Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-12-06
WITHIN | HOUR
OF The COURT
HOUSE SQUARE
Happenings From
Exchanges and
Reporters.

Authorities are asked to be on the
lookout for Geo. Graves,1 IA, and Chas.
Manley, II, LaFarge boys who left
their homes Monday a week ago for
parts unknown. 1t is believed the
boys are in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Caroline Slender, aged 76, died
at PlattevilIe last Monday after an
illness of but four days. Funeral SER
vices were held Wednesday. Two sons
and a daughter, three grandchildren,
and two great-Srandchildren survive.
Herman Veglalln, De Soto farmer,
had his right arm mangled in a corn
shredder so that the member had to
be removed. Lee Cole, another young
farmer of the vicinity, lost the first
finger of his right hand in a shredder.
julius Rossen, Cobb farmer deliver
ing milk at the High Point cheese fac
tory, was thrown from his wagon
when his horses took fright and began
to run Rossen was thrown on his
back, suffering three broken ribs and
bruised head.
Fire caused approximately $4,000
damage to the N. N. Saalsaa hardware
store at Argyle last Tuesday. During
the progress of the fire Mr.. Saalsaa
fell from the roof of the building to
the ground, distance of 20 feet, land
ing on his head. He suffered bad
scalp wound.
Asa Klingaman of Scott township,
Crawford county, paid fine of $25
and costs in justice court at Pla.r4a
du CHEN, for operating a creamery
without a state license. A deputy Of
thu dairy and food department mace
tue complaint.
The barn on the farm of Louis Gels
Ter, Dutch Ridge Crawford county,
was destroyed by fire Sunday evening
of last week. Geisler and his man
were milking when the blaze broke
out. They smelled smoke and inves-
tigated. The cattle were removed
with difficulty.
Earl Throst, Dorchester, Iowa, man
who murdered pretty Inga Magnus-
son, will hang March 9. Throst went
to the school after the pupils had left
last December IL, and forced the girl
to the basement where he beat her to
death with a club.
w. M. Peacock, proprietor of the
Fennimore creamery and maker OF ice
cream of widely known good quality,
has sold his ice cream machinery to
the Prairie Creamery Co. of Prairie
du Chen The Prairie du Chen COM
pany will market it's product through
the adjacent territory by truck.
To get the entertainments established
before the ground freezes up forty
men and boys worked with pick and
shovel in the city park at Pra. du
n Iii W
ice rink The city donates the land
and the water and volunteers are at
work On the eXcavating.
Robert Germann, Monroe, is carry
ing 10 shots in his body as the result
of hunting mishap. A companion
spied a rabbit and shot at it. Germann
unfortunately received the full force
of the discharge. The shot penetrated
deep into the legs and body. No eff
fort has been made to remove them.
Fred Phillips and Loeffelholz Bros.
of Cuba City, and Frank Goodell of
Platteville, have returned from deer
hunt in the north woods. The men
made the trip both ways in an auto,
camping out. They brought back
fine buck apiece. The number Of deer
hunters this year is not as great as
last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fuka of Pra. dn
CHEN celebrated their golden we'd
ding Friday. The venerable couple
received a number of costly presents.
They attended high mass at st. Johns
church where they plighted their
vows fifty years ago, and the altar
was decorated in yellow and gold in
their honor.
The Lansing, Iowa, Mirror, estab-
lished in 1852, has suspended after 70
years of publication. The Allamakee
Journal has taken over the Mirrors
subscription list and will carry out
the contracts. George w. Metcalfe
for nearly fifty years published the
Mirror. The last year has been hard
one for many weeklies, over 700 hav-
ing suspended publication in the U. S.
girl that comes as near fitting the
name "fapper" as any of Richards
generally modest and retiring young
ladies can, passed bunch of fellows
the other day and was addressed by
one as Easter Egg" We innocently
asked the why of the appelation to be
CURLY informed that the reason was
because she was hand painted out
side and hard-boiled inside. Demo
crat, Richland Center.
An Avoca correspondent to the
Dodgeville Sun says that Sam Swine
hart of that village is not only the
champion Holstein man of that vicin-
ty, but is also called the banner father
of the community. Twin sons were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Swinehart the
21st inst, which made Sam the father
to 10 children. Three are by a firss
marriage, the present Mrs. Swinehart
being mother to Is children, of whom
IA are alive and healthy.