Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-31
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Fire destroyed the Fish planning
mill at Amigo last week. $4,000
damage was done.
The Groth lime kilns and adjoin-I
ing buildings at Cedarburg were de-
stroyed by fire at a loss of $4,000.
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Margaret Lewis and Alice King,
students at the University Of Wis
three times.
Labor bureaus may be established
in every Wisconsin town over 10, 900
population. They will be under gov
eminent control.
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FIR. C. A. Dowd, Eau Claire priest,
was given a purse of 1912 on his de-
parture to Camp Lee, Va, where he
will serve as Army Chaplain.
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The war book of the university, a
260 page volume, is off the press and
ready for distribution. 400, 900 pamph-
lets have already been circulated.
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Marvin Soper, a Brentwood boy, will
be disfgured for life as the reeult of
playing with a dynamite cap. The cap
exploded tearing his arms and face.
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H. w. Foster, for many years a
Northwestern engineer, died sudden
ly in a Baraboo restaurant. He was
well known in the railroad fraternity.
1000
A sale of thirty head of Drawn
Swiss cattle was held at Tarplewick
farm, Syene, last week. The average
price was 1928. One COW brought
$500.
Edgerton people are having a good
time with public dances on the street
every Saturday evening. The town
is a live n and has many summer
visitors.
Mrs. Alice Sharpley, Oconto, has
four sons i'll the service. Nathaniel
leaves Monday for camp. Truman,
Morris and Sheldon are already in
France.
Joseph Deachman, Port Edwards, is
awaiting trial at Eau Claire. Deach-
man is alleged to have predicted that
President Wilson would yet kiss
kaiser Bills hand.
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Police Chief O'Shaughnessy of Mad
isOn, has five sons three of whom
are in the government service. One
is a reg" one a marine and another
an honor man at Camp Grant.
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Spencer Kimball, uncle of Clara
Kimball Young, died at Baraboo last
week. E. M. Kimball, father of the
famous star, is still living and as
sists his daughter in making plays.
900.
Mrs. Edgerly, 81, Washburn, was
found in the woods where she had
been lost for two nights and a day.
was too weak to walk when rescued.
900
Samples of oil and water taken
from a well near Boylston, Douglas
county, have been sen to Madison
for analysis. 1t is thought that Pc
troleum may exist underground in
that region.
Charles Allis, chairman of the Mil
waukee defense council, died last
week following an operation. Mr..
Allis was head of the Allis-C halmers
company for many years and a well
known man.
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The death of Loranz Flick, a veal
thy farmer of Butternut, is being in
vestigated. The body was found in
the garage by the hired man. A
wound in the head may have come
from a bullet.
Leslie Cunningham of Sturgeon
Bay, was taken prisoner by the Ger
mans three weeks after his brother,
George, was killed on the Marine
front. Leslie is held at Alton Ora
bow, a German prison camp.
600
Six people were Injured, three SER
iously, in two automobile accidents
at Racine. One touring ca crashed
into another car, sending it into a
ditch, and a oma drove a machine
through the side of a garage.
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Charles Brown of Rockford, was
arrested at GAINESVILLE for stealing
clothes from another man. While on
his way to the station Brown nearly
bit the finger off the officer in charge.
He was held on two counts-theft
and mayhem.
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Dennis E. Rice, a farmer, "a years
old of Pelikan Lake, Wis, and father
of six children, enlisted at Milwau-
kee Wednesday. The Rice family
will receive $3.50 per month toward
their support during the absence of
the father while he is in the service.
Rice enlisted because he felt he ought
to do his part in the fight ''over
there"
600
The enormous expansion of the
Dupont munition plant causing a
sudden influx of employees, brought
a difficult situation in housing con
ditions at Superior. Washburn and
Ashland could accommodate only a
limited number. TheDupont people
are solving the problem by convert
ing the territory adjacent to their
plant into a model camp. Nineteen
Ao~rnfA0r;oC hocfdoc mass halls itch