Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-05-10
BLOOMINGTON.
here.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
School was resumed Monday, after
weeks quarantine against scarlet
fever. The few cases have recovered,
or nearly so. The street quarantine
kept the disease from spreading.
!. A young man named Bowen. em
ployed by Harry Tornowske on the
Roney farm, while driving to Mt.
Hope one night last week was thrown
into ditch fifteen feet deep. and re-
manned unconscious until morning,
when he was found by paaser-by.
Automobile agents have been thick
here for some time.
Mrs w. FL Holford is home from
Fond du Lac, where she passed the
winter with her daughter Elva.
Mrs. Clarence Smith of Prairie du
Chen. was here several days to see
her mother Mrs. W. V. BENEFITS,
who was i'll.
Goold of Montfort and Ross of
Mineral Point were here with their
autos Thursday.
| S. A. Hatch, Miss Maud Peacock
and r. Kavanaugh went to Platte
Vile in David Ballantine's auto Fri
day.
NJ. F. Woodhouse has a new
Victrola talking machine. It is a
fine instrument.
While in Madison last week
Herman Pohle bought fine large
apartment house only four blocks
from the university. We hear the
price was $l1. 500. The Pohle family
will move to Madison this coming
summer, and the children will attend
school there.
We near that VIM. Hiener and W,
E. Alderman have bought new Nit
chell autos from G. f. Horton & Son
of Patch Grove.
Lee Bailey has started the building
of barn on his new premises on Mill
street.
Abe Patch and wife visited Marie
at Sinsinawa Sunday.
Claude Hickok is home from Platte.
Vile for few days.
Clay Adkins of Platteville recently
bought farm in Minnesota and ex.
poets to move up there this week. II
is in the neigh burhood where his
sister JUNE Greener lives.
Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Taylor have
adopted baby girl.
Wm. Mogan of Lancaster visited
his brother Tim here over Sunday.
Joe Greer is building the founda
tion for livery stable west of the
Sandleback creamery.
Work on the j. L. Brady building
is progressing favorably.
Vern Brookens started sprinkling
the street last week.
While playing about the Brady
building Saturday, Donald Brady had
his scalp cut open by falling piece
of brick.
While doing some veterinary work
in the country Friday, Reub. French
was struck in the face by a colt, and
the bridge of his nose was broken.
While out hunting Sunday, a
young son of Sam Snider was shot
through the feshy part of hand near
the thumb, by another boy with him.
The weapon was a small one of .2S
calibre.
Al. Hunsacker was over from Lam
caster Thursday.
T. M. Savage of Platteville called
Thursday.
Martin Mcdonald and DR.. Doolittle
and wives were over from Lancaster
Sunday.
The Herald's Glen Haven cor
respondent seems to have a standing
crouch at Bloomington. The reason
Bloomington quarantined against
Glen Haven during the small pox
scare some years ago was that those
in authority in that village appeared
to be making no special effort to
check the spread of the disease, and
in fact it did spread about the place
in an alarming extent. In the scarlet
fever trouble here the authorities did
everything necessary to check the
disease. and SO IN the village it was
limited to three families. SO, your