Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-11-28
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREvIT|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUents
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

were made and announced last week
In Vernon county the present trunk
highway between Viroqua and Reads
dale was moved to another valley
about two miles to the north. Trunk
highway No. 80, between Soldiers
Grove and Boscobel was removed.
road from Soldiers Grove through
Gays Mills and Barnum to Boscobel
was added. The river road from La
Crosse through Stoddard, Genoa. De
Soto Ferryville and Lynxville, and
southWesterly to a connection with
No. 27 was added to the system, and
connection between Ferryville and
Gays Mills through Mt. Sterling was
added.
Gene Wagner, who works for Dave
Hicks, on the farm south Of town, is
a good man in the corn fields, as he
gets away with his hundred bushels
a day and does it easily, says the
Warren Sentinel-Leader He has av-
eraged 100 bushels a day since he
started this fall. One day he brought
in 12O bushels. Of course Dave has
some very good corn, standing up
well, and this makes it easier picking.
But we don't believe there are many
men in this part of the country who
pick a hundred bushels a day and
keep it up right along. If there are,
we would be glad to hear about it.
By some miracle occupants of a
Nash car driven by Carl La Bonnie OF
Pra. du Chen, escaped death when
La Bonnie, driving at high speed, at
tempted to pass another car and
crashed into culvert at Wright's
Ferry. The wrecked machine slid
nd tn cfn To
Bonnie and two sons in the front seat,
emerged from the wreckage unhurt.
The elder Mr.. and Mrs. La Bonnie, in
the back seat, suffered severe bruises
and cuts. The man who La Bonnie
tried to pass stopped and took the in
iured ones home. TIE car will sal
wage but little.
A new and fatal disease, which we
will term "plastereatis" manifested
itself among a flock of geese belong
ing to Robt. Black, on the M A.
OBrien farm, near Snullsburg. Some
building improvements are being
made on the premises, and few days
ago Mr.. Blacks geese sampled
batch of dry patent plaster 1t ap-
parently made them thirsty, and they
headed for the water trough, but in
stead Of getting relief the water
caused the plaster to "set' and five
geese died with stiff necks, one with
it's head in the trough.-Pick & Gao
Oscar Buchanan, of Viroqua, Who
has been employed at Gays Mills, had
bad accident on Sunday evening.
While driving over low culvert III
his Chevrolet coupe, at Bell Center,
one wheel struck a large hole at the
oJoo +bo road and the was
thrown over a 20 foot embankment
into a gulch. The machine turned
over twice, but the windshield and
the top were uninjured, and that is
probably all that saved Buchanan
from being killed. AS it was, ne re-
ceived a broken wrist and was I'M
conscious for some time.
The Galena Gazette chronicles the
narrow escape from death of a hobo
who either fell or threw himself pc
fore an approaching passenger tram
in Galena on Tuesday of last week
The big engine as but few yaroS
aWav when the stranger, either pur-
posely fell into the middle OF the
track and made no effort to get away.
He seemed dazed Conductor James
made lunge at the listless form anu
snatched it from the track only sec
ond before the massive train rumpleu
by.
A car occupied by Alfred and Frank
Johnson of DUBUQUE, was smashed IL
to by larger car on the turnpihe
road west of Galena Wednesday
night. ALT Johnson, driving, notlceu
the big car in a lane as he whlzzeu
past. A second later the big Car
crashed into his machine. me John-
son car was rolled over several tllue0
and both men badly hurt. Inc ND
chine was wrecked The larger car
went on and It's identity remains
mystery
VIM. Donahue, Nifflin cheesemaKer'
was fined $25 ana costs before judge
Arthur at Dodgeville for having maue
cheese with an excess OF molstuTe
content Daniel Clark, Mineral Foln.'
cheesemaker. was fined the same
amount on a similar charge. Leroy
Jones. Mifflin farmer, was hned 9Ao
and costs bv Judge Arthur Tor aeIlV-
ering adulterated milk to the Rose
dale cheese factory. All three VIOLA
tors of the pure food laws PAID the4r
fines. -, oeoioi
VIM. H. FARMLAND received ofllclal
notice last Wednesday OF ms appoin -
ment as postmaster of Monttort.
would he difficult to improve upon tne
service rendered by our postofnce = uI,
der his capable management, anu -
gratifying to know that this service
will continue. Miss Harriet Chand t
Ter will be retained as assistant
which also meets general approval
Montfort Mail. 49,, IN
Mrs. Bertha Barsch, so. has oeen on
bnnoer strike in the count jail at
Freeport for AS hours and declared i,n
Tuesday she would not eat or drink I'M.
until liberated When seven OF ne
children were found dependent anu
sent to an orphanage several days
ago, she became hysterlcal anu
taken into custody. $50 ;,e
The Milwaukee road has closed lts
DUBUQUE shops retaining only enougn
men ito maintain repairs. 400 work work
ers were thrown out of employ N A.
Mrs. Margaret Friesenecker, 80, an