Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-25

Kilbourn has changed its form of
government from village to that of
a city.
Reedsburg has incorporated coun-
try club with a capital of $4,000. A
golf course will be in shape by the
middle of the summer.
A Thursday fire wiped out the bust
ness section of Union Center. The
loss included a restaurant, general
store and warehouse, the combined
value of buildings destroyed being
$4,000.
August Hasse, IL, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Hasse of Neenah, lost
two fingers on his left hand, seriously
injured his right hand and was par
TALLY blinded when he attempted to
open dynamite cap with a knife. The
left eye was torn from its socket by
the explosion. The boy was taken to
hospital.
The neatest cache for liquor yet dis
covered was found at Beloit when po-
lice raided house, locating 15-gal-
Ion tank imbedded in a PARTITION
with the spigot concealed by remova-
BILE wainscoting A pipe running to a
stovepipe was the only inlet to the
tank. The occupants of the place had
moved away.
Albert Hit, SO, La Crosse boiler
maker, murdered his wife by striking
her with a heavy glass vase. He then
hung himself in a closet at their home.
A daughter, Alberta, 8, found the bod
les when she returned from school.
Hit left note saying his act was the
result of continuous quarreling. He
asked his aged mother to care for the
little girl.
The fishing tug Albert G. Kalmbach
of Sturgeon Bay, reports lift of 200
pounds of lake fish in a single haul.
The tug was operating in Lake Michi-
gan off the Sturgeon Bay canal when
it ran into a school of club. AS the
club average about three to the pound
there were about 5000 fish in the haul.
The fish are cleaned and smoked and
shipped to outside markets.
While digging a well near Rhine
lander, Friday, Vincent Gnat, farmer
aged so, was asphyxiated by gas
fumes. Gnat used dynamite to blow
away a section of rock and entered
the well before the fumes from the
explosion ha ddrifted away His son
was also overcome in an effort to save
the elder man but was rescued by
workmen. Gnat leaves large family.
The last week in March has been
set aside as Seed Corn Week so that
farmers may select samples of good
seed corn. The state grows two and
a half million acres of corn year,
half of it going into silage. The seed
corn situation is considered as SER
ious owing to the frosted crop last
year. 1t will pay every farmer to in
sure good seed if he wishes crop
next fall.
Students of the department of jour
nalism of the University of Wisconsin,
are arranging to take over and operat
four or five weekly papers the COM
ing semester. The students do the
work as part of their training. Some
of the papers they have turned out
have been snappy with news and ad-
vertising. Prof. E. Marion Johnson of
the University department of Journal
ism, is in charge of the work.
For f1ourishing an old-fashioned re-
volver that dated back to Montana
gun men days before deputy sheriff,
who was seeking to arrest him and
his father, James Brown was fined
$500 by Judge George Grimm at James
vile. An excellent war record saved
Brown from a more severe sentence
when he pleaded guilty to assault up
on an officer and violation Of the liq-
uor laws. His father, Edward Brown,
drew a $500 fine
Steve Polaski of Nashotah, cafe pro-
prietor and father of Steve Polashki
Wisconsin football star, was sentenced
to six months in the house of correc-
ton by Judge Geiger. Mr.. Polaski adj
vanced the naive argument that he had
never sold hootch and catered to a
high class whiskey trade, dealing only
in real stuff. "It is a melancholy
commentary on the prohibition law
that people unnamed but referred to
as prominent, could have helped to
bring this man to his present position
before the court, " the judge said in
imposing sentence on Polaski. Judge
| Geiger is a native of Cassville.