Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-04

Clifford Stopper of Sitter was in
Jured while attempting to throw a
corn planter into gear His arm was
caught breaking and crushing it.
The Blue River Informer has gone
out of existence A couple of months
ago j. E. Rockhill sold the list to the
Muscoda Progressive and moved his
plant to La Fargo. Since then the
Progressive published a Blue River
paper but suspended owing 70 lack O.
advertising support. Blue River will
be ''deader n ever" without a news
paper.
Immense deposits of kaolin, a green
clay existing in quantities along the
Kickapoo near Plum Creek valley,
may prove of great value. This clay
contains aluminium but the process of
extracting the metal has been too ex-
pensive to render it commercially
practicable. Most of the aluminium
is taken from bauxite, clay found in
Arkansas. Now Dr. Glen Williams,
an American chemist, has found how
to extract the metal from kaolin at a
cost of 5 cents a pound. This may
mean developments along the classic
Kickapoo.
Willie Vosberg, farmer boy living
near Cuba City on the Toomey farm,
had a narrow escape from death. He
plowed with a tractor and carried a
shotgun to kill gophers with. He saw
a gopher and reached for the gun
which was loaded behind him. The
gun hammer hit the exhaust and the
gun exploded. The back of the boys
neck was grazed and his hat shot off.
His clothes also were set on fire. He
managed to throw the tractor into
high and make short cut to the
house, driving half a mile after the
accident. Medical attention was sum-
moned and the boy lives to tell the
story.
Mrs. Sophia Gehrke, so, Mt. Horeb,
met a painful and tragic death. The
old lady was smuggling the feathers
from chicken and the paper she ig
nited fell to the floor and set fire to
her skirts. She instructed her grand
son to summon his mother, Mrs. Err
nest Wirth. who lives close by When
Mr.. and Mrs. Wirth arrived they met
horrible sight. The old lady was on
the floor unconscious and about her
were pieces of clothing and finger
nails evidencing that she had made
every attempt to save herself Her
body was a mass of burns, only a part
of the back escaping. The old lady
lived until night when she died.
Mrs. George Waggoner, wife of a
Richland county farmer, happened to
be in the barn yard when the severe
storm broke Monday of last week,
She sought shelter in a small but
Uell-built portable hoghouse, think
ing that the storm would pass quick
~ The wind caught the structure
and picked it up turning it over and
over with it's human occupant, until
it lodged against wire fence some
distance away from it's its original
mOoring. Somewhat stunned, Mrs.
Waggoner was able to crawl from her
unstable shelter and get to the house,
where she found that she had suffred
a bad scalp wound. A physician was
called and the woman given neces-
sary attention
The Richard authorities are con-
WINGED that gang Of Minneapolis
thieves were responsible for the re-
cent store robberies in the Kickapoo
valley, since Dist. Atty. Brindley re-
turned from Minneapolis where he
was called by the police. A man,
taken into custody, was found to have
i'll his possession two suits of clothes
from the rindley-Kanable store at
Viola. When thoroughly questioned
he divulged the name of the man from
whom he had purchased the clothes.
This man was arrested and held at
headquarters but would not make an
admission connecting him with the
robbery. He will be held at Minneap-
oils as a receiver of stolen goods, but
further developments will be neces-
sary to connect him with the crimes
committed recently along the Kicka-
poo. With a feeling of certainty that
the thieves have headquarters in Min
neapolis, the Richland authorities are
pessimistic over the outlook of land
ing them.