Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-27
HERE AND THERE

HERE AND THERE
From Shanghai, China, comes the
report of some fifty thousand persons
drowned in a flood caused by the
bursting of the dykes.
A copy of the Fond du Lac Re-
porter, consisting of four pages, ski
inches, published on a small press
when heavy rains flooded the press
room of the newspaper office and pre-
vented the publication of the regular
size edition, has been presented to the
Wisconsin Historical Museum at Madi-
son.
Three thousand employees of the
Milwaukee railroad shops were re-
turned to their positions last week,
according to announcement by the
general superintendent. Railroad Of
ficials believe further layoffs are I'M
likely, because the railroads are be-
ginning to move the crops, resulting
in improved conditions in the railway
world.
One of the successful by-products
Vi The saw HILL 10 Sy IIuCIIC
Der, a composition of sawdust, by
which boards and other forms of
wood and vegetable fibre are Great
ed. In a Chicago factory few days
ago, one board was made of sugar
cane fibre measuring 900 feet in
length and twelve feet wide. One
machine is capable of producing a
half million feet a day Such boards
on 1oiY cd RI q
vantages of wood and many other adj
vantages wood does not have.
A memorial to commemorate the
occasion when the late President
Harding worked as a "hand" in the
Kansas wheat harvest has been erect
ed near Hutchinson (Kansas) by the
school children of that county. The
granite shaft, twelve feet tall, stands
near the spot where Mr. Harding en-
gagged in a friendly wheat shocking
contest with Jonathan M. Davis, gov
ernor at the time of the presidential
visit June 23d, 1923. This was shortly
after the start of the trip which ended
with Mr.. Harding's death in San Fran
cisco.
On recent occasion thousands of
spectators lined the banks of the
Panama Canal and the docks to watch
the British Hood go through the canal.
The Hood is the worlds largest war
ship, and that ship, with the second
largest, the RenoWn, and the great
Republic and the Adelaide, all nego-
tiated passage through the canal fol-
lowing one another. The locks are
10 by 1000 feet so that the Hood had
but two and half feet to spare on
each side of its great hull. The cost
of taking these ships through was
$4,000.
With roar that was heard thru
out the business district at White
water last week, gas tank exploded
and went hurting through the roof
of the West Bldg. in that city. The
tank, part of the private gas plant
used in the dental offices of Drs
West and Wilson, was wrecked and
much damage was done to the floor
of the building Explosion of the tank
is attributed to leak from the main
tank, raising its pressure from 20 to
SO pounds, twice it's maximum. Peo-
pie could not enter the building for
some time on account of the gas.
Many farmers in the counties of
Trempeleau, Eau Claire and Jackson
are left destitute through the loss
of homes, farm buildings, livestock
and crops in two tornadoes which
wrought havoc in those counties re-
Gently. The vicinities of Eau Claire
and Black River Falls are hardest hit.
Help will be sought throughout the
state for those in the devastated area.
The tOrnadoes which struck in these
counties are believed to be the dying
gusts of tornadoes which assumed cy-
clonic proportions in the states of Ne
braska, Iowa and Minnesota. Five
deaths in Wisconsin are reported The
State Highway Commission stated that
more highways were made impossible
during the storms of the past week
than at any time since the Commission
was organized. The early estimates
gave three hundred bridges and Gull
verts out throughout the state