Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-05-21

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suited in the arrest of five soft drink
parlor proprietors.
G. G. Fawcett, Voiroqua telegraph
operator, has just concluded his 18th
consecutive year in the same posi-
ton.
Joe Zubler, Benton, got in the way
of a bicycle running down hill at a
Benton picnic and suffered two brok-
en- leg bones.
Anvil and Oliver Jones, brothers,
held at Fond du Lac for the Staying
of Elmo Jacobson, 500 line detective,
last fall, will go to trial in June.
Yeggs entered the Waunakee post
office early Sunday morning and blew
the safe They secured $50 in cash
and 5000 in stamps. No clues exist.
Orville Haven, Is, Jordan Center
youth, is under arrest on two charges
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. Young Haven signed his
fathers name to two small checks.
County Agent Liddle of Monroe
county, estimates that 5000 acres will
be planted in that county to alfalfa
this year. In 1921 there were but 100
acres of alfalfa in that county.
Two drunken auto drivers at Stew
ems Point caused two auto accidents
the past week raising the casualty
list from this cause to six so far this
year. The men were fined SIS each
Claiming he was going to the bed
side of his dying mother in northern
Minnesota, Anthony Pekulick was ar
rested at Fond du Lac for driving
while drunk. He had $1,000 in his
pocket and his fine took all but $40
of the money.
$500 barrels of beer, valued at
$4,000, will have to be dumped in
accordance with a decision of Judge
| f. A. Geiger in federal court at Mil
waukee, in issuing a permanent in
junction closing the Hochgrave Brew
ing Co. for a year.
While inspecting the fire alarm
boxes of Ashland, Chief James w.
Sharp found a letter addressed to the
Anti-SaIoon league. The letter con-
tanned a big, round silver dollar. APP
parently the sender mistook the fire
alarm box for mail box.
The Dry Milk Co. of New York has
opened a new plant at Columbus, this
state, and is making $4,000 pounds of
milk a day into powdered milk. The
plant has an ultimate capacity of 2OO,-
900 pounds a day 1t was recently
erected at a cost of 100000.
Waupaca county has voted to re-
scind it's action appropriating $4,000
for a rural normal school at New Lon
don and to close the school, in use
for many years. The cities of ManaWa
and Waupaca objected to the loca-
ton of the school, saying it was not
in the center of the county.
August Acker, tried at Sheboygan
for the death of Friedrich Littmann,
was found guilty of manslaughter. He
is subject to a prison sentence OF not
more than a year, a fine OF Sl,OOO, or
both. A car driven by Acker on the
night of April g. struck the aged Lift
mann The jury held that Acker was
not intoxicated at the time.
Frank Koch, retired farmer living
near Monroe, whose wife is said to
he suing for divorce, went to the farm
for a conference with his wife. For
, some reason, which is not explained
he attacked Rudolph Blaser, the hired
: man, while Blaser was asleep, and
then fled. He was arrested in Beloit
He refused to pay a fine of 500 and
was sent to jail for six months.
Alfred Zanto, 10, Markesan, with
, stood the shock of $4,000 volts OF
, electricity from a high tension wire
, at Monroe when current was acct
dentally switched on while he was
drawing a ground chain" over the
line. His arm was so badly burned
that amputation was necessary.
few days after Zanto's accident, Tom
Slowley, "a, lineman, fell from tel
ephone pole and landed on $500 volt
circuit at Monroe. Slowley's right side
was badly burned but he will also re-
cover.
John Alery who was arrested at
Mercer Wis, pleaded guilty to a
charge of failing to support child,
: in county court last week before
| Judge M. c. Porter. He was also
, charged with a statutory otfense on
which he waived examination. Miss
Marie Goetz pleaded guilty to a stat
utorv Offense and with Alery was
bound over to circuit court. Alery had
been divorced but under the law could
not remarry within a year He al
tempted to marry Miss Goetz and the
two resided in Michigan under Mich
igan marriage laws. They came to
Mercer for a brief visit where they
!, were arrested.
The state historical library at Mad
isOn has a block of wood from the ia
| nous Washington elm at Concord as
a gift of the people of Cambridge 1t
was under this old elm that Washing
ton assumed command of the CONT
mental army in 1775 The block is one
foot in thickness and three feet in dl-
, ameter. 1t is a cross-section OF the
, tree trunk A copper plate is nailed
to the face of the block with the fol-
| lowing inscription on it: Presented
to the State of Wisconsin, 1924. Under
this tree Washington first took COM
mand of the American army, July 3,
? 1775" A picture of the tree is en-
graved on the copper block.
Fred Lynch, Appleton farmer, has
modest ideas as to the value OF his
place. The county needs acres on
Iynch's place for road. The dis
lance to be travelled is 900 feet. Lynch
asks $4,000 He wants new house
at $4,000, a new barn at $4,000, $500
for removing a granary, 5000 for dig
) cling a we'll, $4,000 for damage to
: natural beauty, $1,000 for land re-
: quired and S25 for each orchard tree,
The total of all is $17,100 but Lynch
will settle for $4,000 less as he says
he can salvage that much. The joke
, of it is that he will likely get some
/ where near his figure if condemnation
| proceedings are made.
| John Johnson, wealthy Kendall
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