Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREv|T|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Edward Schuman, Savanna, farmer,
shot down an eagle that had seized
a pig on his place. The bird had six
foot wing spread.
In mammoth liquor raid officers
of Clayton county, Iowa, landed II
alleged liquor law violators. All were
held under $1,000 bonds.
Frank Morrison, Fennimore farmer,
had an encounter with a bull and suf-
fered a crushed shoulder and facial
injuries. A son drove the enraged bull
away.
Contracts have been let for the new
sewage disposal system at Blooming
ton and work will be under way soon.
The system will cost in the neighbor-
hood of $10,500.
Theo. Curry, 20, Baraboo, was
drowned at Angola, Ind, Sunday. A
brother met a similar fate two years
ago, drowning in the China sea while
on a cruise in the U. S. navy.
Managers of the Dodgeville, Shulls-
burg and Livingston ball teams are
planning a big three-day field meet,
one to be held in each town some
| time during the month of August
Col. o. G. Munson, formerly of Vir-
oqua, has returned to his present
home, Pra. du Chen, following a win
| ter spent in Colorado. Col. Munson is
considering running for the state SEN
| ate.
Boyd Ferguson, formerly principal
of the Cazenovia schools, was mar
ried recently at Woodstock, Illinois,
to Bess Clair of Dinwiddie. He is now
| teaching in the schools of Laramie,
| Wyoming.
Albert Jeffrey, employed as line
man at Patch Grove, went through the
Boer war in Africa without a scratch
but was badly chewed up by bull
dog he played with. He is at his home
! in Waukon. recuperatlng.
An Illinois farmer threw poison
| bait for army worms around in huge
piles and lost two head of cattle as
a result. The state authorities have
notified farmers to scatter the bait IN
| the manner of sowing seed instead of
putting it in piles.
! Men with power hammers, others
with coll steel and sledges are rip
ping open cement walks on Main ST.
at Platteville in the work of repair
| ing cutters for conduitS carrying
wires to furnish current for the new
| lighting system. This work will re-
quire about two weeks time.
A cream separator exploding at the
Jos. Rolling home near Bellevue was
the cause of a son, Richard, 3, get
ting his skull fractured. The bowl
| flew in all directions when it exploded
and little Richards head was split OPP
en-. He was operated on later and will
recover. Two other children were bad
| ly cut.
BLOOMINGTON citizens have interest
/ ed themselves in the retention of the
old school clock, put up SO years ago.
| The clock was a familiar sight to
Bloomington people daily and when
the school was torn down and the
clock removed it was like losing an
old friend The clock has been rein
stalled and will probably serve as a
| town timepiece for years to come.
A painful accident happened to Del
bert, the five-year-old son of Gus Vim
ger, living about two miles south of
Dodgeville, last week. The child, with
some playmates, was playing with a
wheelbarrow when he fell upon a
spike which was driven from the I'M
der side of the board reaching across
the handles, the spike penetrating the
| lower lobe of the brain. The child's
condition is reported as serious.
Miss Margaret Harrigan, 6, daugh-
| ter of Mrs Johanna Harrigan of Ma
zomanie, was killed Saturday when a
car she was riding in near Middleton
was struck by another machine. The
slippery condition of the roads and
the dazzling rays of the setting sun
were responsible for the accident.
| The child suffered a fractured skull
and died soon after in a hospital.
| Other persons in both cars were more
or less injured
Phillip Yuengst, Harold Cover, Mel
| burn Hoveland and Donald Seifert, all
of GAINESVILLE and each less than six
| teen years of age, were arrested at
Crown Point, Ind, after they had
stolen a Chevrolet sedan from Waver-
| ly beach in Beloit. The boys were
well armed when taken but made no
resistance. They had fed south fol-
| lowing the theft but were caught by
means of prompt and effective phone
calls. Young Cover, thought to be
the leader, has criminal record.
Two Buick cars locked wheels on S.
T. L. 10, near Dodgeville Sunday night
and a Hudson car was crowded to the
ditch, traffic being stopped for time
| Oscar Anderson of Ridgeway, driving
one of the Bucks, swung out to go by
the Hudson. driven by Geo. Huxtable
of Mineral Point. AS he did so he col
lided with a Buick driven by VIM
Aide of Dodgeville. The Bucks were
badly damaged on the side of the col
lision, the impact being something ter
rifle The Hudson had tires torn off
the running board. None of the occu-
pants were hurt.
The Electric Light and Power Co.
have completed the IA $40 mile OF
line built connecting the Grant Co.
line with the Crawford Co. line. The
writer was informed Sunday that on
Monday all would be completed so the
switch can be put on for through
service The two towers at Bridge
port are completed; the distance from
tower to tower, spanning the Wiscon-
sin river, is 93S feet. Sixty loads OF
rock were put around the base and
anchors with Is guy wires at the tow
er thiss ide of the river. 200 loads OF
For.