Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-09-20


Alfred Wsrst, student at Campion,
broke a collar bone while playing on
the campus. Alfred will not be able
to participate in school athletics this
fall.
Lone Rock now has "a hour electric
oerVlce. People there voted 152 to 2
IN favor of buying current from out
side wholesalers and closing their old
local plant
The Rev. James Orrocks, q retired
Methodist minister who edited the
Dodgeville Sun-Republic about eight
years ago, died recently at Thief
River Falls, Mimi, OF blood poisoning
following teeth extraction.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alloway OFT, Bloom
ington, recently celebrated their 63rd
wedding anniversary. They were
married at Goshen, Ind. in 1859. Mr.
OFT is "a and his good wife 81. He is a
Civil war veteran
The VIM. Gibson & Sons hardware
store, Galena, was burglarized Satur-
day night a week ago and $50 in mer-
chandise and cash taken. The rob-
bers made desperate attempts to enter
other stores in the city but were I'M
successful
Mrs Adeline Tongue, Vernon coun-
tvs Oldest resident, died Sept. at her
home in Hillsboro, aged 101 years and
two months. She had lived in Vernon
county IS years. She outlived all of
her children and had 43 grandchild-
rem and % great-grandchildre
The year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jan Diesterhaft, Almena, drowned in
pail of water. The mother left the
child playing in the room and stepped
to the telephone for moment. When
she returned she found the babe with
it's head in pail of water, dead.
The magnificent new high school at
Pra. du Chen has an enrolment of
less than 200 while the old building at
Lancaster has 251 high school pupils.
The demand for a high school educa-
ton is rapidly increasing as the years
pass and an up-tO-date plant is a
positive necessity
Jos. Timpe, Galena farmer, met
with a serious accident Tuesday last
while operating power driven silage
cutter. In some manner the top of the
cutter flew off, striking Mr.. Tempe on
the top of the head and causing de-
pressed fracture of the skull. He was
given medical attention and may re-
cover.
Plat Whitman Of Highland, Wis
cOnSin insurance commissioner, was
unanimously elected president of the
National association of Insurance
Commissioners at the 53rd annual
convention at Swampscott, Mass. He
was also named to head the national
bodys committee on workmen's COM
pensation rates.
VIM. Beneker, Crawford county,
farmland, nearly lost his life when a
blower tube on an ensilage cutter on
the Arthur Pagan farm near Bridge
port, fell and hit him on the head. Mr..
Beneker was helping unload corn
when the accident happened. He was
badly gashed and knocked uncon-
scious for a time. Had the tube hit
him square Beneker would have been
killed
An order to show cause why de-
cision should not be reversed has been
filed in Dane county circuit court in
the case of JOS. Griswold and the state
of Wisconsin, and John Callahan, sup
erintendent of the state board of edu-
cation, otherwise the Fennimore dis
trict school consolidation case. A
decision in favor Of Griswold was
made June Is, and later reversed in
favor of Callahan. 1t will now be re-
opened The case has been regarded
as a test of the power of the state
superintendent to force consolidation
and is regarded with considerable in
terest by school officials and tax pay
ers throughout the state.
Workmen were able to strengthen
and save the wall of the Fawcett
block at Platteville, jeopardized when
excavation was made for the new
Shepherd building, adjacent. The
lower part of the Fawcett wall gave
away and deep cracks ran along the
brick, creating a hazardous situation
By the use of heavy timbers and bolts
the wall was finally held to prevent
further rupture. Mr.. Shepherd is ar
ranging to tear out and rebuild the
east wall of the Fawcette block and
work on his building is halted in the
meantime Mr.. Shepherd suffers big
loss through the disaster but he is
pIuckily doing all he can to make the
damage good.
George C. Hazelton, former Bosco-
bel attorney, died Sept. at Chester,
N. H., where he had gone to make
LdUOE udy duuI CSS. hAs AAoAAObOh
was past 80 years old. In 1880 the
factional fight between Mr.. Hazleton
and e. w. ("Boss") Keys, became so
intense that when Mr.. Hazleton was
renominated at the republican con-
vention that year, Keys bolted and
ran independent for the coveted office
congressman from the 3rd Wiscon-
sin district. Burr w. Jones, now
Justice of the state supreme court, was
nominated by the democrats and in a
three-cornered fight, elected. After
his defeat Mr.. Hazleton moved to
Washington whre he engaged in the
practice of law. He became known as
one of the great lawyers of the coun-
try.
Strawberry Point, Iowa, is getting
to be quite place for wierd stories.
Last week the press agent there sent
forth the story of the washing out OF
the remains of a mastodon. Now
comes another tale of queer snake.
Henry Berns, farmer, claims that he
saw a spotted snake, four feet long, in
his chicken lot. He watched the rep
tile a moment and then recognized 1t
as a genus he had not seen or killed
for 40 years. At that time he killed
number, being chased down a hill by