Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-09-17

"Slim" Lewis, well known umpire,
is finishing up the season in the Mid
west League.
Vernon Emery Richardson, the ten
months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Her.
bert Richardson of Blue River, died
of brain fever Sept. 4, after short
illness.
Tony Musso, proprietor of the Belvi-
dere cafe at Madison, was fined $500
and had his place closed permanently.
The Belvidere was known as "the
worst joint in Madison"
Roscoe E. Luce of Elkhorn, overseas
veteran, has been appointed county
Judge of Walwolth county, succeeding
Judge J. w. Page, deceased. Judge
Luce, 35, is highly qualified.
Gustave Heike, 81, Menominee jan
itor, went to the basement of j. w.
Barber, undertaken, and hung him
self with a rope over a pipe. No
reason is known for the act
The Appleton Wooden Mills Co. is
building a concrete dam across the
Baraboo river 1T Reedsburg to utilize
power from the stream. $50 horse
power will be developed.
A soft drink parlor owned by Cyrus
Ludtke of Whitewater was raided and
SO gallons of alleged liquor found in
the back yard This was the fifth
time Ludtke's place was raided.
John Curtiss Jr., Sheboygan bartend-
er has been held for trial charged
with selling Intoxicating liquor to one
Herbert Schultz of Waldo. Schultz
died in an auto accident soon after
imbib.ng the booze.
James J. Sullivan and Nicholas Bey,
who tied for the republican nomina-
ton for sheriff of Price county, settled
the matter by drawing lots. The vic
tory went to Bey. Each had received
1,084 votes in the primary.
National Prohibition Commissioner
Roy Haynes, has issued public state
ment complaining of lax liquor law
enforcement in Wisconsin, and says
officers of the law and courts are to
blame. Mr. Haynes says number of
breweries in the state are making
beer and selling it.
Erwin Schewa and Frederick Bjork-
man died as the result on injuries re-
ceived at Merrill last week when the
judges stand on the Lincoln county
fair grounds collapsed, carrying fifty
people down with it. Spectators had
climbed on the stand to get better
view of an auto polo game.
Unhurt in an auto crash near Mon
roe, Mrs. Lester Wyman of Freeport,
dropped dead in a doctors office
few minutes later while talking of her
experience. Wyman's car left the
road and turned over when he swung
out to avoid being hit by another ma
chine. Mrs. Wyman had been troub-
led with heart disease.
KIN. Freeman, West Beaver farmer
is thinking of Harvesting lightning
bolts to do his blowing. DurinE a Sc
we're storm bolt of lightning struck
a pine tree, stripped it of it's bark ami
needles and thin travelled along the
ground, throwing the dirt in every
direction. A furrow two feet deep
was DlOwed TO some distance
Cecil Railway, 10, Beloit, was SEN
fenced to two years in Green Bay re-
formatory Wednesday when he plead
ed guilty to theft of an automobile
from R. Porterfield. Railway former
ly was special operative for the Beloit
dence on liquor law violators. He was
caught with the car at Oswego, N. Y.
Cyclones work strangely. A north
state paper that took a half mile spin:
Taking a piano from one Of the first
farm houses to be torn away in the
tornado which swept a path through
Chippewa county, north of Bloomer,
carrying it half :. mile into patch of
timber and then placing it right side
up, was one Of the freak stunts Of the
mighty wind The piano was only
slightly damaged. On the same farm
a heavy wagon was broken to bits,
growing oats were cut close to the
fround as if harvested and grain was
shaken from the straw.
One of the largest collections of In
dian burial and effigy mounds in
southern Wisconsin was discovered
and explored near Delavan Lake by
L. E. Brown, curator of the Wiscon-
sin state historical museum and field
representative of the state archeolog-
ical society, last Monday Mr.. Brown
located 80 mounds, the largest I'VE
feet at its highest point and $50 feet
in length. Brown found evidences of
Winnebago Indian villages near the
inlet of the lake. From the age of
the trees on the mound it was esti-
mated they were built 500 to 1000
years ago. Some of the mounds are
turtle shaped, some are bird shaped,
while others are linear or catfish
type and conical.