Newspaper Page Text
COUNTY AND NEARBY Matters of Current Interest By Telegraph and Mail. Crimes, Casualties and Remarkabe incidents that have Lately Happened Hereabouts. Contagious disease at Antigo caused an order to be isesued barring the pa rents from attending the Christmas exercises in the city schools. * * * William Ilanlen, a Racine rural mail carrier, was killed while driving over a railroad crossing. His horse was also killed and the Christmas mail scattered for two blocks. * * * Miss Marie Codar of Milwaukee, aged 23, was burned to death in a gas oline explosion last week. Miss Go dar was cleaning gloves when the fluid ignited. # * * John McHatton, a resident of Hol landale, watching a basket ball game between Dodgeville and his home town, had a gasoline lamp drop on his head and suffered severe burns. The ball hit the lamp knocking it loose. • * * Arthur Maloney, a Green Bay brake man, almost received his quietus when a box car he was standing near top pled over, pinning him underneath. His left leg was broken in three plac es and he suffered internal injuries. * * * Mrs. William Manders of Depere, lost her infant daughter, who fell into a tub of suds while her mother was hanging out washing and drowned. IVIr. and Mrs. Manders lost another child a year ago when the mother roll ed upon it while asleep. * * „* Samuel Tropolino, a Madison la borer, was shot to death in his own yard by tw*o unknown assailants. Four bullets from two revolvers of differ ent calibre, were found in his body. Fellow countrymen are thought to have done the deed. * * * Elmer Peterson, an Oconomowoc man aged 39, was killed by falling from a load of hay at the Barnard farm in the town of Summit. He was standing on s he load fixing the pole, when it broke and threw him to the floor, killing him instantly. He leaves a wife and three children. * * * Frederick Philipps of Calamine, walking across a railroad bridge with a friend, slipped and fell into the riv er. He struck the embankment on the way down and received a gash in the head and several bruises on the body, rolling into ten feet of water. He managed to swim out with the assist ance of his friend. * * » Clarence Sandstrom. a Sheybogan chauffeur, wrote a note to his mother deploring his inability to give her a Christmas present, and swallowed the ounce contents of a carbolic acid bot tle. Two physicians whose offices were over the pool room where the young man took the poison, were summoned and succeeded in pumping most of it out. He may live. * * m Joseph Sioniker of Greenwood, aged 18, died following the accidental dis charge of his own shotgun while hunting, the charge entering his thigh. J ? e was unable to rise after the acci dent. and after much urging persuad er his hunting dog to return home without him. His father became alarmed when the dog returned alone, and went in search of him, finding him unconscious about an hour later. * * * Bobbie Booth, aged 16 months, son of settlers near Minong, rode sixty five miles in two and one-half hours following his swallowing bichloride of mercury tablets. The infant received first aid from his mother who gave him hot milk and other remedies. Then he was taken to the hospital at Superior for treatment. He swallowed enough of the poison to kill ten men. according to the physicians, but will live. * * * In a recent address before a Mil waukee bankers' meeting. Judge A. C. Backus made the statement that ninety per cent of the criminals sent to pris on would be reformed if they were sent to farms instead. In his remarks the jurist said: “The greatest mistake society can make is to put a man in a cramped prison cell, where he can brood over his crime and become em bittered against life, and expect him to emerge at the end of his term purged of his sin!” * * * Carl Miller, alias August Brink man. sentenced two years ago by Judge A. L. Sanborn at Madison, to ten years it Leavenworth prison, gave himself up the other day. Miler claims that iie was being conducted top rison by wo officers who let him off the train at Davis Junction for an airing. The train ran away leaving him behind and though he tried to catch it he was unsuccessful. He was arrested by the constable last week on a minor charge and put the latter in the way of earn ing SIOO bv telling his story. Miller will be taken to start serving liis time rsoon. * * * The Wisconsin railroad commission «on Wednesday dismissed the petition of the Mineral Point Telephone com pany of Mineral Point and subscrib ers of the company for an order re quiring the Farmers 4 Telephone Ex change company to discontinue its exchange at Mineral Point. The com plaint was based on the