Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-01-07

d IuOuSdlku 1Coo tHoh last yOSSA'
P. j. Meloy, who has been visiting
Cuba relatives has returned to his
home at Townsend, Mont.
Esther Brouette, little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Brouette of
Peshtigo, was bitten on the leg. The
animal had followed farmer into the
city and is believed to have been
crazed by cold and hunger.
A Sturgeon Bay firm is supplying
Austria, Germany, France and Russia
with seed of white Norway and jack
pine. While countries of Europe are
giving attention to refOresting Wis
consin or any other state is doing
nothing in this line.
E. J. Blum has been recommended
| for appointment as postmaster at
Monticello by Senator Lenroot and
the appointment awaits confirmation
| by the senate. Mr. Blum took the civil
service examination and was certi-
fed as an eligible together with /. B.
Pearce, incumbent, and Miss Martha
Muelmeier. assistant postmaster.
An embargo on importation of live
poultry from New York and New Jer-
sey into the state of Wisconsin was
announced Tuesday by the state de-
partment of agriculture. Action was
taken by the department because of
the existence of the contagious dis
ease known as European fowl pest in
poultry in the two eastern states.
Senator o. H. Johnson, from the
seventeenth district, comprising La
| fayette, Iowa and Green counties, will
resign as Deputy Insurance Commits
sioner before the opening of the next
session Jan. 18th, 1925. Johnson was
appointed to the state office at the
close of the last legislative session.
Whether he will be reappointed at
the close of the coming session is not
known
Nineteen bears were killed near
Soperton in the last few months OF
this number, members of the Betcher
family who live on the Peshtigo river,
killed Is Bears are unusually numer-
Gus in this locality, according to set
tiers and woodsmen, and are so bold
that before the approach of cold
weather they would frequently visit
lumber camps during the day in
search of food.
Wisconsin not only continued it's
upward trend in merchandise exports,
jumping it's figures over $4,000,000
above the figures of the previous quar-
ter, but maintained its relative stand
ing of thirteenth position among the
states and territories of the Union,
according to statistics covering the
quarter ended September 80, 1924, just
released by the Department of Com
merce.
Wesley Turbin, White Lake, seeks
to recover from the state for damages
to his automobile when he collided
with a deer on the road to White Lake
from Merrill. Turbin, as the basis for
his claim, sets forth the fact that deer
in Wisconsin woods were under the
jurisdiction of the state at the time
of the occurrence, Nov. 8, and that
for that reason the state is RESPONSE
BILE for the acts of the deer. Turbin's
car was damaged when huge buck
bounded from the woods and into the
path of the machine.
The unconscious forms of Mr.. and
Mrs Henry Buetow were found in bed
in their home at Oshkosh Sunday
morning by their son, Charles. The
couple had been overcome by escap-
ing gas from coal stove. Charles
went to visit bis parents at 10 a. M
and found all doors locked. He broke
into the house. Mr.. Buetow. who IS
SO, had not regained consciousness
Sunday night and small hope is held
out for his recovery He is Civil war
veteran and former postmaster at Van
Dyne. His wife, who is a., will recov-
err, it is believed.
A sleeping car full of chorus girls
bound for a Milwaukee theater mar
rowly escaped injury when a part OF
train No. ~, on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and St.. Paul road jumped the
track west of Portage Sunday. Slip
perry rails and a slight inclin con
which the train was travelling are
blamed for the near tragedy which
occurred early Sunday. While speed
ing down the hill, coming into Portage,
the last car on the train skipped
from the track, bounced along the
right of way and came to a halt as
the engineer applied his emergency
brakes. In the car was troupe of
chorus girls from st. Paul, headed for
the Empress theater at Milwaukee.
Several shrieked bit, and many were
thrilled as they were routed out OF
sound sleep to find their coach bound
ing over the rails. One coach ahead
there were a dozen or more footl1ght
artists, bound to the Gayety theater
also at Milwaukee, and into that car
the conductor piloted the Empress
steppers. A brakeman, blushing fur
iously (from the cold, of course) was
stationed between the two cars as the
girls. in various stages of disrobement,
tripped across the intervening space.
No one was injured in the slight &C
cident
Charles Lapp, of Dakota, ILL.,, Tor
mer resident of the town of Avon. near
Brodhead, was burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the house on the
farm in Avon township on Thursday
night of last week Mr.. Lapp had come
up to the farm in the afternoon to
load up potatoes for shipment. and
made himself as comfortable as pos
n