Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-25

deal for the Lawrence hotel building
in that city and after completely over
hauling and reftting the place will
open it as lodge home.
A general store in the village Of
Stoddard, Wis, was ransacked Satur-
day night, shirts, gloves and overalls
beng stolen. The job was pulled off
by auto bandits who entered town,
Mrs. Charles Knautz, Galena, died
suddenly Monday morning, death be-
ing due to a ruptured blood vessel
leading to her heart. She had been in
i'll health for some time.
A barn on the Boyer farm in the
town of Scott, owned by Francis
Skeleton of Lawler, Ia, and tenanted
by Ernest Flemming, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday afternoon All con-
tents were burned.
John Koch, y, Gutenberg, suffered
fractured skull when he fell while
riding a merry-go-round at school,
The lad lost his balance and landed
against tree. He was unconscious
for several hours.
Thomas Shelton, 5, whose mother
died some time ago and who was be-
ing cared for by his aunt and uncle,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Shelton of Lone
Rock, had his tonsils removed last
Wednesday and bled to death
From present estimates the job of
laying the steel in the Eagle Point
bridge will be completed this week.
The work was halted by the injury Of
the foreman three weeks ago but has
since been rushed to completion.
Dorothy Scott Ithaca school child,
was knocked down by motor car on
her way to school, and run over but
miraculously escaped without the
slightest scratch. The car passed the
long way over the girls body, the
wheels not touching her.
Rev. G. W. McNary, pastor of the
Congregational church at BOscobel,
preached his farewell sermon Sunday
of last week, announcing that he had
accepted a call to Monticello, Iowa,
with good increase in salary. He
was located at BoscCbel four years.
County Clerk Sletmark of Crawford
county has issued licenses to wed to
Joseph Panka, SO, and Katerine, Voll-
man, "a: and John Panka, SO, and
Anna Vollman, 81. The men are
brothers and the women sisters and
the uniting in marriage of the two
couples will take place at double
wedding.
Frank Johnson, Richland Center, is
foul with the law on a charge of hav-
ing driven car while drunk. 1t is
alleged that Mr. Johnson was the
cause of a car going into the ditch
near Viola one Sunday last summer.
The car, driven by man named Ak
en-, was crowded over an embankment
and badly damaged.
George Peterson, Campion student,
who resides in Michigan, lost both
feet as the result of Tipping train.
George rode a little distance and was
sucked partially under the train when
he tried to jump off. One foot was
cut off at the ankle and the other foot
crushed so that it had to be amputa-
ted He was taken to a La Crosse hos
pital.
Chas. Mara, 80 years, married and
the father of three children, was
killed Sunday of last week when
Ford car in which he was riding
turned turtle near Pra. du CHEN. Geo.
Mara was seriously hurt and Ed. Wa
chuta escaped injury. An axle bronze
on the car coming down the hill and
the machine went into the bank at
the roadside, turning over. Charles
Mara suffered a fractured skull and
died without regaining consciousness.
The other brother was badly hurt but
will recover.
Marshall Leffingwell of Blue River
was exonerated by a jury of assault
upon Robt. Brokaw, II, youth of the
village. The flair grew out of verbal
tilt between the marshall and the boy
during which the officer struck the
youth with an umbrella. The boy
"sassed" the officer and was locked up
but later released The mother of the
boy had the marshall arrested on a
charge of assault and since his re-
lease has brought another action ac-
cusing him of assaulting her on later
date when he elected her from gar
age. The last case will be heard Nov.
9th.
Killian Michel and Raymond Grover
farmers of Eastman, Crawford county,
were arrested by Wardens JOS. Mar
vim and Ben Keller, charged iwth hav-
ing game in their possession. The
men had been out coon hunting the
day before the season opened and
a fresh coon hide was nailed to the
door of the Michel barn when the
wardens happened along. The war
dens had been in the woods the night
before and watched the two men cut
down a big tree in search of coon.
There was no coon in the tree but
the hide of one killed a few days be-
fore was found when the premises
were searched. The next day the
season opened.
The Fennimore Times states that
the sale by Arch Rundell of half an
section of land to Jacob Wagner, as
noted in the Herald last week, leaves
Tormey Bros. as the sole owners in
the county of complete and undivid-
ed section of land-section 26 in the
town of Fennimore. But for 81 acres
southeast of Blue River owned by
another party, john Studnicka would
be the owner of section 20 in the town
of Muscoda. Griswold Bros. own all