provision of the public utility law prohibiting the duplication of telephone systems In the same city or locality. Conductor Jack Redman fell from the top of a freight train in the Viro qua yards and received a broken nose and bruises on various parts of the tody. He was taken to the hospital. * * * Burglars at Stanley, cracked the safe of the Miller-Myers Implement house and obtained SSO in cash. They also broke into a real estate office but found nothing in the safe. No trace has been found of the robbers. * * * The Indians on the Oneida reserv tion at Depere held a community Christmas tree last Wednesday even ing. There is said to be such desti tution among the Indians since they sold off their wood and timber. Com mittees in Depere and Green Bay col lected food and clothing for them. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. Anton Hanson of near Viroqua, was accidentally shot while arranging things in a buggy, by the discharge of a 22-calibre rifle. The gun had been placed in the vehicle by her son with out her knowledge. The ball pene trated the left lung. * * * Any barber getting intoxicated while on duty may have his license re voked by the state board of health. A recent complaint received alleged that a certain barber of a small town got drunk every week and following that had fits. A petition with half a doz en names was filed. * * * Principal Ashmore of the Stone Lake high school was drowned while skating at that place. He had been en tertaining a younger brother and they decided to go for a spin over the ice when the accident happened. The body was sent to the former home in Illinois. * * * Joseph R. Zarwichowski escaped from the Marathon county aslum at Wausau last February and went to New York state. Following his arrival he killed a man and was confined in the asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan. Now the New York officials have been instructed to bring Zar wichowski back to Wisconsin. * * * Edward J. Griffiths, prosecuted and acquitted at Monroe on a charge of perjury, fled across the state line into Illinois to evade the officers bearing a new warrant. The second charge was alienation of the affections of a university professor’s former wife. Jrffith was in mortal fear during his trial of receiving a beating at the hands of the man he had wronged. * * * Wisconsin stands fourth in the country for having a low death rate —only three states—Kansas, Utah and Minnesota —making a better show ing. The four leading states have the following rate: Kansas, 9.8; Utah, 10.1; Minnesota, 19.6; Wisconsin, 11.1. Wisconsin’s mortality ratio is based on the total deaths during the year of 27,181. * * * Wisconsin birch is now being used as a substitute for black walnut in the manufacturer of gunstocks. Walnut is scarce on account of depletion of the American forests and the European war and as a substitute the birch was given a tryout. The experiments were so successful that orders poured in and many million feet of lumber has been sent to eastern states. * * * Mack Timmerman of Wilton, so journed in La Crosse with his bride of a day while on his way home from the wedding. He gave the baggage to an employe of a dray line to care for and when he returned two of the suit eases stolen, Mr. Timmerman sued for the value of the missing baggage and received a judgment in his favor amounting to $68.50. * * * Henry SeCoy, fifty-one years ago a resident of Almond, returned home a few days ago from Missouri. SeCoy vandered away years ago and nothing being heard of him, was mourned as dead and finally forgotten. He became a prosperous citizen of his adopted state. Recently Mr. SeCoy became cur ious to know whether any of his rel atives still lived there and came home ilnding many of them. * * * Three hundred and twenty-one tons of fish have been taken from Wiscon sin waters so far this season, from which the state derives revenue amounting to $5,588.92. These fig ures are made from returns made to date by the fishermen, through the wardens. Large quantities of the fish ' are still impounded and unreported and the process of taking them is still going on. The most important of the carp seining operations are on the Madison lakes and the principal fish ermen are W. E. Weitner, who operates on Lake Kegonsa, and Rice and May, who devote themselves to the waters of Lake Mendota. Weitner has re ported 205,593 pounds of carp shipped and lie paid the state $2,058.93. Rice and May have taken 124,803 pounds and have paid $1,248.03 to the state. The fishermen received about 5 cents a pound, of which one cent goes to the state. The fish are placed in gal vanized iron tanks in express cars. The tanks have air forced through them mechanically during the trip, keeping the fish alive. Two and a half days are required for the trip to the eastern market. Two crews have been at work, under the supervision of con servation commission agents, as has been the case at Lake Butte des Morts, Madison, and other places in the state. The biggest haul so far was seven tons. The nets are stretched under the ice. The price paid is much bet ter than the 6 cents that used to be paid when fishermen had to pack the fisli at their own expense. The state formerly handled the money and took its share before paying the fishermen. This was changed at the last session. