Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25
Nearby Notes
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Interstate Power company now
IN petition for raise of rates in Lam
caster is taking the same steps for
an increase at Platteville.
Ladon Fogo, RichIand Center
| shopkeeper, was arrested for selling
liquor illicitly. Fogo's preparation is
said to have lemon extract as a base.
The J. w. Hutchinson barn, Miner
al Point, was burned Monday of last
week. Among other things two mo-
tor cars, one new Lexington, were
destroyed.
A. J. Drea of Cazenovia holds the
Richland county record for success
| full falls. Drea fell "a feet from a
building and landed on a rock pile
but beyond few cuts was unhurt.
A survey has been completed for
another dam across the wisconsin
similar to the Prairie du Sac power
project. The dam if built will be To-
Gated between Lone Rock and Goth
am.
Freeport has a new motorcycle
! cop, Guy Askey, a returned soldier.
On his first Sunday out Askey round
ed up 50 violators who paid fines
ranging from SO to $25 with costs
apiece
Highland is sinking a we'll 500 feet
for city water. Ernest Waters of
Boscobel is the driller for the lin
| pid fluid and if his name signifies
should find it. A 12-inch bore was
reduced to a 1O-inch.
| Arson Rice, Marion farmer, Grant
county, had a barn and hayshed com
! 01n nv e1I1
lightning bolt Rice lost % tons of
hay and considerable machinery. He
carried $500 insurance.
Ivan Harness, Eagle township. in
Richland county, lost his home by
| fire while absent The family were
enroute to Muscoda when Intercepted
by telephone with the unwelcome
news that their home was ablaze. A
sewing machine and baby cab con
| stituted the salvage.
| Dick Engelke, one of our big stock
raisers, shipped three carloads of
cattle Monday that averaged better
than 1850 lbs. and were valued at
$4,000. Mr. Engelke sends about
this number to market annually and
has about that number at home that
| he is now feeding-Belmont Success.
gresham j. G. Monahan, and L..
Bright of Washington, d. c., narrow
| ly escaped death near Darlington
when the road on which they were
driving crumbled under their car,
dropping the auto down an embank-
ment several feet deep. Neither was
badly hurt.
p F. Fitzpatrick, dealer in real
! Ixrhn
Darlington fire department for 10
years, has rendered his resignation.
In ballOting to choose his successor
there was tie vote between J. F..
HOskin, druggist, and T. H. Murphy,
teamster. The meeting adjourned
without choice.
I James PAUL and Reuben Ken
stock, Ridgeway citizens, were pain
fully injured when they feell % feet
from the scaffold on barn near Ar
gyle. The scaffold broke and PAUL.
and Henstock pitched to the ground.
Henstock had both arms broken and
his back was severely sprained. They
were taken to a hospital.
Miss Olive McDermott, Darlington
school ma'am" who went to Europe
as a guest of the Milwaukee Journal.
AAoo ACCol IiCu. AluOHS OIuGT
Miss McDermott saw cemetery
where lay $4,000 American soldier
dead. The cemetery is we'll kept and
strikingly artistic. Miss McDermott
placed flowers on the graves of SOL
dierS she knew in life
EX-Capt. Jonas Jorstad. now a COM
mercial flyer in attempting to make
landing on Nels Severson's farm adj
joining Hollandale on the south, is
said to have struck an "air pocket"
(whatever that isl and fell with his
plane so feet to the ground The ma
chine was badly damaged, but the
captain and passenger, Owen Kelly
OF Blanchardville. were uninjured ex-
cept for few scratches received by
Mr.. Kelly.-Dodgeville Sun.
Ed. Lipke, Prairie du CHEN. had
his skull fractured in peculiar
manner. Mr.. Lipke with Albert Wa
chuta and Ole Ford was driving to
camp with a load of provisions.
Lipke and Wachuta rode on the end
gate and as the car crossed the
slough the chains became unfastened
and dropped the gate. Both mem fell
Wachuta holding with one hand for
one hundred feet Lipke dropped in
the road and was picked up uncon-
scious and with a fractured skull.
Carl lreuh, 81, Freeport Apache.
was killed by member of his bandit
gang. Frueh with two other young
men attempted to hold up a neigh
borhood store. The customers failed
to comply with their request for
hands up lively enough to suit one
of the bandits and he started shoot
ing wildly. The bandits backed out
still shooting. At the door Frueh, the
last to emerge, was struck in the
body by bullet fired by one of his
men. He was assisted to the car
where he died. The other men made
their escape.