Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-08-02

! Mrs. Hannah Duryee, a widow, 80
years old, has decided to ST. Louis
| (Missouri) University a tract of real
estate in st. Louis valued at $4,000
to $4,000. She said that she intended
giving away all of her real estate be-
fore her death to prevent her heirs
from quarreling over it.
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Ten car loads of benzol, the first
shipment from the new half million
dollar plant of the United States Steel
company, were routed through Gary,
Ind, over the Elgin, Joliet, and East
ern railroad. The shipment is con-
signed to eastern distributors. Work
on the benzol plant was started last
fall. Steel mill officials have denied
official admission of its existence
came after the shipment had left the
Joliet yards. Coal tar has been
waste product of the coke plant for
many years After the war shut off
! importation of benzol dye bases from
Europe Steel company officials start
ed plans for conserving the coal tar
products.
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/ Students Of Zion College at Zion
/ City, ILL.,, will not be permitted to in
dulge in college yells, according to
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Overseer of Zion
City. Such demonstrations are "stuff
and nonsense" he said. Overseer
| Voliva further announced that the BIZ
BILE will be the text book in the teach
ing of astronomy, geology, chemistry,
mathematics and all other sciences.
The girls will be taught plain old
fashioned cooking and not domestic
science.
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Drawing for homestead rights in
1900 acres of land in the COlville
Indian reservation in eastern Wash
| ington, under the direction of John
McPhaul, representative of the feder-
al government, was continued Friday
of last week. More than 10000 regis
trations were heaped on the stage of
theater. Prize No. carrying with
| it the right to make first selection of
land, was drawn by George Lennon
of Spokane. Among those in the first
100 names drawn was Miss Linda M.
Derbert, of Princeton, Wis, whose
prize was No. Z.
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i Mrs. James L. Armstrong of Roches-
/ ter, n. Y, has been appointed agent
and warden of the Blatie farm for
women at Albany. She is the first wo-
man to be selected for a wardenship
of a penal institution in that state.
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Waldo Oatey, IA, is in local hospi-
tai in Dubuque, Iowa with thirty-two
calibre wound in the back part of his
right shoulder With other boys he
had been swimming, and returning
home they had passed through farm
er's field when the farmer, Joseph
Froeleigh, aged so, opened fire on the
boys Froeleight is in Jail.
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Wisconsin soldiers at the front can
not vote by mail, according to the
opinion of Attorney General Owen to
Gov. Philip. The attorney general
says the statutes on the subject are
plain "This provision Of the statute
Il
Owen, namely, the elector must pre-
sent himself in person to the clerk
and make application directly and
without mediation of the mail or any
other agency
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While John w. Skinner, farmer Of
Ruston, La, was blowing his field the
blade of his pillow struck an old iron
kettle which burst open, revealing
more than $1,000 in old silver coin.
The money is mostly of foreign mint
age and some of the pieces are 139
years old.
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The st. Louis Republic announces
that in order to meet the increased
cost of production the price of the
paper, on and after Aug. 1, will be
2 cents a copy, and the Sunday edi-
ton cents. The GlobeDemocrat re-
Gently announced it would raise the
price of its daily edition to 2 cents.