Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-09

who died last week at Eau Claire
One Of her youngest children died
last week from typhoid fever while
two others who are in a critical con-
dition from the same disease are in
the hospital. The three other child
rem are at the sanitarium where their
mother expired.
While on his way to extend holiday
greetings to his wife and also see his
three-day-old son at ST. Mary's hos
pital, Milwaukee, Gilbert Deneen, 500
Line clerk, was struck by an auto and
instantly killed. Hospital officials are
reluctant to break the news of her
husbands death to the young mother,
fearing the effects of the shock to her
when she learns his tragic end.
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Two members Of the staff of the
plant disease department of the uni
versity, G. W. Keitt and J. C. Walker,
have enlisted in important branches
Of the government service. Mr.. Keitt
is first lieutenant in the army, and
has joined the special unit given to
perfecting gas defense and attack. He
has been doing both teaching and re-
search work at the university for the
last four years in diseases Of orchard
fruit. Mr.. Walker has been appoint
ed emergency extension worker in
the control of onion and cabbage dis
eases. The national authorities Sc
lected a Wisconsin trained man for
this important position because of the
advances which the Badger state spec
ialists have been able to show in
truck crop disease control Mr.. Walk
er will make his headquarters in Mad
ison, but in carrying on his work will
visit the important truck producing
sections of the country.
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The motor boat Lucille left Menom-
inee for Egg Harbor with a cargo of
the amber fluid and also towing a
boat loaded with Oh-be-j joyful. With
a heavy north wind blowing she could
not land at her destination and fol-
lowed the shore to Fish Creek and
could not land there for slush ice, so
they cut the tow adrift to be picked
up later, knowing how dry Fish Creek
is it would be perfectly safe. They
again proceeded north and managed to
reach Detroit harbOr after running on
Plum Island reef and breaking the
propeller, SO they had to be towed in.
Capt. Fred Richter has a great scent
and as the boat towed by his place
he could smell the cargo and says he:
''Not much, is that stuff going to
Washington Island, it's been a dry
town for seventy odd years and it
amt going to be wet now; that stuff
goes back if I have to tow it back"
And sure enough, he loaded it in his
boat and took it to Gill's Rock to be
staged to Egg Harbor Fred is some
harbor master. The Lucille laid up
here empty-Fish Creek Blaze.
From a mental berth in his fathers
sash and door factory to the position
of first assistant general superintend-
ent of the worlds biggest aeroplane
factory in seven years, describes in
brief the meteoric rise of Clarence
Sorenson, son of former Mayor and
Mrs. o. ]. Sorenson of La Crosse. At
the age of SO years Mr.. Sorenson goes
to become assistant general superin
tendent of the Curtiss Aeroplane com
panys big new $10,00O,O0O factory in
an eastern city. In this big plant there
are employed between 1900 and 49,
600 men, an dduring the next few
months, the factory, which is the big
gest institution of it's kind in the
world, will, it is said, turn out flying
machines for Uncle Sam at the rate
of fifty per day. AS first assistant gen
eral superintendent Mr.. Sorenson will
have under him fifteen division super
intendents who in turn will control
the activities of the huge army of
workmen employed by the company.
Clarence SOrensOn received his first
schooling in mechanical work and fac
tory economics in his fathers plant
in La Crosse, where in comparative
ly short time he rose from the posi-
ton of bench hand to that of foreman
or superintendent. Opportunity knock
ed at his door seven years ago and he
left La Crosse to accept the foreman
ship in a large factory in Aurora. He
then went to Chicago with another
company, and later to Cleveland,
where for the past three years he
has been occupying a superintendent
berth with the Russ Manufacturing
company. Displaying keen executive
ability and knowledge of modern
factory methods which places him in
the front rank of efficiency experts,
Mr.. SOrenson was selected among a
big field of eligibles for the important
position in the big Curtiss plant. An
fill the position of assistant general
superintendent Of the aeroplane fac
tory came as a pleasant surprise to
his relatives and friends.