Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-14
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREvIT|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

The remains of Milton Wiseman, a
soldier who died overseas, will be
brought to Benton this week for inter
ment.
The 50th anniversary of the Moriah
Welsh church at Wales was held
Thursday a week ago. 500 people at
tended the ceremonies, some from
California.
Mrs. Herman Schultz, aged and
highly respected resident of .Cassville,
died early Wednesday morning from
a stroke of apopleXy which came on
the Monday preceding. She leaves a
Charles Volenta, English Ridge,
Richland county farmer was kicked
in the chest by a horse he was hitch
ing up. Volenta sustained q broken
breast bone and two fractured ribs.
He may die.
The Perry Bowers post at Mont
fort have leased the local motion
picture show and will give pictures
all winter. The post men call the
place the Gal" theatre from the first
two letters of the orders name.
John Terrill, living three miles east
of Mineral Point, lost two barns, silo,
hay and grain and two calves from
a fire Wednesday that started from
an engine spark while shredding.
The Mineral Point fire department
saved the Terrill home.
Several Galena promoters have
have lined up a Mr.. E. Gray OF
Stoughton, Wis, inventor of the Gray
milk and cream tester, an invention
that he claims will revolutionize the
process of testing milk and cream.
It is stated that all that is necessary
to do to test cream with this instru-
ment is to insert it into the milk,
doing away with much of the work
necessary under the old Babcock
process. Thus every farmer would
be able to test his own in a few
minutes time. Plans are going for
ward to start the manufacture of
this tester in Galena.
Seeing an object on the track ahead
of him the engineer on a west-bound
freight passing through Morrison, Ill,
thought it was dog. Getting nearer
he was Mortified to note that the form
was an infant child. The brakes were
applied at once and the engine man
went back expecting to find little
lifeless body under the rails. Instead
he found the 1S-months-old child of
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Beveroth Jr. tod
ding at the side of the right-of- way
unhurt. 1t is supposed that the child
got out of the trains way by the frac-
ton of a second or was missed by the
wheels as it lay inside the track. The
bows father, at work nearby, heard
the sharp blasts from the train whistle
and went over expecting to see some
autoist in smashup with the train.
He found his son and a nerve-racked
engine driver uttering thanks to God.
The buzzing of a bee, not in his
bonnet but near his ear, caused Con-
ductor Mccartney to start his train
out of the station one morning last
week, ten minutes ahead OF time and
without mail, brakeman or conductor.
He was standing on the platform at
the passenger depot and the train had
been made up and was in readiness
for the ten o'clock departure, though
it still lacked several minutes Of time
for leaving and neither trainmen or
PASSENGERS were ready for tlte
word However a busy bee was max
ing the circuit of Pats head, and his
right hand involuntarily went to a
position similar to the signal to the
enginemen when he wants them to
pull out The action caught the alert
eye of the fireman, the signal was
answered with the "toot-toot" of the
locomotive and ere the astOnished Con
realized the situation the train was
pulling out of the yards, leaving him
standing upon the platform. Brake
man Pat Smith was the first to grasp
the situation and pulled the air, stop
ping the train, while Pat Stammered
out laughing explanation of how he
came to do it-Richland Democrat.
The lure of fame claimed another
victim ct Freeport last Thursday when
Bud Bridgen, stunt aviator and fear
less parachute dropper, stepped off
plane owned by the Tri-City Aerial
Circus and fell 1,400 feet to his death.
An improperly packed parachute
which failed to open cost the life of
one more intrepid bird-man. Behind
the failure of the pack to open lay
a story of a broken order. r. H.
BloXham, manager of the circus, had
forbidden Bridgen to take the para
chute drop Thursday. The circus had
been postponed until Saturday and
Sunday. Don't take any chances"
Bloxham said he had warned the
stunt man. wait until Saturday"
That was Thursday noon About two
o'clock, Bridgen, his wife and r. A.
Hake took the air in one of the two
seated planes. A gathering crowd
watched the plane soar upward. 1t
was a wonderful day. At i,400 feet
Bridgen, conscious of the watching
eyes of the people below, passed his
wife as she sat strapped in the cock
pit of the plane, and edged himself to
the top right wing. AS the plane
roared over the Driving Park, Bridgen
rose to his feet and dropped OFF the
plane The pack which covered the
chute, instead of remaining fastened
to the wing, worked loose and remain
ed on the apparatus which was strap
ped to Bridgen's body. The aviator
fell with sickening velocity and landed
in a cornfield. His wife and Hake
watched their companion on his long
flight earthward. .He seemed to be
fighting the pack all the way down"
Hake said later. HE probably lost
consciousness before he hit The
T1a "a ohute l1Snd nv Rridgen Thursday.