Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-05-08
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fires are raging in the Brentwood vi
cinity. Much valuable timber has
already been destroyed and unless
relief comes the loss will be immense.
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Tony Magnesco, a Madison Italian,
will have to tell why he keeps SO
much explosive on his little farm. Of
ficials found eighteen sticks Of dyn-
amite and number Of shells buried
at Tonys farm. He was arrested.
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AS the result Of fight at the Jerk
water" saloon John J. BOchairgin is
in the Wausau jail charged with as
sault with intent to kill and Helmu5h
Evans is in the hospital at Marsh
field. Officials have been unable to
learn the details of the affair
S. r. Gordon Kenosha, dealer in
mems furnishings, had a brand new
idea in selling Liberty bonds He
gave each buyer Of Liberty bonds in
his store ST. worth of merchandise
drawn from any portion Of his stock.
No strings were attached to the 81
gift.
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While engaged in knitting a Red
Cross sweater for some boy cover
there" Mrs. Frances McMinn, aged
IS, Superior, expired from heart
trouble. Her lifeless body was found
in the arm chair where she was
stricken while knitting the knitting
needles still clasped in her hands.
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Over $500 bushels Of potatoes are
doll OF Npar tcIN
starch factory and farmers are re
ceiving 80 cents per hundred pounds
for the raw product. One morning
last week farmers who had left their
homes shortly after midnight arrived
at thesfactory with thousands of bush
els of tubers.
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What will the city do for the idle
men when the 46 saloons close their
doors June Both? That's the question
Ashland business men are consider
ing as in addition to the local men
over 1900 transients from the mines,
woods and explosive plant must be
cared for. 1t is proposed to provide
more motion picture houses, etc.
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After being found not guilty in a
Fond du Lac justice court of the
charge Of tearing up an American
flag, Herman Micks, aged 35, was
held on the charge of being an alien
enemy. He declares that he regis
tered for the draft on June last but
that he failed to register as an alien
enemy.
Raymond Anderson, Is, Ellison
Bay, did not know the gun he was
cleaning was loaded. He was taken
to the hospital grateful that it was
not the cemetery after the newt
able explosion. He had his hand ov-
er the muzzle of the gun when the eX-
plosion occurred and the % caliher
bullet went through the palm Of his
hand and came out at the back.
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James A. Fathers, who has just
ended his public career in the city of
GAINESVILLE, has served in public Of
fees for "a years. For Is years I'M
der the old council form of govern
ment, he acted as city treasurer, and
during the control of the commission
he was may or for six years. With
the abolition of the commission in
that city he has now retired from
public life.
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Dynamite caps stored in the ware
house Of the Morely-Murphy Hard
ware company at Green Bay, explOd-
ed in a fire which destroyed the
building at loss of more than $780,
900. Two boys, sitting on box cars
watching the spectacular blaze, were
blown off by the force of the blast
and both suffered broken limbs. The
explosion could be heard four or five
miles.
After nearly one month Of search
Ing, the body of Chauncey Dean, a
GAINESVILLE boy, was located last Wed
nesday, on the island near the Rock
River Wooden Mills, some distance be-
low the place where he accidently
fell in the river and was drowned
Young Dean met his fate on the ev-
ening of April ! while playing on the
shore of the river.
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Wife deserters receive little sym
pathy at Manitowoc John Cross,
who has a wife and five children he
failed to support, received a years
sentence at hard labor in prison. and
Murray Pherson, convicted of the
same offense, also drew II months
in Waupun. Mrs. Cross testified that
at the time Of hr marriage her hus-
band said the bonds would only last
three years and that she had wished
that such had proven to be the case
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Sheriff Eli Stegmann Of Door coun-
tV lies i'm the hospital near death is
the result Of being attacked by an in
sane woman he was taking to the
train at Sturgeon Bay. Alongside the
woman in an automobile was her
daughter. the sheriff standing on the
running board OF the machine Pre-
tnding to adjust her hat, the woman
pulled out a hat pin and attacked the
officer, jabbing the instrument into
his face and neck and the hand that
he was holding on with. He fell Oft
the rapidly moving car and, striking
on the hard pavement was rendered
unconscious