Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-09
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUentS
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

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James Watson of Livingston, died
Dec. II, at the age of Sc.
George Spensley of Benton is in the
Finley hospital, Dubuque. He had two
ribs broken in an auto accident.
James kitto of Mineral Point. died
at Madison Sunday. He was employ
ed in the store of Gundry & Gray for
SO years.
More than 700 men were returned
to work at the Milwaukee railroad
shops at Dubuqe Jan. 2, after being
idle for two months.
A car load of auto license plates
have been shipped from Waupun,
where they were made at the state
prison, to Madison for use Of care in
1924.
|. M. Stauffacher of Monroe, has
been re-appointed income assessor Of
Lafayette and Green counties. Nine
county income assessors have been
dismissed because of lack of funds
A double wedding was recently
solemnized at Mt. Hope, when Miss
Clara Zimmerman of Humbird was
married to Henry Tande of Mt Hope
and Miss Tena Tande and Adolph
John were married.
Marshall Maurice Thompson, fat
and village marshall of Argyle, chas-
ed one Jack Ryan and captured a
suitcase full of hootch Jack was
bringing in for a dance at the opera
house. Jack was bound over to the
county court.
Forty-two of the II Wisconsin coun-
ties received more money from state
aid fund during the year than they
had paid in. The remaining 20 coun-
tise paid in considerably more than
they received. Grant county was one
of the latter paying $21,780 more to
the state than they received in aid.
Paynter's drug store at Shullsburg,
was burglarized Saturday night and
about SIS worth of fountain pens, etc.
Entrance was made with a jimmy
through a back window. This is the
sixth burglary committed in Shulls-
burg in a few weeks, but the village
fathers hesitate to employ a night
Waterman.
Before a crowd of 900 fully robed
i'll Ku KluX regalia, Rupert c. Mapes
and Rosetta Nobel, both of Rockford,
were married at Lyran hall, Rock
ford, Thursday night. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Chas. A.
Gage, M. E. minister of the city. The
program included, music, chalk talk,
addresses by noted klansmen, drills
by klansmen and considerable cere-
TlOny.
Geo. Spensley, Mike Dunn and Sam
Champion Of Benton, had wreck in
a 7 ord car last Friday evening.
While driving on No. 20 they struck
the first post on the rail fence at the
Hardman mill The men were thrown
out headlong, each in a different di-
rectiOn. Geo. Spensley had two ribs
broken and was badly bruised up, the
other men were uninjured. The car
was badly demolished.-Adv
Charles Imhoff, contractor and
builder, while doing some repair
work at his home on Friday, fell from
the roof to the ground, and suffered
a dislocation of the shoulder. DR..
Walsh was called and upon eXamina-
ton. feared a fracture, and he took
the patient to Dodgeville, where an
X-ray revealed the fact that the
shoulder was dislocated, and the liga-
ments torn in the region of the in
iury.-Highland Press.
Doctors at the Mercy hospital, Du-
buuue. performed a delicate operation
Thursday when they removed pea
nut kernel from the lung of Leo He'd
rick. a tow-year-old. The trouble
first made its appearance following
the eating of peanut candy. The child
was taken to the hospital soon after
Where the foreign body is other than
metallic it is more difficult to remove,
surgeons say. The X-ray does not
clearly show the location OF SUCH for
eign substance and the oil body OF the
nut sets of bronchial pneumonia. The
removal in this case two hours after
the accident prevented serious conse-
quences.
Galena police and court officials
have beer making a determined drive
AGAINST vice in the city with the re-
suit that several gamblers, bootleg
GERS and bad characters have been
hailed into court and heavily fined.
William Watkins Of Dubuque. has
begun suit in the sum OF S15,OOO
against Helen Wfllmers and Fred
Kretschmer alleging their negligence
as being responsible for the death OF
his 7-year-old son, Arvin Glenn Wat
kins. Little Glenn was run down ana
killed while crossing street with ms
mother. The child started back to
nick I'D something and was run over
nv a car occupied by Miss WIllmers
who was driving the Kretschmer car.
The boy was dragged fifteen feet ana
instantly killed.