Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-05-14

A $4,000 fire at Menominee practi-
cally destroyed a new Evangelical
church and several other buildings
last Monday night.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Ekern, mother of
Atty Gen. Herman L. Ekern, died at
Madison last week. She was born in
Norway, April IS, 1848, and had lived
in Wisconsin more than IS years.
The Izaak Walton chapter of James
Vile has gone into the field of preser-
walton of natural beauty. A campaign
is to be conducted to clean up and
beautify the banks of Rock river with
in the city limits.
The Brittin gham-Hixon Lumber Co.
will move it's general office from Mad
ison to GAINESVILLE. This firm controls
twenty-one lumber yards in WiscOn-
sin and more than twice that number
in Illinois, doing a business of sew
eral million dollars annually. Their
big yards are at GAINESVILLE.
Giving of credit slips or cash slips
by merchandising stores for the pur-
chase of merchandise which, under
certain conditions will entitle the
holder to other articles, is VIOLA
ton of the state trading stamp law,
Dist. Atty. G. A. Shaughnessy of Mil
waukee, was informed last week by
Asst Attorney Gen. Mortimer Levitan.
While Mr.. and Mrs. John Utnehmer
of Amigo were standing near table
in their home a lightning bolt struck
a lamp standing on the table and
hurled the couple to the floor. Flow
ers in a vase on the table were torn
to shreds but left standing on the
table. The vase was thrown across
the room. Mrs. Utnehmer suffered
paralysis of the left arm and shoulder.
Her husband was rendered tempOrar-
lily dumb.
Born in Wilkesbarre, Pa, going to
Germany with his parents at the age
Of 8, answering the call of the Kaiser
for soldiers in the world war, fight
ing against his own country, and now,
after returning, seeking q. S. citizen
ship, is the experience of Franz }.
Frederick, 80, who has applied for
naturalization papers at Milwaukee.
He came here April 10th and lost little
time in securing the full protection
of Uncle Sam.
Twenty-six COWS and two horses
persisted in fire which destroyed all
farm buildings, the home excepted, on
the Wallace Bray place, two miles
east of Elkhorn, Thursday night, with
a loss estimated at $4,000. Kicked
by a horse as he was liberating the
animals, Bray was rendered helpless
and had to be assisted from the burn
ing building by his wife. Only four
horses were saved out of the blaze
started by the back-fring of gas
engine which supplied the power for
the milking machine.
Circulation of alleged counterfeit
silver dollars among Madison stores
was reported Saturday by L. M.
Hanks, president of the First Nation
al Bank of Madison. Six silver dollars,
declared to be counterfeit, were de-
tected by tellers of the bank, and re-
ported to police, who have instituted
an investigation. The spurious money
was detected, bank officials stated, by
the weight of the money and by marks
on the edges. Madison was the center
of operations of an alleged counter
felt ring recently when numerous
spurious $40 bills were discovered.
For many years the l. G. R. R. has
attempted to extend it's FreepOrt-Mad-'
isOn branch northward but has been
unsuccessful on account of rights of
other railroads. The 500 line which
now runs a branch from Stevens
Point southwark to Portage will con-
tinue that line into Madison and con-
meet with the l. c. For the past two
weeks surveyors have been at work
between Portage and Madison laying
out the course of the road. AS soon as
the link between Portage and Madi-
I@,o -.s,1
will have an outlet northward and
Madison will be on a direct line to
central Wisconsin territory.