Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-08-16
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES And
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUents
of Week From Tri-
State Area.


in the highest part OF Grant county,
will have a field day on September 4, |
officially called Labor Day" A fine
program is being arranged.
Chaseburg, a newly incorporated
village in Vernon county, is ready for
business after voting so to q to be-
come a municipality. The burg is
named after the Chase famtly-eally
settlers in the region.
A new steamer, called the Cappella,
is plying on the upper river. 1t was
finished this year at the Wabasha boat
works, Minneapolis, and sent south to
louisiana, Mo-. after dredge which
is being pulled to Hudson, Wis, for
government work
VIM. Schmitt, IS, Monona, Iowa,
boy drowned at Wellman pond, near
the village, when a plank he was
using to buoy himself up with, slip
ped away from him. Schmitt could
not swim and failing to get hold of
his life saver. slipped under.
Galena coal dealers have been ads
vising their customers not to get
"panicky'' as they feel the coal stu
alton will ease up shortly and no one
will suffer Coal has been selling
without raise at Galena The price
on bituminous is So and anthracite,
$3.50 per ton.
Two men escaped with their lives
but both have broken legs as the re-
suit of a scafold fall at Mineral Point
where Joseph Engels and son, Fred,
building a new home, dl opped twenty
feet to the ground. The scaffold
''jackknifed" and the men were hurl-
in theed in collapsed wreckage.
August Korsrud, DEBORAH farmer,
was so severely stung while moving
honey from his hives that he lost con
seriousness. Bees descended upon
singing. A passerby noted his re-
medical aid The man will recover
although for time he was a mass of
Welts.
Francis Spellman, residing in the
town Of Moscow, Iowa county, lost
his barn and its contents Thursday
evening a week ago. Fire started
ate a milking machine, back-fring.
from a gasoline engine used to oper-
Spellman lost barn 100 feet long
completely filed with hay and other
winter feed. He now has 40 COWS but
no shelter for them.
The store building and home owned
by George Wright in the village of
wyoming, Iowa county, burned to the
ground with all contents early Mon
day Of last week. Wright and wife
heard the flames crackle and lost no
time in climbing through a sleeping
room window. The loss was $4,000
with $4,000 Insurance and no one
knows how the fire started.
Fred Hoffman, Pra. du Chen, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself
from a pipe in his cell in the Pra. du
Chen Jail while Sheriff Herold was
out arranging for Hoffman's transpor-
tation to Mendoza hospital. Mr.. Hof
man, a. became deranged from heat
prostration about two weeks ago. He
recovered but acted queerly and ex-
amining doctors decided that course
of treatment at Mendoza would help
him. Then came his sudden end.
Mrs. Frank Campbell and little
daughter, Of Walnut Hollow, Iowa
county, walking along a country road,
stepped over a good-sized rattlesnake.
Instead of having Mysteries as many
women would have done, Mrs. Camp
bell pushed the babe out of danger
and then killed the snake. 1t was
shedding its skin and being blind was
unable to bite effectively although it
struck at the child and narrowly
missed the little ones leg.
Mrs. Fred Kopps Of Highland, a
woman of 70 years visiting at Cobb,
was run over by motor car driven
by a Madison man. DR.. Ketterer
called, found the old lady had suffer
ed a broken collar bone, small bone
in one leg broken and bad bruises.
She was made as comfortable as pos
sible The driver, named Penning-
ton, was not blamed for the accident
which was due to the old PERSONS in
ability to cope with modern traffic
conditions.
Another mysterious case of beating
elderly people, this time with more
serious consequences than the Tavera
gold robbery, took place near Sank
City, Wednesday night. Julius and
Mary Balzar, elderly brother and sis
ter, were found shot or beaten to
death at their farm s miles west of the
village. William BalZar, badly beat
en- and unconscious was found bleed
ing in the road near the garage. His
brothers body lay nearby. The
womans body was found near the
house. The trio lived alone. Sank
county authorities went on the case
at once and are seeking those respon-
sible for the double murder and at
tack.
Judge Aldro jerks, of the Iowa
county court, Dodgeyille, is becoming
terror to moonshiners and other
violators of the eighteenth amend
ment regulations. He is a, prohibit
zionist in both belief and practice and
no violator of the law who gets into
his court but VINO is convinced that
he is doomed to the maximum penalty
which the law provides. In recent
case, where the guilty party had been
in court on three successive charges
for such violations, Judge jerks SEN
fenced him to two years at hard labor
in Waupun, holding that he was an
habitual offender. In letter OF re-
cent date to a resident of this city, the
Judge says that he believes the great