Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-12-25

Triplets born to Mr.. and Mrs Thos-
Burke, Marinette, lived four hours.
Harold Laufear, one-armed Mari
nette youth, recently shot his fourth
wolf, besides trapping many fur
bearing animals.
The Rev SHIFTS, Rib Lake, was fined
at Wausau after pleading guilty to a
charge of hunting deer without a Ii
cense.
The trial of Mrs. Louise Kruger
and son, Frank, of Owen, Wis. will
take place in January. They are
charged with resisting the draft and
murder of Harry Jensen.
Roy Taylor and Harold Pfaff, boys
who held up saloon near Bangor
were sentenced to three years and
: Immediately paroled to the state
board Of control.
About 400 skunk, muskrat and
weasel pelts represent no unusual
catch for season in Eau Claire
county. George Johnson was paid
$3.50 for forty skins of skunks he
trapped in one week.
William CARRIER found that the car
on the Rockford & Interurban rail-
road was not going to stop at his
street in South Beloit and he. jumped
off. The train crewof another car
found his body soon after, CARRIERS
wife was killed by the cars a few
years ago. Two sons are soldiers.
The strawberry and raspberry ac-
Teage has decreased rapidly for five
years and F. Cranefeld, secretary of
the State Horticultural Society, has
appealed to fruit growers, market
gardeners and owners of small farms
to plant more of the fruit next spring.
A jury at Kenosha awarded Albert
Merrill, Trevor, damages of $7,29L88
against the Chicago, North Shore &
Milwaukee Electric Railway Co.. on
whose line Mrs. Merrill was killed
when a train struck an automobile
she occupied.
Mrs. Martha Schache and her two
children, Howard, Is, and Grace, IL,
were axphyviated by coal gas dur
ing the night in their Milwaukee fiat.
Neighbors broke in the door and dis
covered the family dead. .
Whisky raids made in Superior soft
drink parlors reaped good results for
the sheriff's Office but hard luck for
the proprietors. The booze was con-
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Michael Kaminisky, an alien enemy
residing at Ashland, has four sons i'll
the service. John, Joe and George
are in France Peter is in Siberia
John and Joe have been wounded.
A petition from the Sun Prairie
James J. Barlow, dope fiend, was
arrested at TT. Atkinson for stealing
DR.. CaswelPs overcoat DR.. Casweil
h1d civ hn ~
latter retaliated by stealing his ben
efactor's coat Barlow says that he
was given drugs years ago to ease
his pain when he was burned on the
leg. He thus contracted the habit
An effort will be made to cure him.
Frank Kesow, Cassel, arrested on
a charge of violating the espionage
act, pleaded guilty in federal court at
Madison and was fined $500. Chris
tian Dipple, North Freedom. and Ar
thur Ochsner, Honey Creek, have been
arrested on similar charges, based on
alleged disloyal utterances.
In quaint temple, the first in Mad
ison, which has served the Germans
since 1845, a congregation of two
men and two women, still determined
to cling to their church and creed,
worship in German. Nearly the en-
tire former membership is allied with
the Reformed church. When asked if
the services were likely to be con-
Quoted in English the pastor, the
Rev. A. G. Stark, said: mo, no. The
German is a language that we all un-
derstand. Why, these old people
cannot understand a word of Eng
lish."
Joseph Behnke, Co. F. 353 infantry.
writing home to Marinette from an
overseas hospital, where he was re-
covering from serious gas wounds,
states that he saw two Belgian boys
each with a hand cut off by the Ger
mans. Damn the pro-Germans at
home" he says. II will have it out
with them when l return home if
there are any left The Germans in
Marinette can't tell me any more
about their dear old fatherland. 1
talked with many of the German pris-
Oners and they are all anxious to
come to the good old U. S. A. and live
under Uncle Sam" Mr.. Behnke is
the son of German parents and one OF
the best known German boys in Mar
inette.