Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-13
From Grant and It's
Border Lines
Meningitis Kills Baby.
M6HIHgICIS mis- BdUys
Roswell Malone, Mt. Horeb, died
of meningitis after short illness.
Prairie Goes SWEET Again.

Roswell Malone, Mt. Horeb, died
of meningitis after short illness.
Prairie Goes ssWete Again.
Prairie du Chen has gone wet
again and several licenses have been
granted for selling ~ per cent beer.
Furthermore the licensees are selling
il.
Farmhouse Burns; Loses All.
An oil stove exploding caused the
destruction of the farmhouse OF. Frank
Davis east of Dodgeville. The fam
lily barely escaped with their lives.
Nothing was saved.
Infantile Paralysis Victim.
Delbert Edmunds, 13 years, Dodge
vile, came home from a farm COM
planning of i'll health. Two days later
he developed infantile paralysis and
now one leg is paralyzed.
Suffers Is Years, Dies.
Bennett ShilE died at Dodgeville,
after eighteen years of suffering with
inflammation of the bones. The
youth was operated on for bone cur
reting but could not stand the shock.
Going To China Station.
Captain Lloyd Horsfall has been
visiting old friends at Millville Cap
tain Horsfall was on his way west
from Washington to Omaha with a
fleet of 81 motor trucks. He expects
to leave soon for Japan or China.
Galena Goes After PrOfiteerS.
Galena citizens are complaining of
food prices and particularly are "sore
on the hucksters who find what the
stores charge and then charge accord
ingly. The Gazette says that the home
grocers charge more than the Rock
ford stores do.
SnakeShip Awakes Ticket Agent.
Hearing a noise at the ticket win
dow, the agent at the Wauzeka depot
stepped up to the window briskly, but
jumped back again about six feet,
when he found a rattlesnake coiled
up on the shelf. In his fright he for
got all about asking the snake where
it wanted a ticket to.-Fennimore
Times.
Beer Bottle ExpIOdes.
Edward APPEL, Dubuque, may lose
an eye as the result of beer bottle
exploding. APPEL went to the icebox
to get some butter for breakfast He
knocked a bottle of rootbeer down and
the fluid exploded throwing large
pieces of glass into Appel's left eye
The member is badly injured.
John Ruka mspects Roads.
John J. Ruka, Grant county's gen
ial and rubicund assemblyman, is one
of committee of three who are hold
ing hearings in various towns of the
state on proposed additions of 2.50C
miles of SO per cent to the present
trunk line highway system. Every
locality in the state is Interested in
this.
FennimOre Penalties Light Concern
The Fennimore authorities are sc
perturbed over infrequency and low
voltage Of electric power that they
have notified the Interstate power
company that all except unavoidable
delays of more than fifteen minutes
duration will be penalized at 81 pei
minute. The low voltage causes
low pressure and the city well is al
the bottom of the matter.
New Concrete Highway.
The eight miles of very good road
between Mineral Point and Dodge
vile, will be still further improved
a strip of concrete road for it's entire
length. The federal government will
spend considerable money in this sec
ton this year and the Dodgeville Min
eral Point road will be the second
concrete road to be built in the ter
ritOry. There is concrete road into
Galena from a short distance south
of the state line.