Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-02

pleaded guilty to embezzling s16,24S.
Funk tried to poison himself but was
saved and brought to trial.
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Paul Frank, Oshkosh, crossed the
500 tracks ahead of a train and was
run over and killed. Two other men
were badly hurt.
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Louis Pagel, IS, shot himself
through the heart at Milwaukee and
a day later his mother attempted SUI
icide.
Ernest Mech, Beloit, died of sleep
ing sickness and a week later his
wife followed him in death of the
same disease.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Guhse, Wausau,
is 100 years old and heads five gener-
ations. She has 4 children, 81 grand
children, So great-grandchildren and
three great-great-g grandchildren.
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Joseph Thomas, Milwaukee. lies in
the hospital with fractured skull.
Two negroes waylaid him with a lead
pipe and after crushing Thomas
head, took 500.
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| John Fritz, Hartland, went to Mil
waukee to shop and was robbed of
$55 and beaten by strangers who in
vited him to drink in room. The
assailants were arrested.
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! A sixteen-ton stone was quarried,
! hauled and loaded at Middle Inlet for
shipment to the Pike River Granite
Co.'S plant in Marinette. 1t is the
largest piece Of red granite ever TAX
en- from the Mount Tom quarry.
1000
A half million dollars will be in
vested in a new milk condensery to be
established at Spring Valley by the
John Wild company. 1t is feared
this condensery will affect the Elm
wood, River Falls, Ellsworth and
Lawton Co. creameries.
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Senator H. A. Huber proposes an.
amendment to the mothers pension
law. The present law requires that
the mother, to receive the pension,
/ must be widow. The Huber amend
ment provides that the applicant
shall be mother without a husband.
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Frank Winkler, Stevens Point, was
arrested by Conservation Warden E.
F. Bosworth and fined $50 by Judge
Porter, charged with having a green
deer in his possession Feb. 1, 1918.
For more than year Winkler could
not be found
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Lieut." Glen c. Walker was sent
to Leavenworth for two years for
n of off Of
kee. His attorney claimed that Walk
er had seen several years of service
and when released became envious
of the treatment accorded his super
iors.
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When physicians said Louis Mitch
ell, Hillsboro, sick with influenza,
hardly could recover, Mrs. Mitchell
became seriously i'll of the disease.
Mr. Mitchell passed away and Mrs.
Mitchell pleaded that the funeral be
delayed four days, saying she was
going, too. 1t came about as she
said.
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The League of Kindly Tongue has
been founded at Oshkosh by DR.. VIM
| d. Marsh 1t now has $4,000 mem
bers. Each member pledged himself
ito abstain from unkind speech, and
as often as possible, to speak, in the
spirit of Christ, to stranger, friend or
kim words of cheer, courage or coun-
SELL
It developed at Appleton that $137
which Mrs. Jennie Wilbur, Oconto,
got three weeks ago on three checks
was used to get divorce from her
husband, who was then with her. She
was traced through having :. small
foot, having purchased q 3AA shoe.
She pleaded guilty on a charge of
forgery and was sentenced to six
months.
wisconsin has more than $4,000 fee
BILE minded persons, and of these at
least $500 should have institutional
care, according to figures compiled
by the welfare department, Universe
ty Extension division The state has
1000 feeble minded between the ages
of and 20 years. Some 249 young
men Of draft age were rejected or
discharged from military service pri-
or to April, 1918, because Of mental
deficiency. About 5000 feeble mind
ed children are enrolled in public
schools, many of whom are degener-
ates and a menace. Of the $500, less
than 10 per cent are cared for in in
situations. The feeble minded are
costing the state, it is estimated, APP
proximately 100000 year in crime
and 100000 in pauperism.
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E. J. Seaver, Beloit, knows he kill
ed 100000 rats in the past eight
years and cannot guess how many
more have died through his efforts.
Killing rats is Mr.. Seaver's job. He
studied the problem for 20 years, he
says. In a drive in Beloit recently he
carted away eight heaping wheel
barrow loads of dead rats after the
first feeding of his poison He killed
365, 900 rats in 80 days in Rockford,
I'll. He has been called to all parts
of the country to clean up business
districts. He has personally fed ov-
er II tons of poison to rats and mice.
He says a rat will travel blocks to
get a taste of the fatal morsel. "A
rat is one of the smartest animals
he said mo trap will exterminate
him. You may catch few bu the
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