Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-07-18
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREVITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.


near Platteyille. He was taken to the
Mayo hospital at Rochester where in
formation was given to the effect that
similar cases have developed from a
practice common to many people.
The practice referred to is the knack
OF blowing on blades of grass placed
between the fiat surfaces of the two
hands, rendering a peculiar squawk-
ing noise that boys delight to create
1t seems that by this practice slight
abrasions are made on the lips and
thereby infection is implanted. The
boy responded to treatment.
In a severe rain storm Monday of
last week, A. A. Thompson and wife
and daughter of Madison were mar
ooned on a road near Arena Thomp-
son saw the road flooded ahead of him
but essayed to pull through. His car
stalled in the middle of a torrent,
when water entered the carburetOr.
Luckily the crisis of the flood stage
had been reached and Thompson pull
ed to shore safely. Other tourists, not
SO lucky, had to be pulled out by far
mers.
Oates & Ellis last week closed the
seasons work at the hatchery, with
a total output of about $4,000 chicks
Gus points in seven states, and some
patrons re-ordered several times. One
man at Wausau, Wis, ordered one
thousand, another eight hundred and
q number in the local field as high as
five hundred Some orders were re-
ceived that they could not supply
Bloomington Record.
Samuel Curtis, employed as maker
of cheese in the Fancy creek factory,
Richland county, stepped upon small
pebble while at work and, as he sup
posed, sprained his ankle. He kept
at work for a week thinking the in
jury would heal but as it did not do so,
went to a doctor. An examination dis
closed a broken bone in the joint just
above the ankle. Curtis had been
handling 5000 pounds of milk day
during the week after his injury
LOungers in Judge Cunningham's
tribunal at Dubuque awoke from
sleepy session when trick cigar in
the hands of spectator took fire. The
frightened spectator had been handed
the cigar as he entered the room. He
hurried out with his fireworks and
court, lawyers and prisoner at the bar
INDUCED in hearty laugh. Then life
in Dubuque went back to its accus-
toned somnolence.
Viroqua, a place about the size Of
Lancaster, passed a school budget
of S49.54637, to he raised by tax The
electors voted $4,000 additional for
the new school, now in the hands OF
architects. The original amount voted
$3.50 000-was found TO be insuftlc-
lent and an extra amount raising the
expenditure to $4,000, was voted
without question after the board lad
shown the people they had cut at
every point possible.
Sank county has an ordinance that
forbids soliciting or bartering on the
highways. Graft Hedger, VINO oper-
ated a stand on highway II, between
Delton and KilbOurn, was arrested
under the ordinance last week and
fined. 1t is claimed that solicitors for
resorts and boat companies at Kill
bourn have made nuisances OF them
selves, and this prompted the ordl-
nance 10y the county board.
Spencer Johnson, 10, Richland Cen
ter youth, went back to see why
giant frecracker he lit didn't go OFT
AS he held the cracker in his hands It
exploded and particles Of paper and
powder dust were blown into the
bows ewes He was taken to Madison
for treatment. Doctors think the eye
sight may saved although he will be-
SCARED.
4 car driven by BENZ Sickles, Cot
tage Grove, enrOute for Kansas City,
overturned near Cobb Tuesday a
week ago. Sicl1les suffered badly
injured hand, one bone breaking, the
ligaments being torn and an artery
severed He was sewed up by Dr
Morton OF Cobb A brother and ne
phew, riding in the car, were unhult.
Foster Fairbrother, RockbTIdge,
Richland county farmer, marketed
four logs the past spring which netted
him S45 per thousand feet on the first
two cuts. The first two logs scaled
1927 feet and the other two oil, total
Of 203S feet Of white oak.
Carl and Frank SchTaeder OF Chi
cago. who went to Eagle River re-
Gently to canoe to Prairie, found their
time limited and abandoned the trip
at stevens Point. They returned 10
Prairie via train after taking IN me
Dells scenery.
Wenzel Stanek, OF Bloom City, suf-
fered a painful injury to his lett
shoulder the fourth, when ne al
tempted to hold a rearing horse. The
horse hit the shoulder with its foot
with such force as to cause disloca-
ton.
Elmer Kuhns, Hanover, a diabetic,
underwent the new insulin treatment
for for his malady recently and shows
great Improvement He is gaining
weight and his diet restrictions have
The A. & P. Products Co., Galena
condensery, is using $4,000 pounds ol
milk daily, brought in by 20 motor
trucks from various routes. S25'00o
a month is paid to farmers for milk.
Iva Rutter of Boaz fell from her
fathers car and suffered broken
neck. Death was instantaneous. The
child was returning from Sunday
school when the accident happened:
The unprecedented downpour OF 81
inches Of rain visited Freeport and
vicinitv Friday a week ago. Streets
and cellars were flooded and all trafflc
" Schelling, Vernon county coun-
~ agent, and Miss Phoebe Gross OF
Stark, Vernon county, were married