Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-08-22

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Otto Kolehn, aged 80, paper maker Of
Vandenbroek, died, and John Nulen-
berge, millwright at Kaukauna, lost an
index finger as the result of an auto
mobile accident near Appleton. The
men were rushed to the hospital, Ko-
lehn dying on the way.
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The Chippewa Canning company has
finished it's run on canning peas, re-
porting a successful season with
pack of 100000 cans or over. The
crop has been fine, though the hot
weather ripened peas too fast, causing
some of them to go to seed that other
wise would have gone into the cans.
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Among those appointed to the second
officers training camp which opens at
Fort Sheridan August q is the Rev.
A. E. Frederick of Kendall, the fight
ing parson.' Frederick served two
terms in the Wisconsin state legisla-
Iture He holds degrees from Wiscon-
sin and Georgetown universities.
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Charles Butch of Baraboo, engineer
on the Chicago e North Western rail
way, suffered painful injuries when he
spfang from his engine, which he saw
was to be struck by another one on
siding near Beloit. One locomotive
was badly damaged. Butch is in
hospital and is improving.
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The captor of the Younger brothers
is dead. Thomas L. Vought, who while
a resident of Madelia, Mimi, was lead
er of the posse which captured Bob,
Frank and Cole Younger, members of
the Jesse James gang of bandits, after
the famous Mortified (Minn) bank
robbery in 1876, died last Wednesday
lat La Crosse.
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Two professional looking men, rep
Iresenting themselves as Drs. Bennett
and Baker Of st. Luke's hospital, Chi
cago, secured $1,000 from Mrs. James
Latimer, a wealthy widow residing in
Delevan, as advance payment for 'sav-
ing her eyesight," and after cashing
the check, fed. The police have so far
been unable to trace them
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Sarah, the two-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. O. Keesey of Oxford
vile, had miraculous escape from
death when she wandered into a grain
field where men were harvesting. The
child crawled under a binder and pre-
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chine started up and ran over her her
face, arms neck and the tendons of
one foot were badly cut. The driver
heard the child's screams and stopped
the machine in time to prevent death.
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Lake Keesus is adding over 200 &C
res to itself, and unless its ambition is
thwarted Keesus will soon rival the
largest lakes in Waukesha county.
Heavy rains this spring and summer
raised the level OF the lake foot or
more above any mark it'll ad reached
for many years. This volume of sur
plus water is overlooking the road near
the Charles Fuller farm to depth of
from two to four feet. The marsh west
|of the lake is filing with water, as the
outlet under the MOnches road has
caved in. Time was when Keesus COW
cred the whole marsh, and now the
lake has almost retaken it's ancien.
boundary. Boats can pass from the
lake down over the marsh, meadows
and hay fields to the Monches road.
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Henry Mathews Of Sparta told
hard luck story to a stranger. Henry
had been touched for his pocketbook
containing $685. and a good watch while
looking at a circus parade at La
Crosse. Lets go to the police station
and report it," said the sympathetic
stranger. They did. No sooner had
the mysterious stranger leaned his ell
bows on the railing in the police sta
ton than sleuth, with camera eye,
recognized him as a we'll known pick
pocket. He was arrested and searched
and three watches and money were
found on his person, one of the time
pieces being that taken from Mathews.
The prisoner gave the name of Ed
ward Murphy and afterward admitted
that he had been paroled from Still
water prison in Minnesota
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One state institution the state pris-
ON at Wausau, has demonstrated the
value of the advice of the state council
of defense, to can vegetables and fruits
for winter use. When the canning sea-
son is over the prison will have 10000
gallon cans and 200 gallon jars ready
for the table. This will mean large
saving in the cost of feeding the pris
oners, one of the largest items Of ex-
pense.
More than 1900 gallons of peas have
been canned, and the rest of the cans
will be used for corn, tomatoes, beans,
pumpkins, beets and squash. A large
quantity of catsup will be made and
picked cucumbers will form part of
the menu. The prison farm raises
small fruits, also, and already has 125
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