Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-09
NE|GKBORHOOD
BREv|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From 7ri-
State Area.

suspect local and youthful talent.
Mrs. Smith Rule of Linden had he
arm fractured when wheel came OF
the car in which she was riding ant
she was thrown against the front seat
Unknown burglars entered a rea(
door of the Elsner G Zirbes shoe
store at Racine last Tuesday night
and made away with 500 in casl
and several pairs of shoes.
A 17-inch telephone pole near FonC
du Lac was broken off short when al
automobile driven by G. e. Pierce OF
.Menasha crashed into it. Pierce was
unhurt but his machine was a tota-
wreck.
The BARLEY family has purchased
the stock owned by Linn Woodhouse
and the NJ. T. Woodhouse estate in the
WOodhOuse & BARLEY bank at Bloom
ington. Linn WOodhouse retires from
the cashiership. The time-honOred
name of the banking house will be re-
tanned.
Dave Black, star pitcher of the Ra-
cine team, Midwest League, has been
lodged in jail for 80 days on a charge
of wife beating. Mr.. and Mrs. Black
quarreled on the street. From there
they went to their rooms where the
ball player beat his wife in a fearful
manner.
VIM. Prieve, Coleman farmer, was
found guilty of manufacturing intoxi-
eating liquor and held for sentence.
Prieve contended unsucceSsfully that
a still found on his place had been
left there by hired man who had
quit prior to the raid and failed to
remove his property
Leonard Case, 40, BarabOo, was in
stantly killed and Clarence Bradley,
Sc, Reedusburg, fatally hurt in an au-
to accident near Loganville Saturday
afternoon. A coupe driven by Case
got out of control and struck Gull
vert Case leaves a widow and two
children.
Edmund Treu, GAINESVILLE youth, was
arrested while drunk and fined SIS
and costs by Judge MaXfield. Young
Treu was found dead drunk in the
court house park His father, a min
lister, was away to a synod convention
and the boy confiscated quantity of
altar wine he found stored in the cell
lar.
Following a night search lasting
hours, Vernice Erickson, 2, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Gus Erickson of Oconto
Falls, was found in the woods fast
asleep. The child disappeared about
evening and was not found until
the next morning. In the meantime
there was terrific thunder storm.
Aside from mosquito bites the boy was
unhurt.
When Mrs. Paul Krenzelok of
Ladysimth heard screams issuing
from the baby carriage in which she
had left her year old daughter, Eliza
beth on the front lawn, she ran out
to find the child enveloped in flames.
The child suffered severe body burns
from the shoulders to the hips. 1t is
supposed that a fire cracker caused
the blaze.
AS the result of a riot among the
girl inmates of the House of Good
Shepherd, Milwaukee, Sunday, eight
of the girls are now in the Milwaukee
Detention home. The girls INDUCED in
free-for-all fight following picnic
and attacked sisters who came to
quell them. Police were called to
quell the rioters. Many of the girls
suffered pulled hair, bruises and cuts
and some had their clothing torn in
the melee.
Henry Nerison of Vernon county
was badly burned while preparing a
camp dinner when gasoline stove
exploded. Nerison saw the stove puff
fing and sensed an explosion was COM
ing. He stood several feet away with
an extinguisher in his hand. The ex-
plosion threw flames over Nerison,
setting his clothes ablaze. Geo. Nest
ingson, another camper, smothered
Nerison's flames with a blanket. The
injured man was taken to La Crosse
hospital.
The heavy wind storm that swept
Grant county Sunday evening a week
ago appeared as small cyclone in
Vernon county, sixty miles north, an
hour previous. On the Milt Pierce
farm three miles south of Viroqua,
three tunnels swept the farm. Build
ings valued at $4,000 were wrecked.
Other farms adjacent suffered like dis
aster. The tWister after leveling the
Pierce ridge jumped to another ridge
and created further disaster Appar-
emily its worst effect was confined to
Viroqua vicinity
Harvey Lien, 25, Dane county far
mer, suffered cut jugular vein when
a car he was riding in with Edward
Nelson, went out of control and
struck a telephone pole after eros
sing ditch. Lien was injured when
the windshield shattered into bits and
a piece of glass entered his neck, cut
ting a deep cash. He was picked up
by Wilbert Grenzow of Madison and
taken to a hospital. While Granzow
drove at breakneck speed Lien sat
holding his throat to prevent bleed
ing to death. His condition is serious.
A pair of crooks have been finn
flamming highway patrolmen in Mon
roe county. The method is to stop the
patrolman while at work, fill them
with smooth talk and then proceed to
tell them how the government will
send them weekly circulars on road
work along with blanks with which to
report. with the ultimate purpose of
procuring an increase in pay for the
patrolman. These things were to be
sent free, except the patrolman was
required to pay the postage, amount
ing to Csc. Patrolmen around Kendall
who gave checks were surprised to
learn that the checks had been cashed
for sums ranging from 81 to S.