Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-01-22
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1000
Shoes costing s4S7 have been Civ
en- to needy children by the Green Bay
was obtained by the sale of lead and
tin foil.
Fearing commitment to an asylum,
Mrs Jennie Irvine Driver, 55, wife of
John M. Driver, Racine, ended her
life with poison Mrs. Driver for
merly lived in Madison and Oshkosh.
1000
Anthony S. Gorski, IS, Chicago, and
Francis Burns, II, La Crosse, parol-
ed from Green Bay reformatory,
pleaded guilty to burglarizing two
stores. Sentence was deferred.
Christ Roehl, who lives with his
:. Roehl, at Appleton, cele
brated his Tooth birthday Saturday
He was born in Reinetz, Germany,
Ian. 70, 1919, and came to America
in 1863
A large toy factory is being built
in Eau Claire, where 500 hands are
expected to be employed. The build
ings will be modelled after toy hous-
es.
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Ray Knapp, wanted in Marinette
county for two years on a charge of
wife desertion, was located at Hay
ward, Wis. He asked time to change
his clothes, went upstairs, jumped out
the window and escaped.
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After four years litigation, he
state industrial commission ha or
dered the village of West Salem to
pay $2,400 to Mrs. Alice Voeck, whose
husband was killed by Walter Jones
while assisting the village marshal
to arrest Jones.
| Mt. Horeb has dedicated its new
$125,000 high school. The edifice is
modelled after the Lincoln school at
Madison. The structure contains a
gymnasium, domestic science room,
lecture room and other up-to-date
features.
Timber wolves are becoming nu-
merous and bold across the river
from La Crosse, in the vicinity of Ho-
kah, MINI. The bowls of a large
| pack can be heard every night and
frequently the wolves venture into
farm yards One animal was shot by
Louis Wooley.
The Marathon county board is OPP
posed to the wide sleigh law which
went into effect JAN 1. A memorial
was adopted asking the legislature to
repeal it or amend it to prohibit use
of all narrow sleighs after January
/ next. 1t was urged that the use
of sleighs of different widths would
prevent keeping roads in condition.
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Because his name was Cd cidedly
| German" and insult results to him
who bears a German name, following
the disgrace and shame the Germans
have brought upon themselves" E..
A. Liebenstein, Rhinelander, became
E. A. Loveton through petition
placed in municipal court.
900
Totally blind, Mrs. E. G.. Dyer, who
lives near La Crosse, engaged in var
/ ious activities in her community to
aid in the war She knitted many
socks and sweaters for the Red Cross,
assisted in raising funds for various
war agencies and did a great deal of
her own housework.
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Ernest Desotelle, Dagget, upper
peninsula, was bound over to circuit
court on a charge of numbering JOS
Frock On the night of Nov IS, De
sotelle and a party of hur ters, it is
alleged, were head-lighting deer
Frock, on his way home, was walking
through the woods when Desotelle
shot. killing him. The defendant says
he mistook him for deer.
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Exactly 268 Indian mound groups
were plated in 20 localities in Ju-
neau county in a recent survey made
by Ira M. Buell., formerly of Beloit
college, and described by him in the
latest issue of the Wisconsin Arch
eologist. Added to those known be-
fore, the total is 279, and further re-
search along the important streams
may double the number.
900
Lewellyn Osulson, who has been
held at Marinette on a charge of theft
and whose case has been pending for
two weeks while an investigation was
being made, confessed to U. S. Mar
shall W. S. Randolph, that he is de-
serter from the army Osulson will
be turned over to the federal author
tiles. He was a fugitive from the To-
cal court for year, having violated
parole following his conviction on a
charge of larceny.
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The Marathon county board of
supervisors abandoned the woodchuck
bounty plan A year ago bounty OF
25 cents each was placed on the ami
mails The result was the slaughter
of almost $4,000 the expense to the
county being over $4,000. At the
November meeting the bounty was
taken off, but at the last session an
effort was made to replace it and add
a bounty on gophers. Advocates
charge the pests with many crimes
Opponents argued that the making
out of the certificates took more time
of the town chairmen than the DAM
age done by the animals amounted to
1t was said children sent for the cows
or on other errands forgot their dut-
les and engaged in smoking OF
drowning out the animals for the re-