Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-24


resident OF Pra. du Chen, died We'd
nesday at the age of 81. Funeral SER
vices were held Friday
Henry Barrette, riding a motorcycle
near Pra. du Chen, collided with a
truck occupied by three men. Bar
rette was thrown to the ground and
his face and forehead badly cut. He
was taken to a hospital
The Hanover Wooden Mill Co. plant
has been closed and will remain shut
down pending an improvement in
market conditions. A few looms at
the mill are now busy on samples
which it is hoped will find favor in
the market, and that help may soon
be recalled
seriously hurt Thursday a week ago
when he fell so feet from the top of
scaffold at the Monmouth mine at
Hazel Green, died from his injuries in
a Platteville hospital. No one saw
the accident and how it happened is
mystery.
Henry Thulen, II, Savanna, lost his
life in a hunting accident. The boy
was in launch with his father. Thu
len Sr. was untying the boat when he
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and saw his boy with his hands over
his breast, stagger and fall. The only
words the boy uttered were, ooh pa,
help me-" just before he fell lifeless.
One hundred thousand more war
veterans of Illinois will receive their
state bonus checks within a short
time. This was announced at Spring
field Tuesday when the second $15.-
100000 issue of bonus bonds was sold
to New York house at a premium OF
$27 $50. Bonus payments ceased
short time ago when the first $4,000,
900 bond fund was exhausted.
Mrs. Emmo futile, Richland Center,
was knocked down and badly injured
while crossing street. Some un-
known person driving a car without
lights is supposed to have hit the
woman and sped on without stopping.
Mrs. futile was found by passersby,
huddled in a heap and unconscious.
She suffered broken collar bone,
bruised eye and severe injuries about
the body but will recover.
Vernon Charles Friday, 2-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Friday of
near Sextonville, Richland county,
met death beneath tractor pillow
operated by his father Wednesday,
The child had been playing in the
yard and in some manner got be-
meath the machine. Mr.. Friday filled
the radiator and started the tractor.
He heard a cry and turned to behold
his son under the plow The family
is Frustrated over the affair. Burial
was made at Ash Greek Friday.
Joseph Kozelka, Pra. du Chen, met
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with Joseph Biehl, lad of Is, Sua-
| day of last week. The hunters were
crawling in the grass near slough
dragging their guns, when the acct
dent happened. Kozelka's gun dis
charged the full load taking effect in
one arm. His clothing was driven
into his flesh and he bled profuselv
Kozelka, 40, and the father of eight
children, was taken to a hospital.
Every effort is being made to save his
arm.
Mrs. Herman Tranel, E. Dubuque
was fatally burned when kerosene
she was pouring into stove eXplod
ed The fire in the wash house was
making slow progress and Mrs. Ira
mel poured the oil on the Goals to
hurry the blaze along. A puff OF
flame shot up and the woman's gar
ments caught fire. She ran scream
! ing outdoors where she fell in heap
on the floor A son put the flames out
and had his mother taken to hos
pital. She died there Mrs. Tranel
was the mother of the late Mrs. Chris.
| Wagner, who with two small children
lost their lives in the food at Union
park, July 8, 1919.