Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

| Timothy Lynch of Ridgeway, a ma
! tive of Ireland, died at his home Nov
6, at the age of 81 years. He left a
widow and Is children.
! The city budget of Dodgeville for
| the ensuing year is $4,000, or about
half the Lancaster budget. The Dodge
vile city fathers reduced the budget
from $4,000 in 1924 and from $4,000
in 1928
| The James mine, near Shullsburg,
has been pumped out, pumps are be-
| ing replaced and the runs will be I'M
watered shortly. Mining will begin
soon. The mine has previously been
a good producer.
Mrs. Jess Corpian, Wauzeka, 40, a
native of Centerville, died at a Madi-
| son hospital, Friday Nov. z, follow
! ing an operation for goitre. She leaves
husband and seven children. Burial
was made at Linden.
Fire starting in the walls of the
Josiah Thomas residence at Dodge
vile proved a hard matter to control
until firemen chopped the siding away
and shot the stream of water up be-
| tween the studding. No great damage
resulted.
Jas. Keyes, elderly man of Mineral
Point, suffered a peculiar injury near
Barneveld Friday evening when car
he was riding in side-swiped a road
drag. Part of the drag dipped into
| the car and struck Keyes on the head.
A later investigation showed that an
artery had been severed.
Guy Bishop of Cobb, while on his
| 1IHro1I
with another auto near Mt. Horeb,
demolishing his own car beyond re-
pair Joe Pettera of Montfort, who
was passing, brought Mr.. Bishop to
Cobb where a physician examined
him and found he had suffered frac-
tured collar bone.-Dodgeville Chron-
icle
In the case of Iowa County bank,
Mineral Point, VS.. Louis GRADER, dl-
rector, it was decided that the YER
bal agreement to stand good for the
note of the son for $4,000 was as
binding as one made in writing. Mr..
GRADER agreed to stand back of his
son in the matter and later, when the
son petitioned bankruptcy, the bank
made the demand on the father.
! Cyril Roberts and Bertram Fren-
tress, Dubuque, city employees, who
were adrift on the Mississippi river
three hours after their boat capslzed
in Maquoketa chutes, are recover
ing from their narrowing expert
ence. Frentress was unconscious
and Roberts was exhausted when
rescued The two men, on a duck
hunting trip, were wearing heavy
hip boots which prevented their
swimming They managed to keep
afoat on driftwood.
Mel Hart, town of Dayton, Richland
county farmer, was cornered in barn
pen where he had gone to turn bull
! into the pasture, and had frlghtful
experience Hart crept as far into the
corner as he could thus preventing the
| bulls horns from reaching him. Holes
were bored an inch deep into the
wood where the enraged, bovine would
strike at it's master. Hart was finally
/ able to seize the ring in the bulls
nose and subdue it. He was badly
bruised about the legs and body.
| Incomplete returns on the ballot
ing on the $1O0,000,000 bond issue
for highway pavement in Illinois in
dictate that the proposition was car
ried by more than two to one vote
and that it received a half million
or more votes over and above the
necessary majority of all the votes
cast for the heads of the various
tickets. Every indication is that it
proved even more popular than the
$60,O00,000 proposition which was
carried in 1918 by a majority of a
half million.
! Because he failed to give a car COM
! ing to his right the right of way on
a public road Thomas Mears of Dodge
vile will be unable to collect dam
ages for an accident and must bear
the cost of suit. So an Iowa county
| Jury held last week Mears' car and
a machine driven by H. J. Sohoene-
man of Wyoming collided at a cross
roads on S. t. L. % near Plain one
Sunday last August. The machines
were locked so tightly together they
had to be pulled apart by a truck.
Mears sued and lest his case.
Lutte Goodmiller, a farmer residing
in Pleasant Valley, 10 Daviess coun-
ty, died suddenly on Friday evening
at his farm home. With his son, he
spent the afternoon in the field and
toward evening the elder Goodmiller
fCCmDldln6u dDOuL HUI 1O6IulS So WSIl,
and started for the house. The family
dog followed, but returned shortly to
the son and parked and acted queer,
so the son followed and found the
body of his father lying face down.
ward on the ground. He was removed
to the house and physician sum-
moned. but there was little use as
his life had ended. Heart disease is
believed to have been the cause of
his death.
With small pox ten times more
prevalent than it was at this time last
year in Illinois, DR.. Isaac D. Rawl-
ings, state health director, has is
sued a warning urging general vac
cination. While the situation at pres
ent is not alarming it is sufficiently
acute to cause grave concern among
health officers who look forward to
the next few months with disagree
able misgivings. A similar situation
exists throughout the entire coun-
try, having attracted the attention of
the surgeon general of the United
/ States Public Health Service, who has