Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-05-28
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREv|T|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of WeekFron 7ri-
State Area.

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brought in 1913 new members.
Henry Schumacher of Mayville took
his own life by drowning in Whitefish
bay near Milwaukee, Monday Of last
week. Dependency is blamed.
Through the efforts of Henry Trax-
Ter, GAINESVILLE will buy its hard coal
for general use including schools, for
SIS ton Pocahontas is being bought
at $500 ton.
An automatic electrical telephone
exchange is being installed at Lake
Mills to care for $50 subscribers now
using a manual board. Six operators
will be done away with.
Miss Beatrice Weld, IL, Bear Greek
girl, was awarded $500 damages for
injuries received last summer when
she was struck by an automobile
driven by j. ]. Kingston of Clinton
vile.
In a fit of dependency, VIM. Mu-
sack, Mayville farmer, committed sui
eide by hanging himself in barn on
his farm Saturday morning. The
was 81 years old and the father of
ten children.
The General Motors Co., with one
the Chevrolet car is produced, had
94,647 employees on it's payroll March
/. This number does not include en-
ployes of the Fisher Body Co., and
other affiliated corporations.
Judge James O'Neill of the Forest
county court was cleared of a charge
made by 15-year-Old Mary Mcdaniel
that he is the father of her unborn
child. A jury of five women and
seven men returned a verdict of mot
guilty" The case was bitterly fought
on both sides.
Everett NJ Frost former Adams
county poor commissioner, was found
dead by members of his family when
he had mired in a marsh on his farm
near Big Spring, north of Kilbourn.
Mr.. Frost, who was So years old, is
survived by his widow, two sons and
three daughters.
Employees of the St. Paul road in
the Green Bay shops have gone out
soliciting business for the road in an
effort to keep the shops running.
Three men secured pledges of $4,000
worth of freight for this year. The
factor of employees soliciting business
for an employer to keep a plant run
ming is certainly new one in bus
mess.
Gov. Blaine on June 4, will hear the
application of John Walthers, 81, sent
up for life in 1914 for the shooting OF
his wife. Walthers, a Jefferson engin-
eer, trailed his wife from Hebron to
Whitewater and killed her with a
shotgun. He has been ''trusty" for
seven years and is a model prisoner.
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youngest now 16.
Herman Baetzer, Fairchild, died at
a Marshfield hospital of injuries re-
ceived May II when a car in which
he was riding with three others was
ditched The machine was travelling at
high speed A bottle half full of moon
shine was found in the wrecked ma
chine. Edward Zweck, driver of the
car, has been arrested in connection
with Baetzer's death.
A near-riot occurred at Waunakee
last Friday night when party of men
and women in 80 cars burned a Ku
Klux Khan cross half a block from
the main street of the city. crowd
formed and the group of klansmen
were jeered and stones were hurled
at them No one was hurt. The cars
proceeded back to Madison after the
burning of the cross.
when lightning set fire to the belfry
Arena had an opportunity to dem
onstrate it's new chemical fire engine
during the storm Monday evening,
of the Congregational church. Smoke
oozing from the top was noticed al
most instantly, and the church bell
was rung, summoning a crowd of
N1oA Frn on
CINE proved a success, and the flames
were extinguished in few minutes,
with but slight damage to the build
ing.
Patrick Powers, Madison police of
ficer who on Monday night shot and
killed Peter NJ Poseny, 21year-old
University of Wisconsin student, will
be held on a charge of manslaughter.
it was decided Friday by District At
torney Theodore G. Lewis, Assistant
District Attorney Phil Sanborn and
Coroner Joseph H. Stephenson. The
warrant for Powers arrest has been
issued He is suspended from duty
pending outcome of the preliminary
hearing and trial.
Carl Johnson, Beloit bartender. was
fined $1,000 and costs after his plea
Evidence against Johnson was secur-
ed by using stomach pump on var
ious patrons of the man after they
had bought drinks of him and con-
sumed them. Johnson declared he was
through with the liquor business when
he left court. He is a musician by
profession but was thrown out of en-
ployment when pipe organs were in
stalled in Beloit movie houses.
One of the most successful and
battling robberies of the county took
place last Friday night at the farm
home of Orrah and Willis Kiester,
three miles east of Clarno, when a
metal safety deposit box containing
about $1,000 in bonds, certificates and
other valuables was taken. The
brothers for many years have kept
their valuables in their home, this
particular box being placed in the at
tic. 1t is the theory of police officials
that the robbers knew this, and also
may have known just where to look
for the package they carried away.
Access to the house was by ladder
to a window beside the bed of one of