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

which proved to be gasoline, John
Berg, of Washington, was severely
burned about the arms, legs and face
by an explosion and the home was al
most totally destroyed by the fire that
followed. The lad was rescued from
the flames by his parents.
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In order to cooperate with the fuel
administration plan to save coal, the
Green Bay school board decided to
close the city schools for two weeks
beginning Monday, Jan. q. The clos
ing of the schools, it is said, will
mean a saving Of from 200 to $50 tons
of coal during the two weeks. Paro-
chial schools are not affected by the
order.
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Four sons in actual service and a
fifth ready to go is the contribution
of Joseph Meuli, chief of the Chippe-
wa Falls fire department, to his coun-
try at war. The boys volunteered
their services when war was declared
and ever since have been in training
in various parts of the country Every
one of them had a good position, which
he gave up happily to enter the SER
vice.
When Joseph Buch of Fond du Lac.
buys any more new gloves he will
keep them strictly to himself Be
cause he did not follow that plan in
the first place he had to seek assis-
lance Of justice court to recover a
pair that Joseph Clish has secured
and would not return. Clish lost some
gloves and entering a store where
Buch was standing asked whether
anyone had found a pair Of gloves
Buch as joke rendered his own.
Clish took them and left and despite
the demands of Buch refused to re-
turn them until ordered to do so by
the court.
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Whipping his horses to a dead run
through roads banked four feet high
with snow, his wife holding their
bleeding child in the bottom of the
sleigh, William Diederich, farmer near
Beloit, lost desperate race His time
was four miles in thirty five minutes,
but his baby was found to be beyond
medical aid when the BelOit hospital
was reached. LeOna, 10, reaching for
a sweater that hung on a nail beside
shot gun in the Diederich home, pull
led both sweater and weapon to the
floor. The trigger caught in other
clothing on the wall and the full
charge tore through her right hip,
mangling her body. She never re-
gained consciousness.
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The statue as to citizenship of about
seventy-four German aliens in Win
nebago county and hundreds of others
in Wisconsin may be determined by
the United States Supreme court.
Counsel for Hans Kamm, one of the
three Oshkosh men whose certificates
of naturalization were ordered can.
celed in district court, Milwaukee,
said: "The next step will be to take
a writ Of error to the circuit court
of appeals at Chicago that the way
may be clear to the supreme court
for final decision" The question to be
determined is whether an application
for citizenship made in good faith
prior to the declaration Of war entities
a man to naturalization papers. The
circuit courts of Winnebago, Fond du
Lac and Waukesha counties have
held that such an application is valid.
Another question involved deals with
the construction Of the 1907 naturali-
cation act of congress authorizing the
cancellation of any certificate "if OBJ
tanned by fraud" or Illegally pro-
cured" The appellant declares that
error of court is not included in the
provision for revocation.
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Government agents are searching
the country across the Mississippi, in
Minnesota and Iowa, for black walnut
logs to be used in the manufacture of
gun stocks and parts of aroplanes.
The once dense walnut groves on the
west side of the river have disappear
ed, and the wood, which is scarce,
now commands fabulous prices. One
farmer last week sold tree near NC
Gregor, Iowa, for 5000. In 1888, the
year eastern Iowa was opened to
settlement, Joseph Quigley and three
other men settled on the Turkey
river, building the first cabins, other
than those of fur traders, in Iowa
north of Dubuque. The Turkey river
bottoms were densely covered with
black walnut trees. st. Louis was
just building, and there was big
demand for walnut for counters for
stores and other articles. Settlers
embraced the opportunity and avoided
many Of the hardships Of the pioneers
by cutting and marketing walnut
trees, obtaining sufficient money to
buy necessities, while SETTLERS who
devoted their time to farming had a