Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-11
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
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Jazz, William Quick, Wisconsin state
senator from Milwaukee, told the as
semblv. in arguing for compulsory
8-hour day. The difference between
muscular and nervous fatigue was eX-
planned by Quick. Farm work brings
on physical fatigue that is healthtul,
while work in shops brings nervous
tiredeness occasioned by the monotony
of the occupation, the noise, smells
and vibrations of factories. The ner-
vously tired man has hunger Tor
pleasures which it takes little trouble
to get, and no training to appreciate.
He is inpatient AS a result, he turns
to Jazz, narcotics and alcohol. The
compulsory 8-hour bill is being spon-
sored by the socialists in the Wlscon-
sin legislature.
AS one of the steps in the reorgan-
ization of the 100000 Gillette Rub
Der Co., Eau Claire, now in the hands
of a receiver, bOndholders Tuesday
bid in the plant and property. This,
it was stated was merely legal for
mality, and will be followed by other
steps which will, it is said, complete
the reorganization of the company
within the next so days and end the
receivership. The plant has been OPP
Grated at almost full capacity during
the receivership and is now at peak
of production with more than 600 per-
sons employed.
SURPRISING as evidence alleged in
toxicating liquor seized from suit
case in a room in the Commercial no.
tel in Waupun, holding that its seiz-
ure was violation of constitutional
rights, Judge Chester A. Fowler, in
circuit court at Fond du Lac Thurs
day, dismissed charges against Aug
ust Kaatz, Wausau, based on alleged
violation of the prohibition law. Chas.
Lund, proprietor of the hotel arrested
as the owner of the room in which
the liquor was found, was dismissed
several days ago.
Judge Frank Johnson, county judge
of Jackson county, one of the oldest
county judges in the state, is out for
reelection, with apparently no oppo-
sition. Judge Johnson has held the Of
flee for 25 years. The judge, as he is
popularity called, is president of the
First National bank of Black River
Falls and grand master of the Mason
adept with rod and gun, is 81 and has
never married. In his younger days he
was a local baseball player.
Crivitz, Marinette county, had an
other fire scare on Thursday when the
town hall caught fire. Volunteer fire
fighters from the high school and vii
lage succeeded in subduing the flames
before much damage was done. The
hall is being used for school purposes
since the destruction of the large brick
school building last March. The bus
mess section of the village was de-
stroyed by fire after the high school
was burned and recently the leading
hotel burned to the ground.
A fine of 1000 was chosen in pref
erence to spending a year in jail by
Wilbur Moore, farmer and nursery
man living near Jefferson, at whose
place the sheriff's force seized more
than 200 gallons of cider and wine a
short time ago. Moore pleaded guilty
to possession and sale of liquor and
was given six months or $500 fine on
each of the two counts. This is the
stiffest fine ever given a first offend
er in that county, officials state.
Charging that her husband, now con-
fined in state hospital for the insane,
was driven mad by moonshine sold him
by proprietors of six soft drink par
lors, Mrs. Nancy Constine, Peshtigo,
has started suit for $4,000 damages.
naming the parlor proprietors as de-
PENDANTS. The complaint alleges that
the six defendants furnished the h4Is-
band with liquor, causing him to alter
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To prove that Wisconsin is the fish
erman's paradise throughout the year,
several members of the Stevens Point
Izaak Walton League took a number
of northern pike with hook and line
thru the ice of pond and kept them
alive for display in a large aquarium.
The fish range in weight from to II
pounds. An 1S-pound pike was taken
through the ice at Silver lake, near
Plainfield
The presence of mind of Alice Eros
Ii, 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Frosli Brentwood, saved the
child's life Thursday. During biz
card, the child fell from a sleigh onto
the tracks in front of freight train
The child realized that she did not
have time to rise to her feet, so she
rolled off the track at about the same
instant the engine passed the spot
When H. Schrader, Brodhead farm
er, was brought into court on a charge
of selling milk which tested below
standard, he solicited the mercy of the
court by explaining that he had
skinned the milk and given the
cream to church function His en-
treaty failed to register on the Judge,
and he paid a fine of $25.
Charged from the bench with hav-
ing crowded more people off the road
in the last four years than any two
bus drivers, Lester Julian, of James
Vile, was fined $50 or 80 days in Jail
by Judge Maxfeld. The charge was
speeding within the city limits; an
other charge for speeding in the rural
sections is pending.
Ninety employees of the Church Fur
nit1lre Co. at Waukesha fed from a
dry kiln room Wednesday shortly be-
fore the concrete and tile roof caved
in. The men escaped from the room as
supporting timbers gave warming of
the crash. The roof, measuring 60x40
feet weighed between rs and 80 tons