Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-10-30

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Green Bay Physicians have launch
ed campaign for a full time health
officer and $4,000 laboratory.
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Alva Smith, Greenbush, was SEN
fenced at Sheboygan to seven years
in prison for setting fire to store.
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Lieut. John Smith, in service in
France for year, has returned to
Fond du Lac on leave and will serve
as instructor in American army
camps
The states 112 cow testing associa-
tons have membership of 3,501 and
about 54,660 cows are being tested
for production in the association.
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Funeral services for Lieut.. Ray F.
Glover, aviator killed Oct 10 at Lang
ley field, Hampton, Va, were held at
the home of brother in Beloit.
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Final warnings were mailed to 800
delinquents at Green Bay by Liberty
bond statesmen. Many came across
others being published.
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Marsh hay an,. grass fires near
Oneida, west of Depere, are creating
much damage, thousands of acres be-
ing afire.
Lieut.. David Peck, son of former
Governor Peck, has been made a cap
tain. Mr.. >Peck's home is in Milwau-
kee but he is now at Camp Gordon,
Ga.
Marinette is to have a citizenship
school. Out of 1T applicants for
second papers only thirty could quail
ify. The deficient list includes many
Germans.
Brown county is to have an honor
roll monument. A large panel on a
public square in Green Bay with the
names of all soldiers engraved on it
is favored.
Corp. Robert Vollmer, Kenosha, has
been cited by American army leaders
for distinguished bravery in battle,
according to a message to his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Vollmer.
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Margaret, 6, daughter of Engineer
and Mrs. John Robertshaw, Portage,
was killed by an automobile while
crossing the street at High School
park
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While Henry Maske, IA. Marinette.
was shooting at a target, Neil Edison,
Menominee boy, walked by and was
hit in the hip by a stray bullet. The
boy is held
Brown county is without a Stacker
list in the Liberty bond drive, all of
1850 subscribers having purchased
their quota. The oversubscription was
1O.4 per cent. s2
Every selectman is automatically
insured for $4,000 when he is induct-
ed into service, says Adjt. Gen. Or
lando Holway All S. A. T. C. mem
bers may double the amount if they
choose.
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The Brown county defense council
has passed resolutions on the death
of Albert Hoslet, who contracted the
disease while embalming victims of
influenza.
The Girard Lumber Co. sawmill at
Dunbar, Marinette county, has been
closed and the machinery is being re-
moved, but the planning mill will OPP
crate until all lumber is shipped. The
mill was built thirty years ago.
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John Joseph of Glidden, got drunk
and then made foolish remarks dis
paraging the Liberty loan. Joseph
was released on $4,000 bonds, eight
neighbors going his bail. He now
says he wants the United States to
win the war.
Game warden D. M. Cranston ar
rested seven boys II to 16, on a
charge of Staying birds protected by
the game laws. They had been shoot
ing grossbeaks and woodpeckers.
Their rifles were confiscated and SEN
tence suspended.
John H. Culnan, former city editor
of the Marinette Eagle-Star,, has been
promoted from sergeant to second
lieutenant He was one of the mar
ines who fought at Cateau-Thierry,
where he won the distinguished SER
vice cross. He has two brothers in
the service.
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Letters containing suggestions from
civilians on how to combat the flu still
pour into the office of Lieut.. Com. Ow-
en- j. Mink, senior medical officer at
Great Lakes. Home remedies are
suggested, among them goose grease,
water from a certain we'll, Indian to-
bacco plant or lobelia. With lobelia
the prescription calls for bathing and
greasing the victims chest and
sprinkling with tobacco powder. "A
baking powder can with holes punch
ed in the bottom must be used, COM
mon salt shakers will not give le-
Suits" directed the writer.
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Almost every American destroyer,
transport and submarine chaser is
now equipped with a submarine de-
tecting device invented by professors
at the University Of Wisconsin. Ger
man submarines, in more than one
instance, have come to grief and Am
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