Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-10-26
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREv|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

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at Prairie du Sac.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wooley of
| Crawford county have returned from
a two-months' visit in England and
Norway
Robt Theobald, 72, lifelong resident
of the town of Brigham, Iowa county,
died at Dodgeville Tuesday following
an operation for hernia.
McGregor is putting in a lot of SAN
| itary sewer The contractor has a
big ditching machine on the job and
/ hopes to finish before frost
| Richard FitzSimmons, 81, DOdgeville
business man, died Monday, Oct. II,
following an appendicitis operation he
underwent a week previously.
! Richard Spiegelberg and wife cele-
brated their 50th wedding day at BOs-
cobel a couple Of weeks ago. The
old couple were married at Portage in
1871.
Edwards Brooks. colored, porter on
the Great Western road, fell under a
car at Elizabeth, 10 Davies county and
| had both legs cut off. He died from
shock and loss Of blood. an hour later.
Edward Jackson, Hazel Green sweet
potato raiser, produced one that tipped
the beam at three pounds and two
ounces. 1t provided the sweet potato
course at a dinner for twelve people.
Three horses OH farms near Lloyd
/ in Richland county were dispatched
on orders of the state veterinary who
found CHAMBERS. Two had previously
i died. The disease is dangerous to
humans who readily contract it from
! horses.
James Fox, 20, pioneer resident of
! Linden where he was born on a farm
in 1851, died there last week aged TO-.
Dodgeville business and profession
al men have organized for the pro-
motion of a gymnastic club among the
male adults of the community.
Art Stuckey. Madison, brakeman
on the Milwaukee road, was painfully
hurt at Spring Green while switching
but luckily escaped with his life. The
man fell from a fiat car and his coat
caught on car wheel boxing. He
was dragged some distance but fell
outside the rail.
| When Mrs John Smith of Richland
Center stopped i'll the street to pick
up a package she had dropped, she
disconnected a Mrs. Fish who was
driving a car down the street. The
car struck Mrs Smith causing two
] fractured ribs, severe bruises and in
ternal injuries.
Lou Taft and Herb Heffner, Scott
township, Crawford county, were ar
rested under orders of G. G. Bennett,
state auto license inspector, and fined
! $40 and costs each. Taft was guilty
of operating an unregistered car and
Heffner made use of an illegal license
plate. They pleaded guilty.
| Three squash OF the yellow variety
grown on one vine by Walter Scul1ion
of Highland, weighed 259 pounds.
! The largest weighed 80 pounds and
the other two 81 and 50 pounds res
pectively. The vine covered an area
of 2Ox28 feet Nine other squash OF
smaller proportions were on the vine.
Frank James, I. C. conductor, was
the victim of peculiar accident at
Warren, Ill James was riding on
top of a car and Gucked when he saw
bridge ahead. He did not duck soon
enough to prevent his scalp being torn
from his head An X-ray indicated
that the brain tissue was unhurt and
James may recover.
Harold Rude, the we'll known Iowa
county breeder of HOlsteins, won
damage suit against Whitewater
party over purchase of Holsteins.
Rude bought two purebreds with the
understanding that the animals were
to average white and black. They
averaged to extent that one animal
was all black and the other all white
Rude won his case for the full sum
he demanded.
bolt of lightning struck freight
car near Galena Jet, and killed Hance
Williams, colored,WhO was riding to
Galena with other members of a sec
ton gang. The bolt hit Williams
squarely and death was immediate
He was married and had come north
from Mississippi 6 few months ago to
work leaving a wife and two children
in the south. A number of sheep in
the car were killed by the same bolt.
Backing down the Riley hill near
Fennimore, A. J. Baumgartner tried
to steer the car to a bank when he
saw that his engine was not working
and the car brakes would not hold.
The car went over the bank and
rolled over Baumgartners mother,
an aged woman, had collar bone
broken The rest of the family es-
damaged. The accident took place
ouuOdy hight VI 1dSI MSSh
Charles l.. Commit, Hollandale, was
kicked into Inconsistencies by a
horse that had fallen into a mudhole.
Commit was engaged in moving hay
and weeds on the railroad right of
way when one Of his horses fell into
a hole and pulled the other after it.
Commit was trying to get them out
when the animal in the hole kicked
him. When he came to he was lying
with the horses hind legs across him.
He was painfully bruised but will re-
cover.
Elmer Mitchell and wife, Dodgeville,
enroute to Mineral Point, lost control
of their car which skidded and struck
telephone pole. Mitchell was
knocked unconscious. He came to
and heard his wife calling for help.
She was pinned under the seat of the
car and Mitchell with difficulty pulled
himself together and lifted the car to
get the woman out. Mitchell was taken
home to Dodgeville and put in bed. He
was painfully but not seriously injur-
ed. His wife has been unable to get
around since the accident and remains
at the home Of her parents in Mineral