Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-02


this winter must first secure a per-
nit to do So The municipality will
only permit ice harvesting in certain
localities as ice taken in other places
it is claimed, will be unfit for use.
1000
Dr. T. D. Smith of Neenah, first
local medical man to reach the battle
fields Of France, who was wounded in
the famous air raid over an Ameri-
can hospital somewhere in France"
has been discharged from the ser
vice. He will never again be fit for
active duty, according to army officers.
600
Wood privateering at Lacrosse re-
ceived a check from the county coun-
Gil Of defense Farmers and dealers
were getting SO and $40 a cord at La
Crosse and the lower price being for
inferior quality. An investigation dis
closed that wood could be sold at
profit at Sc cord The council plans
to ship wood in by the carload from
other points.
A recent bulletin from the depart
mentof education states that the state
percentage of illiteracy is 80. This is
below the average for the country
which is II. In twenty years the state
percentage has been reduced fifty
per cent. Illiteracy exists to the great
est extent among new immiprants.
The effort now is to completely wipe
out illiteracy among adults.
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Joe Davis, a mail rObber who es-
capped from the Dane county Jail last
August, was captured at East st.
Louis last week and taken to Madi-
son for trial. Jim Burke, a partner,
was captured some time ago and is
now doing time at FIT. Leavenworth.
Davis drew five year sentence.
Roy Watson, considered the worst of
the three, is still at large.
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Although the public schools of Mad
ison have sufficient coal to last them
until spring, the board of education
is considering the advisability of clos
ing the educational institutions for
month to conserve the fuel supply.
The commissioners fear that in the
event of extremely cold weather the
demands for fuel would be so great as
to seriously reduce the supplies in all
schools
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Dependency over the death Of his
wife, who committed suicide four
weeks ago, caused William Schallog.
AZ of Mayville, to take his life by
shooting himself with the same re-
Volver his wife had used Schallog
had announced his intention of kill
ing himself and when the marshal
attempted to take the revolver away
from him, Schallog threatened to
shoot the officer.
Arthur Turner, Plain mail carrier
who was charged a week since with
having taken money from patrons for
the purchase of money orders and
appropriated the same to his own use.
was found guilty on a charge of en-
bezzlement and given a sentence Of
year and day at the LeavenWorth
federal prison, besides having to dis
gorge the sum Of $3O6 misappropri
ated.
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The next time Alex Dean of Eau
Claire Attempts to locate a leak in the
gas plant of his undertaking estab-
Ilshment he won't use a match to do
so. Because he tried that experiment
he is now minus some of his hair on
his head and must also buy two new
curtains for the windows of his store
When he lighted the match he found
the leak but the gas also found the
match and an explosion resulted.
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Two thousand ore cars have been
released on the Ashland division OF
the North Western railroad for use in
carrying coal on that and other divi-
sions in an effort to relieve the fuel
shortage. In addition to the ore cars,
eighteen large locomotives used in the
ore traffic and twenty switch engines
have been sent to other divisions to
speed up traffic. The North Western
is planning to release 1000 ore cars
on the peninsula division for coal
shipment purposes.
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For repeated failure to file birth
certificates within the five days pre-
scribed by law, DR.. G. H. Golden,
WOneWOc physician, was fined $40 and
costs, amounting to $33 by Judge M.
L. Bunneu at Mansion last week. The
evidence was gathered and the COM
plant signed by DR.. G. w. Henika of
Madison, deputy state health officer
for this district. The law prescribes
q penalty for each offense of this kind
of either a fine of $40 to $500 or Jail
imprisonment Of 80 to 60 days or
both. AS each failure to file a GER
tificate constitutes a separate offense,
the fine might aggregate several hun
dred dollars if the full penalty were