Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-05

George Darcy, Hillsboro farmer, is
looking for the miscreants who came
to his farm yard a few nights ago and
deliberately butchered and carried
away a large hog. When Darcy went
to his hog lot one morning he dis
covered one of his heavy porkers was
missing. On the supposition the ami
NAL had strayed away he went to a
neighbours seeking it. Not finding it,
he returned to his farm and made a
closer examination whereupon he
found where the hog had been killed
and was able to trace the thieves
across the fields to a gate where the
carcass had been loaded into car
and driven away. The hog weighed
about $50 pounds.
The artesian well at Pra du Chen
has been brought back to the old time
flow The drillers cleaned out the cor
rosion down to the 1,008 feet depth
and let down a heavy charge of dyn-
amite to jar loose the rock formation
and close the outlet of the under
ground stream. Other charges were
put down and each time the drill was
put down to open up the well and
clean out the loose sand. The well
now flows something like 100 to 125
gallons of water per minute and
shoots high in the air. 1t looks like
olden times when the big umbrella
spray was a marvel.-PreSS.
the straw from this years threshing
and IA head of young hogs just pur-
chased that day by VERNE Collins of
Blue River were completely destroyed
by fire Tuesday afternoon on the AL
bert Collins farm on Sand Prairie.
How the fire started is not known.
A disastrous fire on the A. Everson
farm at Soldiers grove caused loss
of $4,000. The fire started in his big
barn, through combustion. The barn
contained 100 tons of hay, the gran
airy 900 blu of grain, a silo filled with
silage, a tobacco shed filled with to-
bacco and several other smaller
buildings. All burned. $4,000 insur-
ance was carried on the buildings.
DR.. P. L. Seaman just returned
from a six weeks attendance at med
ical field service school at Carlisle
Barracks, Pa. These barracks were
occupied by the Indian school from
1877 until 1917 In Carlisle is the
monument and burial place of the
famous Molly Pitcher The U. S. bar
racks were burned July 1, 1863, by
the southern cavalry, who were with
Lees army. The old rock prison that
Geo. Washington had the Hessian
prisoners build is still the post pris-
on.-Pra. du Chen Courier.
The tobacco shed containing all
Chas. w. Yerke tells us of an acre
pasture he had that had been run
for sheep for the past Is years, and
had even failed to produce grass. He
plowed around the rocks and put in
corn this year-and his neighbors
only laughed at him. But he has the
largest, finest and most matured crop
of corn on that little piece in all the
Snew Bottom country-and it was a
punk corn year, too. Not a grub mo-
Tested the field, and he harvested a
fine lot of seed corn.-Montfort Mail.
Austin Fingerhuth, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Fingerhuth, of Cobb, for
mer Highland residents, suffered a
badly broken arm while playing foot
ball at school. In attempting to kick
the ball, his foot slipped and he fell
to the ground, his arm striking in
such a manner as to break it at the
wrist.
Jos. o. Yerke, who recently moved
to Montfort from his farm near Dry
Bone, suffered fracture of the right
forearm Tuesday, while cranking his
car-Highland Press.
The Highland Lumber and Fuel Co.
of Highland has been sold to P. W.
Hennessey e Son.
Abbott Summons, a former Fenni-
more resident, died at Boulder, Colo,
recently.
H. E. Kemp of Boscobel is in a Mad
ison hospital for treatment.
Miss Mary McMurray of Fennimore
died at Evansville.