Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-04

John Won GlOhn, PlaLteVllle FARMER,
got his right hand in wood saw and
lost the first and second fingers. A
short time ago Won Glohn's right eye
was knocked out when wire he was
The Ricnland Center Republican re-
ports a riot of garage thefts in the
Melancthon creek neighborhood in
the county. Auto accessories of var
ious kinds have been stolen, the cars
being stripped in some cases.
With the chief basis of her COM
plant that her husband stayed out at
night, wasting his wages at gambling
and forced her to earn her living,
Mrs. Mabel Brigham was granted a
divorce at Fond du Lac from her hus-
band, William Brigham, an insurance
agent.
George Fiske, an Indian, was SEN
fenced at Ashland Tuesday to five
years in Waupun. Fiske pleaded
guilty to a store robbery last Sep
TENDER when $1,000 worth of clothing
was taken. He broke Jail after being
captured but was apprehended at Gary
and brought back.
! The state of New York has extended
it's embargo on live poultry to include
Wisconsin Turkeys, ducks, geese,
pigeons and guinea fowl are under
the ban. The embargo exists against
10 states. Continued spread of the
pest known as the European fowl dis
ease, was the cause of broadening the
embargo.
A $4,000 damage suit is being tried
at West Bend this week. Thomas
Melcher, Hartford, is plaintiff, and w.
E. Amidon, jeweler of the same place,
| is defendant Melcher charges Ami
don with stealing his wifes affections.
Mrs. Melcher has a divorce action
against her husband. Many witnesses
have been subpoenaed.
Clarence Christie, As, Reedsburg,
| fell from a ladder on which he was
endeavoring to reach the roof of his
farm home when fire broke out tround
defective chimney. His left leg was
broken and his left arm and shoulder
were injured. Damage reached 5000
before neighbors arrived to assist the
family.
Seven young men and women re-
turning from a skating party Sunday
night, were slightly injured when the
small auto in which they were riding
collided with train backing out of
Milton Jct.~aaThe driver of the auto
claims to have seen no lights on the
train. The car was wrecked, the oc-
cupants escaping with bruises.
a.. The Rev. Won Ogden Vogt, a grad
uate of Beloit in 1901, and one of the
best known Congregational pastors in
Chicago, has resigned as pastor of the
influential Wellington Ave. Congrega-
tional church in Chicago, to become
pastor of the First Unitarian church
of Chicago. 1t has been the idea OF
Rev. Vogt to have in Chicago a vast
cathedral in which every church of
every denomination might be affilia-
ted. One purpose in resigning his
Wellington Ave. charge and accepting
the pastorate of the Unitarian church,
is to foster this idea.
J. C. Hester of Milwaukee, arrested
at Madison for Transporting liquor
was fined $500 for possession and $500
for transportation of liquor in super
ior court. Hester is due to serve
months in the Milwaukee house OF
correction if he does not pay the fine
He had two cases of whiskey and 1t
gallons of moonshine on his car when
caught after a long chase by officers
Fritz, police dog, made 900 mile
trip from Cassie, West Va, to Mil
waukee to undergo an operation at a
dog hospital there. DR.. Sullivan, the
veterinarian, found the sickness due
to~a growth in the throat, performed
an immediate operation and dismissed
Fritz as cured.
W. HI. Palmer, former we'll known
resident of Grant county, died Jan
IL at Brownsville, Mimi. Mr.. Palmer
was born in Schuyler county, N. Y.
on JAN Is, 1888, and lacked but three
days of attaining the remarkable age
of 90 years When but a lad he moved
with his parents from New York to
Grant county At the age of 10 he
began to teach school at Wyalusing
He later taught at Pra. du CHEN. Mr.
l Palmer left Pra. du Chen for Elkad-
err, going later to Preston, Mimi. He
spent As years there in continuous
teaching. During later years he held
the position of postmaster at Browns
vile, Mimi, retiring finally to make
his home with his children. He was
married twice, first to Julia Manches-
ter of Patch Grove. She died of ty-
phoid fever at Elkader in 1870. His
second wife was Minnesota woman.
Alonzo Pond, archaeology expert and
Beloit college graduate, will make an
expedition to the Sahara desert next
October to collect specimens of pot
terry, weapons and utensils of early
residents of the great waste. Dr. F.
G. Logan, Chicago, patron of research,
will finance the trip. The specimens
| oI& r Do
lott college and the French province
of Tebessa, in Algeria. The govern
ment of the province has offered to
provide a military escort for the ex-
petition if the college secures per-
mission from the French government.
Those in charge of the expedition are
confident this will be obtained The
trip will cover a period of six months