Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-06-06
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row Wilson and received letter OF
thanks from the presidents wife.
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500 railroad employees will be aided
in buying Liberty Bonds through the
deducting of a minimum Of 81 month
~ from their pay, railroad officials
announced at Fond du Lac.
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Dl X w. Doege, president OF the
Marshfeld clinic, has received his
call from the government. All of the
clinic doctors volunteered their ser
vices in the medical corps some time
ago.
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James and Burton Robbinette were
found guilty at Wausau on the charge
Of manslaughter in the second degree
for killing Thomas Jones, at Nashville,
Forest county, in. March. The former
was sentenced to five years in the
Green Bay reformatory and the latter
to five years in Waupun.
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That Louis Kratzat, 15, of Sheboy-
gan, has a charmed life is the belief
Of his friends While turning the cor
ner on a bicycle he was struck by a
speeding motorcycle, knocked across
the street under a horse, whose hOOfs
grazed his head, and the lad escaped
serious injury.
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Peter Stern of Willmette, H., en-
route for Milwaukee, became incensed
at his own image in a parlor car
looking glass and fired revolver at
the reflection. Passengers found him
leaning against the wall exhausted as
from fighting a foe. He was fined $25
and costs by a Milwaukee Judge
Dean B. I.<Bell of St. Paul cathed-
raj, La Crosse, one of the most prom
inent socialists in the state, on Fri
day resigned from the party. He de-
clared that its policies are nearly
reasonable and are deadly to indus.
trial democracy He alleged himself
with Gaylord and Simons, who were
ousted in Milwaukee
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Nothing beyond minor injuries
were received at Roper's corners.
village near Berlin, where the Mil
waukee train of four coaches left the
track anG bumped along the ties for
a considerable distance. Two of the
coaches were so far on their sides
that the passengers had to be taken
out through the windows. The track
was torn up for many feet
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Margaret Donahue Of Madison was
denied the recovery on a $1,000 policy
i'll the R. N. A. lodge made in her fav-
or by Mrs. Bridget Keane. Testimony
showed that Mrs. Keane was past As
years when in 1910 she joined the or
der. The regulations Of the lodge at
that time prohibited members beyond
this age. The court accordingly dis
missed the case of the plaintiff, Mrs.
DOnahuc
Eight boys sent from the city of
Chicago to work on farms near Am
burg, have returned after four days
spent with the hoe and shovel. The
work was too arduOus for them and
they asked to be permitted to return.
The farmers granted the requests and
the city lads took the first train home
Their muscles were too tender for the
farm work and their lame backs and
tired legs indicated that they were all
in
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The reported failure Of a Racine
Waterman to signal the approach Of a
train nearly resulted in a possibly
fatal injury to Edward |. Wratten,
traffic manager Of the Mitchell Motor
company AS the crossing was reach
ed the chauffeur saw the train and
ran the car abreast of the train for
some distance.
After a separation of half a century
and long believing each other dead,
Mrs. Rayna Johnson, SO years old, of
Orfordville, and her daughter, Mrs.
Carl Skar SO years old, of Knox, n
D.. were reunited at GAINESVILLE last
week.
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Two persons were killed and twelve
injured at Marinette, when a North
western passenger train crashed into
street car at a crossing. The street
car was smashed to kindling wood,
its metal frame being carried 900
feet before the engine left the track
and plunged into ditch. The engine
turned over and was practically brok-
en- to pieces. The baggage car was
derailed but the two passenger coach
es remained standing on the cracks.
Witnesses claimed that the engine
carried a lantern in place Of a head
light.
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The newly amended marriage Ii
cense law that goes into effect Jan. /.
1918, provides that application for
marriage license must be made to the
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