Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18

Lady Nicotine is not welcomed as a
coed at Beloit College, it was made
plain recently by the following state
ment, issued from college admins
trative offices: President Maurer has
been greatly interested in the report
of the dean of women at Wisconsin
saying that young women who will
not be happy unless they can smoke,
are asked to go elsewhere to school.
He sincerely hopes that these young
women will not come to Beloit, as we
feel the same way about it is they do
at the University"
Judge Martin L. Lueck, Beaver Dam,
recent Democratic candidate for gov
5ernor, will be chief counsel to assist
Dist. Atty. John A. Thiel in the trial
of the $4,000 damage suit of the
Southern Surety Co. against Dodge
county. The case is on the calendar of
the February term of circuit court,
at Juneau, and is an outgrowth of the
failure of the Ludolf Hanson Construc-
ton Co. to fulfill road contract on
highway 20 few years ago.
Dance hall proprietors whose halls
are under the jurisdiction of the city
of Madison are preparing to make war
on roadhouses. At meeting of pro-
prietors and dance hall supervisors the
proprietors declared they lose bust
ness when they obey the law. One of
the spokesman for the proprietors
said that as soon as the hall proprie-
tors refuse to tolerate violations of the
liquor law in and about his hall, the
trade goes to the roadhouses scattered
around the outskirts of the city.
A large timber wolf entered the
farm yard of Oscar Swanson, near
Rhinelander, and was attacked by an
Airedale dog. The animals engaged in
desperate battle which would probably
have ended in victory for the dog had
not a shot from Swanson's rifle fin
ished the wolf. The Airedale was only
slightly hurt while the VOLTS head
and sides were terribly wounded. The
wolf weighed nearly 80 pounds.
DR.. J. Fletcher Robinson physician
and surgeon associated for the last
four years with the Lyman clinic at
Eau Claire, has severed his connection
with the clinic and he, his wife and
| two children are on their way to Mus
soorie, United Province, India, where
DR.. Robinson will continue the prac-
| tice of medicine. Both DR.. and Mrs
Robinson were born in India and spent
their early life there.
John Lawrence, residing on farm
near Stoughton, and his wife, were
killed and their daughter, Myrtle, Is
was perhaps fatally injured when the
! lumber wagon in which they were rid
ing to town was struck by a passen'
ger train. Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence were
dead when the train crew reached
them, but as the young woman showed
signs of life she was rushed to a Mad
ison hospital.
Pooling themselves during the balmy
| days recently land thinking it was
spring some tulips and hyacinths al
the home of Mrs. M. e. Hollis, James
Vile, started to send up shoots. Once
before her tulips came up in early
February, but not until the 18th. The
tulips this year have large heads.
After diving through a plate glass
window to escape from police who
were entering at the rear of the SUI
perior Creamery Co., Ingwald Matt
son, 49, proceeded to break into Soc
line freight car. Mattson was arrested
and bound over to superior court fol
trial.
Tell it to the judge" may be goot
enough slang, but it doesn't work ou
in practice. Clarence Ruby, railroad
man, found that out in circuit cour
at Green Bay. Ruby was brought in tt
answer some questions about alimony
His answers led to dispute with the
j judge and the dispute led to 80 days
in Jail for contempt of court.
Fire departments of Green Lake
Berlin and Ripon Sunday fought fire
on the Charles Norris farm near Greer
Lake. The blaze was caused by light
ming A large new modern barn with
so tons of hay was completely de-
stroyed,
Scarlet fever caused the death Of
Esther Wetzel, IL, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs William Wetzel, of Shawano
1t also proved fatal to Miss Laona Mar
quardt, 10, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Marquardt, near Bonduel.
| Charges against Marshall Tyler Of
attempted assault on Estrer Johnson
waitress at Eau Claire, were dis
missed on motion of the district at
torney. The complaining witness has
disappeared.
Two new policemen went out as
plain clothes men at Kenosha last
week and bought liquor in nine soft
drink parlors. AS a result nine owners
were brought into court.
Fire, believed to have been set by
an inmate of the Outagamie county
asylum did more than $4,000 damage
to farm buildings of the institution at
Appleton.