Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-10-16
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Rev Albert Mullet of Eau Claire,
was arrested for evading the Sept
ember registration.
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J. Phinney, aged 81 of Poynette,
was found dead at his bedside where
he had knelt in prayer.
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Chicago boys were sent to Door
county this summer and they picked
more than $4,000 quarts of cherries.
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John Filter of Jefferson, Wis, was
fined $50 and costs for running car
while drunk. This was his second Of
tense.
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500 line employees at Fond du Lac
stood one hundred per cent on the
Liberty Loan. 700 subscribers pur-
chased $4,000 worth of bonds.
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Burglars broke open the safe of
the Waupaca postoffice but were
frightened away before a large sum
in cash and stamps was touched.
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sc Waterloo citizens who exceeded
their sugar allowance, paid fines of
Isl a pound for each pound excess.
The money went to the Red Cross.
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A plan to draw slackers' names
from glass bowl at the daily meet
| ing of the Marinette Liberty Loan
ers developed.
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Mrs. Carl Ziegler of Valley juno
ton, has been held under $4,000
bonds on the charge of saying the
Liberty Loan was a money-making
scheme. She also made other dis
loyal statements, it is alleged.
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A black bear killed SO sheep on the
farm of Mrs Mary Hebert near Chip
pewa Falls, causing loss of $3.50.
Farmers organized a hunting party,
but the bear escaped. Black bears
are becoming menace to livestock
and farmers plan organized protest
against continuance of the closed
| season.
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A number of fires near Fond du
Lac caused the arrest of an unknown
man. The stranger was found by a
small boy lighting a fire in barn.
The man struck the boy and ran out
but was caught by the sheriff later.
The unknown is supposed to be an
escaped lunatic.
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Earl Shepston, son of Mrs. Lottie
Shepston, Racine, is believed to be
the youngest Wisconsin boy in the
navy, enlisting when IA years old. He
has just completed a round trip on a
transport. He borrowed suit of
clothes, with long trousers, when he
applied for enlistment at Milwaukee.
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IF you can't swim, buy bond"
That's the sign appearing in the
Globe shipyards at Superior, where
construction work for vessels for the
government is under way. One work
er who failed to buy bond was
thrown into the lake, although he in
sisted that he intended to purchase
bond but had simply delayed doing
so. Now he is a bond owner.
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| Headed by Clarence Swedberg, who
recently returned home after seeing
extensive service in France, a crowd
of Rhinelander citizens raided the
home of julius Martin, confscated a
picture of the kaiser and his sons
| found in the place and then publicly
burned the photograph. The resi-
dence oil Martin was strewn with
Paris green.
After a separation of six years,
Charles and William McNutt of Nor
wood, met recently in France. Chas.,
who enlisted in Colorado, is a mem
Der of the aviation corps and William
| joined the same branch of the service
at Marshfield. The brothers arrang-
ed meeting through correspondence
and luck favored them one day as
| they were both assigned to the same
sector of the front.
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Mrs. Louisa K. Theirs, Milwaukee
county's only living daughter of the
American revolution, recently cele-
| brated her 104th birthday anniver-
sary. She was a daughter of DR..
Seth Opron, close friend of Gener-
al Washington and who during the
last two years of the revolution had
! charge of Washington's barge. De-
spite her advanced age Mrs. Theirs
is in fairly good health and an ac-
| tive war worker, having knitted 100
pairs of stockings for homeless
French children in the war zone
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Milwaukee, Wis.-Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Ribar, 1919 Winnebago street,
are grieving over their unfortunate
| loss of 1900 in cash, caused by not
having these precious savings in a
bank or safety deposit box. Last Sun
day Mr.. and Mrs. Ribar counted and
recounted their "lifes stake" and
found it included one $50 bill and $40
and $40 bills to the amount of $1,210
They peeled one $40 bill off the big
roll to sustain the household ex-
penses this week. The remaining
81 200 in one package, securely bound
together, Mrs. Ribar carefully push
ed into a draft fiue under the oven of
their kitchen stove, and both husband
and wife congratulated each other on
the novelty of the place as a storage
vault which no burglar would ever
think of looking into. Thursday night
when the room was chilly, the hus-
band and wife agreed that their kite