Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-16

Twenty young men have enlisted
from Belmont which has a total pop
ulation Of 500.
The Sturgeon Bay shipyard is III
need Of 100 carpenters due to activ
ity in the boat line.
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Frank Young, Beloit, A years old,
died from the effects of injuries sus-
tanned when BAGS of cement fell up
on him.
Kenosha bankers have announced
the installment plan-$1 down and
ST a week.
John L. olson widower, father Of
four small children, was killed at
New Richmond in alighting from a
moving freight train.
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The Florence Iron 90. of Florence,
Wis, is offering prizes to employees
for the best gardens. The awards
Will be made Oct. l.
1900
The city of Neenah is facing a coal
and wood famine. Not bit Of fuel
can be purchased, local dealers hav-
ing exhausted their supply.
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The city of Marinette is expected to
subscribe $1,OOO,OOO for the Liberty
Loan" Local banks have received
subscriptions amounting to 100000.
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Thirty-three Green Bay high school
boys have already signed up to go
on farm this summer and it is eX
pected that the number will reach
zoe.
Thrown thirty feet in the air and
fatally injured, j. M. Ross, % years
old, truck driver for Kee & Chapple,
GAINESVILLE milk collectors, died while
being taken to a hospital
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Sixty-six marriage licenses issued
in Winnebago county during the
month Of April established a new
record. During the same month last
year sc permits were granted.
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Three hundred shop men of the Be
lott observation-disclosures plant will plant
40 acres of potatoes on land owned
by the company. The company has
purchased several carloads Of seed.
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The Ahdawgam Furniture company
of Grand Rapids has given employees
a ten per cent raise in salaries, be-
sides an increase in the monthly bon
us. This is the second raise in two
months.
Theodore Bartels, AZ years old, of
the town of Black Wolf, near Osh
kOsh, hanged himself last Friday
morning. He is reported to have
high cost Of living.
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Clarence E. Dahlstrom, a graduate
of the college of agriculture who had
been employed on dairy farms near
Madison, was found dead in a hotel
room in that city. Death was due to
commissions. Dahlstrom was 80 years
old.
The first job of yeggmen at James
vile in eight years Melted 500 from
the grocery of Byron Jones in an
outlying district early last Sunday
morning The safeblOwers escaped
by automobile A watch and jewelry
valued at $50 are also gone.
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Hundreds Of Beloit workmen have
petitjoned the common council to Of
ficially set the clock ahead one hour
to make better use of daylight The
movement is given impetus through
the widespread gardening effort. Of
fetal declaration is asked to unity
business and social interests.
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The Central Labor union of Wau-
sau, has refused to endorse the day
light saving plan. The painters and
plumbers claimed that they could not
begin work in homes at the early
hOur and that in the evening bed
rooms would be so warm that it
would be impossible to sleep.
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Medicine cases stolen from the
home Of Dr. w. E. Fairfield of Green
Bay, were recovered, having been
thrown away by the robbers after
they had gone about a mile. Sever
al hundred dollars worth of silver
ware was taken, the thieves gain
ing entrance by forcing a window.
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John Schafer, held as a suspect
in the holdup of a passenger train
last Wednesday near Sparta, con
fessed to the La Crosse police that he
planted two gold watches, gold
watch charm and a revolver near the
La Crosse normal school, where it
was found by John Kelley. a work
man.