Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-07-25
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! Leo Huber, aged 10 years, fell 30
feet from the walls Of new building
being erected at Nekoosa, and may
not recover. One arm was broken and
spinal injuries received.
1000
NJ. Wagner of Neillsville, has a Hol-
stein COW that has MIXED as high as
ninety pounds day this season. This
is equivalent to As quarts and as the
COW was MIXED three times a day, it
means Is quarts to the milking.
1000
VIM Pericoque of Green Bay, en-
pIoyed by the Northwestern railroad
company, was recently seriously if
not fatally injured when he fell dis
lance of so feet from high bridge.
The man struck board fence.
1000
Fred Reamer, serving a two year
sentence in the Milwaukee house of
correction and acting as a "trusty"
in charge of a two ton truck, took adj
vantage of the first day out without
a guard, and escaped. The machine
was found abandoned at the roadside
1000
A bronze tablet will be erected at
Lake Mills in honor of Mrs. Louise
Brayton Swain, who died at Madison
May Both, aged 1O1 years. She was
the daughter of Jeremiah Brayton, a
veteran of 1912 who is buried at Az
ITALIAN cemetery, Lake Mills. The tab
let will be erected at his grave.
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A motor weighing 300 pounds fell
on the head of Herman Koerwitz, a
Neenah paper mill worker, causing
severe decorations. On the same day
Vigo Sorenson, employed on a Neenah
scaffolding to the ground. He sus-
tanned back injuries. Both men will
get well.
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Elmer Bassett, Milwaukee road
switch tender, was found dead in the
yards with deep cuts on his body and
fractured skull. Road authorities
think that Bassett was either assault
ed by car thieves or struck on the
head by a passing car. Investigations
disclosed that he may have been in
toxicated the night before
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Mrs. Mark Milne of Delavan, met
with slight injury recently in a pc
culiar manner While at table the
stopper of a vinegar cruet slipped
from her fingers, falling on her plate
A small piece of glass broken from
the stopper entered an eyeball and re-
CURED the services of a physician
for its removal. The injury was not
serious, but painful.
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John Fellner, 40 years of age, com
mitted suicide at Menasha, by hang
ing. The body was discovered in the
dead mans boat house. A clothes
line was used to form a moose. It
was a clear case of suicide as the feet
touched the floor when the body was
found and the victim could have re-
sumed standing position had he so
! desired.
1000
At the request of the office of the
drug plant and poisonous plant in
designations of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, the pharma-
ceutical experiment station of the
University of Wisconsin has begun
the cultivation of medicinal plants and
the regents have turned over to the
station a 30-acre plat, partly wooded
on the shore of University bay.
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August Fahrenkrug, a town of Mike
vile farmer, nearly drove his car
through an open bridge into the Fox
river at Neenah. Fahrenkrug was
rushing his son, who had suffered a
broken leg in an accident to the hos
pital, and the machine crashed into
the bridge railing when the emergen-
cy brakes were put on. The front
wheels Of the machine were hanging
over the bridge
Martin Grover, sexton of Riverside
cemetery, Ladysmith, discovered
large bear near the cemetery and it
is said Martin made the distance into
town in one minute fiat, or something
like that The bear "beat it" in the
opposite direction, swimming the riv-
er and rambling into the LeBerge
place. Here Bruin met his doom. Ar
chic LaBerge shot him after a half
mile chase. The bear weighed $50
pounds
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The village of Wonewoc is slowly
recovering from the effects of a visit
by an important looking stranger who
represented himself to be a govern
ment man. He ordered the residents
to quit talking in the German Ian
guage as much as possible, stopped
all pinochle and "66" games and 9th