Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-10-20
COUNTY AND NEARBY
A GRIST OF RECENT EVENTS RE.
YISED AND CONDENSED
FOR QUICK READING.

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Grove was sold last week to William
Riddiough of Fennimore. 13,400 was
paid for 134 acres.
Parties who spread tales about the
shakiness of the Iowa County bank
at Mineral Point, were forced to re-
tract in published statements.
John Watry, Savanna, was arrested
at Nicola, ILL.,, last week while in the
act of looting the elevator safe He
is now in Jail at Mt Carroll awaiting
trial
Mrs. VIM Faherty of Cuba City,
sustained a broken shoulder, bad
/ bruises and cuts, and possible inter-
nal injuries when she fell off a porch
while placing a mattress over the
railing.
Application has been made by Mrs.
Minnie Drinkwater, formerly of
Bridgeport, for a pardon She was
convicted on charge of second de-
gree murder year ago last fall. The
killing of her husband took place on
May %, 1918.
zilmer Highlands, a Marietta boy,
essayed to repair the bell on the
school he was attending but fell and
! broke his arm before the laudable act
was accomplished The arm was the
left and last spring he broke the other
cranking Ford.
! Richland county officials have al
most assured themselves that Frank
Roach, the assailant of little Ruth
Barclay, is demented. 1t is said that
luckily the affair was not as bad as at
/! first assumed as the little girl was
knocked unconscious but not violated
[ Of
a farm in the country, left his Ford
truck standing with the wheels block
ed. The car started while the owner
was absent and slid into deep gully
1t was pulled out the next day the
main damage being a broken axle.
j Jacob w. Davis, 81, Richland farm
er, died on a train enrOute to Twin
Bluffs Mr.. Davis caught the train in
a hurry and the excrtion proved toe
much for weak heart. A doctor on
the train was summoned when Mr.
Davis was seen to topple over, but toe
late.
Steve Dales of Stockton, fined re.
Gently in connection with the Cuba
City gambling, was again arrested
and fined 500 at Dubuque lost week
Ten men were taken in a raid on {
local hotel and the gambling device:
contested. Dales probably feels that
gambling is no bed of roses
A head-on collision between a trav
cling man named Lewis and a ForC
driven by Chas. Eustice of Cuba City
took place south of Platteville las
Monday evening. Lewis sustained
two broken ribs and bruises and wen
to a hospital. His car, Cadillac, wa!
. badly damaged. The two men in tn,
Ford escaped serious harm but thei
car was somewhat damaged.
The Carnation Milk Products com
pany, operating large plants at Rich
land Center, Chiffon, and other points
has been forced to lower its mill
price to $2.75' per hundred pound!
adm in some instances to close it.
s. plants The condenseries are chokeC
with stored milk and no market
Some plants are pasteurizing theil
milk and shipping it to ST. Louis ant
Chicago.
1t was recently discovered that tn,
water supply of Viroqua was being
contaminated by seepage into three
deep wells from cesspools. AS a re
suit the council ordered the citizens tt
boil all drinking water AS remed.
another deep well will be dug and
complete system of sewers installed
A party of six students of the Bos
cobel high school, enroute to thei1
homes in Marietta, went into a ditci
when the brakes failed to work on
steep hill All jumped clear from tn,
car save Miss Price, a teacher whC
had been picked up enroute- She was
pinned beneath the vehicle which hat
to be lifted to rescue her Miss Pric,
sustained q wrenched back but M
| other injuries.
/ A barn on the John Quincy farm
west of Platteville was burned to tn,
ground last Wednesday morning. 81
tons of hay, nearly 1000 bushels O.
grain some farm machinery and g
straw stack were consumed with the
/ building The damage done was il
| excess of $1,000 with insurance o.
! $1,000. The wind carried the blaze
away from the house. People came
for miles to help fight the blaze
Charles Kolichek, Pra. du Chier
farmer, was found dead by the read
| side, Saturday week ago. He was
pinned beneath a load of wood his
nose, jaw and neck being broken anC
his head almost split in twain A
broken front stake indicated that the
wood had spilled carrying the unfort-
innate farmer with it. Konichek was q
! widower his wife having died two
year ago. He was both father ond
mother to his three children. On the
day of the accident he left with load
of wood for the city lot at Pra. du
Chen. He failed to return in the eve
ming as usual and the children were
alarmed but as they had no phone
could not call town. They finally
went to a neighbors and the latter
| found the body in the morning.
HARPTGAN