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WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

October 27, 1905

 

            Shiocton, like so many of the small villages in the state, has just suffered a safe cracking and robbery in one of its stores.  The women who heard the explosion feared to wake up the proprietor in the house for fear he would go to the scene and get harmed. They found the safe door in the middle of the room and blown to bits, with $60 cash stolen. What is wanted in every town in the state is a vigilance organization, each member armed with a Winchester and a few double barreled shot guns.  On hearing an explosion let the first one who hears it have some way to telephone or alarm other members so that suddenly the robbers may be confronted with cold lead from a dozen resolute men if they do not surrender.  The way the boys did it in Wild Rose the other night should be an incentive to organize an association of vigilants in every village or small city in the country to protect property from burglars and safe crackers.