Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-28

I
miles north of Merrill on Friday Of
last week and several of the passen-
gers and trainmen received serious in
/ juries. A broken rail caused the acct
dent.
-O-O-O-
Aroused to indignation by the
steady increase in potato prices Mon
roe women formed boycott Pota-
toes are selling at So the bushel and
large quantities are stored awaiting a
higher price. The fast" will last ten
days and longer if necessary.
-O-O-O-
Although the town of AIgoma has
never voted on the license question, the
village was entirely dry" for one en-
tire week. This was due to the stop
ping Of the train service owing to
deep snow and the running out OF
liquid refreshments
-O-O-O-
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gotto, 80 and
SO years old, respectively, celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary re-
Gently. They were married sixty years
ago at ST. Johns church, in Green
Bay, and have resided here nearly
seventy years.
-O-O-O-
Joseph Kaminski, the Marinette
farmer, who shot and killed his own
son as the young man was thought
to be clipping with his step-mother,
pleaded guilty to second degree murder
and was given twenty-five years in
! Waupun. The trouble arose over
money matters.
Officers of the Wisconsin-Mi Minnesota
Light and Power company, which
owns large water power plants and
electric power property in the state,
recently closed deal for the electric
lighting plants of Viroqua, Sparta and
Tomah, prosperous small cities in
Monroe and Vernon counties.
-O-O-O-
Arthur Anderson, fifteen, Marinette
when missed at suppertime was dis
covered in the barn strangled to death
by rope which had been used in a
hay wagon. 1t is presumed he tried
to slide from the haymow on the rope,
which was Topped several times, and
his head became caught in one of the
loops.
A few minutes after portion of lead
pencil had been removed from his
lungs. Everett Tripkee, Of Footville,
aged 6 years, died on the operating ia
BILE. The child was weakened by the
foreign substance which he had swal-
lowed eight weeks before and attacks
of grip and measles. Great grief pre-
walls at the GAINESVILLE hospital where
little Everett was a prime favorite
-O-O-O-
Two weeks ago a masked bandit
held up c. A. Dahl, La Crosse shoe
merchant, at the point Of a revolver.
He took $12 and a pair Of shoes On
Friday of the next week the shoes
were found by Dahl on his door step
with this note: Here are your shoes.
l did not harm you but will see you
later"
Juniors of machine shop class of the
Appleton schools have just completed
ed the first of twelve gasoline engines
to be built this year. Castings for
the other twelve have been made and
will be assembled shortly Two en-
gines are of the single cylinder type
and develop about two horsepower.
The other engine can be speeded UP
to about 1000 revolutions a minute.
-O-O-O-
Members of the coast guard on the
lakes not American citizens of which
there are great many, will find them
selves out Of a job, in accordance with
the recent ruling of the government
that all coast guard members must
tbe full-fedged citizens There are a
large number Of men employed as
coast guards, who have secured their
first papers, but not their second ones.
-O-O-O-
will you fight for us if we need
your was the rather pertinent cues
ton put up to fifty-our men who Sc
cured second naturalization papers in
the Circuit court before Judge E. T.
Fairchild Of Milwaukee last week. It
was answered in the affirmative oy
every one Of the men examined. Ten
OF the number renowned their alleg-
lance to the emperor of Germany.
-O-O-O-
Lester Barlow, who was born at
Monticello, Wis, and later moved to
Clear Lake, Iowa, has sold his aerial
torpedo invention to- the Marlin. Arms
company. New Haven. Conn for S5O
900 cash, an annual royalty guaranteed
for seventeen up to $4,000 a year, and
has accepted supervision of the manu-
facture of the apparatus at 500 a
week during the term of the contract.
-O-O-O-
James Cox, who ran away to Chica-
go from Beloit with his brothers wife,
was given one year in the reformatory
at Pontiac, ILL.,, by the Chicago judge.
Cox, aged IS, his elder brother and the
wife, aged p, were in court together