Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-09-06
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREv|TiES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

To properly commemorate a histor-
&c spot in 10 Daviess county the Ga
lena d. A. R. post on August %, set
into place il the rOsks of Apple river
sanyon a marker which indicates
that in 1887, 85 years ago, the Frink
& Walker stage line, plying between
Chicago, then town of 300, and Ga
lena, stopped at Millville tavern All
that is left of the town and tavern
is a depression in the earth and a
few rocks where the walls of the inn
stood. In those days the stage ran
twice a week between the important
river city of Galena, connecting with
the larger cities of ST. Louis and New
Orleans, and Chicago, which was a
small inland town on the great lakes
1t took four days to make the trip and
the weary and dirty travellers were
generally given an ovation whon they
disembarked at either end of the line
Galena itself is one of the Oldest set
Elements in the upper valley. The
French couriers du bois, guided by
Indians, went there two hundred or
more years ago to mine lead in dig
gings that the redskins had worked
for centuries. The tablet set at Mill
vile lies in the nlOss-cOvered rocks on
spot that was once inhabited but is
now gone back to nature.
Benjamin Reimer, prominent
young farmer in southern Green
county, was electrocuted Wednesday
morning near MartintoWn. He had
been moving large corn crib there
and the work had been INSTRUCTED by
telephone wires, so it was thought
necessary to cut a wire. The cut wire
was thrown over another wire and
connection was made with high ten
sion wire The tremendous voltage
of the wire shot through the mans
body and he toppled over dead.
Three young Muffin boys, enam-
Ored with a desire to see the world
borrowed" the new Ford car of Leon
ard Trudgeon of linden while the
owner was attending dance, and
started out on a long jaunt. Mr.
Trudgeon notified the sheriff e. once
and the boys and missing car were
located at Freeport and brought
home. The fathers of the culprits
settled and prosecution was dropped
Herman Steiner, Pra. du Chen, was
badly hurt Wednesday week age
when a scaffold he was standing on
gave away Steiner was thrown some
distance to the ground, landing upon
a cement STEP 1t was at first thought
that his spine was broken but a care
full examination proved this not to be
the case. He was injured otherwise
internally.
Henry Roberts, Dodgeville, member
of the firm of Robots & Prideaux, was
found dead in his rooms over the
store, Thursday evening week ago
He had not been feeling we'll for sew
eral days. On the evening he died his
partner, Mr.. PrideauX, heard Mr.
Roberts groan. Going upstairs he
found him dead.
Harold Rowe and Carl Evansted
held in Jail at Darlington, broke out
Wednesday night and escaped in a
light truck. The car in which the two
men escaped, was used for dairy pur-
poses and bore a Wisconsin license
249.39O. The men were held for burg
larry.
Mrs Patrick McCluskey and son
Clyde, were run over and hurt by an
automobile at Dodgeville Thursday a
week ago. Mrs. McCluskey was
dragged thirty feet. One knee cap
was torn off and the other leg badly
injured. Both mother and son are in
a hospital. The car was driven by
John Bennett of Clyde. The woman
with two children started across the
street her vision of Benefits car be-
ing obscured by car standing on the
street.
DR.. Howell of Fennimore, taking a
patient to St Joseph's hospital, at
Dodgeyille, had the misfortune to
strike a wagon occupied by Thomas
Thorison, Dodgeville youth, at Gull
vert near the city. The doctor was
unable TO pass the wagon and the two
vehicles came together, DR.. Howell
picked the young man up and took
him to the hospital The wagon was
wrecked and the car lost it's bumper.
F. ]. Bilkey, 81, proprietor of the
South Side meat market at Dodge
Vile, dropped dead in front OF ms
Mace of business while talking to two
acouaintances Monday of last week.
Mrs. Bridget Leary died at her
home south of Darlington Wednesday.
Deceased who was rs years OF age
had spent her entire life in the yicin-
ity of Darlington.
tt is estimated that this years crop
of POTATOES will be 10000 cars. Last
wear the crop was but $4,000 cars in
Wisconsin