Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-22

AcLlOn mas Doen taken by the CnloI
of police at Racine on the suggestion
of the aldermen, to stop street loafers
from remarking upon passing women.
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Joseph Kilishek, a Menasha man,
paid a fine and costs in Municipal
court at Oshkosh for neglecting to
send Is year old daughter to contin-
uation school classes. Several other
similar cases are pending.
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A large meteorite fell on the Aug.
ust Miller farm near Westfeld and
the residents are preparing to dig it
out. The meteorite entered the ground
at an angle of As degrees and made a
clean hole twenty-six inches in diam
eter and quite deep.
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Marinette county held potatoe
show at Wausaukee on Saturday last.
Addresses were made by ]. C. Mil
ward, secretary Of the Wisconsin Po-
tato Growers association, and Fred
Campbell, of Three Lakes, Wis.
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Hit by motor car while crossing
the street at Green Bay, Dorothy, ii
years old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Bay, was knocked down and
left in an injured condition by the
driver of the vehicle.
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John Stoffels, Fl years old, died at
his home in Kenosha county after an
illness of two days from infantile par
alysis. His wife exposed herself to
the danger of contracting the disease
by caring for him.
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Peter DeRaistis, farmer, near Birch
wood, the first Of the hunting season.
victims in that vicinity, was found late
on Sunday of last week killed by a
shotgun discharge. He had been lost
for three days. He had been passing
through the woods, but had not been
hunting. He left a large family.
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Nels H. Peterson and wife celebrat-
ed their golden wedding anniversary
on Sunday of last week at the home of
their son, Herman Peterson, Cumber-
land. Mr.. and Mrs. Peterson were
married in 1866, at Sampsill, Den
mark, and have spent most Of their
married life at Cumberland.
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Game Warden Gurd Hubert Of Bar
ron arrested Albert Jasperson, Gust
Anderson Louis Nobock, Albert Rick
ert and John Ludwig of the town of
Turtle Lake, charged with trapping
muskrat out Of season. Each was
fined $25 and costs.
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V. E. Brubaker Of Ohio and a grad
uate of the College Of Agriculture in
that state, has been appointed by the
county of Bayfield, to aid farmers in
successfully carrying on their work
He will give especial attention to the
fruit growers of the Bayfield, peninsu-
la.
The woods in southeastern Wiscon-
sin are full of wild game birds, ac-
cOrding to hunters, and more fowl
will be shot this season than ever be-
fore. The hot summer is partially
responsible. Some of the wild birds
are being shot from the piers in Ken
osha and Racine
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Judge Fowler of the circuit court at
GAINESVILLE, handed down a decision
against the state Of Wisconsin in the
action brought to have the Rock river
declared navigable and declare a mil
lion dollars worth of buildings now
standing over the river a nuisance and
obstruction to the river.
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Wesley Barton, colored, oldest resi-
dent of Baraboo, died on Tuesday
morning at his home, just before he
reached the century mark. He was
born at Alton, Madison county, Illi-
nois, in 1918. He moved to Forest,
Wisconsin in 1855, and came to Bara-
boo in 1882. His wife died in 1898
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Charles Larson, hunter and trapper
Of Waupaca county, killed a large
crane on Sunday of last week. The
bird measured six feet from tip to tip
of wings, fifty-six inches in height and
weighed twenty pounds 1t will be i'm
possible to mount the bird, as the
hunter shot the head entirely off.
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Behind the fictitious name of H. A..
Krause, George Mihnowitz, scion of
well-to-do Cleveland, O., family, who
was murdered and thrown into the
Rock river near Beloit two weeks ago,
lived mysterious life. From the day
he committed his first violation of the
law breaking into country general
store which terminated in his commit
tai to the Wisconsin state penitentiary
until his death he never called him
self Mihnowitz. He wished to save
his family the disgrace of having a
kin who was "jailbird."
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Judge Randall, in Municipal court at
KenOsha, on Friday of last week,
found a men who would rather serve
time in the state prison at Waupun