Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09

The island saloons of the MISSISSIPPI
pi river will be wiped out if bill now
: before the state senate, passes. The
house carried the measure last week.
There is one saloon near Potosi and
| two on the islands opposite Prairie
: du Chen. These last are considered
bad places and Prairie du Chen resi-
dents will not be sorry to see them go.
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. Little boys playing around a de-
! serted mining shaft near Benton, dis
: covered the bodies of Mrs. H G..
Campbell and her Is months old son.
The bodies were disfgured and had
evidently been in the water some
time. Mrs. Campbell was supposedly
on visit. Campbell is being looked
for. He was hauler at the mines up
to Saturday week ago.
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Clocks were advanced one hour at
noon last Tuesday by large major
ity of citizens in Green Bay, De Pere
and OcontO. The movement to con-
serve daylight will be in force until
September, and is expected to aid in
increasing crop production in the
country and in city gardens, as we'll
as to provide an extra hour of recrea
ton for merchants and laborers.
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George Richardson of Henrietta
met with a serious accident Monday
afternoon while engaged in saving
wood. He fell on the saw and suffered
painful injuries. Three large wounds
were inflicted, one on the left arm ex-
tending from the elbow to the waist
cutting the tissue and flesh to the bone
in horrible manner, another wound
on the thigh and one on the calf of
the leg.-Richland Democrat.
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An association to furnish Douglas
county farmers with funds for the
purchase Of dairy cattle will be in
corporated by the Superior Rotary
club at the Douglas County Farm De
velOpment association meeting. Ar
rangements for inaugurating the
movement are now being perfected
1t is proposed to secure needed funds
from Superior business men to be
loaned on notes guaranteed by the
association.
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The first sale OF the Fond du Lac
Holstein Friesian Breeders associa-
ton closed there Friday a week ago
with AS head sold at an average Of
$500 a head The feature of the sale
was the offering of Johanna Korn-
dyke Butter Girl 157,SO2, by F. J..
Bristol & Sons, Oakfeld The COW
was knocked down to Frank J. Schus-
ter Of Mukwanago, for $1,000. The
new owner was offered $1,000 for the
prize cows first male calf.
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Harry Craig, a former Cleveland
student at the University Of Wiscon-
SIM who is a member of the Badger
ambulance corps in France, has been
decorated with the Crois de Guerre
for bravery for carrying wounded
soldiers through heavy German fire.
He drove his ambulance through a
wood that was being shelled, and al
though men were killed all around
him, he reached his destination safe
ly with his load of wounded. Reports
from France say that the entire Badg
er contingent has distinguished it
self
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A. H. Mccormick, operating large
general store at Ladysmith, is under
arrest on complaint of District At
torney FalgeOn on murder charge.
Over year ago McCormick's wife
died. A coroner's jury, in the absence
of District Attorney Kerwin, then in
Office, rendered a verdict of suicide
by poisoning. Upon Kerwin's return
and investigation another coroner's
jury was called, with the result that
an opposite verdict was rendered.
Relatives of Mrs Mccormick contest
ed her will, which was considered fav-
orable to her husband. Circuit Judge
Wickham recently rendered deci-
sion that the will was made through
fraud" and in his opinion the lease
pointed to murder"
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An attempt of Frank Doolittle, an
Indian to "slip one over" on the Fed
eral court at Madison, resulted in
Judge SanbOrn slipping one over"
on him by sending him to the Leaven-
worth prison for a year and a day.
Doolittle was arraigned in the Federal
court at Superior for carrying liquor
on reservation. His bail was fixed
at $500 and he asked permission to
go to Ashland to raise the money. His
request was granted Instead of keep
ing his promise he got drunk and beat
up his wife. He was sent to jail for
so days and upon his release the fed
eral authorities took charge of him.
Lizzie Moustache and William Sween-
ey, also charged with carrying liquor
on reservations, were each sent to
the Dane county Jail for 60 days and
fined 500