Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-30

Wisconsin residents SINCE 1898,
when they came from Granville, O.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Richards of Lodi,
celebrated their marriage last week.
Mr. Richards for time was a printer
in the office Of the Wisconsin Farmer
at Madison. He later established the
his wife So. They are highly esteem
ed.
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Rev Father Van Dyke, pastor of
Catholic church at Florence, purchas-
ed for his congregation the Methodist
church in that town. The latter was
abandoned some time ago as a religi-
Gus edifice and is a we'll constructed
building which the pastor secured for
a few hundred dollars. 1t is to be used
as club house and meeting place
for the Catholics Of Florence.
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Frank Zinback the young man who
is held on suspicion of having pois-
oned thirty-eight men at Johnson's
lumber camp near Mountain, Oconto
county, is sick with tonsilitis in the
Green Bay Jail. He refuses to say
whether or not he is guilty. District
Attorney Neuman of Oconto has gone
to Mountain. 1t is said several of the
victims are near death, but the kind
Of poison is not yet known.
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One of the most active and enthus-
iastic Red Cross workers of Cedar
burg is Miss Minnie Cain, who al
though totally blind, has knit four
scarfs and six sweaters. Besides she
has taught several beginners how to
knit. A Red Cross flag hangs in her
window. To show that she believes
material and aid necessary in win
ming the war, she has bought several
Liberty bonds.
Ralph Willis, 8, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. H. Willis Of Eau Claire, has com
pleted a sweater for some soldier
and turned it in to the Red Cross.
He is the first boy in town to accom-
plish the task How did I learn?"
he asked. Huh, I just watched the
way Charlotte Murphy did it." Char
lOttle is schOolmate Of his, and she,
too, admits that it is certainly fine
work on the part of Ralph.
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John F. Fowler, former North Divi-
sion Milwaukee high school teacher,
was sentenced to a year in the house
of correction in municipal court on
charge of embezzlement According
to testimony Fowler embezzled more
than $1700 from a cooperative store
run for the benefit of the students.
Fowler paid back $500. Fowler
claimed to have used the money to
pay debts on autos which he had
bought on the installment plan. Fow-
Ter is married and has a son four
years old.
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Chas. Dingley, a Chippewa Indian
who had inhabited the forest prime
val near what is now Gordon seventy
years before the paleface set his foot
] in that region, died last week aged
SO years. Dingley was born at the
mouth of the Yellow river in Burn
cite county, Wisconsin. When a young
man his parents moved to ST. Joseph,
Mich Later they moved to the Apos-
tie islands, after which the family
came to Douglas county. He was en-
plOyed by the government as a rural
mail carrier out of Gordon for a num-
Der of years.
While endeavoring to extricate his
horse and sleigh from a snow drift
on the 4th street road several miles
from the city, 0. E. Pasco, aged 81,
the oldest rural carrier in point of
service at the Fond du Lac postoffice,
was stricken with paralysis He is
now in a serious condition at his
home. Pasco has covered nearly his
entire route despite the snow block
AIDED roads, when he collapsed. Far
mers who saw him struggling in the
snow went to his aid and brought
him to this city.
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To. Mrs. o. P. Schlafer, of Apple
ton, belongs the title of the champion
| ship knitter of the local Red Cross
and what is thought to be the cham
plOnship Of the state. Since the Outa-
game county chapter was organized
in May, 1917, she has knitted "a pairs
of socks, helmets, 5 pairs of wrist
lets, mufflers and pairs Of mittens.
In addition to this she has cheerfuIIy
and willingly taught more than fifty
persons how to knit. This is a rec
ord which has never been equaled
here.
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Although beaver, like the buffalo
and the prairie chicken are a disap-
pearing breed Of animals, apparently
doomed to early extinction, game
wardens report an increase in the
Lake Superior country, in spite of the
work of poachers. A year or so, state
conservation wardens received orders
to trap the beaver from the big Bibon
swamp, which covers the bottom lands
for miles between Mason and Grand