Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-10-27
Notes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The George Pratt farm near Elk
Grove, IS acres, was sold last week
to Geo. Booth & Son for a price in eX-
cess of $400 an acre.
Mrs. Eunice Kelly of Mineral Point
will be candidate for clerk of Iowa
county Mr.. Kelly was drowned a
year or so ago while working for the
Mineral Point Public Service Co.
The new Park hotel of Platteville.
under the management OF Jack
Tracy has been leased to mis- brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Tracy depart soon
for a trip through the west and south.
The fine new graded school built at
Livingston a few years ago was con-
sidered amply large to meet the needs
of the district for many years. This
year a shortage of room exists in the
school,
Martin Tormey, Ithaca farmer. was
kicked in the face by vicious horse.
The blow fractured his jaw several
times, broke his nose and burst one
ear drum. Tormey was taken to St.
Mary's hospital, Madison, for treat
ment.
The 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Clement of Darlington was SO
badly burned on Monday last that the
skin fell from the arms, feet and face.
The child was sitting in a high chair
when she tipped over and landed on
an oil heater.
Irwin Knight of Coon Branch, Iowa,
IS years, was killed at the East Du-
buque tunnel on Sunday night of last
week knight with another youth
was beating his way to Chicago to
join the navy. He fell between the
moving freight cars.
The Straw farm near Hazel Green,
240 acres in area, was sold last week
to George Coates of Sioux City, Iowa.
TIL consideration was around $4,000
and possession will be given March
1922. Henry Straw and Miss Ida
Straw are the heirs.
Belmont parties drilling on the Gull
len farm ahead on the range of the
Little Dick mine, struck rich cuttings
of jack at depth of Al feet. The
main stockholders in the prospect are
j. C. Robbins and sons, Richard and
j. c. Speth, and Ed Parker
Mistaking the throttle for the foot
brake caused Jack Southland of Bara-
boo to drive his car over a 40-foot en-
bankment. The car struck a small
tree and rolled over twice before
stopping. Both Southland and his wife
fell clear The car was wrecked
Tom Derrickson, Richland Center,
driving through the rain, endeavored
to wipe the windshield clear and also
guide the car. The vehicle swerved
and then struck the roadster of Law
renee Mainwaring who was coming
from the opposite dir ection. Main
! warnings cor was reduced to scrap.
Mrs. T. L. Chappell of Long Beach
California, daughter of the late Cap
tain Vincent of Galena, died Thurs
day, Oct. IA, of pneumonia, just day
after the death of her father. Mrs
Pascoe, another daughter, died last
| spring making three deaths in the
family in eight months.
| Frank Shelton, Clyde farmer, lost
his new barn and all his hay and grain
by fire on Thursday evening a week
ago. Lightning struck the barn and
the family who were in the house
rushed out to save the livestock All
/ except two pigs were driven out but
Is tons of hay and LOO bushels OF
grain were a total loss.
T. J. Mccarthy, former Galena
resident, is home on a visit from La
Touche, Alaska, where he spent three
years as storekeeper for the Kenne-
colt Copper Corporation. Mr.. Nc
earthly says that La Touche is on the
| coast and has a temperature ranging
from 5 below in winter to 65 above III
summer making it a delightful elm.
ate There is no fuel problem il
/ Alaska. Mr.. Mccarthy returns north
about Jan. 1st
DR.. Alden E. Smith of Freeport
has returned from Chicago, where fol
| three weeks he was patient at Hahn.
emann hospital an where he submit.
ted to a serious operation, the amput-
alton of the first and middle fingers or
his left hand. Dr. Smith experienced
! trouble with his hand as a result oil
exposures under X-ray. The trouble
was not Of recent origin but came
after he had used the X-ray in pro
fessional work for many years
The burning of the Henry O'Brien
farm home and buildings near Darl-
ington last week proved to be more
costly then at first reported Nothing
in the house of barn was saved. One
poor horse came staggering from the
barn sight to behold. His eyes were
burned out, hair all gone, hide singed
and name and tail completely gone. A
bullet put a merciful end to his suffer
lngs. The loss to the place was about
$4,000 with insurance of $500
Funeral services were held Sunday
a week ago at the JOS. Tracy home in
Harrison, for Samuel J. Tracy who
was fatally injured in France just
after the armistice The soldiers in
celebration of the event built bonfires.
Under the bonfire built by Sans
squad were some hidden grenades.
These exploded and a piece of metal
lodged in Sans spine The young
man fingered for a time and finally
died of paralysis on December 80, 1918.
The body reposed in France until re-
Gently when it was brought home for
burial in Wing cemetery. Leo M.
Kane post of Platteville acted as mil
ltary escort at the funeral.
Noble Dickinson, Stockton, shot and
killed his wife and dangerously
wounded his mother-in-law at Rock
ford last Monday. Dickinson, who had
separated from his wife, went to the
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