Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-04-21
Nearby Notes

dent, died on April IL, aged 65 years.
Platteville, Darlington, DePere. Ply
mouth, Waupun and Appleton, have
all received government guns for city
park uses.
Henry Sigrist of Orion, Richland
county, is able to be out after three
months of illness. Sigrist fell from
a load of hay.
Jonn Sincox, we'll known resident
of East Galena, died at the home of
his daughter in Warren on Wednes-
day week ago. Death was due to
heart failure
John d. Rockefeller Jr., as a mem
Der of a team touringthe country in
| the interest of the Inter-church cam
paign, was scheduled to be in Du-
buque last Friday
William Thomas Tregonning, a ma
tive of Cornwall died suddenly at his
home near Dodgeville Saturday of last
week. Mr. Tregonning was one of
the wealthiest men in Iowa county.
James Powers, a former resident of
Highland, died at Chippewa Falls.
Mr. Powers was graduate of Platte
vile normal and had taught at Salem,
Ore. and Rochester, Mimi
Mrs. Abraham Jackson, nee Bow
den, died at Montfort April 1. Mrs.
Jackson was the wife of a Civil war
veteran their marriage taking place
prior to the war Several grown chill
dren are bereayed.
The office Of DR.. G. w. Rice Of Ga
lena was entered by robbers recently.
1t is supposed the person was looking
for dope, as every cabinet drawer was
ranSacked Entrance was gained
through the transom
Citizens of Dodgeville are agitat-
ing for a concentrate mill believing
that such an affair in operation would
mean the opening of many mines now
closed and payroll of 500 a day to
be spent in the city
One Of the large farms of southern
Wisconsin is operated by George
Chamley of Livingston. who is farm
ing between 500 and 900 acres. In CON
nection with his farm he is feeding 10
carloads of Hereford cattle for mar
ket next fall
The body of Arthur Evert, drowned
by being swept from the pontoon be-
tween Prairie du Chen and McGreg-
or on April 2, was recovered Friday
OF last week and given suitable buri-
IIlOuIn6TS
ing in attendance.
Edward Rorig, IS, Fayette, was
kicked by a farm horse and his skull
fractured. An operation quickly per-
formed was without avail and the
youth died few hours later. The ac-
cident happened on the farm Of Rob-
ert Williams where Rorig was en-
ployed.
Mrs. Anthony Schmitz of Bear Val
ley, Rlchland county, was operated on
for hardening of the lung. Mrs
Schmitz had influenza and pneumonia
last winter. The disease left an ac-
emulation of hardened matter on one
lung lobe that required a surgical OPP
GRAFTON for removal.
Lewis Rue, Mt. Horeb, lost a
thumb while splitting wood. Rue
held block of wood with one hand
and swung the axe with the other.
The axe caught on a block of wood
and diverted striking the thumb on
the hand holding the stick and com
pletely severing it.
Louis Weigel, 43, Linden farmer.
committed suicide by hanging Satur-
day of last week The death of his
wife from influenza last winter is
thought to have caused the act. A
little daughter is orphaned The
body was taken to Platteville by the
dead mans father for burial
telephone message from Platte
vile to Milwaukee last Friday devel-
oped the information that no coal ex-
listed on the docks and none was in
transit. A car consigned to the
Platteville Gas company was in the
hands of the Milwaukee road.
About twenty negroes employed as
walters at the Hotel Julien Dubuque.
were discharged last week. The man
agement received numerous com
plants about the service of the ne
groes and decided that their discharge
was the best solution of the problem.
Girls will replace them.
Charles Sp,llane, the New Diggings
coy held at FreepoTt on bigamy
charge, was bound over to the June
session Of the grand jury on $500
bonds both his second and third
wives were in court when the youth
ful culprit was brought in. They
gave him slight attention
Raymond T. Jackson whose home
S in Mineral Point, has been promot
cd to the rank Of Lieutenant. Junior
grade, in the U. S. Navy. Lieut.. Jack
son is at present on inactive status.
and is practicing law at Mineral Point
as member of the firm of Fielder,
FIefler & Jackson Democrat.
john Anderson, an Iowa county far
mer who lost his barn by fire set bv
lightning, was surprised and pleased
one day recently when so of the
neighbors called cleaned the prem
ises thoroughly, made the basement
ready for a new building and sawed
and hauled logs for new barn-all
between sunrise and sunset of one
day.
Supt. H. A. Wilkins of the Fenni-
more light plant, was burned and
Knocked from pole twenty feet to
the ground. Wilkins was installing
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