Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-10-03


Tuesday. She was one Of the few liv-
ing who came to Wisconsin in the
early days.
Milk producers of Racine county
presented a demand at the milk pro-
ducers' convention held in Chicago,
Sept. %, that the rate for milk pro-
duced and sold in the district be $3.50
per 100 pounds, as against $3.50 and
$2.75 now being received.
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Fannie Stimson, Sun Prairie girl,
has been awarded the title of cham
pion girl farmer, together with the
prize of 500 in gold, which is yearly
feature of the juvenile agricultural
club work at the Wisconsin state fair.
Last years winner was Helen Hatch
of Lake Geneva.
The body Of Alvin Pohland, Is years
old, who was drowned in Crystal lake,
near Sheboygan, Sunday of last week,
was recovered late Wednesday with
graphing hooks after crew Of men
under the direction of DR.. William van
Zanten, coroner, had discharged two
blasts of dynamite
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Lewis Larson, Story farmer, met
an awful death while shoveling gravel
from the side Of a pit. The banks had
been undermined by blasting and an
avalanche of gravel buried Larson and
his team. He was taken out with three
ribs broken and internal injuries, and
death came three hours later.
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DR.. K. d. Shastri, the Hindoo psy-
biologist arrested at La Crosse on a
charge of having eXtorted $1,000 from
Edward Roesler wealthy farmer, for
treating the latter's wife by hypnosis
and mental suggestion, was discharged
following hearing in the county
court. DR.. Shastri lives in Chicago.
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John B. Bauer, a Baraboo man, was
instantly killed when the knife wheel
Of a silo cutter burst apart, throwing
the blades in all directions. Bauer's
head was horribly gashed and one
hand was torn from the body. The
machine was running empty when the
accident took place. Other men had
narrow escapes.
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The city of Oshkosh has been asked
to bond itself in the sum of $4,000
for municipal fuel yard and ice
plant by local labor organizations. The
an increase in saloon licenses from
5000 to $500 on the grounds that few
rich publicans would get monopoly.
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Procrastinating tobacco growers of
Chippewa and Dunn counties lost
thousands of dollars in the freeze of
two weeks ago. Many crops were ripe
but the farmers allowed them to re-
main in the fields, feeling safe against
frost. Twelve hundred acres were
planted to tobacco in these two coun-
ties. The loss will be about so per
cent, or 100000.
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While driving to meet his sister who
was coming from Minnesota for
visit, George Payner, Dane county
farmer, was struck on a private rail-
road crossing and instantly killed.
His car was a total wreck. Payner's
neck and both legs were broken in
the impact The sister, waiting at
Waunakee, collapsed when she heard
the news Payner was unmarried.
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The state council of defense recently
investigated a report that farmers
were sacrificing heifer calves on &C
count of the high veal price and found
the charges untrue. Ninety per cent
Of the calves now being sent in are
males. The only drawback to this is
cutting off of the beef steer. Milwau-
kee dealers buying heifer calves have
been selling them back to the farmers
at increased prices. =
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Albert Sexton, assistant foreman OF
gang of prisoners sent to 90 work
on a state building at Union Grove,
fr1, VO1ox yiI1Cr 0p6S wit
the prisoners. An order was sent out
recently forbidding men in charge OF
gangs to play cards and otherwise to
fraternize with the prisoners. Sexton
claims that he thought the order had
been revoked AS result he will see
the governor about it.
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Sparrows building their nests in the
chimneys of the Fond du Lac home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. LOOMS, so and 81
years old, respectively, caused the
death Of the aged couple on Friday.
The old people had built coal fire in
a small heater. The nests choked the
chimney and the coal fumes settled in
the house. At s o'clock in the morn
ing a man delivering milk found the
couple dead, one upon the floor and
the other upon couch. The house
was filled with gas.
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Little Marjorie Helen Kipp of Fond
du Lac has adopted a soldier. Mar
jorie is only eight years old, but she
wants to do something for her cOun-
try, so she wrote a letter to the state
council Of defense. When the troops
passed through Madison on their way
to Waco, Tex, Marjorie's soldier was
with them. Otto Slinde, headquarters
company First Wisconsin infantry,
has been formally adopted through the
state council and box of candy was
the first gift from his little war moth
er.
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Gov. Philip, speaking before 200
fishermen Of the Wisconsin Fisheries
Protective association at Green Bay on