Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29
AROUND THE COUNTY
BAGLEY.
special Correspondence to the Herald.

week j. j. Scholts' team ran away
One of the traces came unlocked as he
started down the hill and in passing
over a water break in the road the
tongue came down and let the buggy
onto the horses and they started to
run and turned the buggy over, and
throwing him out on the lower side of
the road. He rolled quite distance
down the hill and was bruised quite
badly on the head and face.
Alvin Cook and wife left for
Nebraska the fore part of the week,
to visit their daughter, Mrs. Willbert.
Mrs. VIM. Winter and Mrs. Lew
Glass, Sr. returned from an extended
visit at Lacrosse, Tuesday. Mrs.
Winter has been having the grippe
but is somewhat recovered.
Jake Beer went to Prairie du Chen
to have the wound on the back of
his head dressed. He says he feels
like new man since his operation.
Mrs. Till Brodt took her son
Fletcher to Prairie du Chen for the
baths. Fletcher has been very poor
ly for some time, but we hope for his
speedy recovery.
Mrs. Hugh Hazen was a Prairie du
Chen shopper Tuesday.
Orlando Prideaux, wife and daugh-
ter were down from Bloomington
Tuesday to bring a friend to the
afternoon train. They made call
at the John Jenkins home.
Mrs. Walt Yost and son accom-
panied Floyd Chase and family on
their return home to Savanna. Mrs.
Yost goes to Clinton to visit her
mother. Walt left later to make a
short visit and return with them.
Jim Day, of Lacrosse, is visiting
with relatives here.
Mrs. Oscar Barnes made two trips
to Prairie du Chen last week.
John Lance the Bloomington music
dealer, an old time friend of the
writer, was doing business in Bagley
Thursday. He has a pretty good
trade in this vicinity.
Charley Calkins and wife were Du-
buque visitors Thursday.
Carson Scott, a former county
surveyor of Grant Co., now of Galena,
returned to his home Thursday, after
doing a lot of surveying in this
vicinity.
Lou Newman unloaded another car
of brick, lime, and rock Thursday.
Tom Clifton has fine arrangement
for sewing machine needles and
shuttles in his show window. 1t is a
wheel with numbers and set it to any
machine you want to get needle or
shuttle for, turn it and it will open up
to what ever you want; it is
ornamental as we'll as useful.
Mrs. F. M. wager went out to the
farm and to attend the Red School
township day contest, Friday.
Joe Greer and young Carmody made
trip to Dubuque Friday and return
ed Saturday.
DIR. Mecum and Geo. Clark, of
Brodtville, were Prairie du Chen
callers between trains Saturday.
Myron Pace and wife and Mrs. Lee
Pace came up to the dance Friday and
returned Saturday on the afternoon
train.
Roda Willard, Mrs. Lou Housier,
Mrs. Del Morrissey and Mrs. Frank
Ripper were passengers to Prairie du
Chen on the four o'clock train Sat-
urday.
Jim Way and wife were up from
Glen Haven Saturday to make ar
rangements to build a new residence
on the lots he recently purchased from
Lee Kolb. Lee had bought them
from Mrs. Henry Haville. They took
dinner with the E. E. Culver family.
The Charley Meyers sale of house
hold goods was as good as could be
expected, considering the busy times
with the farmers.
While grubbing out a box alder
tree that was set out 35 years ago by
Mrs. Newman, where the cellar of
the new residence will be, they found
the stump where the roots start from
the body to be about five or six feet
through.
Charley Meyers was very sick Sat-
urday night.
Orlo Martin and Len Scott shipped
a car of hogs to Chicago Sunday.
Geo Winter made a flying trip to La
| Crosse the for part of the week.
There was another bridge and build
ing crew put in on the sidetrack last
week; they are putting in the bridge