Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-06
NEWS FROM
ALI. AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Kern Simpler, "A, Stevens Point
baseball fan, fell dead here Wednes-
day during a game between Stevens
Point and Tomahawk. He suffered a
heart attack while seated in the am
phitheatre, the excitement of close
play being too much for him.
Melvin Dobbe, Alban farmer, lost
control of his car at a bridge crossing
and plunged into the Little Wolf river
The machine ran down a steep en-
bankment and plunged into the sream
being almost submerged. Mr.. Dobbe
waded out, uninjured. The car was
but slightly damaged.
F. M. Finch, rs, pioneer of White
water, was found dead in the garage
of his son-in-law, Earl Knilans, early
Tuesday. A piece of sash cord was
used to accomplish the suicide. Mr.
Finch, for many years a hardware
merchant at Elkhorn, was respondent
He leaves two daughters.
New-fashioned ways of canning and
preserving may be all right, but
there does not seem to be flaw in
the old-fashioned way either, as can
be attested by Mr.. and Mrs. H. II.
Skellley of Necedah, who recently Gel
ebrated a family reunion by opening
a can of cherries which had been put
UP As years ago. The fruit was found
to be in excellent condition.
Mrs. ALFRED Baumann, 20, who
disappeared from her home near the
city of Peshtigo last Wednesday was
found about noon Friday in a clump
of brush near the city. Mrs. Baumann
was half-starved and had not eaten
for 4S hours. She was taken to hos
pital. Her husband states that Mrs.
Baumann has not been normal since
the birth of a child a couple of weeks
ago.
Paul Grey, 5, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Grey of Portage, was drowned at
Willow Beach, near the city, while in
bathing late Wednesday. The boys
two older brothers went up the river
to fish for CLAIMS, leaving little Paul
to play with an older boy named Rob-
ert Davis The Davis boy was much
frightened when he missed his little
chum but did not know what to do.
He did not say anything until several
hours after the drowning.
VIM. Van Brocklin, Oshkosh booze
runner, was pursued 80 miles beyond
Green Bay Wednesday afternoon, and
placed under arrest at roadhouse
near the city. Moonshine whiskey in
his possession was conf1scated. Van
Brocklin furnished $500 bonds to re-
tain possession of his Dodge automo-
bile, and $1,000 bonds for himself. If
he is convicted, the government will
confscate the car or the cash. Van
Brocklin formerly lived at Stoughton
where he was a persistent Violator OF
the liquor law.
Ray Luraas, Madison truck driver,
was arrested and fined $100 and the
costs on a complaint of reckless Oper-
alton of a car made by Martin Fern
bach of Chicago, whose machine,
touring car, was struck by Luraas.
According to witnesses, Luraas sped
around another car approaching Fern
bach's machine, and crashed into the
Fernbach car. One man was hurt but
Luraas did not stop but kept on with
a woman companion. He was arrest
ed after a three-day search. Luraas
pleaded guilty and paid the fine.
Rib Hill, Marathon county, with an
elevation of 1 $40 feet, will become a
state park under plans now being
completed by the conservation COM
mission of the state. The geological
survey gives the hill as the highest
point in the state, the next highest
being the Penekee range in Iron
county, with an elevation of 1900 feet.
The summit Of Rib Hill affords very
commanding portion of Marathon
county At present it is an arduous
climb but if state park plans go
through a motor road will be built to
the top. Commercially, the hill is
A ,,,1r
of the people it will add another to
the many beauty spots of the state
Mrs Peter DeGroot, "A, and Mrs
Alex Trester, 10, of Sheboygan, were
perhaps fatally burned Friday morn
ing as the result of a kerosene ex~
plosion. In a hurry to start fire and
get breakfast for their husbands, the
woman threw kerosene on a blaze
Mrs. DeGroot held the stove lid while
Mrs. Trester poured from the can
The oil exploded throwing the burning
LIQUID over the room and setting the
womens clothes ablaze. Their hus-
bands rushed in and eXtinguished the
flames but not until the clothing of
both women was burned from the
body. Mr. DeGroot is a candidate for
sheriff on the republican ticket. He
anu HIS VIE ldILll near ouGDOS san
The Tresters arrived there early in
the week from North Dakota to spend
the summer with the DeGroots.
GAINESVILLE druggists, eight in num-
Der. have compiled some interesting
figures on the amount of whiskey, al
cohol and wine that can be legally
dispensed in that city during a year,
On the basis of 90 gallons per store
every three months. the total is 1850
gallons of liquor. The druggists say
this is pretty near the maximum
amount required to fill the needs of
the GAINESVILLE people. If all this liq-
uor was whiskey total of S69,120
would be rung up in the cash regis
tiers of the drug stores and the doctors
issuing the permits to buy the booze
would receive an equal amount A
pint of booze sells for So at GAINESVILLE
and that is to 9-year-old stuff The
doctor has the effrontery to charge
49, making the total cost SIS a pint,
where prior to Volstead the cost ran
from soc to 81 a pint Government