Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-07-05

candidate for state senate from La
fayette county.
Alvin Sullivan, Dodgeville pitcher,
is out of the game owing to ball
crushing one finger bone and tearing
the nail loose.
James Evans, of the town of Brig
ham, Iowa county, broke one leg in
a haying accident Monday when
load of hay overturned. Evans saw
the load slipping and jumped. The
hay slipped under him and he landed
on the wagon wheel.
Miss Lucy Chamberlain is the new
executive secretary of the Red Cross
of Lafayette county. Miss Chamber
lain served during the war with the
u. S. Base hospital 43 in France and
since the war has served with the
Red Cross in the South.
At the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Otter Creek Lutheran
church, Iowa county, two thousand
people were present They came in
nearly 400 vehicles which were scat
tered over the church grounds. Ser
vices were conducted in Norwegian
and English with picnic dinner fol-
lowing.
A moonshine still was recently I'M
earthed at the Gotlieb Reber farm
near Calamine and thirty-eight gal
Ions of joy juice confscated by the
officers. Reber has been arrested on
the charge of manufacturing liquor
and was compelled to give bond OF
seven hundred dollars to appear at a
future date.
DR.. u. S. Lewis, the well known E..
Dubuque physician, driving an Essex
coupe with his wife as passenger,
went over an S-foot embankment near
the city Saturday of last week. Mrs.
Lewis was quite badly, though not
seriously, injured. Dr. Lewis was
bruised and scratched. The car, a
new one, was a wreck.
August Maso, the well known Fen
nimore garage man who deserted the
automobile game to enter the amuse-
ment business, first converting his
large garage into magnificent dance
hall, held his opening night Thursday
week ago. Everything was free and
nearly 700 people, including ESQ
dancers, partook of Maso's hospitality.
Captain Orville Wheeler, for many
years a steamboat captain on the up
per river, between st. Louis and St.
Paul, dies recently at the home of a
son in Brainerd, Min. The old gen.
tleman took his first trip on the river
in 1857, from ST. Anthony Falls to
Ripley. He was born in Ohio, moving
to Dubuque at an early age. Captain
Wheeler was we'll versed in river lore
and in the old steamer days was
known at every port of call on the big
river
Clint Simpson, of Cazenovia, and
Rudolph Mislevecek, of Hillsboro, met
with peculiar accident in the first
named village last week. They were
in the act of replacing bearing in a
car at a garage, and had started the
motor for the purpose of smoothing
up the new parts, when connecting
rod smashed through the crank case.
Pieces of flying metal struck both
men, inflicting injuries so serious
that they were taken to Reedsburg for
treatment.
Nels Larson, a bus driver for Camp
bell & O'Shaughnessy, was held up
near the corner of Illinois and Wis
consin streets Saturday night and re-
lieved of his collections for the nights
transportation. Larson was halted
and three gunner entered the auto
the fellows struck Larson across the
face with his gun after relieving him
of between 81 and SIS, and then or
dered him to "get" and he got. No
trace of them has been found.-Pra.
du Chen Courier.
Platteville, with the distinction of
schools and mines now has three full
f1edged factories. In addition to the
Doescher Spotlight Sign Co., the city
has another factory recently started.
1t is the Ideal Barrel Swing Co., Gull
yer & Doyle, owners. The swing is
made to be applied to heavy barrels
such as oil barrels of all kinds, allow
ing the barrel to hang in the swing
upon swivels and be turned complete
ly around for complete emptying
without effort. Five men are on the
road selling the device which is made
to retail for $3.50. About 500 month
will be turned out.
Chas. Hoppe, residing near Eliza
beth, 10 Daviess county, was killed
while at work in door yard Thursday.
Mr.. Hoppe was using a gasoline en-
CINE for power while sharpening
tools. His jacket became caught in
the f1ywheel of the engine and in a
trice the garment was wrapped
around the mans neck, choking him.
His nose was broken, one eye knocked
out and his shoulder crushed. Mrs.
Hoppe, was working in the house,
noticed blood on a flock of little ducks
and went outside to investigate. She
found her husband, dead upon the
ground. Five children were rendered
fatherless.
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