Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-07-13
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREV|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Miss Grace Dinsdale of Lodi, making
a European trip, is now in Norway
after nine days on the ocean.
The remains of John McCloskey,
who died at Madison, were taken to
Highland Tuesday for interment
Free medical care and infirmary
treatment are given to all University
of Wisconsin students in return for
Sc annual fee.
Miss Edna Schmitz of Mineral Point
and VIM. Carey of Kendall were mar
ried last week. They will reside on a
farm near Calamine.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Vosberg, Louis
| burg, celebrated their silver wedding
| anniversary last Monday. About six
ty families were present for the happy
event.
Miss Emma, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Burbach of Happy Corners
and Joseph Little of Milwaukee, were
married Tuesday at Holy Ghost church
| III Dickeyville.
| Mrs. Mary Ann Stephens Hawke, rs,
; Mrs. Ann Stoner, "a, and Mrs. Eliza
residents of Linden, died within three
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Bernard Betz, Pra. du Chen eX-
service man, won the Buick car raf-
| fed off by the local legion post on
July 4. Mr.. Betz sold the car to use
the cash as housekeeping money. He
| is recently welded.
B. E. Thomas and wife. and five
children of Butte, Mont, are guests
at the E. c. Thomas home in Potosi.
The family made the trip east in a
motor car. Mr.. Thomas is engaged in
school work in Butte.
Chester Wells of Livingston died at
Lancaster where he was taking med
ical treatment. Funeral services were
held at Livingston. The deceased is
survived by his wife and five children,
parents, brothers and sisters.
Miss Laura, daughter of Rev. and
Mrs. Schneider, former residents of
Belmont, and Henry Schwass of Chi
cago, were married June 25. The
| brides father read the marriage SER
vice. Mr.. and Mrs. SchWass will re-
side in Chicago.
Miss Esther Wells, daughter of Mrs.
A. V. Wells of Livingston, and Joseph
Gates, were married on June 20. The
bride was attended by her sister, Miss
Hazel, and the groom by his brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gates will make their
| home on farm near Livingston.
Two small sons of Fred Schroeder,
Ridgeway cheesemaker, ran into a
wire fence while running down hill
in a coaster wagon, and sustained
serious injuries. One boy had his
upper jaw bone broken and the other
suffered bad cuts from the wire.
Alphonsus O'Brien, II years, Ridge
way, was drowned in Lake Mendoza
Monday while bathing. The youth
went to the lake alone near midnight
and had not a party of bathers seen
him diving the fatality would prob
ably not been discovered for weeks.
City Manager Carr of Dubuque has
forbidden the practice of midnight
bathing at Eagle Point beach, the
Mississippi resort near the city.
Hereafter parties found bathing or
lolling on the beach after ten p. m.
will be treated as trespassers and
prosecuted.
| A delivery car of the Wachuta De-
! livery Company, Pra du Chen, was
| demolished on the Burlington tracks
The engine went dead on the tracks
with a train in sight and the driver
Jack Bemish, was unable to start it.
Bemish took his little son and jumped
to safety just as the train struck the
car
The U. S. dredge, Geyer, is working
at Wyalusing clearing out the ship
channel to six feet in depth. The
work will last all summer. The
region around Wyalusing is about the
most scenic on the river but boats
have found difficulty in making the
passage due to shoals in the channel
Roy Farwell, Ridgeway, had one
leg caught between a gate post and
the guard on moving machine and
suffered deep cut above the ankle.
While Mrs. Farwell was dressing her
husbands wounds their daughter,
Jane, aged 5, spilled bottle of car
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