Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-30
NEIGHbORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUents
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

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streams of Iowa county
While attaching an electric toaster
to light socket Saturday, Miss Ruth
Huber of Shullsburg fell from chair
breaking the bone just below the hip
joint.
The citizens of Platteville voted in
favor Of $1,000 for their band by ma
jority of 1882, and in Monroe the band
proposition carried by a two to one
vote. Platteville also voted in favor of
a new street lighting system.
Fred Day, Patch Grove, has opened
rOadhOuse in Bridgeport hollow, op-
pOsite the spring. He will care for
the needs Of the hundreds Of tourists
that pass, selling groceries, ice cream,
soft drinks, etc. Day plans also to
rent tents to those who wish to stay
and camp.
Harry Moore, a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Moore of Darlington, met with a
serious and painful accident. He was
operating planer in the Rodham in
cubatOr factory, and the machine
severed all of the fingers and part of
the thumb from his left hand. 1t was
necessary to have the fingers amputa-
ted at the knuckle joints.
Catherine Klotz, 10-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Klotz of
E. Dubuque, narrowly escaped death
Monday afternoon when she fell from
a bluff near the Burlington pump
house to the ground, a distance OF so
feet. She suffered deep gashes in her
head, face and limbs but no bones
were broken. Section men saw the ac-
40j1nnt and fnnlz thn CiCl IN hnr homo
Reuben Liebertran, age IA, Cross
Plains, was instantly killed and his
father, August Liebertran, was badly
gashed, when the automobile they
had driven into the second story of
their farm barn, crashed through the
opposite wall, and dropped ten feet,
The machine overturned in the plunge
and pinned its occupants underneath.
A robbery of a post office at Rock
Grove, ILL.,, only few miles from the
Green Co. line, occurred Saturday
night The post office is in a general
store. The yeggs blasted the post Of
flee safe obtaining $50 in cash and
stamps but failed to affect entrance
to the safe belonging to the general
store. AS yet no trace has been found
of the guilty ones.
Most of the newspapers in our eX-
change carried an item last week re-
garding the capture of three wolf cubs
at the Henry GRADER farm near Min
eral Point. But certain facts have
come to light since that change the
story. The capture was performed by
Ernie GRADER and the three little
wolves have turned out to be three
tame dog pups which had been lost.
They evidently had been found by a
she-wolf who was caring for them as
tho they were her own.-Blanchard-
vile Blade.
Rowland Shepherd, age rs years. a
retired farmer living at Belleville,
was struck by Ford coupe Friday
evening and sustained several LAGER
ations abuut the head, compound
fracture of the left arm, fractures of
the left leg and hand, and two brok-
en- ribs. The aged man was rushed
to a Madison hospital where his con-
dition is said to be very serious. VIM.
Whey who resides north of Belleville
is under arrest charged with failing
to stop to give aid to the victim. If
Shepherd dies, Whey will be held for
manslaughter.
The snag steamer Dandelion, used
by the government for upper river
work. has completed marking the
channel with buoys and navigation is
no wopen. Excursions start on the
river about the third week in May.
Scott Barnes, Richland county far
mer, nearly lost an eye as the result
of a toss of his cows horn. AS MT,
Barnes united the cow preparatory to
taking her to the pasture, she swung
her head cat ching Barnes face be-
tween her horns and the roof OF the
shed. The lower lid of the right eye
was torn loose and the eyeball IN
iured. Barnes was taken to Madison
for treatment. Doctors think the eye
can be saved.
HAYES Van Gorder, former resident
of Postville, Iowa, was arrested on a
Rock Island train in that village last
Tuesday. Van Gorder had been pos
ing as a postoffice inspector. He car
ried a supply of money order blanks
and postal supplies. His game was 10
drop into a small town and tell the
local postmaster that he had Deen
sent to take up the supply OF money
order blanks and send them 10 WASH
inctcn for balancing. He Woulu lHeh
visit another town and cash tue Illon-
ey orders thus obtained. Postal IN
spector Nicholson of La Crosse had
notified Postmaster Keith Gray OF
Postville to be on the watch for any
nerson calling for mail under the
name of Overn, which was the name
Van Gorder used. Van Gorder was
arrested on the train where ne hao
seated himself comfortably. The mar
sshall and postmaster put HIM under
arrest at the point of pistol van
Gorder is now in Jail at Waukon. he
was once postmaster at Abba, Iowa.
where he was convicted of the murder
Of his father-in-law. The sentence
was reversed by the supreme court.
He then took to postal forging, carry
inc grip similar to those used py
nostal inspectors. The grip contained
stubs of money orders, a revolver ana
cartridges, chisel, several nunuIeu
dollars in cash and portable typs,
writer. He is said to have secured
several thousand dollars in the past
three months by fraudulent opera
lions A wife and children live al
Waulzon. Van Gorder was a popular
1.1 +ooobar in his youth and seem