Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-10-17

Theodore Spangler, deaf and partly
blind, was killed by 500 line train
at Appleton.
Wilbur Grippen, Of Durand, planted
pieces of one potato in twelve hills.
He has just dug 100 potatoes from the
hills, filing a bushel basket.
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Louis H. Carroll of Appleton, expert
cableman of the Wisconsin Telephone
company, was exempted on the ground
that his services were essential.
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humble the-peg, that classic game
Of boyhood, caused Walter Harmon, a
Waukesha SOCIOLOGY to lose his eye.
lannon's knife rebounded and the
blades truck him squarely in one optic.
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A scaffold broke at the new Mineral
Point home of William Gilman and
threw the owner to the ground. One
leg was broken above the knee Roy
Thrasher, a helper, was also thrown
but landed unhurt
With but one dissenting vote the
members of the various county defense
councils in session at Madison last
Tuesday adopted resolutions calling
on Senator La Toilette to resign. In
case of a refusal the resolutions ask
for expulsion.
Clifford Carpenter, aged IL years, of
Wiota, attempted to climb in a NOV
ing buggy and caught his legs between
the wheel and springs. One leg was
broken in four places and severed at
the knee joint, the severed member
dropping on the road. He will be q
cripple for life.
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David J. Westcott, an employee in
Cudahy's Milwaukee plant, died from
inhaling ammonia fumes last Tuesday.
Mr.. Westcott was alone in the base
ment when the pipe carrying the fluid
broke. Fellow employees made a futile
attempt to rescue him.
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Wauwautosa academy boys were Sc
verely censured for riding Wilfred
Payne, son Of a Milwaukee minister,
on a rail. The boys attacked young
Payne from patriotic motives, they
said but all were masked The Of
Tending youths apologised and were
let off with lecture.
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Reckmeyer's, Milwaukee furriers,
used $4,000 from the sale of a Hudson
Bay sable coat to the purchase of Lib
erty bonds and $4,000 from the sale
of an $4,000 Russian sable to the
same purpose. The remaining $4,000
from the last sale went as a donation
to the Red Cross.
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Sergeant William Madewitz member
of the Racine battery now at Waco,
Tex, received a $1,000 swagger stick
from his fellow soldiers on attaining
his twenty-seventh birthday. Made
WITT belongs to the millionaire bat
terry" 121st field artillery. The stick
is made of ebony, tipped with ivory
and set with a 3-carat diamond.
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500 Line trains Nos. and q met in
a head-on collision near Stevens Point
last Tuesday and Engineers Richard
Harrison of Ashland and James Nc
Adams of Stevens Point were instantly
killed. The passengers and other
members of the crews were shaken up
but not hurt. A misunderstanding
caused the wreck. McAdams was
crushed to death under the engine,
while Harrison was scalded and burn
ed to death by being pressed against
the hot boiler head. Both engineers
were thirty years in the roads service.
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George Ziel and John Bitterlee, a
couple Of Prairie du Chen hunters,
met their death in the big river when
their boat capsized in a wind storm.
The men with Frank Zie1, brother Of
George, were on their way back from
their camp at Waukon Junction when
the huge waves flooded and sank their
small boat. The men were good swim
mers, but only Frank succeeded in
breasting the whitecaps in safety. All
were heavily attired in huntine clothes,
boots and heavy sweaters.
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Kingsley Stackhouse, aged 18, of
Baraboo, tipped milk train with
some other boys and started for Elroy
Young Stackhouse was struck by a