Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-24
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvI1IES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

old residents who have been in Cali
fornia for some time, are home in Bos-
cobel on visit Of five weeks.
Agnes Martin, DOdgeville child, put
her foot on a garden rake with such
force that the rake teeth penetrated
the bottom of her foot and it became
necessary to stand on the rake head
and pull the child loose from the teeth
Sheriff Shipton of 10 Davies county
has been receiving anonymous letters
that purpOrt to tell Of hidden stills
within the confines of the bailiWick he
is supposed to guard. From the large
quantities of moonshine afloat in adj
jacent counties it would seem that the
anonymous 10 Davies bird has some
thing in his NIT.
The claim Of Linda Brubaker against
the Iowa county board was allowed by
the claims committee of the county
board and the money paid over to her
lawyers, McGeever & McGeever The
sum was $1,423.77. Mrs. Brubaker,
who was injured in motor car acct
dent and alleged that the county was
at fault, lost her case in the circuit
court. She carried the case up and
the supreme court held in her favor.
Ed. Arthur of Dodgeville who
lost a valuable dog by the animal fall
ling into an abandoned mine shaft,
has his canine again. The mans son,
Preston, aged Is, went with some boys
to the mine and used ropes to get
dOnW into the narrow opening. The
dog and a large turtle were found 40
feet from the surface. Preston put the
dog in a sack and was hauled to the
surface, the turtle being left to his
fate.
A Farmers meeting at RichlanG
Center Monday night Of last week
appointed a teacher to organize the
county along the plan of cooperative
sale of milk and milk products and
made plans for county committee
to work with the local officers. The
meeting was addressed by [. G. PAUL,
organizer of the Wisconsin Society of
Equity, and G. A. Boutell, organizer
of the National Milk Producers Co.
operative Society
The board of trustees of the P. M.
church at Ridgeway have started an
action to enjoin other parties from
using the p NJ. church building in
the village. 1t is claimed that these
parties were given temporary per-
mission to use the building that they
now refuse to yacate, endeavOring to
coerce the owners of the property into
forming a community church. The
owners cannot see the joke and have
begun injunction proceedings.
Fayette, a settlement eight miles
east of Darlington in Lafayette coun-
ty, consisting of two stores, black
smith shop, Methodist church and a
few progressive families with child
rem who have finished the grades of
the common school, has hired d
teacher to teach the young ones in
the homes. The children and their
parents were not satisfied with the
limited education of the grammar
school. but the parents did not want
the children to go away from home,
So they got together collectively
hired teacher.
John Mink of Dodgeville received
word last week that his sister, Mrs. j..
w. Skoglund, and her husband were
passengers on the Inflated steamer,
Alaska, which recently sunk with
large loss of life in the Pacific near
the American coast Mr.. and Mrs.
Skoglund live in Omaha and had gone
for a western trip this summer. They
tok the Alaska from Seattle for San
Francisco Out of 214 on board 1877
we're saved and Mr.. and Mrs. Skoglund
were among the survivors. They had
a terrible experience before being res
cued, drifting several hours in the
fog. but were very thankful that their
lives were spared.
When the lights OF his touring car
went out as he topped the rise OF the
Galena Hill near E. Dubuque, Tues
day night, Raymond Schilling failed
to see a buggy and team ahead, driven
nv Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Vogel, who
reside south of the Two Mile House,
says the Register. In the crash that
followed the buggy was demolished,
the car smashed and Mr. and Mrs.
Vogel thrown into the ditch. Schil-
ling sustained cuts above the eye and
John Wass, his passenger, sustained
bruises. The machine remained up>
right due to the emergency brake be-
ing thrown at the moment of contact.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson of Galena,
died suddenly at Benton where she
had gone to spend the day with her
son. The old lady was walking up
the street from the depot when she
dropped to the ground, dead.
Since the installation of the new
burglar alarm at the Richland center
Farmers and Merchants bank 1t has
been Inadvertently touched off on
several occasions, due to the unfamll-
iaritv with its mechanism of attaches
of the bank, and thereon hangs proof
that Eddie Perry is wit OF latent
ability. Eddie was standing on the
corner of the First National the other
morning. gazing abstractedly about
him and possibly cogitating just where
he had better go to get his breakfast.
Not a soul was in sight within block
of where he stood. Without warning
and with apparently no reason the
burglar alarm on the opposite building
set UP its din. Eddis moved not an
iota from the position in which he
stood when the noise started, but
gazed in an interested manner at the
bank across the way. The NOISE
stopped and quiet reigned agaln
Someone emerged from the postoftlce
ND the street and Eddie turned tha'
way. announcing in voice that car
ried we'll in every direction. i dldn
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