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WENESDAY, DECEMBER, 29, 1915. Twelve students of Lawrence col lege, Appleton, were suspended fol lowing a riot in the boys’ dormitory at that school. Among other things the boys broke down the doors and rolled beer bottles down the stairs making all the noise possible. * * * Charles Burk, aged 74, of Waubeek, was drowned in the Chippewa river following a visit with his son at Dur and. Mr. Burk had started for home and was supposed to have reached there in safety. His body was found caught on a snag by two boys. * * * A stranger, unknown and unidenti fied, fell under the wheels of a train at Green Bay and had his head cut off by the moving wheels. The accident happened last week near the depot and it is supposed the mail was trying to catch the train. * * * Mrs. Emma Bartles, wife of a well known farmer of the town of Grover near Marinette, was crushed to death beneath the wheels of a box car on the Milwaukee road. Mrs. Barries was in a sleigh when the horses frightened by the approaching train, backed in to it. * * * Hunters near Holcombe who had a cache of illicitly killed venison and were shipping partridges out of the state by the trunkful to Chicago and other points, were captured last week by conservation warden Asmuth. The trunks were shipped as baggage, the checks and tickets being sent by mail. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Obowski of Ra cine, managed to amass a fortune of $6,000 remained a puzzle to their friends until recently when the pol ice raided their home.* The officials found valuable silk garments, shoes, furs and other costly articles. The police assert that Mrs. Obowski had stolen from the stores of several cities. Her husband is a working man. * * * A man wanted at Linton, N. D., on a charge of horse stealing, wandered into a farm house near Maiden Rock, and gave himself up. The sheriff of Emmons county, N. D., was accom panying him west from Detroit when the man asked permission to go to the toilet room, and jumped through a window near Stockholm. He nearly perished from exposure before giving himself up. STITZER. ■Special Correspondence to the Herald. Joe Stich has a new horse that is some stepper. Hubert Schuppener is clerking in his father’s store during the holidays. Ed Kirk from Hazel Green, is here visiting relatives. There will be a car load corn in this week. Charles Barner is mowing down tlie hills with a new Ford car. Harvey Julious lost a black fox hound one day last week. Ed Timel has a new imported horse. He is now in charge of Richard King for the season. Miss Alta Woolstenholme is vis iting at Livingston with ‘her sister, Mrs. O. Dixon for a few days. , Dewie Schuppener is the champion egg eater. If he wants to he can eat five dozen eggs in five minutes. 1 Walter Brun from Lancaster, spent Christmas at his home with liis moth- j er, Mrs. Fred Brun. . Charles Julious will run his feed mill 1 Wednesday and Thursday of next '• week. 1 O. M. Smith from Mt. Ida, was here ] to do his Christmas shopping, last - week. Mr. and Mrs. George Henschel are 5 spending the holidays in Dubuque, la. 1 with Mr. Henschel’s parents. Miss Bernice Smith spent Christ- [ mas with Miss Mabel Kolzinger at Lan- j caster. John Cero returned home last week i from Chicago, where he was visiting J relatives a few days. ( Will Mitchell, Jr., is now the owner of Taxier Jim, the great running ( horse. Taxier Jim is a cousin to Peter j tlie Great. ( The board of trade and live stock i commission will meet next Saturday. * All members are requested to be pres- * ent. Fred Pettit w r as at Rockville last week to see his brother, Sam. Sam is getting along well and is working ( again. Miss Lela Schuppener is spending her vacation at Evansville, Wisconsin, with Miss Della Davis, formerly of this place. Mr. and Mrs. O. Dixon from Liv ingston spent Christmas with Mrs. i Dixon’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Woolstenholme. C. H. Schuppener left last