Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-07-11
NEIGHBORHCOD
BREVITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From 7ri-
State Area.

| Harry c. Haynes, Gays Mills, died
without warning at his home when he
| feel back in chair while cOnversing
| with his wife and Walter Hays, a
neighbor He was so years old.
Baraboo's historic elm, planted the
| day Fort Sumpter was fired upon,
! Monday a week ago. The tree was
located in front OF the Frank Avery
! home in the city.
Mrs. Caroline Thorson, residing al
the home Of her grandson, Charles
| Johnrud, in Steuben vicinity, will be
| SO years old in October. The old lady
| enjoys good health and bids fair to
! become a centenarian.
| The Bert Hofmeister store in Hills
! boro, Vernon county, was entered at
nihgt Thursday and some cash and
| two watches taken. A car belonging
! to a Milwaukee travelling man was
used to make a getaway with.
The Vernon county tobacco acreage
! is about 20 percent greater than last
year. Present offerings under con-
tract for winter delivery range around
| Csc a pound. Most Of the growers are
in the pool but buyers both local and
| foreign are working the district 70
| line up contracts.
John Foley, 10, Apple River, Ill,
was electrocuted Monday OF last week
while attempting to repair an electric
light in his fathers restaurant. His
clothing was wet and in some manner
his body afforded a passage for the
current to ground. Efforts on the part
of the father to save the lad were tu-
tile.
H E. Cole and wife of Baraboo left
New York Saturday on the steamer
Poldendam, for Europe. They viii,
visit France, Italy, Switzerland, Bel
GUM, Holland and the British Isles
Mr.. and Mrs. Cole, newspaper people
were in Europe in 1914, but were com
PEELED by war conditions TO cut thei1
visit short
Frank Goodman, Hillsboro, driving
a car near LaFarge, was injured WneI
he attempted to turn out Of the roaC
to pass a truck. The Goodman cal
turned over and he was pinned under
the steering. Goodman suffered three
broken ribs and internal injuries. His
wife and daughter, riding with him
were unhurt. The car was wrecked
Ford cars driven by Walter VALLEY
and Frank Kasparek in one and Art
Lawless in the other, collided on thu
Bridgeport road out of Pra. du CnieI
one night last week, with considera
bic damage to both. While Lawles!
was in town after the accident some
one stripped his machine of tires an
tools Moonshine is blamed for tn,
smashup.
w. K. Jewell, 67, for many years
town chairman of Hillsboro, Vernon
county, met death in storm Monda!
a week ago. Enroute home from ;
board of review meeting, Mr.. Jewel
was caught in the storm. He sOugh
shelter IN shed owned by neighbor
The shed collapsed and Jewell wa
crushed by falling timbers. He diej
from injuries the following day.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nutter, Excel
sior, Richland county farmers, los
their daughter, Caroline, aged 5, in al
accident The family had been ou
driving and returning, stopped il
front of their home. Mrs. Nutter, witt
the little girl in her arms, stepped tt
the road AS she did so the car moved
slightly and the mother lost her bal
ance precipitating the child to th(
ground She struck on the back ..
her head and died inside of ffteeE
minutes. An examination showed :
slight bump at the base of the brain
1t is presumed that the child was hit
on a vital spot or suffered hemor-
rhage.
During the storm of Monday after.
noon of last week lightning struck tnC
farm of Tom c. Brown in the vicinity
of Woodstock, Richland county. I'm
usually enough, no fire resulted from
the lightning Every window light III
the house was broken, plaster was
knocked off and many laths broken
a large stone step in front of tbs
1 porch was shattered to bits and th6
porch torn away from the house
The family had gone to the chicken
house to rescue chicks from the rain
and undoubtedly owe their lives tC
their absence A child, directed tC
enter the house, sought refuge in g
small building. He too would have
been injured or killed.
The annual crowd of shad flies at
tanned their height Saturday anG
Sunday in Pra. du Chen vicinity
There were millions of them on the
brush and trees along the Mississippi
and sloughs and lakes nearby. They
hung in great clusters over the
water on green branches, and the fisl
Toasted as they never had Toasted be.
fore on the fiimsy flies as they fell in
to the water. The air above the cat.
fish and Rotten sloughs and Horse.
shoe lake was fairly alive with then
just after shutdown and actually
darkened the sky. The flies live only
three days, however, and their earl!
appearance was brought on, no doubt
by the extreme hot weather Of two
and three weeks ago.-Courier.