Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-07-05
kEIGHBORHOOD
BREV|TIES And
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Miss Hilda Riechers of Belmont and
Elmer Matters of South Dakota, were
married.
The D. A. r. chapter at Pra. du
CHEN has raised $1,100 and closed 8
deal for the purchase of the site of old
Fort Crawford, near the city.
Andrew Thompson, a native OF Nor
way, where he was born Feb. 7, 1928,
died last week at Lodi, aged past "a
years Six children, % grandchildren
and 20 great grandchildren survive
the hardy old Norseman, who came to
America in 1866.
Harold Bloker, employed on the
David Evans arm near Ridgeway,
fell from a load of hay Wednesday
afternoon suffering a broken jaw,
broken nose and lacerated face. The
Jaw bone was broken at the chin and
the surgeon wires the broken bones
together, putting Dloker's face in a
plaster cast.
An unknown automobile crashed
into the buggy occupied by James
Mitchell, wife and babe, driving north
of Dodgeville Saturday. Mrs. Mitch
ell was injured. The car driver re-
fused to stop and sped on. He was
followed b another driver who came
upon the scene and saw the fleeing
car. An investigation is under way.
A front wheel collapsing on Ford
roadster was the cause of a spill near
Cazenovia last week when Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Keller and VIM. Connors
were injured while enroute home
from a dance. Connors had a frac-
tured shoulder when he emerged from
the accident. Mrs. Keller suffered a
brain conclusion. Keller was not so
badly hurt.
Pearl Kern, GaIena girl, swimming
in a creek near the Blackjack mine
Wednesday, stepped into water twenty
feet deep, while in the midst of a good
time with girl friends. She was go
ing down the third time when Floyd
Marsden, a young man, rescued her
with the assistance of girl swimmers,
who formed a living chain" and
pulled the couple to shore.
Mrs. j. G. V. Campbell, Junction
City, Kansas, recently visiting in
Crawford county, went to see her old
home on Irish Ridge, which she had
not seen for fifty years. The old lady
was amazed to see the advancement
made since she left the place as a
girl Her home was a log cabin while
now, Jay Morse, the owner, has a fine
lot of modern barn buildings.
Houses in the village of Mayville
were decorated with canned peas
Sunday when one of a battery of can
ming boilers exploded with a loud re-
port. A chunk of iron weighing 500
pounds shot through the road and
with it went hundreds of cans of peas,
in the boiler for cooking. No one was
hurt in the village but windows were
shattered and crockery broken on the
shelf by the force of the explosion.
Frank Scott, Galena handy man.,
met his death last Monday while
painting steel Orders on a building.
Scott was using an extension ladder
which he was lowering to another sec
tion of the structure. The top section
slipped down unawares and Scott was
struck above the heart He died half
an hour later. The attending physi-
clan said SCOTS liver had been
punctured by the blow.
Mrs. c. w. Hill, aged about so, a
former resident of Platteville, died
Thursday a week ago, in Deerfield,
Chicago suburb. The body will be
brought to Platteville for burial later.
Jos. Vodicka, Gutenberg fisherman,
caught a rock sturgeon in the MlsslS-
sippi a few weeks ago. The fish
weighed 80 pounds. Rock sturgeon
used to be plentiful in the Mississippi
and it's tributaries but of later years
the catches have been scarce.
John Riley, Galena electrician, is
candidate for the Carnegie hero
medal. While at work at the Cox
home in Galena, Riley saved the life
of Mrs. Cox. Riley was melting paraf-
fin on the cook stove and the sub
stance caught fire. Mrs. Cox at
tempted to carry the pan outdoors and
her clothing caught fire. Riley seized
the pan, throwing it outside, and then
put out Mrs. Coxs burning clothing.
He was badly burned about the hands
in the rescue.
0. M. Heller, Boscobel travelling
salesman, was held up by a swarm of
bees while motoring between Slough
ton and Oregon recently. Heller no
ticed a swarm of bees in the road
ahead of his car and was nonplussed
when the insects, attracted by his
bright windshield, swarmed upon it.
Heller decided to stop and see what
the bees would do. Eventually, the
queen, finding her perch too warm,
flew away with her followers. Heller
flew" down the road.