Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-02
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

has opened an ice cream factory DIT
Dodgeville and will ship to all nearby
points.
Prof. Albert Whitford, 81, for 48
years a teacher in Milton academy and
college died last Tuesday. He held
many college degrees and was regard
ed as a master educator
During a moonshine bout at She
boygan, Steve WasilOVski, Canadian
overseas World war veteran, was
beaten to the floor by chair welded
by VIM. Bekchunis. Eight stitches
were taken in Steve's scalp.
An explosion of moonshine still
took place in the heart of MadisOn's
little Italy, frightening the denizens
of the neighborhood. Police seized a
large still, At gallons of moonshine
and IA 60-gallon barrels OF mash.
Three Edgerton children under the
ages of IA, their fathers unknown, are
in the care Of the Children's Home
Finding Society Of Wisconsin. Pres
ent surroundings of the waits are de-
cIared to be immoral
Mary Betty Turner, 8, holds that
1O-mile hike around Lake Mendoza IN
a snow storm is a considerable test of
endurance She did it during heavy
spring storm recently. Her ambition
is to be a physical culture teacher.
The 1G-day-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Oscar Olson of BrOdhead, was found
dead in bed The babe was apparent
ly well at two a. m when the mother
last cared for it. Poor circulation is
believed to have been the cause Of the
death.
The farm home of Ray MOntanye,
Baraboo, was destroyed by fire early
Monday, the family escaped in their
night clothes. Mrs. Montanye heard
the cracke of flames in the attic and
aroused the children in the nick OF
time.
Capt Harry Davenport, Madison, IN
q raid on Louis Martello, bOOtlegger,
got there just as MartellO poured a
three gallon jug of liquor into the
sink. Davenport plugged the drain
with a towel and obtained quart OF
moonshine for evidence.
Prospect of tie-up in the building
industry looms at Madison as the re-
suit of a failure of the master crafts
men to eet the wage increase demand
ed by their men. Increases asked
range from II to 40 percent. Agree
ments expire May |.
A carload of grade Guernseys were
shipped from Rice Lake to Waterloo,
Iowa. the price for 25 COWS and heif-
ers being 81 1924. Another car went to
Litchfeld, Mimi, the price being 81
818.
Janesville's only centenarian, Miss
Emeline Bostwick, who was 100 years
old Feb 26, died Sunday, March 16g
She was the daughter of Sidney Bost-
wick, pioneer of the city and toun-
der of the BOstwick store.
Iusty cries of little baby attracted
members of the H. G. Westby family
of Wausau and going into their hall
at $40 Washington ST., they found the
source of noise to be proceeding from
a well wrapped bundle, which, when
undOne, revealed a baby boy. The
child was sent to St. Mary's hospital.
Upon his second conviction for the
maintenance of a liquor nuisance, one
Silas Bliven of GAINESVILLE was given
18 months in Waupun by Judge Max
field. AS there is some question OF the
courts right to in1ict penitentlary
sentence for a second offense VIOLA
ton of the liquor laws, the case is
court Bliven is out on bail.
III Will take IlOlG LllSt1 SO~OpCA etIANS
marketing to bring success to the
dairyman," says A. j. Glover of the
farm paper. Hoard's Dairyman. Mr..
Glover further says, eff one-third of
the dairy COWS in the country were
DISPOSED of. and the other two-thirds
given the proper attention, the prof
it's Of dairying would be increased
MANIFOLD"
The Wisconsin Pearl Button Co. of
La Crosse. manufacturers of buttons
from shells found in fresh water, has
announced it's intention of purchasing
an ocean pearl button factory in the
east, to be moved to La Crosse. The
shells will be collected from the
South Sea Islands, Australia, India
and the Philippines, to be shipped to
La Crosse and made into buttons.
Broken and bruised from beating
as the result of a fight with friend
recently arrived from Europe, Frank
ChicOwski, Owen, was taken TO hos
pital at Chippewa Falls with his jaw
broken in two places, row OF teeth
missing and serious bruises on his
head. 1t was said by witnesses that
Chicowski's assailant had grasped the
victim by the hair and ears and then
lOuulDGu Ills ilSC VII GiAO Il OASA
ground
With a production of 2,059 pounds
of milk, testing AS percent and 9S.S
pounds of butterfat, Hertzy, a pure
bred Holstein owned by Walter
Wurthman of the Cherokee Cow Test
ing association at Wausau, hung up
new Marathon county record for 20
days of milking. Hertzy was MIXED
twice daily, her ration being 40
pounds of corn silage, all of the oats
and peas she wanted and II pounds
of special mixture.
Fred Babler, 26, Monroe, owes his
life to VIM Olson, Green county farm
bureau secretary, who as if guided by
an unseen force, detoured from a
walk he was taking and found Babler
living unconscious in small building
on the Monroe Light & Fuel Co. prop
erty. Babler, plant worker, had en-
tered the building on an errand. A
gas pipe burst while he was there and
fumes overcame him before he rea-
Iized his danger. Had not Olson hap
he did ic dn11hff11l if