Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-05

veterans home hospital at Waupaca,
of Mrs. Fl. M. Russell Of Fond du Lac,
is supposed to have been due to he.
habit of smoking pipe in bed.
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More than $4,000 pounds during the
school year, averaging 100 pounds
week, is the estimated amount of meat
that the Lawrence college dormitories
and fraternity houses contribute to
the government by observing meatless
day every Tuesday.
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Just for exercise, Miss Margaret
Kalmes, student at the La Crosse state
normal school, walked to her home in
Winona, distance ny foot of thirty
six miles. She started just after sun
up and finished her hike in good con-
iltion at o'clock.
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Isadore Hebert, the first white child
born in Fond du Lac, passed away
there on November 21st. Hebert's
father came to what is now Fond du
Lac in an early day. Hebert was born
in 1912 and resided in the same town
all his life where he held many posi-
lions of trust.
Clark county, long a La Toilette
stronghold, having given him a ma
| jority of over 1000 in the last election,
has through it's councy board, de-
nounced the Senator. Resolutions
were adopted at the recent session
calling on La Toilette to resign.
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A bomb said to have been brought
| to the central Milwaukee police sta
ton by an Italian boy, who said he
had found it in church in the Third
ward, exploded while it was being ex-
amined by detectives in the station,
killing seven or eight men outright
and injuring number of others.
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/ Neenah has launched a campaign
against the high priced retailers. The
butchers will be the first to go on the
carpet. Believing that. people there
are paying more than those of neigh
boring cities the council of defense
has started to Systematically "show
up" certain retailers. Fish and pota-
toes are now being sold at a munich
pal market
What is probably the largest yield
of wheat ever secured in Wisconsin
was produced on the farm of George
Cuff near New London. The wheat
was of the Turkey Red variety and
yielded Isl bushels on one and three
fourths acres, or at the rate of 50
bushels to the acre. The wheat was
raised on an old alfalfa field which
probably explains the yield.
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The body of John, II, only child of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hooper, prominent
in Oshkosh society, and a grandson
of Moses Hooper, prominent attorney,
was found along the 500 line tracks
week ago. The skull was fractured
and the body badly bruised. It is be-
lieved the boy had been playing about
the cars and tracks and fell off NOV
ing car. Mrs. Hooper is Frustrated.
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The trial of Stanley Post, charged
with the murder of Stella Tomachaf-
ski began in the Racine circuit court
last Tuesday. 1t is charged that on the
afternoon Of July Z, 1917, Post shot
the woman who liveG with him as his
wife, using magazine automatic shot
gun. Post denies the charge and says
the woman shot herself while he was
asleep. This is the first murder trial
in Racine county in twelve years.
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Arthur Kinzie, Racine truck driv-
err, was fatally burned by gasoline.
Kinzie filled his tank and accidentally
spilled the fluid on his clothing. In
throwing a switch in the car minute
later an electric spark ignited the va
por and set his clothing af1ame He
rushed into the street screaming for
help. The building of the Lockwood
Oil Co. was also set on fire and burned
to the ground with several large tanks
of oil.
Ruth Fuller, aged 10 years, of Ken
osha, grand-niece of former Justice
i Melville Fuller of the U. S. Spreme
court, died in a hospital last week
from burns The little girl attempted
to turn off the damper of an over
heated stove and her dress caught
fire. Neighbors extinguished the
flames but too late to save the child's
life.
A plan whereby the state council of
defense would appoint an agent to
collect Wisconsin pigs that cannot be
we'll kept on the home farms and place
them in Illinois and the two neighbor
states where there is a large quantity
of immature corn which would be
used to fatten them, was brought be-
fore the council of defense last Tues
day by the Wisconsin Livestock Breed
ers' Association.
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A significant suggestion of the pas
sing of the pioneer DAYS perhaps the
last surviving relic of old settler as
sociations, was afforded in Kilbourn
one day recently. One lone OK, the
last of the only OK team in the region
was brought to the stock yards in
Kilbourn and sold for beef. This relic
of by-gone days was until quite re
Gently driven to town by Mr.. Steven
son, who lives in the town Of Delona
just west of KilbOurn.
1900
The question of dancing in the APP
pleton high school and at social af-
g.