Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-11-13

-mI anu MIS-. w. o. Oy6E drove
to Dubuque on business Monday and
returned yesterday.
Herman Knoke, whoss home is at
Pine Knob north of this city, is
seriously i'll with typhoid.
Mrs. Albert Budworth was con-
fined to her bed by illness last week
but is now much improved.
DIR. Alex. Ivey, Of E~stherville.
Ia, spent Sunday here with his par
ents, and Mrs. Alex. Ivey.
Bert Schreiner has sold his car to
Edgar Croft and expects to get a
Chalmers '36" in the spring.
L. P. Basford returned to Chicago
Thursday night, having spent about
two weeks here with his father, G..
B. Basford.
The poultry season is opening up
now and large quantities will be
shipped from here between now and
Christmas.
Mrs. W. Curtis. who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. Willis for the past week, returned
to her home in Madison yesterday.
John %Schildgen, who on Monday
Of last week had his left hand caught
in a corn shredder causing the loss of
all the fingers and part of the thumb.
is getting along nicely.
On Thursday evening, Leo
Garner a young man living near Bur-
ton, was thrown by a horse, breaking
his right arm and sustaining several
bad bruises on the head.
-Messrs. Fl. E. Carthew, Kenneth
Burgess, Jas. E. Dunlap. Jesse Graf
ton, and Earl Ivey made a little
pleasure trip to Cuba City, in the
formers car, Sunday afternoon.
Miss Leta Prideaux. of Blooming
ton visited a few days last week
with her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Blackburn. She expects to
leave soon for her home in Idaho.
Mrs. Fl. "A. Elwell took her de-
parture this morning for her home in
Clarion, Iowa, after a two weeks
visit at the home Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Budworth, in
this city.
NO peddlel does anything to help
the town. He gives nothing to
churches schools or public enter
prishes. He spends no money here.
He pays no taxes. He has nothing
in Common with our people. He can
swindie you-and often does-you
can help yourself.
AT about the same time the ducks
and wild geese start southwark each
fall, our friend Herman Buchner packs
his trunk and starts upon his southern
pilgrimage for the winter, returning
about the same that the birds come
back in the spring. He expects to
leave Lancaster next Friday for
Crosset, Arkansas, to remain during
the cold weather.
Mrs. A. j. Pipkiu took departure
Saturday for Fennimore, where she
will make a brief visit, also at Ian
caster, and then 60 to ST. Louis for
a sojourn with her niece, Mrs. Powers.
From there she goes to New York,
and on the Both inst. sets sail with a
party for d trip to Europe The
Pipkin home here will remain closed
during her extended absence. -8os-
cobel Dial. Enterprise.
The deer hunting season in Wis
consin is now open and a few local
nimrods are making preparations for d
trip to the northern counties. Already
reports have ONE from upper Michi-
gan and Wisconsin woods Of several
killings by hunters who have mistaken
each other for deer and the slaughter
of this kind promises to bs about as
usual. Hunters are now anxioUsly
awaiting the first fall of snow that
will make the trailing Of a wounded
deer possible.
ON Thursday evening of last
week, between eight and nine o'clock,
when the narrow gauge was enroute
from Woodman to Fennimore, a
middle aged man, q laborer, by the
name of Miles, vas instantly killed.
It is thought that he became in
toxicated, a jug containing liquor
having been found not far from the
accident, and laid down on the tracks
and went to sleep. His head was
completely served from the body
which was otherwise badly mutilaCed.
The remains were picked up by the
| train crew and taken to Fennimore,
where an inquest was held Friday.