Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-24
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VIM. Jones of Cashton, was arrested
last week by a u. S.. marshal for not
registering a year g Jones is a
painter.
over $4,000 was cleared at the
Oconomowoc Red Cross sale. A his
tory of England 200 years old sold
for $26.
Leslie Cunningham of Sturgeon
Bay. is officially reported as a Ger
man prisoner. He belongs to the u.
S. Marines.
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Fifteen arrests were made at
Evansville last week for bootlegging
liquor. Sales to soldiers brought on
the trouble.
Albin Berg of Westby, was caught
and dragged by a train when he ran
across the track ahead of the engine.
He escaped with a broken leg.
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John Illegan, aged 46, a Madison
iceman, fell on his prongs and cut
a hole in his leg. He died in the hos
pital the next day from loss of blood.
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State fruit experts report the worst
crop of small fruit in years. Apples
will also be light. The corr survey
recently completed indicates large
crops of this cereal.
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Flour sacks for dress goods are
being used by S~heboygan young lad
les. Miss Anna Schiller made a
white summer dress from IL sacks
SO attractively that other girls are
trying it.
Fremont Jacobson and William
Grain, two 17-year-olds, went from
Stoughton to GAINESVILLE and got
drunk. They were fined in court for
their misdemeanor. Warrants are
pending against the saloonkeeper for
selling to minors.
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James barrow, a truck driver for
the Carnation Milk company, died
suddenly after a friendly bout at an
Oconomowoc picnic. barrow was
resting when he expired and it is
supposed was overcome by the heat.
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Charged with selling liquor to the
soldiers at Camp Grant James Muir
ray, a farmer living zeal GAINESVILLE,
has been held to the grand jury I'M
der $4,000 bonds. Murray pleaded
ignorance of the law, saying that he
did not give any liquor to the sol
.diers.
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Mrs. Belle Mckinney of Evansville,
caught her left index finger in a
shearing machine while working for
the Baker Mfg. Co. Amputation was
necessary. 1t was Mrs. McKinney's
first day at the factory. Her son was
killed in action in France a few days
before.
Patrick McCIuskey of Clyde,
Iowa county, farmer, met a horrible
death from the breaking of a power
saw. McCluskey with other men was
saving wood. The balance wheel
flew off throwing the blade toward the
young man. His head was terribly
mangled but he lived three hours.
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Separated from three orphaned
brothers a quarteT-century ago while
in the state school for dependent
children at Sparta, Wis, Mrs. r. s..
Halderman of Chicago, has asked
the La Crosse police to assist her in
locating Clyde, Sydney and Benjam-
IN Goblin. The boys were A, 5 and 10,
respectively when the sister last saw
them.
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When the valve on a locomotive
whistle became lodged and defied the
best efforts of r~oundhouse employees
TO loosen it, all Madison was awak-
ened by the shrieking siren and
imagined everything was happening
from a great fire tt a German air
raid. The whistle did not cease un-
I'll all the steam in the locomotive
ooller had been exhausted.
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Twenty-eight years ago Andrew
Ellison came to Marinette, Wis, from
Russia. He bought a small farm and
gradually prospered. When the call
10 the colors was sounded in Amer
lea, Andrews four sons responded
and are now in the service of Uncle
sam, while three smaller boys, al
SO ION of the Russian immigrant,
are hoping they, too, can get in the
army.
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10 DAdlCne I6mme, Berlin, ana
Miss Virginia Stone, Milwaukee, gave
a demonstration of tractor work on
a Berlin farm not long ago. The
girls were dressed in overalls and
managed the machines like veter-
ans. They plowed a field with
straight burrows and staged an ex-
citing race while so doing. They
ended the performance by pulling a
load OF hay into the barn.
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me city of Fl. Atkinson has a roll
OF honor board 81 feet by "a feet CON
tanning the names of nearly 400
young men from that city who have
enlisted in the service. The board
IS artistically decorated in the nation
al colors and bears the draped flag
surmounting a shield at the top. Be-
meath the shield are these words,
Roll of Honor" The names are
painted in large black letters and are
plainly visible from the street.