Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-10-06
COUNTY AND NEARBY
A GRIST OF RECENT EVENTS RE.
YISED AND CONDENSED
FOR QUICK READING.

Ff. Thomas Doyle of Senaca. pastor
there for years, was transferred last
week to Highland as pastor Of the st.
Phillips church
Mrs. Hyman Kaufman of Platteyille
died there Saturday a week ago follow
ing long illness. The body was taken
TO Chicago for interment.
Mrs. Charles Ros .leip ST.. nee Anna
LOTHIAN, died at Platteville last Mon
day, at the age of seventy four. There
are four children and nine grandchild-
rem surviving.
Leo Drouillard of Cuba City and
Loretta Koran of Scales Mound were
married at St. Raphael's church, Du-
buque, last Wednesday morning. They
will live i'll Dubuque.
Crawford county has a population Of
l6,I72 a gain from 1910 of 488 and a
loss from 1900 Of 514. Pra. du CHEN
has population of 1887. 1t has
grown 300 in twenty years.
An /. g. train of two carloads of
coal and two coaches jumped the track
near Platteville on Saturday night a
week ago. The ground was plowed
up for number of feet. Nobody was
hurt.
Landon Togo, sentenced to 80 days
IN the Richland comfy Jail in prefer
ence to paying a fine of $100, thought
better of it otter five days lmpIison-
ment and paid the fine. Fogo was sin"
for selling intoxicants.
The Bridgeport toll bridge was sold
again last week Chas. w. O'Neill of
Bridgeport buying Fred Wetmore's
interest. The present. owners are
O,Neill and Humphrey Repairs will
be made on the huge structure
Frank Piefer, "a, Freeport, shot him
self with 80 revolver over the grave
or his wife who died July q. Prefer
chose Sept. 22 as the day for his death
it being the first anniversary Of his
marriage to Miss Vivian Koran.
81 barrels of bonded whiskey valued
at $57 900 was stolen from the Graham
distillery in Rockford Thursday night
a week ago. Tracks of motor trucks
indicted the method Of removing the
loot The whiskey carried theft in
surance of $500 barrel.
A GA pound butter firkin was stolen
bodily from the Parker Hilderbrand
creamery in Boscobel Wednesday
night week ago The thief gained
entrance through the coal room The
butter was locked up in the coal room
but the thief found the key
Unknown thieves broke into the
BOscObel high school by breaking a
window on the ground floor. Enter
ence to the office was gained by a
simple expedient of cutting hole in
the wooden door after which the Yale
lock was released from the inside. The
loot was petty in the shape of fountain
pens, etc SIC a teacher had left in a
desk was overlooked.
William Olson, Blanchardville youth
was injured m. peculiar manner at
Platteyille, where he attended Normal
school. AS he passed the door of his
room young man thrust an umbrella
out hitting Olson just below the right
eye The point pierced the skin and
came out under the eyeball. The
wound was dressed and no serious
harm will result from the prank
Leonard Johnson, child of Blanch-
ardville, had narrow escape from
drowning The child with two others
We're playing on the footbridge over
the river Leonard dropped little
whip he was holding and in trying
to recover it lost his balance and fell
into the river. The other little boys
ran for help and summoned a man
who waded into the stream to his neck
to recover little Leonard who was
floating on his back tightly clutching
his whip. He kept kicking which
probably kept him afloat The little
chaps lungs were emptial of water
and he was soon as good as ever.