Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-04-14
COUNTY AND NEARBY.

Two young fellows who had but
reached mans estate in years, lost
their lives as the result of falling
from the car ju-t out of Lone Rock,
Friday afternoon last. The young
men were Charles Dresen, of Spring
Green, and Martin Hougen, of
Stoughton,. They had been about
the streets of Lone Rock for some
hours and are said to have been
much the worse for liquor. They
boarded a west bound freight train
and the last seen of them as the train
pulled out, they were standing on top
of a freight car evidently having
good time with each other. Appar-
emily they must have been engaged in
friendly scuffle, as a short distance
from the Wisconsin river, they fell
from the train at the same time.
When they were picked up the
Hougen lad was dead, fairly cut to
pieces by the wheels of the train,
and Dresen had suffered the severing
of one arm at the shoulder joint.
He was rushed to Madison hospital
where he died Sunday. Little is
known of the Hougen lad but the
Dresen lad is the son of we'll known
Spring Green people and had
pleasant home and indulgent parents.
Free mail delivery was inaugurated
in Richland Center, on March 81.
Two carriers are on the job and they
cover the routes twice day. AS
result all the call boxes in the post
office there have been discontinued,
also the crowd in the postoffice that
formerly waiting for the mail to be
thrown around. There are no boxes,
except lock boxes. ar~T ...,,- .. ~zrs
Senator David G.. James OF Rich
land Center spent Sunday and Mon
day in the city and on Monday even
ing addressed a large audience at
Driver opera house held in the in
terest of the no-license movement.
Mr.. James was a veteran in the civil
war, and was for some time prisoner
at Andersonville. He has for many
years been one of the leading citizens
and foremost business men of Rich
land Center-Darlingt Rep-Journal.
At the home Of her grandson, H.
Z. Goldsmith, in this city. on Mon
day morning, closed the life love-
able old saint, Mrs. Eveline Haw-
kins, aged ninety years. This life
of earnest toll is as remarkable as
was her longevity of years. Born in
Vermont, of typical English ancestry,
strong and sturdy, the power of mind
and intellect remaining with her till
the very last, the spirit taking flight
in the calm of brighter light much
as a child falls to sleep. The re-
mains were taken to Boscobel, yes
terday, by Mr.. and Mrs. Goldsmith
for interment in the family acre,
where lie three generations of kindred.
Mrs. Hawkins came to Wisconsin
as an early pioneer of Grant county,
remaining there till her grandson,
upon his marriage, made a welcome
home for her eight years since.
The tenderness bestowed by Mr.. and
Mrs. Goldsmith upon this sainted and
homeless mother in Israel is worthy
Of emulation. What was theirs was
hers. She was as faithfully their
ward in all respects as is the child Of
their own on.-Vernon Censor.
A really remarkable life closed
when Jeremiah Dingman died, over in
Rlchland county, three weeks ago.
AS was recorded in these columns at
the time, he was almost 102 years
of age. Now the most remarkable
incident comes to light regarding this
old gentleman he wrote, signed and
had witnessed his will after ne had
passed the century mark. It is said
for him that never for a moment did
he lose the full use of bis intellectual
faculties, and he had full possession
of his physical properties to the very
last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Jacobs, Liv-
ngston, celebrated their golden
wedding, last week. Mr.. Jacobs is
a veteran Of the civil war, and
well known citizen of that section of
the county. They have six children,
all of whom live within call, by long
distance phone.
The Rev. Matthias Joseph Ward
Gather Ward) died at the hospital
in Beloit, last week. rather Ward
was one of the most widely known
priests in the Catholic church in the
west He was an unfailing worker
for the cause of temperance and
spoke, first and last, in almost every
civ and village in this section of