Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-30
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Skull as result VI DSAhS
down by an automobile driven 10y one
Robert Huettngr, barber.
Arthur Goeser, 80, Menasha, is in
a hospital at Beaver Dam suffering
from the loss Of an injured hand.
Goeser, employed 10y Menasha fish
ing concern, had his hand entangled
In tie gears Of windlass.
Clifford Garceau, Green Bay, tried
for a violation of the state dry law,
was fined $500. Officers found 80 gal
ions of grain alcohol and a quantity
of synthetic gin in Garceau's home.
He operates two saloons in Green
Bay.
Sister Virginia, Secretary of the
order of the Sorrowful Mother and
former superior of st. Mary's hospital
at Rhinelander, died at Vienna, Aus
tria, Wednesday. Sister Virginia ieft
Rbinelander last spring on an official
mission to Rome.
Calvin. Pooler. 10, convicted in
Sheboygan in 1919, of assault anu
robbery of $500, Edward Canislaus
being the victim, has been freed The
Young mans father, Edward Pooler,
implicated with him, was traced to
prison term.
Floyd Briese, Appleton, teacher in
The vocational school at ShebOygan,
gave a pint of his blood to save the
life of VIM. Birkle, a fellow teacher,
who was dying of pernlclous anema.
Two other teachers also volunteered
to give their blood Doctors believe
Birkle will live.
After living in an UNCONSCIOUS
state for 270 hours, Leonard OFT, y
Monroe, died in a Madison hospital.
The lad was accidentally shot IN the
head while on a hunting trip. DOC
tors extracted the bullet but the OPP
Grafton brought no change IN the
boys condition.
An alleged postoffice robber, Ger
aid Dodge, Chippewa Falls, appeared
before Judge T. J, O'Connor, Chip
pewa Falls, Friday, to answer a
charge of taking letters from the
Stanley postoffice and attempting to
cash checks which the letters con-
tanned. Young Dodge is II years old
and mOtherless.
Lafayette county board at an adj
jOurned session, voted to enact rigid
dance hall ordinance, requiring prop
rietOrs to pay an annual fee Of $40
Dancing stops at 1870 a. m, excepting
July 4, and New Years eve. Special
permit must be obtained for each
dance, the license fee of 81 to be paid
inspectors. Children under 16 are to
be barred from the dance floor.
Roy Miller, 80 years old, a tran
silent workman at Neenah, Wis, lost
his right leg and is near death at
Theda Clark hospital, as the result OF
getting in the way of a blast, while
working on a sewer construction job
1T Neenah. He was seriously injured
Nv flying stones and physicians say
his recovery is doubtful. His right
leg was almost torn from his body and
had to be amputated.
Two girls, still in their teens. de-
esd their parental farm home near
Waupun did not provide enough err
element They packed their belong
ings and walked ten miles through
snowdrifts and below zero weather
80 Brandon Just as one Of the girls
had bought tickets to Berlin, Wis,
the marshall nabbed them. The
girls were returned to their parents.
A 81 bill issued by the Richmond
hank, Racine, in 1850, was received
Saturday at the First National bank
Gf Racine, for its collection. The
piece of currency came from II. l..
Derrick, Lorraine, Va. Where or how
he obtained it is not known. Rich
mond Exchange bank went on t OF
existence go years ago. Derrick Will
receive the face value of the currency
which will be held by the Racine bank
us a souvenir.
Henry Dean, employed in a La
Crosse wholesale drug store, stepped
backward into an elevator shaft and
plunged from the third floor to the
concrete basement. He got up,
shook himself, readjusted his glasses,
aud started upstairs to resume his
work. Horror stricken fellow en-
ployes insisted that he he taken to a
doctors office, but the doctor could
find nothing wrong with Dean. Its
funny ] didn't break my glasses" he
said
q name. Later Meugebauer is al
legged to have repudiated his agree
ment. Complaint was made to the
district attorney and warrant is
sued for the arrest of Meugebauer.
A 15-year-old boy on train, who
overheard prohibition agents discus
sing plans for raid on Reedsviile
saloon keepers, is believed to have
saved the liquor sellers from arrest.
Upon reaching town the boy hurried
TO the saloon men and spread the
alarm. Contents of suspicious bot
Ties were hurriedly emptied in sinks.
Ehe officers mopped the sinks and
sent the strainings to Madison for
analysis.
1t has been proud year for every
one connected with ViroQua's big Co
operative creamery, for during 1923
that institution smashed all previous
Hecords, and for the first time passed
the half million mark in receipts In
1922 the creamery manufactured L.
147, $40 pounds of butter. In 1923 t.
2s5, 1882 pounds were made and the
gain of 1852 pounds was sufficient
TO fill seven railroad cars with the
product of the creamery. To make
this train of 50 cars of butter, SITS
a25 pounds of cream were delivered
10 the creamery-every pound Of it
being brought in farmer patron-own-
eEs living in the vicinity.
Roy Meugebauer, q, Beaver Dam