Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-15
NEIGHBoRHOOD
BREv|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

miller of Shulsburg, died very sud-
denly in his place of business last
| Wednesday afternoon. The funeral
was held at Benton Friday
Charles Hartwick, II, Avoca youth.
charged with burglary of store in
his village, pleaded guilty before
Judge jerks at Dodgeville and was
given three years in Green Bay re-
formatory.
! Leo Burke, Dodgeyille boy, was
!! injured at Winnebago, Mimi, when he
came into contact with $500 volts of
! electricity on a pole. The young man
sustained burns all over the body
and severe Commissions from fall of
25 feet but will recover.
| The Prairie du Chen Button fac
tory, idle since October will open
! again full blast very shortly. The
mill closed owing to a falling market
and while the cutting scale is reduc-
/ ed % per cent the owners expect no
difficulty in securing plenty Of help.
Two farmers of Clermont, Iowa, en-
route to Jefferson, Wis, to buy calves,
stopped off at Dodgeville and hap
pened to mention their mission. The
hotel man talked Iowa county cattle
to advantage and the men terminated
their trip east by buying eight pure
bred calves of Iowa county dealers.
Fred c. Robinson, grand secretary
of the B. P. 0. E., at Dubuque wired
$4,000 to Rush L. Holland, past
Grand ruler at Colorado Springs, as
the grand lodges contribution for the
relief of Pueblo flood sufferers. In
his message Mr.. Robinson stated that
further funds would be wired as
needed.
Frank DuCray, son of Charles Du
Cray of Dodgeville and son-in-law of
Thomas S. Perkins of Dodgeville,
now resident of Grand Junction,
Colorado, and sheriff of his county,
was one of the passengers on the
train hit by the flood at Pueblo. Mr.
DuCray saw number OF people
swept away and drowned.
The village of Mifflin was the scene
of serious accident Sunday night.
A Ford car driven by Chas. Wilkinson
collided with a horse drawn vehicle
driven by Harley Hebron The i'm
pact broke three of the horses legs
and the animal and vehicle were
dragged some distance. The men in
the car and Mr.. Hebron were but
slightly injured.
What might have been a distress
ing accident was narrowly averted at
the Galena river locks Thursday.
Several children of section man re-
siding at Galena Junction, were at
play at the locks when a little girl
fell into the river, seeing her danger,
one of the boys secured piece of
board onto which the child held until
some men in boat came to, her res
cue.
The body of Leo Kane, World war
hero, reached Platteville Friday and
Saturday. The public passed the ca
talfaques placing flowers as silent
testimony of appreciation. The fun
eral was held from the city hall Fri
day under American Legion and local
machine gun company auspices. The
services were strictly military. Burial
was made at Greenwood.
John Codasky, Sc, Dubuque, was
killed while in the act of moving
grass in front of an apartment house
on Wilson avenue. 1t seems that ice
men unloading ice further up the hill
had left their truck standing and the
truck without warming and unguarded
D6Sdu d VIII ulSuI UdWu IuG Hill.
The noise of the mower drowned out
the sound of the approaching truck
and the old man was run over by the
truck which plunged down the hill
over curbs, sidewalks and terraces
for a block finally coming to rest on
an embankment.
August Baumeister, proprietor of a
Boscobel roller mill, accidentally set
the mill engine room ON fire with
blow torch and was painfully burned
about the face and hands in getting
the fire out. Mr.. Baumeister used
blow torch to heat up an oil engine
preparatory to starting UP. Called
away, he set the torch on the floor,
and returned to find the room a mass
of flames. BauMeister closed the
room up to shut off the draft and
called the fire department. Two
streams of water playing soon put the
fire out. The damage amounted to
$3.50
The highway committee OF Richland
awarded the contracts for ten bridges
and culyerts about the county last
week, the entire lot going to the
Whitewater Construction Co., which
has done considerable work in the
county IN the past lew years. Inc
structures included in the contract
are as follows: Township of Willow
Moore and Frye bridges; township
of Dayton-Jim Sharp bridge; Henri
etta-Travis bridge and Dray culvert;
Bloom-Beaty, Cooper and Cupp brid-
ges and Hillisheim culvert; Ithaca
Miller bridge. The contract price for
the entire award amounts to $11,0O5.
al Wilson who was at Platteville
on the Fourth of July last year with
his air-plane and performed stunts
was giving an exhibition at West
Allis on Sunday a week ago and six
teen persons were injured. The rope
from the air plane caught in the ex-
haust pipe of the automobile from
which Wilson was to make sensa-
tional exchange and pulled the plane
down, crashing into the sand in front