Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-06-21
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREv|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week FromTri-
State Area.

L.
ty of Pra. du Chen.
The A. & P. Products Co. conden-
sery at Galena was opened for BUSH
ness again last week. Along with
hundreds of milk packing plants the
Galena concern shut down following
the war.
Sheriff Dick Holmes and ''Prohibi-
ton officer" Ivan Kantcheff drove
around Woodman township Wednes-
day. They found still in a small
cabin along the river but no operator
was found
The Pra. du CHEN cannery, one of
the biggest in the state, plans to pack
q million cans of tomatoes alone this
year The company has ITO acres to
tomatoes and 35 acres of cabbage
with 100000 plants.
Paul Miller, Galena man, whose
arm was broken when he was hit by
train last February, attempted sui
eide Friday by slashing his throat
with pocket knife. He was taken
to Dubuque hospital
B. A. Hoskins, former manager of
the Mineral Point Zinc Co., Galena,
He was 70 years old and had followed
JIIC nl1uIllS OuoiAlC0o ali ulO lIIC ANlI :
Hoskins was born in Dodgeville.
P. N. Rifeman and Leo SCHNEIDER,
cashier in the bank of Wilton, Mon
roe county, are under arrest for en-
beZZling several thousands of dollars.
New officers have been elected and
business is proceeding as usual. The
defalcations are said to cover two
years.
The Wisconsin Light & Power Co.,
owning large electric generating
plants along the Wisconsin river, is
building a 75-mile 66,000-vOlt trans
mission line into Fond du Lac, con-
Meeting with the important Fox river
valley and lake shore manufacturing
centers.
Julius Schnell, Portage young man,
has gone to Germany, where he owns
a weekly newspaper. He formerly
ran the Rundschau und Wecker,
German language paper, published at
Portage Mr. Schnell reports the
newspaper business good in his
fatherland.
Mrs. Jennie Clark Of De Soto,
pleaded guilty to violating the prohi-
bition law and was given three
months in the county jail Mrs. Clark
was given a more severe sentence
than the ordinary viOlator on account
OF her defiant attitude toward the Off
Gals.
An l. c. passenger trains struck
Ford car driven by an unknown man
at the Richardson crossing near War
rem last Monday. The machine was
entirely demolished and its lone oc-
cupant with his head a mass of blood
and his jugular vein protruding from
his neck was taken to hospital.
Freeport booze fans have found a
new one. They take canned heat"
a wood alcohol compound made up in
Jelly form, strain it through paper add
sugar and water and have a kick like
a mule. Several men arrested making
and drinking the stuff have been put
to work cutting weeds.
A Ford coup fitted with a radio set
passed through Mt Carroll. The
owner had erected four poles on the
front and rear of the car and said the
radio arrangement worked perfectly
One may now drive his car along the
country roads and listen to concerts
and public speeches in the cities.
Resin Scott, years, son of j. F.
Scott, Stockton, jumped from the
shelf of Il kitchen cabinet and landed
into a double boiler full of scaldlng
water located on the stove. Nearly
all the skin on the child's arms, and
legs was peeled away by the hot
fluid. He was taken to hospital.
Paul Fisher, Galena man, found
FIVE foot milk snake in his hen house.
The reptile had swallowed all but the
fail and feet of duckling and there
beside it was another dead duckllng
with it's blood sucked out and its head
and feet off. It is said that milk
snakes will not harm chickens and
seem to get along with hens but are
death on ducklings.
broken steering wheel caused
car driven by John Bennett, East Du-
hToua to run over a 35-foot embank-
mont at E. Dubuque Tuesday night.
seven occupants were badly bruised.
Mrs Walter Breasen, in the car with
her husband and small son, was IN
the flood disaster at Union park three
wears ago when her sister ana TWO
children were drowned.
The infant daughter Of Mrs. Mar
shall Cross. residing in Dubuque, was
attacked by a large rat which Dill Tue
child ten times before it scampereu
awav when assistance came. FIRST
aid was accorded Immediately, me
attack of the rat is unusual ana drew
considerable comment. 1t is one Oh
the few instances recorded when
rat attacked a human being: Wnat
caused the rodent to attack the emu
is not known. e. r+i
Mineral Point opened its fine aru,
fetal lake to the public with a formal
dedication Thursday. The lake IS 10
Gated lust north of the city, lylng ~
. hollow between two hills. 1t IS leu
hv a good-sized brook and the lake
was created By throwing a concrete
dam across the lower end atter SUI
ahle excavation. About $500 Reu
Cross money, left over from war Wo[ WORN
was turned into the lake fund m G5,h
inc the pleasure spot possible. Inc
lake is about one hundred yards miue
and and twice as long. Small boats,
diving f1 platform, beach and refractory
are mart of the equipment. Neeoless
to saw the Mineral Point people ENJOY
it thoroughly.