Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-09-19
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUents
of WeeRFron7 Tri-
State Area.

LlnQen, is nulSueu, having DeSu Suuh
to depth of l16 feet. This opens tho
body of ore which has been proven by
over 20 test holes. The mill, which
was moved several week ago by j. G.
i White, is nearly ready to commence
milling the ore, which will be taken
| from this mine. The hopper is al
ready full of mixed ore taken from
the shaft itself. Some water has to De
contended with and the huge 12-inch
pump can easily handle the flow 1t
is expected that the mine will be run
ming at full capacity within two weeks
ait the latest. Chas. Singer of this city
and w. Sink of Galena are active in
the enterprise. A number of miners
| in Linden will be given work the year
round.
Russell Blum, a 14-year-old Mt.
Carroll boy, was shot and killed while
hunting Saturday. Russell and COM
panion about the same age, John Cole
man, were hunting on the Roy Nycum
farm, two miles east of Mt. Carroll.
They had heavy shot gun with them.
While climbing through a fence, Rus
sell attempted to drag the shot gun
through after him. The gun hammer
caught on some obstacle and discharg
ed the contents of a shell. The charge
hit Russell near the heart, tearing
great hole. His companion rushed for
help but the boy was dead long before
medical aid arrived.
Recently Rev. Harry Evans obtain
ed consent from Red Cross headQuar-
ters to expend $1,000 from the Cuba
City chapter funds for the purpose of
establishing public park at that
place. The village board goes Rev.
Evans trifle better and appropriated
$4,000 additional and the city will now
have a real park Rev. Evans is d
high class landscape gardner and he
has volunteered to lay out the park
and prepare the various features of it
so that when his work is concluded
Cuba City will have one of the most
beautiful public parks in this section.
n. E. France of Platteville and E.
Ehrgott, Milwaukee, sent out by the
state department of agriculture, found
numerous beehiveS near Dodgeville
infected with the foul brood pest The
pestilence destroys larvae before they
hatch but does not affect the honey.
The remedy is to take all honey, brood
comb and foundations from the hive,
destroying same. The hive is then
disinfected. The disinfecting is re-
peated in a few days and the hive is
then free of infection. The state does
not allow sale of sWarms until they
are proven to be free of the pest.
Cecil Garner, 80, was instantly kill
ed when crushed by an elevator at the
A Y. Mcdonald Mfg. plant, Dubuque,
where he was employed Garner,
working on the first floor of the plant,
rang for the freight elevator. In
stead of waiting for the elevator to
descend Garner stuck his head in
small steel door to see where the lift
was. The platform, moving down,
struck the man on the head, tearing
away the top half of mis- skull.
Two Viroqua boys, Clyde Meade and
Floyd Cunningham, received appoint
ments to the U. S. Coast Guard acad-
envy at New London, Connecticut.
These appointments were gained
through Congressman j. d. Beck. The
school is said to have course as good
as West Point or Annapolis. One fea-
ture of the Coast Guard training is
that OF saving lives and property along
the coast and each year many lives
are saved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Frye, Linden,
waited in vain after the World war for
the return Of their son, Kennard, who
enlisted and served overseas. The
young man wrote that he was starting
for home but he never arrived and his
parents finally mourned him as dead.
Recently they received a letter FROM
the young man addressed from China.
He will be home soon and a mothers
heart is full of thanksgiving.
A Mrs. Mccain was killed in an
auto accident near Hillsboro Thurs
day, when a car driven by James
Revels struck band and turned over.
McCann passenger, suffered a crush
ed head. She was thrown from the
car and her head was pinned between
the running board and the ground.
The other occupants were not serious
ly hurt.
John r. Kraak, Blue Mounds farm
er, was seriously injured last Monday
evening when his Ford car crashed
into an iron pipe railing on bridge
near the village. One of the pipe pro-
ject;ons went through his auto wind
shield and entered his body below the
heart. Kraak was taken to Madison
hospital
Frank Genet, Mineral Point, was at
tackled by dog on the Riley farm
south of Darlington. Genet and a
ten-year-old son had gone to the Riley
farm to buy apples. When Genet went
to the house the dog attacked him. He
was badly bitten on both arms but will
recover.
While chasing after pigeons in a
barn near Stockton, Nathan Northup,
boy residing near that place stepped
into hay chute and fell 20 feet onto
concrete floor below. He fractured
one of his legs twice above the knee
and below the hip.
The postoffice department has leas-
ed the Fred Walters building at
Dodgeville and will move the Office
there shortly. The building is sub
stantial brick structure with high
ceilings, stone floors, etc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Keyes of High
land, celebrated their 50th wedding
day Monday, Sept 8. They received
numerous presents among them being
a gold crucifx from fellow members