Thursday for Springfield, Ohio, where he will spend the holidays with liis sister, Miss Edna Schuppener who is supervisor over several schools at Springfield. Walter Beetham will keep tlie motor running in his car hereafter when it is cold, so he wont have any more trouble starting when he gets ready to go home. Christmas week had two good pro grams at tlie church. The M. E. and the Lutheran churches both were well filled and all there were well pleased. Charles Smith from Clark county, was here last week visiting relatives. Charles likes that country fine. It is a good dairy country and all the trou ble they have is that the grass grows to fast, they can’t keep it cut down. We have a telegraph operator here, Harry Burnstin, from Baraboo, Wis., who now has charee of our station until Hubert Schuppener learns to be l an operator. It comes in handy for , our stock dealer, Ed Lind, for he gets the market by wire every day. | Last week George Grou, cheesemak er on Leggett branch, while out hunt ing saw a large black timber wolf, and wounded the animal, but it got away. It ran into the old wolf den lin tlie timber. Ben Ward set traps for him, but has not capture! him yet. Elden Pritchett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Pritchett, had the misfortune to break his arm last Thursday while on his way to the Christmas exercises at the school house. He was climbing over a fence and fell off. Dr. Fowler of Lancaster, was called to see him j and lie is now getting along nicely. | j Last Friday Robert Pageukopf while on his way to Lancaster had a close call with liis big Studebaker Six. On the railroad crossing his car became unmanageable and got the best of him jumping into the cattle guards and got the wheels fast in the guards. The 2 o’clock train was almost due, and Bob ran a mile down the track, pull- i ing off his coat as he ran and tied it to a long pole and stood on the track to stop the train. The engineer saw him and brought his train to stand, and Bob told him his trouble and the good engineer and the entire train crew got out and with axes and crow bars chopped the guards and with the crowbars pried the wheels of the car out and with the aid of several passengers they pushed the car out onto the highway. Bob thanked them for their kindness in his distress and went rejoicing on his way. Now Bob says he is going to put bumpers on his car, for he needs them behind as well as in front. Bob says he had a close call. But it is lucky it was not Will Fisher with his old one-lunger. LEGAL NOTICES. Notice for Administration and Notice to Creditors. State of Wisconsin, County Court, Grant County—ln Probate. In re estate of Mary E. Hampton, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the special term of said court to be held on the fourth Tuesday of January, A. D., 1916, at the Court House in the City of Lancaster, County of Grant and State of Wisconsin, there will be heard and considered, the application of Grant Hampton, of Potosi, in Grant County, Wis., for the appointment of , an administrator of the estate of Mary ( E. Hampton, late of the City of Lan- : caster, in said county, deceased; NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, That at the regular term of said court to be held at said Court House, on the Ist, Tuesday of May, j A. D., 1916, there will be heard, con- ! sidered and adjusted, all claims against said Mary E. Hampton, deceased; AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FUR THER GIVEN, That all such claims for examination and allowance must be presented to said county court at the Court House in the City of Lancas ter, in said county and state, on or be fore the 21st day of April, A. D., 1916, or be barred. Dated December 21st, 1915. BY THE COURT: E. B. GOODSELL, Judge. Brown, Brennan & Cartliew, Attorneys. 43w3 Notice to Prove Will and Notice to Creditors. STATE OF WISCONSIN, County Court, Grant County—ln Probate. In re estate of Thomas Hartman, de ceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the special term of said court to be held on the fourth Tuesday of Janu ary, A. D., 1916, at the Court House in the City of Lancaster, County of Grant, and State of Wisconsin, there will be heard and considered the application of Barbara Hartman to admit to pro bate the last Will and Testament of Thomas Hartman, late of the city of Lancaster, in said county, deceased, and for the appointment of an execu tor. NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER' GIVEN, That at the special term of said court to be held at said Court House, on the fourth Tuesday of April, A. D., 1916, there will be heard, con sidered and adjusted, all claims