Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-08
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H. Jewett of Rice Lake recently lost
fifty head of hogs from cholera. The
epidemic is now though to be under
control
Judge T. H. Arthur OF Dodgeville, re
Gently sold four choice Wyandotte
chickens to Gustavo Moldo, a Havana,
Cuba, fancier.
A five-story warehouse will be erect
ed at Green Bay costing 100000. The
building will hold $50 carloads of
i food products when completed
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A shipment of 300 pounds of
cheese has been sent from Neenah to
English army headquarters. 1t is part
of a consignment of nine car loads,
valued at $4,000.
Stanley Martuse, employed at the
Gilman mine, Linden, may lose the
sight of one eye as the result of drill
ing into a loaded hole" His head,
body and limbs were badly injured
!. 1000
Forty-three children will lose their
tonsils at st. Joseph's orphan asylum,
Green Bay, where DR.. H. P. Rhode ex-
amined 800 children. The former
number needed attention.
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Luther MOrtensOn of Clinton, picked
up a gun that he thought wasn't load
, ed and got bullet through the thumb.
He was taken to BelOit hospital
where the shot was removed:
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Within twenty-four hours three we'll
known women died at Manitowoc.
They were: Mrs. Emma Laura Fehrs,
aged 81; Mrs. Agnes Rathsack, aged
f 81, and Mrs. Louis Heyroth, So years
, old
c. E. McLaren ran into snag at Be
lott where he passed two bad checks
aggregating $35. He was identified
= by patrolmen who knew him when he
was member of the Belvidere, Ill,
police force
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Clarence Thompson of Elkhorn.
serving on the border with the u. s.
army died of apOpleXy, according to
q dispatch received by his family in
this state. Thompson was "A years
old.
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During the month of October, the
Barron creamery, one Of the largest
7 in the country, paid $41,3S9 to cream
> patrons, paying an average price of
SO cents for 371, 613 pounds of cream
from which 108,919.S pounds of butter
+ fat were obtained.
1000
. Lauralda Ryan, aged H. ran away
! from her La Crosse home on Sunday
OF last week and was searched for by
the police for two days. She was To-
Gated in another part of the city on
Tuesday. The lure of the movies is
ascribed as a reason
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Coal gas from a stove almost as
phyxlated six persons in the home of
Alexander Blaze, a GAINESVILLE labor
er. Blaze managed to crawl and open
an outside door thus saving the lives
VI LILO w 1IC, Iii &C CIll1uI6U anu MISS
Meta Jaeger, a boarder.
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Ludwig Surina Of Kenosha, received
fatal injuries when jitney bus
struck him on the main street bridge.
Surina was pinned between the vehicle
and steel beam on the structure His
hips, legs and back were broken Sur
ina Only lived half an hOur
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Jesse Lewis of Ridgeway, was SER
iously injured one mile out of town
last week when the rig he was driv-
ing was struck by a railroad train.
Lewis was caught by the cowcatcher
with his head down and carried for
several hundred feet He was taken
out for dead by the train crew Cur
iOusly enough the team escaped in
jury although the wagon was demol-
| ished
After being guests of the Chippewa
tribe near Reserve, a band of Winnie
bagO on Monday of last week, returned
to their home at Black River Falls.
Such unannounced demands upon the
hospitality Of each other have become
| frequent among the red men of north
ern Wisconsin. They say that they
call on each other to exchange ideas
for farming and other arts of civiliza-
ton.
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Tom, a big cat, pet of the woodmen
at the American Parlor Frame com
pany at Sheboygan, had a most unusu-
al Joy ride and escaped with all of his
nine lives. The big cat attempted to
leap through a 16-foot flywheel while
it was making seventy-one revolutions
per minutes, but was caught in the
| wheel where he remained for twenty
minutes, when the engine was stopped.
During the ride the cat travelled 68,-
100 feet or II miles. He was picked
up as dead but one hour later ate