Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-12-10

Edwin Meisel escaped injury when
his auto ran into the caboose of a
freight train switching in the yards
at Plymouth and tore off the steps at
| the rear of it. His car was badly dam
aged.
| no trace has been found of Blen-
| don Demint, manager of Kenosha
shoe store, who disappeared Sunday
| evening after leaving note in which
he said, Cant live with her and
can't live without her-goodby." He
was last seen in Racine, where his
mother lives. He had quarreled with
his sweetheart, Kenosha girl, Sat
urday.
| Owing to the removal of the rail-
road shops from Wyeville to Adams
and the consequent reduction in fam
lilies from rs to around 20, the Civic
| league of that village has decided to
discontinue it's activities and dispose
of it's property. Some $50 remaining in
the treasury was donated to the school
fund, which has benefited about 1924
since the organization of the league
few years ago.
Armed with a search warrant, state
prohibition enforcement officers visit
ed the drug store of w. w. Albers Jr.,
Wausau, and took three gallons of al
cohol and 45 pint bottles alleged to
contain whisky The warrant was
issued upon complaint of Deputy State
Commissioner F. B. Laabs, and it is
understood that a complaint is to be
filed later charging Mr.. Albers with
selling intoxicating liquor without a
prescription and upon which a war
rant of arrest will be asked.
Recovery of the body of Mrs. Olaf
Gilbertson, So, GAINESVILLE, from RocA
river Tuesday afternoon by H. Peder-
son, a Madison carp fisherman, ended
a 36-hour search for the woman, who
disappeared from her home at a.
m Sunday. Fear that she had tuber-
culosis, as expressed in a note she
left at her home, half mile from
the banks of Rock river, explains the
womans death. After fruitless
search of the city and dragging of
the river, police Monday night re-
ceived a mysterious telephone call
that led to the recovery of the wo-
mans coat at the North Western sta
ton. The man who called said he had
picked it up after seeing the woman
,
The man, who refused to give his
name, said he and companion did
not attempt to rescue her because
they could not swim. Police, in at
tempting to explain the dilatory tao
tics of the man in reporting the
drowning, concluded that he and his
companion may have been involved in
two burglaries in GAINESVILLE the same
might
Thomas Barrow, Fairfield shot a
large gray wolf when the animal at
tackled his flock of turkeys in a rye
field. Barrow received his certificate
from the county clerk which is good
for a $50 bounty from the state.
John Phillips, Is, employed as a
messenger boy at the Racine offices
of the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
died Friday night as result of bull
let wounds received while out hunt
ing earlier in the day. The boy was
found unconscious in a grove in Ke-
nosha county and was taken to Stur-
'tevant for medical care and then
taken to a hospital at Racine where
he died Phillips and Lawrence Kos
terman, Is, left their homes in Ra-
cine Friday morning to go hunting.
They carried a 22-caliber rifle. While
in a grove, Kosterman, who had the
rifle, shot at some crows, and it is
the belief that one of the bullets en-
tered the back of Phillips head, pen
etrating the brain. Two bullet wounds
were found in the head when the boy
was taken to the hospital. Kosterman
cannot account for the accident. He
hailed a passing farmer when he
found his companion with blood flow
ing from the wound in the head.
Edw Grieb, H. G. Tank and E. w.
Barry, found guilty in connection with
the Union Food Stores Co. conspiracy
case on Nov. were sentenced to 5
years in the federal prison at Leav-
enworth and fined $4,000 by Judge
Geiger in federal court at Milwaukee
last week The three men were founo
guilty Nov. 9Th by a federal jury on
eighteen counts of an indictment
charging they were connected with a
scheme to defraud in connection with
the .S750,000 Union Food stores Co.
and Waukegan Tea Co. stock swindle.
Theye were each sentenced to five
years on each of the first Is counts,
the sentences to run cOncurrently on
an indictment charging conspiracy to
defraud, and to two years each on the
10Th count, which charges use OF the