Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-22
COUNTY AND NEARBY.
Falls. Breaks Hin.

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down the cellar stairs in his home
breaking a hip as he struck the rock
wall.
SaWmill Burns.
Geo. Sedlmayer, Wyalusing, build
ing new house and saving his own
lumber, had his sawmill burn in a ]
night fire.
Meningitis Kills Girl.
Miss Jennie Olson, a Spring Green
girl, died Saturday week ago of
meningitis after an illness of but
three days.
Injured At Mine.
John Williams, Dodgeville, employ
ed at the Pollard mine, injured his
hand so badly in crusher that one
finger was amputated later.
Bury The Leaves.
Bury the leaves" instead of burn
ing them is a slogan being adopted in
some cities. 1t is said that fertilizer
worth millions of dollars is burned
up every fall
Woman Takes Life.
Mrs. Wallace Williams, Mt. Carroll,
shot herself in the temple dying in
stantly. Grief over the loss of hus-
band and son in a few months caused
the tragedy.
Livingston Farm Sold.
Homer and Dale Rundell have sold
the 160 acres of land southwest of
Livingston recently purchased from
Herbert Griswold, to Frank Burg of
Platteville, for $26600.
Nearly ElectrOcuted.
Chas. Dunn, Benton telephone man,
was badly shocked at Darlington while
using a telephone. The receiver was
knocked from his hand, his hair sing
ed and his mind rendered a blank for
some time. Dunn recovered after !
several hours illness.
Train Hurts Deaf Woman.
Mrs. Ossie Anderson, Wauzeka, was
struck by freight train and her arm
and shoulder blade broken. Mrs. AL |
derson, an aged woman, crossed the |
tracks to get pail of water at the |
tank. Being deaf she did not hear an
approaching train which grazed her |
Played With Matches.
Francis Connolly, Seymour years,
found some matches in his fathers |
coat and few minutes later set fire
to a straw stack. Neighbors were
called and the stack spanned with, a |
wire cable and pulled away from the
other buildings. The blaze was con-
fined to the stack.
Deer Nuisance.
Richland county farmers are COM |
planning of wild deer destroying their
crops. One farmer in Orion town
ship lost IA shocks of ripe corn. The
deer came in the night and ate and |
trampled the entire lot which was
piled in the field by the farmer. The
law prevents the farmers from shoot
ing these denizens of the wild.
KellyS Move to Prairie.
John Kelly & Sons, Woodman, have
bought ground near the @. tracks in
Prairie du Chen and will open a i
lumber yard there about Dec. l. Mr.
Kelly will build home in the city
The Kelly family have been identified
with Woodman so long that the men
ton of that village brings a mental
picture of Johns CHEEKY face.
More Wild Pigeons,
The Platteville Witness being the
leading Mature Study Paper" for this
section stoutly asserts that wild
pigeons are being seen in Grant coun-
ty. According to the Witness Ever
EFT Louthain, Georgetown farmer
saw a flock of wild ducks, followed by
wild pigeons and a few minutes later
three deer hoped out of the woods,
jumped a wire fence and disappeared
ir corn field
Fined for POaching.
Will Graap, j. H. Esch and John
Fried, all of Prairie du Chen were /
arrested in Marquette State Park by I
Paul Lawrence, Park Superintendent.
Esch was up tree inspecting a coons
nest and the other men were on the
ground with guns and dead squirrels
They paid a fine of $50 with $6.75
costs, Esch taking the blame. The men
violated the park law and were shoot
ing out of season.
Fire Raced Home.
The farm home of William Scheif-
elbein, near Reedsburg, was destroy
ed by fire and Mrs. Scheifelbein bad
ly burned. Her recovery was impos-
sible. A boy, 6 years, was also burned
The fire was due to the mother throw
ing kerosene on hot Goals in the
cookstove to hurry the fire for sup
Per time. The other members of the
family escaped but they lost their all
for the second time in a few years.
Coal Ashes for Fertilizer.
H. F. Muldoon, Darlington barb
er, relates that he had a good potato
crop this year. Muldoon dumped his
den expecting to have them hauled
out in the spring. When the time
came teamster was not available so
Muldoon plowed the ashes under. He
found his best potato hills where his
ash pile stood and naturally attrib-
utes the yield to the effect of the ash
es. Muldoon will follow the method
out,
A Mysterious Fire.
A blaze of mysterious origin oc-
Cured on the VIM. Fillbach place 21h
miles northwest of Cobb. Monday
night of last week Fillbach Bros. had
an auction on Oct. 7th, and Merle
Edgington was moving on the farm.
The barn containing 10 tons of hay
and 1900 bushels of oats had been
measured up Monday for the new own
er. This building and its contents
were total loss. Neighbors came and
confined the fire to its place of origin.
new barn built year ago to re-
place one destroyed by fire when Hen