Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-14

sau last week where the Athens hotel
was reduced to a mass of ashes.
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Ralph the 10 months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph McNeely OF Green Bay
died from burns received when his
clothing caught fire from the kitchen
stove.
Henry Schrader of Spring Grove
township, Green county, had his face
badly burned by the explosion Of some
gasoline which he had used in trying
to start a fire at his home.
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Miss Marion Mitchell, 80 years Old
died last week in the GAINESVILLE aims
house She will be buried in the fam
lily plot under a $1,000 monument
erected for her father and brother
when the family was prosperous years
ago.
A grandson of JacObus Bush, fam
Gus as a fighter in the United States
army in the war of the Revolution and
in the war of 1912, William Russell
Bush, died at his home in the town of
Somers, Kenosha county at the age Of
81 years.
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The body of City Treasurer Joseph
Jarvis was found frozen on the rear
porch Of his Menasha home. He had
been a sufferer from astham and it is
believed that this or an attack of apOp-
lexy caused his collapse. Mrs. Jarvis
was in ManitowOc.
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The voters OF Richland county will
pass upon a $500 600 bond issue for
good roads at the April election. 1t is
said that under the present plan of
building a few miles each year $685.
600 has been expended i'm the last ten
years in that county.
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Richard w. Cole, 65 years old, has
obtained a license from County Clerk
Jackson, of Monroe county, to wed
15-year-old Cora Mullet Notwith-
standing the difference in the ages the
proceedings have been legaliZed by the
mother of the girl, who filed written
consent to the marriage Both live at
Angelo.
Report has it that hardly a fish
shanty can be seen on Lake Winneba,
go, and the sport is the poorest in
years. There have been no reports
of sturgeon being speared as in other
years. Perch fishing through the ice
on Little Lake Butte and on the Fox
river is reported on the decline.
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Charles Wells, aged %, living on
farm near Humbird, was found frozen
to death in a swamp a mile from his
home, having been overcome within
sight of his destination, while carrying
home stock Of provisions. He had
volunteered to make the trip when it
was impossible, OH account Of the deep
snow, to drive to town.
A claim against the town of Orion
Richland county, was made last month
by Agnes Johnson asking for $4,000
damages for the death of her father,
L. T. Johnson, who was killed in an
auto accident last fall. The claim is
to be acted upon by the town board
and twenty days after such action suit
can be brought if the claim is disal
lowed.
Peter Lass, 38 years old, went into
the home of his wife at Milwaukee
and threatened to kill her. Mrs, Lass
fed screaming. Lass started to fol-
low, but was attracted by the wall
of his six months old child. He car
essed it and then sent bullet crash
ing into it's brain. His wife, whom he
had separated from year before,
watched through a window.
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With the temperature at Is below
zero Green Bay iremen fought the
flames that threatened to destroy the
Larson Canning company's buildings.
One large warehouse filled with goods
valued at $40, 900 went up in smoke
During the fire a huge smokestack fell
endangering the lives of many men
Several fremen were forced to quit
owing to frozen fingers and toes.
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Frank Schaettle, a member of the
present assembly, resigned on account
of illness and refused to accept any
part of his salary and asked that the
money either be sent back to the state
treasury or forwarded to his county
to pay the expense of a special cleo
ton for his successor Schaettles
action is unusual in that most assem-
biymen collect their salary the first
thing
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Harry Dunbar, proprietor Of the Oak
Lodge Farms, near Elkhorn, sold his
herd Of forty-three Holstein. Friesian
cattle at public sale recently for $12,-
435. Oak Lodge Korndyke Ormsby
topped the sale, going to Joe Theisen
of Bear Creek, Wis, for $500; Oak
Lodge Walker Lady with calf came
next, going for $SO5 to Colonel Gus