Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-20

Indications now point that the
Wisconsin troops on the border will
Jbe demobilized about October 5.
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The eldest daughter of Editor H.
H. Dunn of Elroy committed suicide
by shooting herself in the mouth with
a rifle. Ill health caused the sad af-
fair.
A trip to Juneau, Alaska, will be
undertaken by Miss Louise Parsons
of Milwaukee, who goes to the north
ern city to engage with her father in
the dry goods business.
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Pat Martin, aged 80, was found
dead on the Northwestern tracks
south of Kenosha last week. The
man had broken skull and fractured
arm, and had been dead for some
hours.
Henry Johnson of Milton Junction
aged 80 and deaf, failed to hear the
whistle of an approaching train and
was run down and killed. Mr.. John
son was struck squarely by the cow
catcher.
A loss of $4,000 was sustained at
New Richmond when large barn on
the st. Croix county farm was struck
by lightning and burned to the
ground. The building was fully in
sured in the state insurance fund.
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~ ORION Of 1a
Dane county farm, declares that the
plan of having DRINKS and Migrants
work out their sentences on the farm
has not been a complete success. That
this class has no honor is Mr.. Prion's
opinion.
Harold Bailey, IA years old, Keno
;sha, ran directly in front of passen-
ger train while hurrying to school
and was only slightly injured as the
engineer stopped his train about six
inches from where the boys head
lay on the rail.
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Miss Leila Loofbourow of Monroe
will receive $1,100 from the will of
her father, who died recently, leaving
"a valuable estate, but disinherited his
daughter. AS a result Miss Loot
borrow will withdraw her claim to
break the will.
At Reedsburg a Baptist minister
saved a brewery. During a severe
storm he noticed the brewery build
ing to be on fire. Not having a tel
ephone he fastened to a neighbor,
hurried a message over the wire and
the building was saved.
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Gasoline poured against the cellar
window and set ablaze almost de-
stroyed the fine home of Geo. J. Carr,
superintendent of the Borden Con-
densed Milk company at Monroe. The
blazing fluid permeated the basement
and was eXtinguished with difficulty.
A pyromaniac is held responsible.
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Chester Tellefson of Edgerton en-
fertained T. c. Everson, Milwaukee,
a visiting friend, with duck hunt.
The hunt was successful and they
went home with a good bag. The
woman owner soon appeared and
made the men cough up" 81 apiece
for a large number of dead tame
ducks.
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N. r. Lee, an Elkhorn SalOOnkeep-
eer, who lost his license last spring,
attempted to commit suicide last
week at his home by cutting his
throat with a razor. Lee was frus-
trated and will be sent to Mendoza.
A short time ago E. Amos, another
eX-saloonkeeper, was sent to the in
sane hospital.
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Dr. Thomas Jesperson of Neenah
has completed two years of expert
ments on a process for bleaching
print paper. The process has been
tried successfully in the Fox river
valley paper mills and it is thought
that the printed paper which has up
to now been worthless for print pa
per, may be ground up and bleached
and used over again.
1000
Three small boys and box of
matches proved to be a bad combina-
ton at Cainville Center, where a
barn, poultry house and hay stack
went up in smoke on the farm of
Will Crawford The children, the
eldest of which is six years, ran to
their father with the news when the
flames were beyond control. The loss
amounted to nearly 1000.
600
Word was received at Madison last
week from Congressman John M. Mel
son that an appropriation had been
made for q new pOstoffice in the cap
itOl city. The treasury department
may raze the present building and
sell the site, erecting the new struc-
ture in another location. A move
ment is on foot at Madison to have
the city buy the present building for
a city hail. as the quarters now used
are very dilapidated.
600
With the best Of the tobacco crop
bringing UP to II cents a pound the
growers have already sold 95 per
cent of their crop, according to the
Edgerton Tobacco reporter. Gays
Mills, Crawford county, reports the