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

pace 10 accept position as physician
at the Soldiers Home at Waupaca on
September l.
Abe Kutcher, "a, of Stevens Point,
was drowned in the south branch of
the Oconto river on Mengomie Indian
reservation. He stood up in a canoe
and it tipped over on him.
Bert Raabe, Kendall carpenter. was
the loser of $1,750 worth of Liberty
bonds as the result of a raid by rob-
berS on the Kendall State bank. The
yeggs secured 5000 in silver and Mr..
RABIES bonds.
Florence Yates, 16, the wealthiest
girl in Rock county, has sold several
parcels of land left her by her father,
Porter B. Yates. The Beloit State
bank is general guardian of Miss
Yates affairs.
Failing 20 feet from tree where
he had gone in quest of bough to
make bow and arrow, Laverne Lin
de, IL, Fond du Lac, suffered internal
injuries which caused his death. He
lived II hours after the accident
Miss Katherine Lenroot, daughter
of Sen. Lenroot, has been granted an
increase of salary to 5000 a year.
She is assistant chief of the children's
bureau of the U. S. labor department
and considered valuable employee.
John J erase, Jonesdale farmer,
died suddenly Monday afternoon while
at work. He had been ill with high
blood pressure. He leaves a widow,
three children and four orphaned
grandchildren whose mother died
three weeks ago.
John Pipioski, 80, Marshf1eld labor
er, tried to commit suicide by hanging
himself from the second story balcony
of a hotel. Attendants heard him
groaning and cut the rope. Pipioski
fell Is feet to the ground and broke
his back. He is recovering.
Rising at a. M, Mrs. Lillian Meyer
wife of a Two Creeks farm and the
mother of four children, went to the
barn and hanged herself from the raf-
tiers. Mrs. Meyer recently returned
from a Milwaukee sanitarium where
she had taken treatment for mental
trouble.
r. E. Bartlett, New Glarus druggist,
has been returned to the Monroe hos
pitaI for relief from infection and
blood clots in the arms, which have
caused him intense suffering. Mr..
Bartlett was injured in the auto acct
dent which cost the life of o. d. Cur
tbs ST., also of New GlaruS.
Some of the secrets of the Fond du
Lac Ku Klux are not so secret. The
numbers of ten automobiles used at a
secret meeting in a field near the city
were taken by a young woman who
saw part of the sessions, unobserved.
25 auto loads of white-hooded kIans-
men took part in the ceremony.
When a bee stung her Mrs. Roy Nc
of D,1h11 r,ontnr,inc Mad
ison. lost control of her car and ran
it into a ditch where it overturned.
Mrs. Mclean was unhurt. Miss Viola
Mclean and Mrs. Mary Huekels of
Dubuque were slightly hurt. The in
jured women were taken to Madison
for medical treatment and then taken
home.
Chas. Behrens, Canton, O., tourist,
fell over a 40-foot cliff into rs feet of
water at Dells park, near Kilbourn.
While cranking his car the machine
began to move and Behrens was
pushed over the cliff, the machine
tumbling after him. The auto was re-
covered, badly wrecked. Behrens
suffered decorations on his head and
two broken ribs.
The state has adopted a radical
change in the method of awarding
premiums at county fairs this year,
The control of state funds is taken
out of the hands of fair secretaries
and placed in the hands OF judges,
who become accredited agents OF the
state Heretofore, the judges award
ed the premiums but the secretaries
made out the lists on which the state
funds were appOrtloned.
A survey made by the state dis
closes that leaf tobacco crop OF the
state will be about 70 percent OF nor
NAL due to cut-worms, wash-outs ana
root rot. Every farmer interviewed
made the statement that less tobacco
better handled would raise the grade
The apparent willingness OF all the
growers to produce quality TOBACCO Is
counted as step forward III tue III
dustry. 90
bovsan went to take fresh water to
caoe of rattlesnakes he found that the
beads of six of his seven reptiles had
beel crushed. The doctor assumes
mi someone entered his clinic and
killed the snakes. He kept them for
governmental purposes. DR.. E1gen-
berger went to the snake farm at Bar
aboo after another set OF snakes, as
soon as he discovered his loss.
Hilda Hill, who said she is stu
dent in Platteville Normal School, was
arrested in Dodgeville Monday after
noon by Marshal Johns on cnarge
If obtaining money on false pretenses
and arraigned in Justice Chas.
Schmitt's court. On repaying the mon
.ey and costs she was released, Miss
Hill and another young lady were here
,canvassing for subscriptions to mag
azines.-Dodgeville Sun.
Devter Charles Smith, 4, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Norris Smith of Lake Mills,
was wa, instantly killed Thursday when
crushed between a telephone pole and
his fathers truck after he had aecl-
dentaly started the truck. The boy
was hurled against the pole ana
o,.I,sbed nv a fender. An employe OF
smith had left the motor of the truck
running while he went into store to
buy the child some candy. While ne
absent the little fellow began to med