Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
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WISCONSIN
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and Telegraph.

Farmer friends of VIM. Wehrs, WAC
lives in La Crosse county, are having
g good laugh at his expense. Some
DAVIS before the last West Salem COW
sale. Wehrs sold COW out of his hero
to CLARK. who operates the sale paVll-
lion. Wehrs attended the sale and
bought a cow that looked good to him.
When he took the COW home, ne
thought she acted strangely at home
when she went over to the tank ana
drank. and he was thoroughly surpris-
"a to see her, when she entered the
barn, walk directly into the stall va
Gated by the COW he sold. He then
looked her over carefully and dlscoV-
cred she was the same COW ne mao
sold to Clark. He had bid her at the
auction for $50 more than he received
for her. The care and attention OF
the auctioneer's men had dressed her
up so that he had not recognized her.
Lake Geneva farmers enraged be-
cause the Borden Co. of Chicago cut
the milk price from $2.75 to $3.50 per
hundred, put a barricade around the
cOmpany's plant and Waylaid all mlk
trucks coming in, pouring the milk IN
10 the street. One farmer who at
tempted to dash past the barricade ran
his truck into a cable stretched across
the road His truck was wrecked anu
he was injured. Farmers who started
in from other points and turned back
when they learned of the situation.
were chased and their milk confiscated
and destroyed Many beatings have
occurred.
A complete outfit for making high
mower ,whiskey was found on the farm
Of William Voss, near Kenosha. The
officers unearthed two stills, 81 bar
rels Of mash $50 gallons Of moonshine
and three tons of sugar. Voss was in
Milwaukee when the raid was made
lie was placed under arrest. He was
known locally as a progressive stock
raiser. His product went to lMilWau-
nee and Waukesha parties and the
NeighbOrs were astOunded when they
learned of the mans activities.
Henry Nicholson of Kenosha, a man
&c years of age, after falling into
cauldron of scalding water, ran a mile
to Kenosha in zero weather before
he was OVertaken and hurried to a
physicians Office Physicians fear the
burns and the exposure will cause his
&SaJU. re was uulCdGI ms lOSoo WACh
the rope by which he was dragging
porker to the cauldron broke. He was
thrown backward into the scalding
water.
There are four lone counties in Wis
c0nsin in which at the present time
there are no cheese factories: Iron,
Oneida, Pepin and Washburn. In all
tf the other 67 counties cheese is be
ing produced at the present time
Dodge county leads the state in the
production of cheese, her yearly out
put being around 25,000,000 pounds.
Sheboygan is second with 100000
and Marathon third with 100000.
The same boy who was in Beloit
college Is years ago, and working his
way TIM ough, returned to that college
last Thursday, amid the cheers Of 500
students, as the president of the col
Iege. The Rev Irving Mauer, recent
IN chosen president of Beloit College,
to succeed E. ID. Eaton was received
al the depot with a faculty reception
and a reception was neld later in the
chapel
Or. F. X SchIecht, Ashland dentist.
was found frozen to death in the snow
near Sawdust lake, where he had been
6shing for perch. Mayor Chas. BlOss
OF Ashland, fishing with DR.. Schlecht,
was found badly frozen but alive. Mr..
Bloss said he and Schlecht had finish
ed fishing for the day and started back
for their cabin. They were overcome
ON the way back and fell in the snow.
Hubert VanderloOp, 48, froze to
death in the snow at Little Chute. He
was alive when found Monday mora
ing and attempted to talk, but was too
weak. He died Is minutes after he
was taken into a nearby house. Van
derloop came to America about Is
months ago. His only relative in this
country is a niece who lives at Kim
berly.
Mrs. John Johnson, of Melrose, died
Of severe burns she received by throw
ing oil on a bed of Goals in her kitch-
en- stove. The can exploded setting
her afire, which was extinguished, but
rot until she was so badly burned and
aisfgured that she died in agony at 4
D. IN. She is survived by a husband
and four small children.
The Wisconsin division federal pro-
bibitiOn enforcement office, under c.
M Perry, director, took part in EAST
raids, state and federal, from which
there was realized more than $3.50, geo
in cash and $50 in assessments against
violators in civil liabilities, according
10 the annual report of Mr.. Perry
Fifty-two public dance halls in Ke
vance county are to be controlled un
der a new ordinance effective March
Is. Inspectors will receive SIS a dance
and no person under 16 may attend q
dance unless properly accompanied.
Poison candy and bottle of poison
ed milk were found planted in the
baby carriage of the little son of l.. l..
Lewis of Madison. PHOSPHORUS and
lead were the ingredients used. The
baby had touched neither article.
According to figures compiled by
State Treasurer Sol Levitan, the Uni
versity cost the state of Wisconsin
$685., 540.10 last year. Of this amount
$S,304,079 was paid to university en-
plOyes.
Joshua Streiff, rs, we'll known Mon
roe merchant, has retired after spend
ing half a century in the same loca
ton. Mr.. Streiff w's a rnemhe~ of the
local fire department for As years.
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