against said Thomas Hartman,deceas ed; AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTH ER GIVEN, That all such claims for examination and allowance must be presented to said county court at the Court House in the City of Lancaster in said county and state on or before the 20th day of April, A. D., 1916, or be barred. Dated December 20th, 1915. BY THE COURT: JAMES McBRIEN, Register in Probate. Geo. B. Clementson, 43w3 Attorney. County Court, Grant County, Wiscon sin—-In Probate. In the matter of the estate of Charles t Roschi, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That ! at a special term of the county court j to be held in and for said county at the court house in the city of Lancas ter in said county on the fourth Tues day (being the 25th day) of January, A. D., 1916., at the* opening of court on that day, the following matter will be heard and considered: The application of Leland E. Roschi, administrator of the estate of Charles Roschi, deceased, late of the town of Waterloo in said county, for the exam ination and allowance of his final ac count, and for the assignment of the j resdue of the estate of sad deceased to j such persons as are by law entitled ! thereto; and for the determnaton and adjudication of the inheritance tax, if any, payable in said estate. Dated, December 16th, A. D., 1915. BY THE COURT: E. B. GOODSELL, County Judge. Brown, Brennan & Carthew, Attorneys for administrator. 43w3 l « Oxford. The University of Oxford has the reputation of having been founded oy ’ King Alfred in 872. CAN’T WE .SHED A LITTLE LIGHT FOR YOU ON BUYING .SHOE.S To .SAVE MONEY, IN OUR .5 TORE. WE'VE GOT A LoT OF GOOD "MONEY ■SAVER'G" RIGHT NOW, To MAKE A HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR YOU. OUR .SHOE.S ARE GTYLIGH; THEY FIT; LOOK GOOD AND WEAR WELL, AND WE CAN A.S.SURE YOU THE PRICE WILL BE RIGHT. WE MAKE THE PRICE TIGHT IN THE FIR.ST PLACE. WE CAN'T AFFORD TO .SELL POOR .SHOE.S AT ANY PRICE. j -L. WEBER I THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES ■■MBMaßMMnnßngaannnassaisaMßsnHßHiiHnaHßHHaHßi OUR SHOES FIT. DO YOURS? cSyriXu' Lai caster, Wisconsin ffiZSAluminumfiiiMe mmmumm i—inmrmiiht qaßagap OHHBaBKBBiB OHBHESSffiBSfII JmW Special Offer to Karo Users Read the Offer and Write Today So As to Be Sure To Get Your Griddle Jyßf special arrangement you can get this fine Wffl O inch Solid Aluminum griddle for less njjr than the wholesale price. |f Go to your grocer, get 50 cents worth of Karo and Ar send us the labels and 85 cents and you’ll get the Alu -1 minum Griddle by prepaid parcel post v J You know Aluminum ware —you know how long it f| lasts, how much easier it is Jo cock with. It doesn’t chip, it doesn’t rust and it always looks so bright and clean I and inviting H You don’t have to grease this Aluminum Griddle, it does not smoke up the house; it bakes griddle cakes and corn cakes crisp M and light—the way you want your griddle cakes to be. And the M cakes are far more digestible and better flavored - «j* At great expense we are seeking to place a Karo Aluminum VI Griddle in the homes of all Karo users, so that Karo—the famous "1 spread for griddle cakes and waffles may be served on the > tit most deliciously baked cakes that can be made. 'ok Last year the people of this country used 65,000,000 cans % of Karo — the largest demand ever given any syrup Wk That shows you what people who know Karo think of it, how much better they like it than any of the old kind of syrups % Take advantage of this chance to get this solid Alu minum Griddle at a clear saving cf $1.40 in cash. Get the Karo Today—and send us the labels and 85 cents (P.O. money order or stamps) at once. We will also send you tree the Corn Products Cook Book. A Corn Products Refining Co. P.O. Box 161 ( the QOOP JUDGE AND THE PRESIDENT OF 7H£ GENTLEMEN, HISTORY RECORDS THE > NAMES OF SOME MEN WHO DID MUCH FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND WHO ARE 'C REVERENCED IN THE MINDS OF THOSE j LIVING TO-DAY. LIKEWISE, HISTORY 1 W,LL Record the name of j PLJ I NAM COUNT Y f 'jf\ \ THE GOOD JUDGE,WHO HAS CRANCE UW\ A 1 TOLD MEN OF W-B CUT g I TOBACCO. A SMALL CHEWL wT J LASTS LONGER THAN i\ BIGI Ivr ? l CHEW OF ORDINARY \ ) TOBACCO. ( * all W-B CUT users owe the comfort of W-H Chewing the Real Tobacco Chew, new cut , long shred —to friends who told them about it. W-B CUT Chewing is rich tobacco— a small chew takes the place of a big wad of ordinary tobacco and it lasts. Get a pouch and give it a quality test. Notice How tHe salt brings out tbe rich tobacco taste** Made by WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPANY, 50 Union Square, New York City