Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-08-08
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Dick Jones, labOrer in Red Granite
uuarries at Wautoma, fell sixty-five
feet into a stone pit and was instant
ly killed.
Frederick Wagner, 80, residing ten
miles east of Wautoma, was found
hanging to his bedpost. Their eason
for the act is unknown.
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Charged with failure to register for
young men were lodged in the county
CONSUMPTION on June 5, two Merrill
Jail. They are James Becker and
Robert Butts.
Company F OF the National Guard
was called to Shawano to fight a large
forest fire sweeping down onto Ne
opt, where the large government saw
mill is located.
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Peter Kuffel, Ernest and Charles
Quantius have finished their ten days
of claiming on the Fox river. They
took altogether five and one-half tons
of CLANS, which sold some at $3.50 a
ton and the last ones at $44 ton.
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A western broncho, brought from
Montana in 1876 as a two-year-old by
J. B. Christianson of Nagawicka, was
shot last week because he was too
feeble to stand alone. He had reach
ed the remarkable age of 43 years.
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Fifteen years ago, when a boy, John
Grasel of Washburn swallowed nee
die. On July l he felt pain in the
calf of his right leg, injuring his hand
on a piece of steel while rubbing the
sore spot. The needle was extracted.
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Dean H. L. Russell of the college Of
agriculture of the University of Wis
consin, on Friday of last week an
nOunced the beginning of an intensive
campaign against the ravages of a new
disease that threatens to ravish the
barley crop Of 1917.
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When the steering gear on their
automobile broke and the car over
turned, Mrs. Joseph Halbach, wife of
a Fond du Lac asylum trustee, was
killed under the machine. Her skull
was fractured. Mr.. Halbach and the
two children were uninjured.
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A summer conference of missionary
workers from all parts of the coun-
try and Canada opened at Lake Gen
eva last week to organize forces from
all territories for the advancement OF
the missionary education movement"
The sessions concluded August 5.
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Crushed between car and pillar
in the barns of the Wisconsin Tractor
company at Appleton, Harry Grebs,
p years Old, a conductor, was fatally
injured He died at st. Elizabeths
hospital shortly after the accident
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Roger Deeg Of Appleton, employed
by the Appleton Roofing company,
while assisting in hosting some roof
ing paper to the top of the new addi-
ton to the Bergstrom paper mill, fell
to the ground. He was very badly in
jured internally
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Joseph Laska OF Chicago, confessed
train wrecker, was sentenced to three
years in the reformatory at Green
Bay by Judge W. B. Quinlan. He con-
tossed to throwing a switch on the
branch line of the ]. w. Wells Lum-
Der company
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WaukGsha county is using it's high
school boys to help in the fight on
orchard and garden pests. Following
a farmers meeting at Pewaukee, held
under the direction Of the emergency
food agent and the county council of
defense, movement was started
which has since resulted in the spray
ing of at least twenty-one farm or
chards by high school boys in charge
of A. G. Oesterhous, principal of Pc
waukee schools and teacher of agri-
culture.