Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-08-08


While Henry Boomer Of Tomah was
cutting clover with a moving machine
on his farm he noticed the grass get
ting clogged up in front of the cutter.
He found the points of the guards had
/ five feet long, it having become fast
with the point of nearly every guard
on the mower and holding the grass
away so the cutter bar could not cut.
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J Mrs. Edward Fouldes of Fon du Lac
was killed and Miss Florence Coyhes,
also Of Fond du Lac, was severely cut
and bruised when an automobile own
ed by Michael Steber of that city
turned over near Kettle Gate, sum-
mer resort south of that city. Mr.
Steber few minutes before the acct
dent stopped the car and permitted
Mrs. Fouldes to drive. 1t is supposed
the machine skidded.
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The DeIls of Wisconsin are mighty
popular with tourists. but Fred Do
row Of Reedsburg isn't SO enthusiast
tic about the vicinity. DOrow has a
thirty-fve-acre patch of navy beans
about six miles southwest of Kilbourn
in the Dell country. He has been stay
ing in a tent to watch them But he
hasn't slept we'll. Wolves in the vi
cinity are so "nosey," he says, that
he's on speaking terms with whole
pack.
Ralph Day, two-year-old son of Wal
ter Day, Racine confectioner, was
rum down and killed by an automobile
driven by Fred Christianson tailor.
Christianson had stopped his machine
and entered a garage. and in starting
up failed to notice the child at a front
fender. A wheel passed over it's body.
Christianson took the child to a hos
pital, where it died The father, on
learning of his child's death, attacked
Christensen.
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Arthur Wells, aged IA, was respon-
sible for the $4,000 fire which occur
red at Appleton last week, when prac-
tically the entire plant of the Ideal
Lumber company was destroyed.
Wells admitted to District Attorney
Catlin that he had been smoking Gig
arettes in the yard on the morning of
the blaze. He was taken into court
and sentenced to four years in the
7 Waukesha industrial school by Judge
Spencer.
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! Vesper had an unusual snake exper-
fence recently. 1t appears that a cow
belonging to Julius Kluge had been
falling off in its flow of milk. which
caused Mr.. Kluge to investigate. He
noticed when turning the cow into a
pasture that it made for a certain
tree. Soon after turning the COW out
he saw that large snake coiled about
the cows leg had acquired the habit
of sucking the COW. The snake was
killed and measured something over
five feet in length.
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To be married in the middle of
lake was the matrimonial decision of
Miss Arvilla Booth of Beaver Dam and
George L. Williams of Fox Lake Will
l!ams is a member of the Beaver Tam
militia company Justice T. D. Hotch-
kiss Of Fox Lake tied the nuptial knot
in a craft owned by himself while out
in the middle Of Beaver Dam lake.
The bride was attired in a silk sport
skirt and white waist and picture
hat, while the groo2n wore the con-
ventiOnal khaki uniform
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His body hanging over the edge of
his boat, head and shoulders in the
water, near the Brentwood town dock,
Albert Koeller Of Minneapolis, a sum-
mer tourist, is believed to have been
Frustrated by the heat while attempt
ing to crank the boat engine.
/ Guided by cries of distress coming
from the woods near Half Moon lake,
a searching party from Iron River
found Fred Simons exhausted from
hunger and thirst in a thicket close to
the shore of the lake. He was too
weak to go to the lake for the water
he was so much in need of. Simons
disappeared June 28 He has been
wandering in the woods ever since, a
victim Of aphasia.
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Because Of the war the Wisconsin
! legislature determined that there
shall be no formal dedication of the