Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-07-22
many PETITIONS IN
FOR NATURALIZATION
List of One Hundred and Two
Names Presented
Now On File in Office Of CLERK
of the Court For Action in
September

Comment has many times been
the present election law in Wiscon-
sin, and which is now rigidly en-
forced, relative to the naturaliza-
tion of citizens to qualify them as
voters.
Whereas the law was formerly such
that foreign born person of proper
age who declared his intention of
becoming citizen, provided he had
been for a sufficient length of time a
resident of the state and precinct,
was entitled to voting privileges upon
such declaration, commonly alluded
to as his first papers, the Wisconsin
law of 1909 requires that a voter
must now be a fully naturalized
citizen, and on this account upward
of 80 men who had considered them
selves u. S. citizens and qualified
voters were denied the right of
franchise at the election in this city
last spring.
Like conditions existed elsewhere
in the county, and in consequence
the clerk of the court has received
very large number of petitions for
naturalization in September. We
find on file in his office the following
list of petitioners, 1O2 in number
George F. Funk, Mt. Ida; John
Young, Muscoda; Ferdinand Pagel,
Beetown; Fred Thurk, Lancaster;
Peter Wiede, Lancaster; Andrew
Goetzelmann, Lancaster; William
Lorenz, Lancaster; Frank Lepeshka,
Livingston; Peter Lester Shallcross,
Fennimore; John Thompson, Fenni
more; Patrick Flynn, Woodman;
George P. Goble, Lancaster; John
Stephens, Lancaster; Louis Bach,
Fennimore; Wilhelm A. Won Oehsen,
Platteville; Joseph Dostal, Muscoda;
Francis Rowe, Platteville; Vend Boil
lont, Sitter; George E. Beck, Ian
caster; Henry Harness, Muscoda;
Thomas lockwood, Lancaster; Joseph
Walker, Lancaster; William Block,
Lancaster; William Brendemuhl, Lam
caster; William Pagenkopf, Bloom
linton; Joseph David, Montfort; Frank
Behncke, Lancaster; Alfred E. Cud-
ney, Boscobel; Albert A. Gulke, Ian
caster; James Treloar,, Lancaster
Charles Zuehr, Fennimore; John
Domer, Lancaster; William Krohn,
Lancaster; William Leise, Jr., Lam
caster; Charles Krohn, Lancaster;
John Pink, Lancaster; Albert Brende-
muhl, Bloomington; August Mason,
Fennimore; William Liddle, Fenni-
more; Theodore Strastny, Fennimore
Thomas Beetham, Lancaster; Frede-
rick Diesel, Lancaster; Gust Laabs,
Lancaster; Robert F. Behling, Bloom
ington; David Freymiller, Woodman;
Christoph Freymiller, Woodman;
Ludwig Freymiller, Woodman;
August Behling, Bloomington; John
! Dostal. Muscoda John Kas, Muscoda;
! Eugene Keller, Potosi; John Rock,
Lancaster; Robert Godfrey, Lancas-
ter; Edward Whaler, Liberty; George
Martin, Lancaster; James Lynett,
i Woodman; Mathew Baldwin, Bloom
ington; William M. Thornton, Bloom
ington; George Parkins, Lancaster
Henry Wehnke, Platteville; Fred
Bender, Woodman; Samuel Duncalf,
Lancaster; William C. Bailie, Lam
! caster; Robert Bailie, ST., Lancas-
ter; Samuel Stephens, Lancaster;
Simon Riederle, Fennimore; Frank
J. Herceh, Mt. Hope; William Brun.
Beetown; Henry PETER, Beetown;
Louis Shreda, Muscoda; Joseph f.
Oberwinder, Muscoda; Robert Beling,
Liberty; Koller Joseph, Livingston;
Paul Steines, Hickory Grove; John
Rasque, Hickory Grove; Isaac Kara
SEX, Hickory Grove; John R. Slater,
Livingston; George Harris, Wyalus-
ing George Gilkes, Wyalusing; John
Mason, Glen Haven; Edward Pendle-
ton, Fennimore Thomas w. Winskill,
Lancaster; Thomas Winskill, Lancas-
ter; Sam Levin, Lancaster; John
Hudek, Castle Rock; Frank Hudek,
Castle Rock; Clemens Gruender, Glen
Haven; John Drinkwater, Lancaster;
Harry BROKER, Lancaster; Thomas
Harris, Wyalusing; Levi French,
Wyalusing; William H. Richards,
Platteville; Ole Bakken, Wingville;
Gulbrand Hulsether, Wingville;
Andrew O. Moen, Wingville; Gunde
Roen, Hickory Grove; Barney E.
Hipenbecker, FennimOre; George H.
Harris, Wyalusing; John Gubbels,
Paris Martin Bolen, Paris; Leonard
Meysembourg, Lancaster; John +.
Clark, Lancaster.