Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-07-27
NE:IGHbORHOOD
BREvITIES And
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

George Stesanoff and Steve Beck,
both "a and both Serbians, held up
and robbed Geo. Jellison, conductor,
and j. Kramer, manager of Onion
Park, Dubuque, near the park last
Thursday noon. After robbing the
men of $11, watches, fountain pens,
ETC., the two bandits, who were I'M
masked, struck out on foot on the
Sagevi1le road. The conductor speed
ed the car back to town and notified
Sheriff Kennedy who set out at once
with good description of the rob
bers. He found them inside of two
hours and took them back without
struggle. The men refused to talk.
The rain of last Monday was gen.
eral all over southern Wisconsin ac-
cording to the exchanges coming in.
The rain was of great benefit to such
crops as were not irretrievably dam
aged by the dry and hot weather.
A new fat woman joined the Freed
Exposition Co., at Galena who is alb
solutely the heaviest woman ever seen
in Galena or perhaps the heaviest
person ever seen by any one She
weighs over 700 pounds, is graceful
and is attracting a great deal OF at
tention. She has to ride in a bag
gage car, in some places special beds
have to be built for her to sleep on
and an ordinary chair would crumble
under her weight She stopped at a
local hotel and it was necessary for
her to be taken to and from the hotel
in an automobile, she entering the
hotel by rear entrance where there
np1u into th O
hall of the hotel but into her sleep
manifestations Gazette.
The GaIena fire department was
called out twice Sunday of last week
for the first time in several months.
The first fire was at the fair grounds
where some paper was ignited in the
amphitheatre by cigaret stub
dropped by careless ball fan. The
fire was soon put out. The second
blaze was at the Leslie Wilson resi-
dence where a fire started in trunk
tray in one of the bedrooms. This
fire caused much smoke and was hard
to locate. 1t was soon over when the
owner dumped the contents OF the
trunk out of the window.
A seven passenger car driven by
Davenport parties dropped off the
embankment near the Lenstra saloon
east of Eagle Point bridge last We'd
nesday afternoon. The car was ira
yelling east into Wisconsin from Iowa
when the driver. in essaying the short
turn at the end of the bridge lost con-
troll of the machine and sen! II hurt
ling through the guard rail and down
the embankment In plunging over
the embankment the car rolled several
times, according to eye witnesses.
A $4,000 fire is serious even for 6
town of some size and when blaze
of that proportion visits a small
town it is short of a disaster. The
blacksmith shop and machine storage
building of Amos Peckham, in Ithaca
Richland county, burned to the ground
Saturday of last week, efforts to con
troll the fire being futile. $1,000 in
surance was carried on property
valued at $4,000.
Cecil Clarey, waterboy at the Rich
land Center quarry, had his Zee
badly smashed by falling rock from
an explosion landing on the member
The boy had gone to the powder
house for protection but the roci
came through the shanty SIDE L
narrowly missed large quantity o
dynamite.
George Humbert. Waldwick farmer
was badly injured during a storm las
Wednesday, The wind lifted the hay
rack on which Humbert was riding
and the man was thrown heavily t.
tba ground. He was knocked uncon
scious and his injuries were serious.
Grover GerIich, Galena, was hel(
nm on the Spring street bridge neal
his home last Wednesday night b!
two armed bandits. The men stripped
Ger1ich's pockets and hiked. He re
norted his loss to the police but NJ
arrests have been made.
Samuel Roberts. an old resident o
Ridgeway. died at the home OF hl'
son Oscar. in Rimbey, Alberta, Can.
Of The age of Sc years. Mr.. Roberts
was horn in England and came II
America in his youth residing neal
Ridgeway nearly all of his life.
Mrs Miriam Jane Curtiss, an OLE
Resident of Richland Center, dlet
+bara last week at the age OF 81. Sh'
- survived by a son and daughter
II grandchildren, 80 great-grand
al,i1Sron and three great-grand
children. 49, Lilo,
The body OF Day a. oo,,,,
overseas and the first Rlchlahu Gun
~ man to fall in action. was burie'
at Richland Center, Monday. Funeia
" s'i held under military auspices:
Wv William Lepper, one of the oldes
Civil war veterans in the country mt ;.
celebrated his 95th birthday at war
rem. ILL.,, July 4. 70. co+bor
Edward Eastman ana MISS oa.n on,
ina S+avar both of Lancaster, wer'
united in marriage at Dubuque Mon
day. g. 80 Monitor
received word of the death o. ne
son-in-law. AL Morse at Chicago. :,
Lee Ward of Plainview had e,
broken when nay pore sl - he hos
pital at Boscobel.