Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-12-11

Peter Miller, Appleton, has ten ne
phews in the service.
600
DR.. C. H. Villas gave $4,000 for
finishing the new Madison Y. NJ c. A.
Later he gave the same amount for
the building.
Fishermens coats hung too near a
stove, caused a disastrous fire at
| Green Bay $4,000 damage was done
and 100000 pounds of frozen fish ru-
ined.
| Arthur Brisbane has bought the
Milwaukee Free Press and will con-
duct it with his other Milwaukee pub
/ locations under the head of the Wis
consin News.
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Otto Schmeling, Germantown, was
killed while hunting in Ozaukee coun-
4 ty, his gun having been discharged
while trying to keep his dog from
/ tearing a captured skunk.
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| Joe Charka of Milwaukee, stabbed
and killed Ramus Shabbin the night
of Oct. 3, 1914. Charka was given 80
years in prison last week. The quar-
rel arose over a loan of 81.
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Training of $50 carrier pigeons was
completed at the university last
week and Prof. L. j. Cole, the train
err took them to FIT. Monroe. The
training of a highly technical nature
involving flights of every description,
| took five months.
John Dorr of Whitewater, with the
Aviation Corps at Carlstrom Field,
Arcadia, Fla, fell $500 feet while fly
ing with Lieut.. Hare, pilot. The
men were doing stunts" when they
lost control of the machine. Dorr
was badly hurt but will recover.
Lieut.. Hare was killed and the ma
chine mass of wreckage.
Bernice Nicholson of Stoughton,
a telephone girl, proved a heroine
when flames spread through that
city. Miss Michaelson remained at
her post spreading the alarm and
handling the heavy traffic although
the telephone building was threaten
ed. The fire destroyed number of
business blocks but was finally sub
dued with loss of $4,000.
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John Meyer, 16, of Manitowoc,
leaped from a bridge into the icy wa
ter, in a heroic attempt to save the
life of Fred Pierce, Rapid, so, who
drove his automobile into the open
draw. Meyer succeeded in holding the
man up until a boat came to his as
sistance, but Pierce was dead when
taken from the water. Steps have
been taken to get a recognition of
Meyers act from the Carnegie hero
medal commission
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Upwards of $4,000 has been in.
vested by the state of Wisconsin in
the S. A. T. c. work at the state uni
versity and the nine normal schools.
The university and normal regents
/ say this money will be repaid by the
government The university has
2,700 in the S. A. T. G. and Business
Manager H. j. Thorkelson estimates
so per cent Of these will remain.
There were about 900 in the S. A. T.
G. at the normal schools. The uni
versity of Wisconsin estimates the
final bills will show an expenditure
of $4,000.
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Artificial reproduction of depleted
clam beds in the Mississippi river to
fill the demand for raw material for
pearl buttons is likely as a result of
successful experiments in Lake Pep
in by the federal fish hatchery. The
annual report of the hatchery relates
how fish We're kept in an inclosure II
feet square with a board bottom over
which thin layer of sand was laid.
1t was stocked with 172 fish of various
species bearing larvae of the mussel.
provided by nature with minute hook
ed processes by which it attaches it
self to fish. Seventy-nine fish were
retained in good condition beyond the
fourteen day period necessary for
completion of the mussel adherence
and growth A total of 11,199 living
mussels were taken from the pen,
representing little more than eighty
| living mussels square foot Nearly
| 34,O00,000 fish Of various varieties
were rescued from landlocked sloughs
along Ito miles Of the Mississippi
river from July / to Nov IS, the close
of the season. Seven-tenths of / per
cent of the fish were sent to inland
waters and disposed of to the Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota fish commissions.