Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-07-25
Nearby Notes


Hazel Green Tuesday OF last week
Vim. GIatz, an old resident Of Bel
mont, died last Wednesday, He was
10 years Of age.
The Roundup at PlatteVille July
| 4th and 9Th Melted the Legion Post OF
| hat city about $4,000.
Miss Ethel Blades Of Platteville and
! Robert Eustice Of Galena, were mar
| ried at Dubuque recently.
Galena Lodge No. 882 B. P o. E.
| will hold it's annual family picnic at
| Hazel Green Thursday, August 2.
Johnny Mohardt, outfelder for the
| Platteville Mowers, has joined the At
lanta club of the South Atlantic As
sociation.
Slapnicka manager Of the Shulls-
! burg ball team last summer, has
/ signed on with the Three-I League
as umpire.
The PIatteville summer school had
| graduating class Of 100 students
| Friday, July 20. Pres. Royce deliy-
! cred the address.
/ Mrs. Harvey Champion died at her
| home in Cuba City after a lingering
! illness. She is survived by a husband,
son, three sisters and two brothers.
| DR.. G. W Palmer, well known
| Cassville physician, has moved to
Hull, Iowa, where he will practice.
| The Palmer residence was sold to c..
| j. Kuenster.
Cherry growers in the Gays NILS
vicinity received hail checks aggre-
eating $1,190 as compensation for
damage to their orchards during re-
cent storms
Phillip Baxter, 81, pioneer resi-
dent Of Iowa county, died at his home
in Cobb, Monday, July 16. A widow
and three sons, Thomas, Joseph and
John, survive.
Mrs. Jennie Virtue Cuttell, former
resident of Elizabeth, ILL.,, who died
recently, left the M. E. church of the
village $500. The missionary society
Of the church was left like sum.
Richard Lory Of Platteville, sorted
his potatoes last Friday and gave the
little ones and potato sprouts to his
| hogs, as farmers often do. The hogs
were taken sick and II died within
/ the next two days.
VIM. Roach, helping stack hay on
the julie Edwards farm near Bloom
/ ington, fell from the stack when a
/ ladder broke. Roach suffered brok-
| en- arm. He is recuperating at his
home in Pra du Chen.
The U. S. government has decided
| that Mississippi river water is unfit
| to drink since a case Of typhoid de-
veloped on the government light ten
der, Dandelion. Modern water stills
have been installed on all boats.
Residents of Glen Haven village
and township have decided in favor
of community building to be used
as town hall, picture show and
community meeting place. $4,000
was voted by the town and $4,000 sold
in stock.
Otto and Henry Oesterich and John
Jackson have been held at Prairie du
| Chen in connection with the recent
death of John Strnad. The court held
that murder had been probably com
mitted and that the defendants were
implicated. They will have their trial
at the October ERIN Of court.
Helen Kirk, 4, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Sam Kirk, Elk Grove, fell into d
cesspool in the yard of Mrs. Rawson
neighbor. The child dropped about
ten feet, suffering some bruises. She
was Immediately rescued by heI
father, who was on the premises. A
loose cover over the sewer vault was
pried up by the child, causing the ac-
cident.
The Richland Center baseball club
has adopted a new policy whereby all
players from now on will perform
without remuneration. The hired
players will be given their choice OF
playing for nothing or leaving the
team. The CLUB has been running be-
hind on all their games and it is
hoped that this change will put them
on a profitable basis.
Sever Anderson, the 5-year-Old lad
run over by an l. G. train at Dubuque
died in a hospital there Monday OF
last week. The youngster was play
ing in the rail yards when hurt. He
made his home with his grandfather
in an old boat hull on the levee. The
parents are poor and the mother was
working for a Cassville family when
the accident occurred
Thomas Holman, Edmund builder
and contractor, working on the Mrs.
| Cynthia Callow house at Cobb Tues
day afternoon, was informed that his
shop was on fire. Ele covered the 8
miles in short order and found a
| crowd fighting the fire with buckets
and cisteTn water. Help was sum-
moned from Dodgeville and the house
garage and other buildings were
saved. The shop and tools were totally
destroyed
Henry Hanson, DeSoto, driving
home in a Ford, went to sleep at the
steering wheel. He awoke when the
car crashed against a cement culvert
Hanson was not hurt but two wheels
were torn from his car. Accidents
due to drivers falling asleep are more
common than is imagined. Automo-
biles do not possess the uncanny
sense Of knowing the driver is asleep
and jogging home like the old-fash-
Toned horses used to.
David NJ. Bowes, Gran Grae, Craw-
ford county farmer, met with a SER
ious accident Thursday that may cost
him his sight. Bowes was examinin z
a defunct storage battery and lit a
match that he might better seek the
trouble. As he held the match over
the cells violent explosion took
place and the corroding acid was
blown into his eyes. Bowes was taken
| to La Crosse for treatment Doctors
| saw that one eve is gone and the other