Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-13
Fire Strikes Crawford Farm.

AlOert Sllbaugh, Seneca farmer,
lost his barn, granary and tobacco
shed by fire
Women Work GaIena Streets.
Two Galena women, impatient over
the circumlocution of the street de-
spartment, took pick and shovel and
filled holes caused by the rains.
These "Hyar" Are TrapperS.
Amos DevOe and son, Pearl, Bosco-
bel, have purchased large tract of
Wisconsin valley land unsuitable for
anything but the propagation of fur
bearing animals. The men are noted
hunters and trappers.
New DOdgeYilIe Editor.
Byron D.Stokes of Chicago, has It,
quired the John Reese interests IN
the old Dodgeville Chronicle and will
run the paper Reese is a banker
with plenty of the needful.
DIR. N. L. Bailey Dead.
DR.. N. L. Bailey, brother OF DR.. A.
B. Bailey of Fennimore, died at Lake
Preston, S. D., last Tuesday. The
body was brought to Fennimore for
burial under Masonic auspices.
Young Girl Loses Eye.
Mary Ernest, a Benton girl of Is,
lost her right eye through collision
at Dubuque The girl was thrown
through the wind shield and cut so
badly that the eye had to be taken out
at the hospital
Blue River Inventor.
Geo. KincannOn, Blue River man,
has a motor car improvement he
calls, THE Silent Transmission. .
Kincannon has shown his device to
Detroit motor car manufacturers who
applauded it and promised to take it
up on a royalty basis.
Victim of Motor CareIeSSneSS.
Miss Anna Richards is in Dodge
vile hospital with bruised head and
a ruptured ear drum as the result of
being run into by Ridgeway motor
list. Miss Richards and her mother
were driving buggy when the other
party came up behind and struck
them fairly
BlOOdhOunds At New Glarus.
Petty but aggravating depredations
on the farm of Gunder Bros, near
New Glarus caused the employment
of bloodhounds to seek the guilty
ones who spilled milk cans, left the
gates open so that the cattle roamed
and did other mischief. The hounds
got the scent but lost it in the sands.
First County White Child Dead.
The Fennimore Times says that Mrs.
Dotha Bushnell Whipple is dead at
Los Angeles, Calf, after a lingering
illness. Mrs. Whipple was born in
Grant county July IL, 1929, which
would make her 80 years old this
summer. She was a bright old lady
A daughter, Miss Rose, and five
grandchildren and four greatgrand-
children survive
Gran Grae Sold Again.
The mammoth Gran Grae Valley
| farm of 621 acres formerly owned by
Ricliff brothers has been sold to Will
liam Dieter of Montfort Mariner and
Mulheim of Prairie du Chen bought
the farm last fall selling it this spring
to Lampe & Cookson who in turn sold
it to Dieter. The place is held to be
the best stock farm in Crawford coun-
t..
Flying Girl At PIatteYille Fair.
Miss Ruth Law, the daring Amer
lean aviatrix, will perform at Platte
vile during the Big Badger fcir. Miss
Law claims that stunt flying is really
the safest as flyer who cannot turn
machine to meet an unexpected air
current has no place in the air. Miss
Law is getting rOund-shoulGered with
the diamond medals she wears.
ClOudburst On Platte.
The Platteville Witness states that
the storm of last Monday was a
cloudburst along Platte river near
Cornelia Acres of corn and grain
were knocked flat. The river was at
its highest for years. Barns and
buildings were blown down by the
storm which came about Z O'Clock.
Thousands of birds were drowned in
the trees where they took refuge the
Witness says. At Dickeyville, a few
miles away, there as just a sprinkle.
Dispute Over Calf.
A healthy dispute wakes in Rich
land county where live George Clark
and j. A. Simrad. The men have adj
Joining pastures. Clark missed the
heifer and thought he found it in
Simrad's pasture. Simrad thought
otherwise and refused to deliver.
Clark sued and produced five wit
nesses. Simrad rebutted and produced
five witnesses. Clark alleges that his
heifer had a pimple on her nose. The
Judge, up-a-tree, hiked to the pasture
and 10, and behold We, there was the
critter answering Clark's description,
pimple and ALL Now the case goes
to the circuit court An element of
mystery is AIDED thru fisherman
claiming he saw a heifer answering
the description stuck in the river bot
tom mud. And there We are.
Heap Thunder Storms.
Chief Big Thunder must have
stalked thru southwestern Wisconsin
last week Judging from the reports
of electric storms. Near Woodstock
bolt struck square in the middle of
hogpen owned by one Sam Mar
shall. Ten hogs were killed, one be-
ing blooded brood SOW. In Bear Val
ley on the Richland county line a
young man was moving grass on the
farm of Joe Weitell From an inno-
cent-looking black cloud that passed
overhead came bolt of lightning that
killed both horses as they stood
hitched to the mower. The driver
was unframed. Tuesday evening
lightning struck the steepTe of the
Congregational church at Mineral
Point doing little harm but leaving a
difficult job to repair. At Linden a
few days before Peter and John
Walsh lost eight good-sized steers by
lightning and q few DAYS befOre that