WAUPACA COUNT POST

November 10, 1921

 

CIRCUIT COURT RUSHES CASES THIS SESSION

Twenty-seven Petitions of Naturalization, Nine Divorces

Criminal Calendar is Fading

 

            Judge B.B. Park arrived on Train No. 6, Monday, eleven o’clock, and found his way to the court room through crowds that packed the corridors.

            The jury was called and to the surprise of many only three of the twelve women jurors asked exemption.  These were Mrs. Viola Behling, whose mother had died last week; Mrs. Regina Daley of Marion, whose youngest child is under six month of age; Mrs. Helen B. Devine, whose husband is now in a hospital, having submitted to two operations last week and had an attack of pneumonia.  Three men, M.B. Quall, Earl Patchin and Victor Thomas, pleaded exemption for business reasons.

            Next the calendar was called and a determination of the cases made before the adjournment for dinner.

            Promptly at 1:30 the thirty-three applicants for naturalization and two witnesses for each were examined, oaths administered and oath of allegiance taken by the twenty-seven admitted as follows: Andrew Klatt, Mukwa; Richard Thies, Paul Rosenski, William Flater, Gustave Breske, William Grunewald, Fredrick Hirte, Emil Janske, Ole K. Moen, Albert E. Zellmer, Venanzio Ginneti, Waupaca; Arthur C. Erickson, Laura Marie Jensen, Carl Kuhl, Henry Hagen, Joseph J. Liebl, Wm. Verch, Alexander R. Johnson, Otto H. Arndt, Gustave Winter, Elling J. Brasten, Charles Kronberg, Christ Klatt, Otto Handschke, Julius Kickhafer, August Jannusch, Albert Gruenke.

            The applications of Wilhelm Schauer and Peter Berg were denied and four were continued over the term.

            During the afternoon, divorces were granted to Esther Uhl vs. Carl Uhl; Grace L. Olson vs. Julius Olson; Mina Testin vs. Plummer Testin; Lilian Hunter vs. Darwin Hunter; ….

 

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