Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-02-13
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Of 200, who supply milk TO the Miu-
dletOn condensery, met recently TO
form milk producers association.
Frank Offner and Ole 0sties saW7
yers. working for the O'Connor Lum-
Der Co., near Laona, Wis, were A}il-
ed when a falling tree struck another
tree and sent pieces Of it flying in all
directions.
Mrs. John Roder, 80, Sturgeon Bay
was seriously burned about the face
aud upper part of her body when her
home caught fire, and she attempted
10 extinguish the flames. Neighbof5
came to her rescue, but the home was
destroyed.
The Middle Wisconsin Power Co
has taken an option on the electric
light plant at Necedah. This com
pany is also negotiating with farm
ers living southeast Of HillsbOro, III
what is known as German Valley,
with an idea Of supplying power to
tbe farmers.
The Sank county board last week
amended the county dance ordinance,
recently passed in that county SO
shat incorporated villages and cities
may pass their own ordinances for
fbe regulation of public dances, sub
iect TO the O. *. of the county board
and officers.
The Sparta Herald is authority for
the news that the U. S. War Depart
qAent is making plans to again use
Camp Robinson permanently as a
cavalry and artillery training camp
dor the u. S. army and also for ma
tiOnal guard companies Of several
central states.
Frank Pecor Rhinelander, Wis.
was sentenced to one year in federal
prison at Fort LeavenWorth, Kans.,
by Federal Judge G. u. Luse Tuesday
Of last week at Superior. PecOr was
The first liquor law viOlatOr to draw q
prison sentence in the Superior court.
PecOr was also fined $500.
The body of Gustav Tempel, SO,
Granville farmer, who lived one miie
east and one mile north of the Gran
vile station, was found hanging to a
rafter in the barn ON his farm by his
son shortly after noon Thursday.
Dependency over i'll health is given
as the cause for his act by relatives.
fle leaves a wife and four children.
Johnny Niska did not reckon with
the feetness of Edith West, a wait
Yess, when he attempted to rob the
cash resister of a local restaurant at
Superior Although he had Is foot
start after he had grabbed SIS from
the register, Miss West was on his
heels when, after a dash of two blocks
The thief ran into the arms of a cop.
Miss Josie Pohl, school teacher in
Gady, Wis, was doing q little house
cleaning. She was also holding $65
issued by the treasury department in
paper form. Still hanging on to the
currency, she started to pick up the
waste paper So it happened that
when she opened the stove and threw
IL the waste paper, $65 in good
American money went into the fire.
Donald Russell, son of Mrs. Minnie
BusseH. Of Sparta, suffered fatal in
juYies in an explosion at the Mulrenin
sbale pit at Sparta Russell and two
companions though they were at a
safe distance and had stopped to get
a drink OF water when the explosion
occurred A flying piece of rock hit
him in the head. Blasting had been
going on in the pit for several days.
Following a conference with De
tective Henry SchWister, Willis Dean,
state organizer of the Ku Klux Khan,
left Wausau at 1890 a. m. Saturday
for Minneapolis. Deans departure
came after members of Talbot Mont
gomery post of the American Legion
al Wausau had named a special COM
mittee to visit Dean and order him
to Quit Wausau A week ago at Anti
30 a khan organizer was given the
same instructions by so irate citizens
ne also left.
Contagious disease epidemics seem
10 travel in circles, according to the
health commissioner of the city OF
aocine Last year the fashion" was
measles This year it has been plaC-
ed in the background by scarlet fever
There are $50 cases of scarlet fever
IN Racine, OF which "a were reported
The past week There are IA cases OF
smallpox, four of whOoping cough
and three of chickenpoX, but not a
single case Of measles. There are 1877
eases of tuberculosis.
A. A. Pilon, Fond du Lac clubman
Innst pay Aaron Bloomenstein, Ripon
hotel keeper, $4,000 damages, as the
result of suit brought by Bloomen-
stein against the Fond du Lac man
ANfuIuGuSI6ll CDtl SSu lAdJ L nun ltSSV
seduced his wife, taking her to {
hotel and keeping her there severa'
hours. Detectives watched through s
heyhOle and witnessed events in the
room, Blumenstein later obtained g
confession from his wife. He is a Jew
and she is a Scandinavian.
Miss May Klement, clerk at the
Barker Bakery, FIT. Atkinson, had al
experience recently that she will no
soon forget. Among the early Gus
TONERS at the bakery was a negro o
light complexion, perhaps 49 years
old. tall and muscular, warmly bu
sshabbily CARRIED, and a stranger il
that community. Miss Klement, &C
eustOmed to waiting on tramps wh'
blow in on the first trains in tn
morning, went about to fill the mulat
ms order for a half dozen rolls. Al
She turned to fill the order she heart
loud report like the shooting of
gun. The noise attracted the atten
fion of Eugene Gordon, out on tn
street. who entered, and thereby fail
ed the mulatto's plans for robbin
2he cash register The negro paid 70
The rolls and beat it." He ha