Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-31
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
important EUents
of Week Fron1Tri-
State Area.

Paul Folbrecht, Wauzeka farmer.
round one egg inside the shell of
another. Both eggs had whites but
no yolks.
Mrs. David Owens, 70, Rewey, pass
cd away at her home there Monday OF
last week Her husband preceded
her in death few months.
The pearl button business is at low
ebb in all the river factories ana
shells that sold recently for $2S a ton
are now going begging at SIS
Sam Shoemaker, Lynxyille, aged 40,
and Goldie Phillips, Is, Pra. du CHEN
home girl, applied for a marriage
license in Crawford county last week.
W. T. Schroeder, Platteville seed
merchant, sold 675 bushels Of red
clover seed this spring for an average
price Of $14 an acre. The seed will
SOW 5000 acres.
Charles Williams, Dodgeville paint
er, lost his balance On scaffold and
fell twenty-feet, alighting on stone.
He was somewhat stitf from the fall
but able to go on with his work
The insolvent Bo5cobel Table Mfg.
Co. plant was sold at sheriff's sale
last week to the Boscobel Realty Co.,
for $3,775. The sale of the buildings
and real estate satisfied one group of
creditors.
Attorney viii Murphy of this city
and a garageman named Elmer Of
FennimOre had a collision near the
latter place while returning from
Pra. du Chen Sunday. Elmer, driy-
ing a Buick, was put into the ditch
while Will had his Ford coupe badly
rocked Witness.
Miss Catherine Weis, Galena, driy-
ing home at night, had the gears
strip on her car on a steep hill near
the city. Miss Weis put on the emer-
eency brake but the car backed down
the hill and turned over The car
was damaged but the occupants
escaped with slight injuries
Pa. du Cnien VIII celebrate the 4th
with flying circus and aerial meet
under American Legion auspices.
Among the flyers and daredevils will
be Spider Aitken, the Dubuque KID,
who scaled the courthouse wall at
Lancaster last summer. Aitken has a
lot OF hair-Taising airplane stunts 10
pull
S. v Taylor, Pra du Chen bank
cashier, in the bank at midnight TO
look at papers, accidentally set off }
burglar alarm and in his hurry to
shut the gong off, left the front door
Of the bank open. Taylor went in
side and looked up to face police
mans .38. He talked fast and
escaped bullet.
The body of Lewis White, Huyt-
man. Iowa, fisherman, who as NOV
ing a barge filled with beehives and
nG q Z
November. was found near Lynxville
Sunday. The body was badly decom-
posed. S35 was found in one pocket.
Wilhite had on hip boots when he
sank and was unable to swim. His
widow married Penny" Harville OF
Bagley since.
Russell Bierd Mt. H0reb, fell dead
at the sight Of blood. This gruesome
verdict was returned by corners
iury. Three men were fighting on
the ROAD near Mt. Horeb behind an
automobile The Bierd family APP
preached il A car, saw an auto III the
ditch and, not noticing that a fight
was going on, stopped to render as
sistance. Suddenly a man came from
behind the car covered with blood.
80. Mammal" the boy cried, and fell
IL the ground dead He was afflicted
with q weak heart.
Prairie du CHEN is agog since the
capture Of % illegal nets IN Horse
shoe Lake, near the city, two weeks
ago. So sure were the fishermen that
the lake contained no game fish that
thev offered to abide by test SEM
inc The net was cast down. Two
bushels of game fish and two lone
rough fish were taken out. me war.
den for this district, John Keller OF
Ragley. who is quoted as saying there
had not been an arrest in Crawford
county for illegal seining in four
wears. is being severely censured by
the Pra. du Chen Courier.
Toe Feaster and VIM Crawford,
,danizens of the sand hills east OF
Sextonyille, Richland county, are IN
iaiI for bookkeeping The officers in
vaded the Feaster home while the
owner was at dance, but hndlng
nothing. were ready to leave When
one of the men detected an door OF
4.moon" in some old clothes IN
closet. The rubbish as cleared away
and trapdoor disclosed. IN the
basement as a still and about n1ty
gallons of the stuff that meprlates
hut doesn't cheer. Feaster, at
dance was called home on the preteAI
that his family was i'll. He came IN
haste and was arrested. Crawford
was found drunk in his home with
plentiful supply on hand =,
An unmotherly woman at Lena, H.
left an infant boy at the door OF Mr..
and Mrs. Sherman Derr. Mrs. DeTr
heard 4 rap on the door about mid
night and investigating, found =
bundle of clothing. Inside the
bundle was a child who is healthy ana
nanny but without known parents.
+ T. Elliott, Dodgeville. informed
bv daughter that his recently de-
ceased wife had placed various sums
of money about the house, investiga-
tad and discovered several hundred
dollars stored in odd places soy IN
hills was found in mattress.
a fire in the home of Mrs Il. NJ;
Fitzsimmons, Dodgeville, was caused
nv the bottom of cook stove rusting
through. allowing embers to fall on
tha Kitchen floor The stove had no