Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-09

were on their way to Chicago with
stock and visited a saloon during the
stop in GAINESVILLE, and got into the
hands Of the police for their misde-
meanors.
Applications received at Madison
for entrance to the farm power course
Jan. 14-Feb 8, indicates that the farm
ers of the state are turning to power
machinery for at least partial solu-
ton Of their labor problems. Condi-
lions demand that every farmer be his
own mechanic Frank M. White, man
ager of Wisconsin's tractor demon
STATIONS, is in charge Of the course.
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Max Furstenberg of Marshfield call
ed the Red Cross "a bunch of graft
ers" when approached by Chas. Pors,
a solicitor. "YOu don't mean that, do
your" asked Pors. Furstenberg swore
that he did. His arrest followed but
upon his producing a life membership
/ in the Red Cross, a 500 Liberty bond
and promise to take another bond
when it was offered the court let him
off with a light fine.
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Ten years in the state penlrentiary
at Waupun was the sentence melted
out to Antoine Swiencowski, charged
with stealing automobiles. The man
was found guilty of stealing five cars
valued at $4,000. In passing sentence
the Milwaukee court announced that
it would continue sentencing all auto
thieves to prison, as the property Of
autoists when left unguarded must
not be molested.
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at is better to eat the veal from an
! unprOmising calf than to eat the beef
and wear the leather from poor
steer, which has wasted human food
all it's life" That is the answer to
the much discussed veal question
given by John L. former of Madison
one Of the officials of the Wisconsin
Short Horn Breeders association. Ac-
cording to him, the bad part of the
whole situation is that many people
look only at the results of time, feed
and care and do not try to count the
costs of raw material that go to pro-
duce the finished article
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Repeated assertions of Andrew
Swornik, Rhinelander, that he was a
German spy, fell upon unheeding ears
until a deputy U. S. Marshal Of Mad
ison, dropped in on him, heard his
stories, decided to take his statements
as the truth and placed him under ar
rest. On Monday an order for his in
ternment for the remainder of the
war reached Madison from Washing
ton. Helmuth Topper, Darlington,
another enthusiastic kaiserite, was al
SO arrested and the order for his in
ternment accompanied that for Swor-
Mix
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Because she forgot that she had
$3.50 in bills sewed in her skirt, Mrs
Hicks Bishop, aged 80, has found her
husband, whom she was seeking He
was an inmate of poor farm where
she was taken when bewildered and
helpless she was found in local de-
pot The sight of her husbands face
recalled old memories which result
ed in reuniting of the aged couple
Mrs. Bishop who came to Wisconsin
from Sand Point Idaho, sewed her
money up in her skirt and then for
got about it. Her long trip and the
excitement Of finding her husband has
caused her to be confined to her bed
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A Norwalk dispatch says:
America first in NOrwalk!
"Norwalk branch La Crosse Chap
| ter of the American Red Cross, or
ganized Nov. II, 1917.
owe point with pride to our good
record.)
Membership, Dec. 16, 1917----136
"Mem'ship gained during drive--136
Grand total
Population of tOWn-----502
| mo. of 100 per cent families 90
100 per cent business places II
"The Norwalk public school is a 100
per cent institution and soon will be
organized"
After routing a dozen armed men
including deputy sheriff, Mrs. Helen
Lucious of Scion Springs, who for
time bid fair to become a rival Of
John Dietz of Cameron Dam fame,
finally surrendered and will have her
troubles aired in the Superior court
The trouble started when she ordered
employees of the Cornell Wood Pro-
ducts company to leave the land on
which her husband had granted them
a lease. After putting the sheriff's
posse to flight, Mrs. Lucious was dis
armed by the sheriff himself, but when
her son handed her a revolver the
sheriff decided to decamp for quieter
scenes. Mrs. Lucious has been order
ed to appear in court to show cause
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