Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-07-11


Correct figures for Wisconsin aliens
and alien enemies were announced
last week from the governors office
as: Alien non-enemies, 1882; alien
enemies, 3041.
While trying to repair trolley pole,
John Rohloff, an interurban conductor
living in Oshkosh, was hurled of the
roof of the car. He is now in the hos
pital His injuries are not serious.
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"My home was in Berlin, Wis. /
want to be there when we get to Ber-
lin, Germany" announced Scott Drake
as he applied at the La Crosse recruit
ing station. He was accepted.
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Mrs. b. Anderson, II years old and
totally blind, was first to donate ar
ticles at Westby for the Red Cross.
She knitted pair of gray wristlets
for the noble cause.
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L. E. Scott, SO years old, died at a
La Crosse hospital of injuries sus-
tanned when he fell from ladder
while painting house. He struck a
cement walk, fracturing his skull.
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While fishing in the Wisconsin riv-
er at Sank City, Miss Marie Merkel
of that place, drowned. With two
companions she was fishing from the
shore when a portion of the bank gave
way. The body was recovered.
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Michael Larry, OcOnto farmer, 70
years old, expects to live long time,
but he is building his own coffin. He
is making an elaborate affair of black
walnut. 81 believe in preparedness, -
he is reported to have said.
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Garrett Barry, we'll known Madi-
son contractor, died at Chicago last
week from a skull fracture. Barry is
supposed to have fallen from a pas
senger train. He was visiting in Chi
cago when the accident occurred
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An explosion in the power house at
the Green Bay reformatory resulted
in the death of Willes Miles of Mil
waukee, an inmate assigned as an
oiler. Harry Keyes Of Green Bay, an
engineer, is in critical condition
from scalds.
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Geo. Schoenbeck, %, Of Chicago,
was sentenced last week at Milwau-
kee TO five years in the state prison
at Waupun, for issuing fraudulent
checks aggregating more than $1,000
in the purchase of an automobile and
expensive jewelry.
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Stafford Siekert, prominent Mil
waukee sportsman, returned home
last week from northern Wisconsin
fishing trip with nine muskies weigh
ing above twenty pounds each. The
largest fish weighed % pounds. Sic
kert made his catch at Manitowish.
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George and Fred Holly, 16 and Is
years old respectively, pleaded guilty
TO series of freight car robberies at
Amigo a week ago. Both boys were
on parole from the Waukesha Indus
trial school and will be returned
there. Edward and JOS. Holly, older
brothers, are now serving sentences at
Waupun for burglary.
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Successful in their efforts to force
Elmer S. Hall, mayor, to order sa-
looms in Green Bay to close on Sun
days, the Fox River Efficiency League
announced on Monday that it will de-
mand that District Attorney William
Cook order drinking places through
out Brown county to cease dispensing
liquor on the Sabbath.
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A pair of adult screech owls inhab-
iting tree in the yard of w. T. Pom
eroy of Edgerton, attacked their host
yiciously. The owls flew into his face
without any warming and had prev
iously frightened passersby by flying
down and pecking their hands. Pom
erOy walked wroth and securing a shot
gun, killed the old owls and their
brood.
Armed guards patrol Indian Ford
Dam, nine miles south of GAINESVILLE,
to protect it from possible dynamit-
ing. Farmers in the neighborhood re-
sent the dam which holds up flood
waters of the Rock river which has
backed up to depth of eleven feet
on some fields at Lake Koshkonong,
Many farmers have been forced to use
boats to reach their barns.
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Zean StrOpe, graduate of the Rhine
lander high school two years ago, is
the first Rhinelander boy if not the
first in the state to reach France since
war was declared. He was with the
first aerial detachment, according to
letter received from his father from
Brest, France. The letter was written
June IL, before Pershing's regulars
arrived.
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=. j. DletZ, proprietor of the Auto