Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-18

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city closed for the funeral.
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Durand, Pepin county, has an cpl
demic OF typhoid fever of mysterious
origin which has claimed one victim.
Sarah Cassidy, IA, daughter of DR..
Cassidy, died at an Eau Claire hospi-
tai.
Farmers in Neenah who have not
planted wheat fer years but who
yielded to the patriotic call and sowed
small portions of their land in wheat,
report the yield running about As bu.
to the acre, heavier than ever before.
1000
Thirty lightless nights will be OBJ
served by Geo. J.. Becker, a Milwau-
kee saloonkeeper, for refusing to obey
the lightless order and for eiecting
from his saloon a deputy of the light
conservation committee who ordered
him to shut off his light Monday
night.
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Arthur G. Harris, Denmark, was ar
rested at Green Bay charged with en-
ticing a ~12-year-old girl who lives in
Amigo, from the train on which she
was returning to Amigo form Mari
bel. The police found Harris at a ho-
tel, where he had taken the girl. He
has been placed under $1,000 bonds.
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Three of nine saloons of Clinton
vile reopened when the school where
soldiers were trained in the driving
and repairing of four-wheel drive
trucks recently closed. The saloon
men hold that as the soldiers bar
racks have been abandoned they have
the right to re-engage in the liquor
business.
Crews of men working out of the
government fish hatchery, La Crosse,
have saved 17,OOO,O 900 bass and mil
lions of other kinds of game fish min
nows in land-locked sloughs along
the Mississippi river this season.
Capt. Hugo eraser directs the work,
which is done with fast motor boats
and lows of fiat barges filled with
fish cans. Fish rescued from the
sloughs are placed in the main river
or transported to inland lakes.
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At least 5000 young men, graduates
of high schools and over Is years of
age, are to be given instruction in the
Students Army Training Corps at
the University of Wisconsin beginning
this fall, according to contracts just
made with the government. The con-
tract calls for 5000 plus" S. A. T. C.
men at any given time. AS this num-
Der is exclusive of the special train
ing detachments of 1000 men each
who will receive instruction at the
university in mechanical lines and
several hundred signal corps men
who will be trained in wireless tel
LuGT0 Will DC more L0du
1000 men in uniform training on the
campus. This is more men than have
eve attended the university at any
one time. The university contracts
to provide quarters, mess and instruc-
ton. Barracks are now being built
to house the 1000 in the special train
ing detachment, and plans are being
made for housing the others. Wheth-
er dormitories, other university and
private buildings will be converted
into barracks, or more barracks will
be erected has not yet been decided.
The government contracts to pay the
university for the quarters, mess, and
tuition of men sent under the agree
ment, besides furnishing uniforms,
equipment, officers, and army pay for
the men. A special committee of the
faculty is now making plans for
adapting the university's schedule
and facilities to the army training
work, and it is expected that a heavy
teaching schedule will be put upon
all members of the staff.