Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-01-03


Green Bay railway stations recently
and obtained $10O.
Harry Brooks, SO, farmer, was kill
ed when his clothes caught in the belt
OF a wood saving machine.
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The first shipment Of automobile Ii
cense plates went from Green Bay to
the secretary Of state at Madison last
week.
L. L. Fairchild, 80 years old, Dodge
county pioneer, and the Oldest post
master in the state, died at his home
in Rolling Prairie.
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George F. Perkins, who pleaded gull
ty to rifing the register of an Ashland
hotel and stealing $25, was sentenced
to serve one year in Waupun.
Myor Herman E. Marquardt Of Wau
sau, has ordered all slot machine,
punch boards and other gambling de-
vices removed from the saloons of
that city.
1000
Leonard De Palmo, aged 50 years.
of Fond du Lac, was killed by a North
Western passenger train while walk
ing on the main line crossing Of the
railroad in that city.
600
T. w. Anderson, member Of the as
sembly from Portage county some
~ who
he has been spending the fall. He was
SO years of age and had resided in
Stevens county since 1857.
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: After an absence Of thirty-nine years
during which time his relatives had
not seen or heard from him and had
. long since given him up as dead, Paci-
ficus Hubert returned to his home at
Fond du Lac recently.
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: At a meeting of the commissioners
: at Green Bay the sum of $4,000 TO
meet temporary deficiency in the
| school fund was adopted A resolu-
ton to pay $50, 900 interest on bonded
Indebtedness due Jan. 1 also was
adopted
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Beet growers in the vicinity of Ken
Osha are being urged to refuse to plant
beets unless contract price Of $500
per ton be paid. The president of the
Beet Growers association of that vi
cinity has sent out a notice to this eff
) feet
There has been a slight increase in
: the insane population Of the state I'M
: der the institutional care, according
to the report of the board Of control.
The report Octshrd cmfw shrdlcmf
The total Oct 80 was 1911, and one
month later it was 1884.
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The Wisconsin industrial commits
sion has begun the collection of ma
terial for the 1917 blue Book" with
the idea of issuing the volume before
the adjournment of the legislature
This commission is now gathering the
data and biographical material on
9 members Of the legislature.
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Fire losses in Wisconsin for Novem-
Der were substantially less than those
, of the preceding November, 1915 ac-
cording to report Of the state fire mar
shall. Reported losses were 239 in
number, with total losses Of $32O19O.
October losses were $492,O45, or $780,
855 over those Of November.
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While Edward Lentz, of Whitewater,
accompanied by his little children,
!, was attempting to warm a gasoline en-
CINE with a torch, can Of gas eXplod-
, ed, and two of the children were burn
ed so severely that Laura, IL years
old, died, and Mabel is in a critical
condition. The father was burned
about the face and head.
. 900
Dominick Marpena, aged 35 years,
: Kenosha Italian, was instantly kill
) ed when struck by a train on the
| North Western line, near Winthrop
Harbor. Efforts are being made to
locate his wife and children, whom it
} is though left Kenosha for a Christ
mas visit The remains were taken to
Zion City.
Herman Loeber, Of Appleton, aged
SO, started an action for divorce be-
cause his wife, Bertha, aged A, allow
ed him only SO cents every two weeks,
while the wife insisted that she gave
: him 81 a week and bought his tobacco
and beer besides. The divorce was
; granted on other grounds and the wife
racnivad S500 a1imOnv
5000
Because he refuses to divulge where
he got the liquor that intoxicated him,
Andrew Laid Of Winneconne village,
near Oshkosh, has been committed to
the county jail, to remain until he con-
i, fesses. When searched, bottle of
whiskey was found concealed in one Of
the legs Of his trousers. This is the
first case Of Imprisonment at that place