Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-05-28
COUNTY AND NEARBY.

aged II years. He was the father oil
Homer Snow, formerly of Platteville
now living at st. Louis. Charles
Snow of Platteville is a son and there
are two other children.
Mrs. Emma Kennedy of Montfort
has young alligator one foot LONG
received from her daughter, Mrs. J.
! Crawley of Miami Fla. The boys OF
the neighborhood have constructed a
miniature Everglades in the back
yard so that the reptile may feel at
| home in his new surroundings.
| Ed. Tyler of Richland Center, had
load of stone fall on him in the CITY
quarry. He was badly bruised.
! Ed. Huston Jr. of Richland Center
threw stone with telling effect on
his own body. The right arm was
fractured above the elbow.
Unknown persons supposed to be
boys have been tampering with mail
boxes at Richland Center This is a
penitentiary offense.
Lampe & Cookson, Fennimore real
estate dealers, negotiated the sale of
the Henry Schneider farm at Steu-
ben. The new buyer is Anderson
Graves of Rewey. The consideration
was $4,000
Fire starting in a brooder in the
summer kitchen burned the John H.
Bond house at Waldwick. Iowa conn
ty, last week. Neighbors helped to
carry out most of the furniture. This
house was built in the forties.
Mrs. May Anderson Boyd. a native
OF Yorkshire, England. who formerly
lived at Mt. Hope, died recently at
Leroy, MINI.
Work has begun on the new paving
at Fennlmore. The old rocks which
stood upright will be entirely re-
moved and new substructure placed.
lhen 5O carloads of granite screen
lngs go on to be bound with Tarvia.
The work will be completed by mid
summer.
Rev. F. N. Matthias of Fennimore,
leaves for Dubuque to acc ept the pas
torate OF st. Peters Lutheran church.
MI. Matthias has made a good record
IN Fennimore and the people there
wish him well. The Rev. A. Killmer
OF Ashland, will probably take the
Fennimore charge.
A Dodgeville boy reports having
kissed eighty girls at the depot upon
MS return from overseas. This is the
IeCoru IOf DOdgeV1lle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis STEINER Sr.. of
Woodman, celebrated their 45th we'd
ding day on May 18th. Their chill
dren passed the day with their father
and mother making the occasion very
enjoyable.
T. F. Kennedy, the travelling man
who drowned himself in the Milwau-
kee river because respondent over
the loss of $4,000 in a business deal.
was buried at Highland, his old home.
Monday of last week
Tim Burns, Dick Wilcox and De-
witt Mitchell, Dodgeville boys, struck
a culvert while riding home from
Mineral Point at night Burns who
was driving lost control of the car.
The vehicle turned completely over
burylng the boys beneath it. They
were all badly but but not seriously
injured. The car was almost wrecked.
Frank Powers, Dodgeville youth.
broke his right wrist jumping with
the boys at school.
The DOdgeville General hospital
has been declared insolvent. A re-
ce1ver will be appointed. DR.. Joslin.
the former director, holds a mort
gage of 81, 488.90 for back salary. The.
other creditors claim he is not en-
titled to this sum. Mrs. Joslin has
been operating the hospital for sever
al months past and it is now on a
paying basis.
Montfort has had it's final confer
ence with the architect on the new
high school.
The Livingston bank was moved ov-
er one hundred feet while business
went on continuously. The structure
is two story brick presenting a diff
hcult job of moving. The new build
ing goes in on the site of the old one.
Then the new and the old structures
will be joined to gether.
Stanley Ritter, native of Poland.
who was injured in the Mulcahy mine
at Shullsburg, died two days after
the accident.
Miss Agnes Krog of Platteville,
won third in the state declamatory
contest held at Madison. Miss Alice
Hanson, Green Bay, was first and
Miss Mabel Schneider, Cedarburg,
second
Clarence Needham, Dubuque
young man, was MORALLY hurt by un-
known causes at Prairie du Chen
Needham's body was found near the
Burlington tracks nine miles north of
the city by a work crew. He was TAX
en- to the hospital where a diagnosis
disclosed fractured skull and in
ternal injuries. The young mans
parents were notified.
A bolt of lightning struck in
Prairie du Chen last week. 1t hit a
barn belonging to Schweiger Bros,
electrocuting a team of horses. Geo.
Sshweiger who was watering the
mules at the time, had his arm tenn
porarily paralyzed. Mrs. Joe Hahn
was crossing vacant lot nearby
with her granddaughter in her arms
when the bolt struck. Mrs. Hahn was
knocked down and the little girl
stunned.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Anderson of
Fennimore, enroute to Millville, had
their team run away when the har-