Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-10-19
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREv|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

ing liquor and fined $400 on four
counts in federal court at Madison.
Bennison Bartle, former Dodge
vile boy, is one of the lawyers for
Harvey w. Church, self-confessed
murderer of two automobile sales
men in Chicago
A white robin was seen among a
flock of robins at Dubuque by A.
Langton, who said the white bird
seemed to be the flock leader. Prac-
tically all migratory song birds and
some water fowl have left for the
south.
The injunction suit brought by the
trustees of the P. M. church at Ridge
way, was dismissed in Iowa county
court on motion of attorneys. The
trustees brought action to prevent
outside parties from using the church
building.
Annette Greenwood, youngest child
of Mr. and Mrs Arthur Greenwood
of Mineral Point died early Tuesday
morning, October 4th, following a
weeks illness of infantile paralysis,
aged Is months Her death seems
doubly sad as her father is at Color
ado Springs to recuperate in health
Seven freight cars were derailed
in the tunnel at East Dubuque early
this morning though it was not a
bad wreck as the cars were rerailed
within a few hours time. No. 80 I.
C. east bound passenger was delayed
about an hour and half owing to the
accident.
Clarence Porter, year and a half
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel
Porter of Barneveld,@ died at Madi-
son hospital as the result Of fall
received at the home Of relatives in
the capitol city where his parents
were visiting. The child suffered a
fractured skull when he fell down .
flight Of stairs.
Three Galena hunters found bee
tree on the islands. 1t was a hollow
poplar tree and was filed with the
finest kind Of sweetness from bottom
to top The tree was cut down and
while the hunters left a supply of
honey for the bees each secured over
thirty pounds. The fortunate young
men are too modest to have their
names in print
William Moran, eX-serVice man who
had successfully passed through all
the perils of a life on the west front
overseas, met his death by falling
:
Pearce farm near Barneyeld Moran,
shingling the cupola, made misstep
and dropped 80 feet, dying instantly.
He leaves his parents and one bro
Their who reside at Ridgeway
A hOrseman in attendance upon the
Richland Center races last week and
a woman companion who occupied the
same room with him at the Home
/ II tel Of
last week upon information sent from
Beaver Dam, charged with a statu-
tory offense. They made appearance
in county court Saturday morning
and upon pleas of, guilt were fined
$500 and $500 respectively, which
fines were paid.
Thomas j. Murphy, brakeman
employed by the Illinois Central rail-
road, fractured his spinal column
when he fell from the top of a ca
bOose while making up freight train
at Freeport Monday morning Muir
ply was on top of the caboose when
a switch engine bumped into the ca
boose, the compact throwing the brake
man to the ground. He had not seen
the engine approaching and was I'M
aware of the fact that the car was
A dispatch to the Dubuque Times
Journal says, Col Livingston,
rancher and j. Webb, conducting
barber shop at Platteville, Wis. were
taken before the district attorney
on complaint of Ivan Kantcheff,
federal prohibition enforcement of
ficer, charged with illegally trans
porting and having in their posses
sion liquor in violation of the law.
They furnished bond III the sum of
$500 each and were bound over to the
circuit court where they will be tried
Nov a.
Will Miller picked fresh straw
berries from his patch in Dodgeville
Saturday, finding enough to furnish
dessert for supper for himself and
his wife. August Schoeneman is dig
ging a second crop of potatoes from
his garden. Last spring he planted
a patch of early potatoes. When the
tubers were ready to be eaten he dug
them and planted a second crop on
the same ground. He dug the second
crop Wednesday, harvesting large
potatoes, some six and eight inches
in ngth.-Sun-R Republic.
Seventeen years of patient and to-
tai invalidism came to an end at
Hazel Green with the death of Mrs
Lille May Dixon who passed away
at the age of 40. Mrs. Dixon, the
mother of six children, received a
severe chill eighteen years ago after
being overheated Rheumatism fol-
lowed and settled in her limbs, event
ually causing paralysis. Mrs Dixon
was sincere Christian and always
Datient She died saving She U0u1d
soon meet her son, Dale, who was
killed in mining accident last May.
Harry Morgan. SO, Beaver Dam,
was perhaps fatally burned while
working on the power lines to con-
meet Prairie du Sac with DodgeviIle
Sunday of last week. Morgan was re-
moving a ground wire at five o'clock
p. M, when he came into contact
with a wire carrying $4,000 volts. He
was found by other men hanging by
his safety belt so feet in the air. It
took nearly an hour to get him down.
The man was taken to a Baraboo hos