Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-11

rides from strangers. Blanche Gay,
| George Gay and Mildred Wooden were
returning home from school when a
stranger offered them a ride to their
destination. They accepted and after
| the car had started, another boy
called to them not to ride as the driver
was drunk. Upon refusal of the strang-
| er to stop the car, the little Wooden
| girl attempted to throw off the switch
and was given shove that threw her
from the car with the little boy who
was sitting on her lap. Both struck
the hard roadway with sufficient force
to render them nearly unconscious.
| The Gay girl also jumped. Two men
who happened along took the children
| to the Wooden home where physician
found upon examination that Mildred
and George had both suffered slight
| fractures of the skull. Blanche Gay
escaped with slight bruises. The man
who invited the children to ride is re-
ported to be a chimney sweep from
| Portage and was pretty well soused
! with liquor.
Wisconsin hunters must conf1ne
/ their efforts to birds and rabbits this
| fall while the state tries the expert
|
on on deer. The present is the first
| year for Wisconsin in which the shoot
| ing of deer was not permissible at
some time. The usual open season on
deer is due year from now and con-
seryationists are watching the alter
nate hunting season with interest to
! determine what effect it will have on
| the amount of deer in the north woods.
do 0f11r for 6nn
next year they must observe the one
buck law as heretofore.
The law stepped in and separated
two attorneys in a divorce action de-
cided in Milwaukee by Judge Henry
GRASS of Green Bay. The attorneys,
| however, were only the plaintiff and
the defendant, Charles Peterson and
Antoinette Jackowski-Peterson. The
divorce was granted to Mr.. Peterson,
| the plaintiff, who received $4,000 in
cash from his divorced wife in addi-
i ton to the decree. Cruelty was the
charge in the complaint.
Triplets, two girls and boy were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mas of
| the town of Maple Grove, near Man
| itowoc. The last arrivals make the
| fourth child born in the Mas home
in less than year. On Nov. II, last
| year, Mrs Mas gave birth to her
| first child The girls of the triplets
weighed four and one-half and four
and three-fourths pounds and the boy
six pounds.
That lower taxes oILen results in
more money being raised is shown by
the fact the Wisconsin dog owners
paid the tidy sum of $365,000 last year
| to keep their pets. The rate is now
81 for males and So for females. In
1921 the tax was reduced and since
then the amount of money received
has been steadily higher. Is percent
of the mony reised goes to the state.
| Mrs. George Allard of Chippewa
Falls shot and wounded her rival for
her husbands affections when she de-
tected her spouse out riding with a
Miss Emma Schulz. Mrs. Allard fired
| four shots and all took effect in Miss
! Schulzs left leg. Mrs. Allard is out
on $1,000 bail. She claims her hus-
band and the girl had carried on a
clandestine relationship for five years.
| Elizabeth, the 20-months old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Van Wagon
en-, Beloit, was burned to death and
Mr. and Mrs. Van Wagenen severely
injured in a fire at their home. The
mother saved two children, but her
effort to reach the baby in the attic
failed. A fireman was overcome by
smoke in attempting to reach the
child.
Waukesha aldermen have voted the
sum of $4,000 to put fence around
the Prairie Home cemetery. The big
idea is to keep loving couples and
booze parties out of the burial ground.
The aldermen waxed wroth when it
was found that the clandestine visit
ors were even knocking down the
monuments.
At least half of Racine county's cab
bage crop is rotting on the ground
and will be total loss to farmers be-
cause of the weather antics of the
past few weeks, prominent farmers
and agricultural authorities believe,
which will undoubtedly entail heavy
loss to farmers.
Ernest Youngberg, manager of the
Cities Service Oil Co. of Ashland, is
under arrest for embezzling $3,35111
of the company's money according to
a news report. Youngberg was ar
rested following complaint filed by
an official of the concern.
Mrs. Gilbert Michaelson of Chip
pewa Falls was the heroine of fire
that destroyed her home. With the
upper story enveloped in flames, she
rescued her infant child and then re-
turned to save an 85-year-old woman
trapped in the building.
Tony Buehler, Is, son of John
Buehler, cement contractor at Portage,
was killed almost instantly when he
was accidentally shot by his friend,
Robert Pfeil, IL. The tragedy oc-
Cured as the boys were returning
home from rabbit hunt.
Small boys playing in the yard of
the Northern Paper Mills at Green
Bay found the body of William Kra-
mer, 65, under a pile of pulpwood.
To recover the body men had to
crawl 20 feet under the logs.
Frank Beardsley, found guilty at
Sparta to setting fire to his own house,
was given from three to five years in
states prison. He took out $1,000 in
surance on a building worth $500 and
attempted to collect via the fire route.
German Scherzinger of Fond du Lac,
one of Americas oldest jewellers, OBJ
served his 92rd birthday Monday He