Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-09-20
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

with diabetes. He left a wife and 8
children
NJ. r. Munson has received the APP
po1ntment of postmaster at Pra du
CHEN, from John M. Nelson, and is in
charge. He replaces T. ]. Bergen, re-
signed
The Brown livery barn, a landmark
of Mineral Point was burned to the
ground Monday Of last week. A horse
was burned to death.
Marion Perdue, l. G. bridge worker,
fell near 40 feet from trestIe near
Dodgeville where the track crosses a
deep ravine. He was badly shaken
up but no bones were broken.
J. K. Burn, Dubuque, and Leroy
Robertson, La Crosse, pleaded guilty
at Clinton, Iowa, to illegally transport
of liquor and were fined 500 and
costs each. The men were driving to
Dubuque from Chicago with 210 gal
Ions of alcohol when arrested. The
automobiles and cargo were confis-
Gated by the government.
big sand bar on the river near the
city of Clinton, Iowa, has grown to
a point where it threatens to cut the
city away from the river and prevent
the landing of boats. The city has
appealed to the congressman from it's
district to take steps with the govern
ment and have the bar removed before
the Clinton harbor is entirely choked.
L. A Harms, Platteville farmer, has
lost 106 hogs, valued at $500, from
cholera. He has IS head left and eX-
poets to save them. There are no
other cases of cholera in the vicinity.
A collision between a Ford coupe
and Nash car at DOdgeville on We'd
nesday night damaged both cars bad
ly. Clarence Leffler, in the Ford, was
cut by glass and Miss liza Bishop, in
the Nash, was bruised about the face.
Earl Stevens, employed on the R..
Hoskins farm near Dodgeville had
his left hand crushed in the gears of
a silO filler Thursday of last week.
Doctors amputated the thumb and in
dex and middle fingers of the hand.
Stevens doesn't know how the acct
dent happened. He will be crippled
for life as his left was his favorlte
hand
w. G. Hosking, Hollandale farrier,
was knocked down by horse he was
shoeing. The animal stepped upon
his leg bruising it badly and injuring
the bone He was taken to hospital.
planted s acres to a mixed crop OF
corn and sunfowers. He claims that
the combination makes the finest sill
age in the world.
w N. Bishop, a we'll known resi-
dent of Dodgeville, was knocked down
on the main street there by motor
car being driven without lights. The
driver of the car went on without his
identity being established. Cars with
no lights or with only one light are
becoming common although it is
strict violation of the state law to
drove a car without proper lights.
The 15-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Rabb, living on the old Mil
lane place in Pleasant Valley, died on
Monday from the effects of 1nhal1ng
kerosene fumes at her home Saturday
The child somehow spilled a small
vessel of kerosene which was on
table. onto her face and body. 1t is
not thought that the child swallowed
any Of the LIQUID but that sickness
and death resulted from inhal1ng the
fumes.-Galena Gazette.
The Pra. du Chen Courier says
severe windstorm swept the city from
the west Friday a week ago following
a dav of great heat. Black Hawk tree,
an immense cottonwood over cent
urv old. was blown down. Buildings
and trees all over the city were dam
aged. The storm came from the west
and severe damage was done IN celn-
etery at McGregor. several Id! &c
monuments were uprooted. The Wlnd
swent on east and spent itself up the
wisconsin valley. The area OF the
s+orm was narrow but the storm was
a heavy wind and not tWlster as re-
norted last week. One pecullar pne-
nomena was noted at the west pontooh
of the bridge over the Mississippi,
the water in the river was lo"ereu
around the pontOon an men anu
half during the wind ana Ior sone
time the bridge tenders We're d.
loss to account for the suooeh ld..lne
of water with the heavy RAIN railing.
-rIa s+ean hill out of Gays Mills
oorrine south on the Boscobel ROAD
was the scene of a serious accluens
E.ridav of last week and the AFFAIR mas
-, offorYnatb of pain and suffering.
LOO Robinson. Dubuque picture sho"
NON with his wife and two women
Guests. had spent the day at the Gays
NEiIIs fair and were on their way
bomeward. Half way up the long hlll
Bohinson's engine stopped. He rea-
lized the danger and backed the car
into an embankment when the car
brakes failed to hold. The car was
going back at high rate OF speeu
and It struck the bank with sucn
force that it turned completely over
tbrowing the occupants to the ground
Miss James and Mrs Maher, the pas
saneers. were thrown clear ana es-
oonod harm. Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson
we're mined under the car. me IN
fortunate woman's feet were pusneu
tbrongh the windshield, causing
comnound fracture of her left ankle
tbe glass almost severing her foot al
the point of the bone break. ASSIST
ance was soon coming and a doctor
called. No bones were broken put tne
homes about the ankle were forced OUT
If the sockets and through the STOCK
ine DR.. Coon of Gays Mills declares
that only about twenty such cases o.
fracture have been reported 10 lne
,nadical profession in thirty years
md that Mrs. Robinson will prooaOiy
Tavar he able to walk again