Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-13

Dodgeville, died Friday week ago
after an extended illness. Two broth
ers and five sisters with the mother
are left to mourn.
Two gasoline propelled workmen's
cars attempted to go by each other
on the same set of rails near Gutten-
berg on the Milwaukee road. All the
men jumped when they saw collis-
sion inevitable. One man suffered a
broken leg.
In an auto collision on S. T. L. 10
near Ridgeway, Nick Weier, farmer,
had two ribs broken. He was driving
a car from by-road when machine
driven by Mr.. Shepherd of Milwau
kee crashed into him. BEERS car
crumpled from the impact and he was
thrown out. Two of his family escap-
ed unhurt.
OF the 100000 bond issue voted
in 1919 by Green county, there will
remain at the end of the present
construction season, $1,125,000, &C
C. Campbell, Green Co. Treasurer.
That amount together with the state
aid, spread out during the next three
years will go long way on the pro-
posed highway program in that county.
While walking from Belmont to his
home in Platteville, Joe Youmans of
the last city, was struck by an I'M
known car and left unconscious by
the side of the road. He laid there all
Saturday night, unable to call for help.
Youmans was picked up and taken
home Doctors found he had suffered
fractured skull and a compound
fracture of his right leg. He will re-
cover.
Fred Glow, a Dubuque fisherman,
and companion, battled for half an
hour to get a huge rock sturgeon
from trammel net, finally landing it.
The fish weighed 55 pounds. Glow and
his man had quite tussle in landing
it and several times the fish nearly
had them into the river. 1t was four
feet, II inches long. Glow cut the fish
into steaks and sold same at fancy
price. The catch was made off the
lower dam.
Webb Theobald, farmer living
near Barneveld, lost fifteen valuable
cattle by lightning in the storm late
Sunday afternoon. MiSfortunes never
come singly. John Dottaglie, farm
hand on the Theobald farm, was bad
ly injured when the Ford car he was
driving crashed into the White Swan
Safety Coach, bus on the Madison
Mt. Horeb line, a mile east of Blue
Mounds. The injured man is at the
Mt Horeb hospital where it is said
he will be laid up for several months,
having suffered broken knee cap.
John H. Pearce of Los Angeles,
Calf, formerly of Dodgeville, visited
in the Iowa county city last week on
his way home west from a trip around
the world. Mr.. Pearce went west years
ago and became rich. He left the
states last winter, going west via ia
pan, China, India, Suez, Switzerland,
France and England. In Cornwall Mr..
Pearce visited the house of his birth
and found the table he ate from and
the bed he slept on undisturbed. They
visited the British Empire exposition
and then embarked for the states.
The vicinity of Fond du Lac suf-
fered from the worst flood in it's his
tory following a tWenty-fOur hour
downpour Sunday a week ago. Prac-
tically the entire city was under four
feet of water and some sections even
more. Boats were used for transpor-
tation. Property damage will run up
into millions. Big dams at Long Lake
/ duu w est DS1O save away OOIOAO OAAO
food waters, causing great damage in
the path of the water. In the vicinity
of GAINESVILLE the greatest damage in
done by wind, homes, barns and crops
being destroyed. A Milwaukee paper
reports an inch of rainfall in twenty
minutes. Trains on Milwaukee and
Northwestern were held up Monday
| but resumed traffic Tuesday.
| Ic+ IIoiI
daughter, formerly of Vladivostok, ST.
IBERIA, are visiting Mr.. Heid's brother,
sister and other relatives in Galena.
Mr.. Held is on a four months vaca
ton from his duties at Buenos Aires,
| S. A., where he has been for five years
as representative of the International
Harvester Co., and he is not certain
whether he will return to that coun-
| try or not. Mr.. Held sold seventeen
million dollars worth of goods last
year. During the war Mr.. Held handl-
ed government goods in Russia where
he was united in marriage with a
Russian young woman. He had had
a wonderful experience and has trav-
eled in all parts of the globe.-Galena
Gazette.
New Glarus will have new en-
broidery manufacturing concern in the
near future providing the people of
that community will subscribe $4,000
worth of stock. A large concern with
offices at Chicago, formed by CONSOLE
dalton of four smaller concerns and |
incorporated for 100000, offers to
place branch plant at New Glarus,
bring there all necessary equipment |
costing 100000, increase its capital
by preferred stock issue of $250,000, |
on the above named condition. The |
new stock will cost $40 per share, |
with guarantee of $50 dividends. |
The concern employs Swiss workmen,
between twenty-five and thirty-five in
number New Glarus folks have sixty
days in which to decide for or against