Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-24
Nearby Notes

Mrs. Albert Smythe has returned to
Benton from a hunting trip in the
north part OF the state. She brought
home a deer.
The Vinegar Hill Co. has finished
| sinking the shaft on the VIM. Fields
property at Shullsburg and haze COM
menced to DIRK.
Alex Gardner, RichIand county
farmer, is many dollars ahead thru
his prowess as a wolf hunter Two
were caught with hounds and third
trapped.
Jos. Callahan, an I.C. section fore
man out of Galcna, was thrown from
an electric motor car and badly in
jured. 1t took 10 stitches to close
the scalp wound.
August Mundstock, a farmer living
alone on a small place near Genoa,
Vernon county, was burned to death in
his own home on Dec. 2. The remains
were found in the ashes of the house.
Charles Bateson and Chris Bonner,
residents of Gotham, were accused of
unlawfully killing a doe and brought
before justice by a game warden.
The evidence was insufficient to con-
vict
Five Galena young men who hunt
ed with ferrets. paid fines of $1,000
each making each rabbit cost 1926
and the mean game warden "confis-
t1cated" the bunni and the ferrets
also.
The Wells cheese factory near Ar
gyle was burned with cheese made
during the last two months and stored
there. Mr.. Gerber, the maker, lost
all his personal property The fam
lily escaped in night clothes
A. O. Oleson one of the leading
Guernsey breeders of Grant county,
has a COW that gave 80 pounds of
butter fat under test for the month
of November The check from this
one COW for November was $50.
Phyllis May Stevens of Linden, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Stew.
ems, died Tuesd y a week ago. Miss
Stevens contracted influenza while
nursing in Chicago lat winter Com
plications set in causing her death
A Richland county farmer sought to
get $40 a cord for wood when he
thought the town people were with
out fuel. He thought the town peo-
pie were up against it" and sought
to profit by their suffering While
the man is undoubtedly an exception
it goes to show that all prof1teering
is not confined to the business men
and that human nature can get pretty
mean with some people.
Richard Bannen of Scott, Craw-
ford county, was painfully injured by
an electric battery attached to a house
lighting plant bursting the fragments
striking his right eye Mr.. Bannen
went at once to Boscobel for treat
ment. The injury is painful but not
likely to destroy the sight. Mr.. Ban
men had three serious accidents with
in a short time.
Bert Dobson and Frank Ward, Mar
ietta farmers, fought with great vio-.
lence at a school meeting. Later
Dobson had Ward arrested the latter
paying two fines, for assault and dis
turbing the peace Then Ward swore
out a warrant for Dobson on the same.
counts and Dobson was fined for as
sault but exonerated on the disturb
ance charge The trouble grew out
of controversy over new school.
house.
Mrs. Harvey Storer of Pittsville,
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Benson Of Willow Springs,
dropped dead at the Benson home at
Willow Springs last Thursday. This
was a crushing blow to- the family
who just the day before had tenderly
laid their mother away. Mrs. Storer
was called from her home in Pitts
vile to help care for her mother dur
ing her last illness and was prepar
ing to return to her home and family
and while apparently in her usual
health was suddenly stricken down.
Sun.