Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-08-07

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year.
Green Bay is classed officially now
with cities having a population of
10000 by the federal census bureau.
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A rubber corporation with $3.50, 900
capital has been organized at Eau
Claire. Rubberized material will be
made.
Peter Krutcher shot and nearly
killed Edna Smith, habitue Of a Me-
nasha red light. He then MORALLY
wounded himself.
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Raids on hobo camps along the riv-
er have filled the La Crosse Jail. The
men will be either indicted into the
army or made to work.
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Frieda Mundt, aged IA, drowned in
shallow water at Elkhart Lake, She
boygan. The body was Immediately
recovered but life was extinct.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Bender of Green
Bay, have four sons in the army and
two more who desire to enlist. One
daughter, Edith, is a Red Cross nurse.
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E. Doyle, an aged man, is in the
Dane county Jail for selling whis-
key to a sailor boy. An officer saw
the old man slip the sailor a pack
age.
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Herman Trotalli, Madison brewery
employee, died from a skull fracture.
Trotalli fell from his motorcycle
when a wheel came off on the way
home from work.
$40 to $45 a ton for raw clans is
making the workers in the pearl but
ton industry at Stevens Point, rich.
The pickers wade through the wat
e and pick up the clans.
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Soldiers stationed at Madison can
stay away longer before answering
cars are picking the boys up and TAX
ing them speedily to the armory.
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Sylvester Albano, Kenosha, applied
for a divorce declaring that his wife
had left him 20 days after marriage
without giving any reason and that
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Two university co-eds-Misses Mar
garet Lewis and Alice King-swam
Lake Waubesa, a distance of three
miles. Miss Lewis made the trip in
IS minutes and Miss King in 65 min
utes.
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Albert Zettel, Door county farm
er, was fined 1926 for having said
that 'The government had no bust
ness in the war; and that "the kais-
er was just as good as the presi-
dent"
Sol Levitan, wealthy merchant and
candidate for a state Office, a Y that
newspaper advertising made him.
Levitan started as a pack peddIer at
New Glarus. He now owns many
stores and is a bank president.
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Harvey Nalan, a Beloit man, was
arrested for living with a negress.
Nalan has a white wife and three
children. He claims to have married
the negress after getting a divorce
from his wife but the latter denies
it.
Indications are that the one buck
law will again be enacted. Old hunt
ers say that after two years of the
law the deer rapidly increased. Since
it's repeal the deer have depleted due
to the greed of sportsmen to kill does
and fawns.
Geo. B. Dye Of Beloit, was 100 years
old last week. He received his friends
best wishes from a wheel chair. The
old nan reads with glasses and close
ly follows the war news. Now and
then he drops anecdotes of Lincoln.
Grant and Sherman and others he
knew back in the sixties.
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Fred Rasor of Menominee. guard
ian for the estate Of his nephew. lit
tie Alfred Rasor, was awarded $25.-
600 by the Northwestern road and a
local traction company. A locomo-
tive running without a light struck
a street car killing the boy and in
juring two ONE of the Rasor fam
lily.
A wing of a German Albatross
~aeroplane, has been on exhibition at
Eau Claire. The part was picked up
on the battlefield by Lieut.. Elnar
Gausted formerly Of that city. The
wing is of light linen painted with
blue enamel. The machine had IL
cylinder motors and was made al
most entirely of aluminium.
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The Rev. M. ". Breed of Grinnell,
Iowa, divinity school, drowned last
week at Edgerton where he had been
sent to take charge of the Congrega-
tional church for a month. The body
was found lear a farmhouse after
many hours of patrolling. 1t is
thought that the minister dived from
a boat and caught in the mud bot
tom,
f. 5000
William, Is year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Schaefer, Of Eau
Claire, was ele~ctrocuted when a high
power transmission wire broke and
fell while he and two companions
were walking along the Chippewa
CABOT highway. The boy hurried to-
ward a fence to expected safety, 1T