She
will not contest Sarow's suit for di-
VOrce.
William Marshall Jr., Kenosha, is
held for the murder of his father, VIM.
Marshall ST., following a quarrel and
shooting. The father and son had
quarreled considerably over the
youths disobedience and drunkenness
and the day of the shooting the son
threatened his father. The elder Mar
shall replied with angry words and
young Marshall started upsairs, say
ing he would kill his father if he fol-
lowed The old man started after the
boy and was met by charge of buck
shot from a shotgun. His left leg was
shot away In the hospital, before lie
died, the old man said he was sorry
for what had happened and asked his
wife to get the boy the best legal
counsel Young Marshall claims his
mind was clouded by drink.