Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-08-07
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Rudolph Honas of Woodruff, was
fined 500 at Eau Claire, for having
threatened the life of President Will
son.
Italian residents of Illinois. fshed
at Beloit and paid heavy fines for
having an illegal number of hooks
and no licenses.
Fred Peterson has closed his groc-
cry store at Menasha to enter the
army. He has been commissioned a
second lieutenant.
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Marie Hessell, aged 6, Of Wausau,
was killed by a train. The little girl
could not see on account of a bad
curve in the road.
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John Johns, a Fond du Lac carpen-
ter, went to jail for five days Oh a
vagrancy charge. Johns is able to
earn Sc daily but refuses to work.
900
Vivian Driver, 81, Rice Lake, died
from injuries suffered when a train
hit a farm tractor he was driving ov-
er a crossing neal his fathers farm.
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Directors of st. Paul's Lutheran
school, GAINESVILLE, have voted to
abandon German. All religious in
struction will also be given in Eng
lish.
Chas, Hopper of Reedsburg, caught
his finger on a charged wire at the
condensery. He lay unconscious for
several minutes. The finger was
burned off.
Geo. A. Butler, town of Wheaton,
Eau Claire county, lost property val
ued at $4,000 when lightning Destroy
ed a barn, many tons Of hay and farm
machinery.
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w. N. Bentley, So, pleaded guilty
at GAINESVILLE to forgery and was SEN
fenced to a year in prison. He says
he is a college graduate and was once
prosperous.
The attorney general has ruled
that the noxious weed law is valid
n that written notice constitutes
sufficient grounds for legal action ac-
cording to the statute.
900
Mrs. Henrietta Syring, Menasha, "a
years old, ended her life by jumping
from a second story window. Heart
trouble caused dependency. She
leaves six grown children.
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A large government war order has
been placed with the Peerless Paper
Products Co., Menasha. After Aug.
Is the plant will be devoted exclus-
lively to government work.
900
For saying that Germany was right
in the war, treated the Belgians as
they deserved and that he would will
lingly fight for the kaiser, Theo.
Faulsel, Racine, is in Jail.
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Bonnie Willard, aged IA of James
vile, is missing. The boy was last
seen in a sugar beet field. Sheriff
Bob Whipple searched for him with
b~loodhounds but without success.
1900
The cool spell of last week was due
to a severe storm sweeping central
Wisconsin. Henry HEM, IA, of Wau-
sau, and John Schmidt, a Rib Falls
farmer, were killed in the storm.
1000
Lightning struck the house of W.
R. Cairns, Oconto, and knocked four
people unconscious for a time. The
house was badly damaged. A news
paper one man was reading was
torn to bits.
When employees of the Neenah brass
works struck for higher pay, COM
pany officials threatened to appeal to
the government. Most of the men
have returned. The company is fl
ling war orders.
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A soldier boy sitting on the rear
step of a troop train going rapidly
through Poynette, caught his foot in
a cattle guard. He was thrown &C
feet and badly hurt. A road foreman
picked him up and took him to Mad
ison.
County clerk e. I. Wazek of Mar
inette, was killed with his deputy.
Miss Minerva Lynes, when their auto
over. Miss Anna Sullivan, an
deputy, sustained a broken leg.
Wazek lived at Peshtigo and motor
ed daily to his work.
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Rev. J. P. FRANKIE and wife and two
left Waupun for their
home at Albion, Neb. At State Cen
ter, Ia, their car was struck by a
train and all killed. Identification
was made by mean of brass travel
lers' checks.
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Reinhold Hard of WATERFOWL, Of
fered a glass of poison to his father
who vas helpless in bed from rheum-
atism. The old man refused the po-
ton. The son drank the poison and
died. Fear of the draft caused the
action. The father lay helpless for
six hours beside his dead son.
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j. @. Schroeder, Manit6woc, has
been fined 5000 by the Wisconsin
food administration for not using the
full amount of substitutes required
by the food regulations for bakers.
Dick Brothers, ManHowoc, have also
been ordered to pay $500 for exceed
ing their wheat allotment for other
products than bread and rolls, and
also for using less than the re uuir-