Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREvI7IES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUenfs
of Week From 7ri-
State Area.

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nedy, who was ILL.,
Motorists are warned that automo-
bile thieves are working in Dubuque
Thos. Byrne, contractor, and Chas
E. Miller, Peru township, had cars
stolen Friday night.
Fennimore Big Days will be held
August 3 and 4. The promoters have
rented the D. T. Parker ten acres
for the event as the former legation
is nov Marsden Park.
The village of Eastman in Crawford
county will have new postoffice but
Uncle Sam isn't building it. The post
master, Mr.. Fraser, is putting UP the
two-story building and will reside in
the second floor fiat
A cheese factory in Clyde township
Richland county, was totally des-
troyed by fire Sunday morning a week
ago. A telephone call to Lone Rock
brought a bucket brigade and with
hard work the flames were controlled
The loss was covered by insurance.
Mr.. James of Montfort notifies all
parties are allowed to fish in the
| stream in his pasture west of the vii
lage. He says he has been trying for
] y
it protected. Trespassers will be
prosecuted as Mr.. James is thorough
ly disguised.
Kenneth McMasters, Viroqua, oper-
ating an electric bread mixer in a
bakery, had two fingers of his left
hand catch in the machine cogs. To
save his hand he pulled back with
such force that the two middle fingers
| tow 0fe Of !L(f ini,a re- NnN ocfr
is an expert on the violin and the &C
cident ended forever his activitieo in
that line.
William Robbins, Waukon, Iowa, a
substation foreman of the Interstate
Power Co., was electrocuted Tuesday
evening about six o'clock The &C
cident occurred while Mr.. Robbins
was attempting to throw in a switch
in the Lansing station. His hand
slipped, coming into contact with
$4,000 volts and he dropped dead Mr..
Robbins was 45 years old, married and
the father of one child.
South Wayne, Lafayette county,
and BrOwntOwn, neighbOring village
in Green county, have grown tired OF
operating municipality owned electric
light and power plants. Both villages
have applied to the railroad commits
sion for authority to dispose OF their
plants and franchises to private in
terests. The Wisconsin utilities Co.
is understood to have offered to buy
the plants and franchises
Mrs. Mary Albee of Dubuque will
receive one-third of the 100000 es-
tate left by her husband, Edwin M
Albee, who died in Dubuque March
Is. One-half of the estate is left in
trust to D. G. Searles and wife OF
Chicago. Mrs. Searles was daugh-
ter of the deceased. Frank Stewart
Albee, a son, will receive 100000, and
the other requests total $4,000. The
property is mainly Dubuque real es-
| tate.
Louis Coleman occupies a cell in
Dubuque county Jail as the result OF
his alleged betrayal of two women and
two cnildren. It is said that Coleman
left his wife and two children to go
to other parts with another women.
He was arrested at Davenport, Iowa,
and his affinity, a Hazel Green girl,
returned home The young woman
claims that Coleman deceived her by
claiming that he was not married.
She was received by her parents with
open arms.
A dangerous fire in Viroqua plant
was nipped in the bud by the courag-
eous action of the proprietor aided by
the fire department. Fire broke out
in an engine house adjacent to oil
tanks, threatening the infiammabIe
fluid. NystrOm, the man in charge,
disregarding personal safety, closed
all the valves and cocks in the oil
tanks although he stood in the flames
and was badly burned about the
body while doing so. The fire de-
partment came in one minute and put
chemical on the blaze, checking it.
Miss Elizabeth Hartig, formerly OF
Galena, committed suicide in Chicago
Wednesday ON the morning of her
wedding day. Miss Hartig, so, was
pledged to marry Herbert Harris, of
the same age. On the morning of her
weddin day, Mr.. Harris sent his fan
Gee a note with best wishes and a
request to meet her in Jackson park.
He waited in vain as Miss Hartig was
dead. She ended her life several
shours before by jumping into the lake
at seth st. Miss Hartig had been
happy in manner and there was no
known motive for her act. The body
was taken to Galena for burial.
Sam Boyer and two sons, CONNER
cial fishermen operating at Heitman's
station, eight miles below Lansing,
Iowa, had an alteration with game
wardens Sunday night of last week.
Boyer was shot in the mouth with a
.3S bullet. The bullet passed out
through the neck. The sons had bull
let holes in their clothing but escaped
injury. When the game wardens in
terfered with their fishing operations
the Boyers resisted their efforts, say
ing that what they were doing was
not illegal in the state of Iowa. 1t
seems that the Iowa and Wisconsin
statutes regarding the use of nets in
| the channel of the river differ and
that the Wisconsin officers were try
| ing to enforce the provisions of the
| Wisconsin law. When the BOyers put
up a fight to resist the efforts Of the
Badger fish and game wardens the
shooting ensued. The Boyers were
unarmed, their friends claimed. The
wounded man was taken to hospital
at La Crosse.