Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-25
COUNTY AND NEARBY

The village Of Rewey is in the
throes of infantile paralysis and the
schools are closed.
A. w. Kemler and Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Shepard of Platteville, will
motor to California.
The Platteville gas company has
been allowed to raise its rates from
$1.60 to $1.90 per thousand feet.
Henry Cline, Hub City man, caught
his fingers in an ensilage cutter and
badly lacerated them.
The effects of Keewatin college,
Prairie du Chien, went under the
hammer a week ago It sheriff's auc-
ton.
Arnold Landsverk and Arthur Sundt
two Dane county youths, shot wood
duck, a protected bird. They were
fined $50 and costs apiece.
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There were 2256 registrants in
Richland county on September 18th
and 1857 in Iowa county. Grant
county had almost the two combined
80
Earl Crippen of Darlington, 81,
died after a short illness with Bright's
disease. He was the son of Emmett
Crippen, the we'll known horseman.
nTiCc Ua1Tno Woods nf no t1in crfn1a
since 1914 an Episcopilian missionary
in China, is visiting at home but ex-
poets to return to the orient next
month.
VIM. Larson, a Racine lightkeeper
was drowned when his boat capsized
during a high wind. Larson was un-
able to make shore and the guards
could not reach him.
John M. Nelson may now retire tt
his Canada farm. MIR. Nelson recent.
ly expressed his intention of so do.
ing in case of his defeat. He will
have plenty of time to put in mex
seasons crops.
Mrs. McBeath, formerly of Living.
ston, has recently returned from {
sanitarium in New Mexico. She ha:
returned to Livingston for a shor-
time and will soon join her two son:
at New York.
Eary Kennedy of Montfort, now il
France, writes his mother, Mrs. Vim
Kennedy, that he was shot in the arm
at the elbow. He is improving anC
will go to an English hospital to re
cuperate further.
Thomas and Richard Carey o
Shullsburg, 337th division, met theil
brother Patrick in England. Pat il
in the 86th division and had been sta
toned in England for six months
The meeting was joyful.
Sorghum mills in the vicinity are
grinding the succulent vegetable
and the furnaces are boiling dow1
"Lasses." 1t is said that many sup
posed huge yields of cane have beef
found to be part broom corn as tn,
seed this year had a lot of broom corr
in it.
Merz Booth of Richland Center
turned out near Sextonville to ALLOW
a rig to pass his automobile. The
car swerved in the clay and went in,
to a clay bank several feet. The ca
was badly damaged. Billie Colburn
a guest, was thrown through the
windshield.
Harry Emmons of Milton, 6 livery
man, was knocked down and killed
by an auto all four wheels passins
over him. Emmons was driving {
team unattached to a rig. Some con,
fusion resulted when the car came
along and Emons was knocked down
He died soon after.
Mrs. Chas. Seeley of Elk Grove, il
a fit of melancholy took a dose O
poison with the intention of suicide
DR.. Cunningham of Platteville, was
called and saved her life with {
stomach pump. A double dose, is il
claimed, delayed the end. Half thu
quantity would have been fatal. Sh'
is recovering rapidly.
Bert Hugill of Cobb, left Monitor
for home in a new Studebaker car
He lost control on a hill and the cal
turned three somersaults landing il
a ditch fifty feet away. A 'thank-you
ma'am" was the cause of Bert's troub
lie. The car was wrecked and thu
owner had a bad scalp wound, gasl
between the eye and lips mashed t.
a pulp.
Mayor John Campbell of Dodgeville
was thrice bereaved in a fortnight
The mother died suddenly while Oh
a visit. Catherine, a little girl, be
came sick the next day and died il
a short time. Before her funeral
brother, Arthur, developed symptomi
of infantile paralysis and died in
few hours. The bereaved father ant
four daughters survive to mourn ov