Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-05-08

on the river bank with profit as he
found a wolf den and little cubs
Dick pulled down bounty of $64.
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Earl Olson, aged II, of GAINESVILLE,
had a penchant for high burglary and
is now slated for reformation. Earl
took money from the country club
and helped himself to valuable motor
boat fittings. He was arrested and
confessed.
Two boys and a gun was the same
old story at GAINESVILLE when 14-year-
old Ernest Straupe received a wound
in his right thigh. The other youth
didn't know it was loaded. The bull
let went right through Ernest's leg
coming out on the other side.
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Warden Henry Towne of the state
penitentiary at Waupun, will have to
fill the job Of warden, guard, chef and
carry a score more Of titles unless
the state raises the pay of prison at
taches he told the state board Of con-
troll. Farmers are paying more for
labor than the state pays for expert
work at the prison, with the result
that he is unable to fill the gaps in
his staff.
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The village of Palmyra leads all
Jefferson county units in the third
Liberty loan drive, having now trebl-
ed it's quota. The village will have
two stars in it's honor flag. Jefferson
and Watertown have doubled their
quotas Watertown has subscribed
more than $290,000, or above $50 per
cent of it's quota Ine county as a
whole has subscribed more than 10
per cent of it's quota, meeting all re-
quests for subscriptions on the five
billion basis.
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With the muffled sounds OF kettle
drums mingled with the chant of the
Winnebago tribe for a dead warrior, |
the body of Mike Standing Water, one
of the first Indian soldiers to die in
France, was lowered into grave at
Mather last week. He was accorded
the usual military burial, a squad Of
Tomah state guards firing volley ov-
ed to this country to crafty the wish
of thu father, Jim Standing Water,
chief of the tribe.
William Wedegartner, president of
the Wisconsin Cheese Dealers associ-
alton, and head of the Sheboygan
County Feed company, while driving
his automobile Thursday, was strick
EN- with apoplexy and died in front
of the city hall His sister was with
him at the time and applied the brake
as the car skidded into the curb, when
Mr.. Wedegartner exclaimed: ooh my
head" and dropped back in the seat
dead
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John NJ Butler, 72, prominent and
wealthy resident of the city of Pesh-
tigo, has filed suit against his wife,
Laura E. Butler, 48. for divorce. One
Of the principal allegations Of the
plaintiff is that his wife frequently
called him "mean old Dutchman and
a black old Dutchman," and accused
him of being prO-German in his views,
which he AYERS is absolutely false. |
They were married in 1909 and three
children were born to them.
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A legal battle between a mother and
son to break will ended in victory
for Alexander KitzerOw Of Rock
county. Kitzerow's grandmother, Will
helmina Won Lederblum, left an es-
tate of $4,000 intact for the young
man. Kitzerow's mother, Mrs. Freda |
Wankow, attempted to break the will
in her favor alleging the old lady was
mentally incompetent when she made
the document. The court decided in
favor Of the legatee.
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Good fairies were with Dr. M L. |
Brown and son Of Fl Atkinson when |
their new Brisco car crashed through |
a barn on it's first trip home The |
pair had been out for q ride and were
driving into the garage. DR.. Brown
attempted to set the brakes but push
ed the gasoline button instead. The
car gathered speed and went clear
through the barn falling on it's nose |
ten feet down. The men were injur-
ed but not seriously. Car damage was
$10G.
Sometime between Saturday night |
and Sunday morning some one paint
ed the front of the drug store of DR..
j. H. Bertrand at DeF'Orest, yellow. |
1t is said that DR.. Bertrand failed to !
purchase Liberty bonds when q COM
mittee called OH him. He is alleged |
to have declared to the solicitors that
he did not care to discuss the mat
ter The incident created consider |
able excitement in the village as DR..
Bertrand is one of the leading citi- !
Gems. is a practicing physician and
is interested in several enterprises in
the village
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Giving alleged utterance to the fol-
lowing is the reason that Jorge Klar-
ich, Creation, OcOntO, will stay in
jail six months: "The kaiser is a fine |
man; the finest in the world Texas |
is a larger country than Germany, but
Germany can whip the whole world. |
TIE kaiser is the best man in the
world The American boys are do !
ing no fighting; the kaiser is doing it
all" Klarich has been in the United
States twenty years. His arrest was
made under the Wisconsin sedition