Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-07
NEARBY. NOTES

While the Russell Terrell family of
Big Patch, were away from home, I'M
known thieves ransacked their house,
taking SIS and a watch. Local talent
is suspected.
B. G. Pemberton, IS, Pra. du Sac,
met death Thursday afternoon at 8
o'clock when he touched high vol
tage wire while repairing telephone
line. He leaves a wife and two
daughters.
Cars driven by Lawrence Stahl of
Eastman and George Meisner of
Bridgeport, collided on main street
corner at Pra. du Chen. Stahl's
mother and infant child were badly
hurt in the crash.
Pra. du Chen citizens by vote Of
836 against to ITS for turned down the
proposal of the local board of public
works to bond the city for $4,000 to
build municipal electric plant. The
city is already bonded for 100000.
Geraldine O'Brien, 4, daughter of
John O'Brien, Darlington farmer, met
death by being run over by hay
loader. The child climbed onto the
machine and made a noise which
frightened the horses. The team ran
away and the child was thrown be-
meath the loader which tipped over on
her. She suffered fatal hurts and died
soon afterwards.
David j. Gardner jr., Platteville at
torney, past grand exalted ruler of
his local lodge, received word Friday
from Grand Exalted Ruler, William
H Atwell, Dallas, Texas, that his ap-
pointment as district deputy for the
western Wisconsin district had been
confirmed, and empowered him to act
in his official capacity. Mr.. Gard
ner's headquarters will remain at
Platteville.
Ernest Chambers of So. Wayne, cut
ting corn in a field, noticed neigh
boris bull loose in the road. Cham
bers essayed to put the bull back in
the field as school was out soon, and
was attacked by the bovine. Cham
bers put up a desperate battle, using
the knife as a weapon and was finally
able to make his way to a fence which
he crawled through. He was found
unconscious and taken to hospital.
While Harold Mabbot of Arena was
of Arena was at Madison to consult an
oculist in regard to his little daugh-
ter's eyes, he was taken violently ill
at the door of the clinic A doctor
who was called found Mabbott in the
throes of appendicitis. Mabbott took
the child home and then drove back
to Madison where he underwent an
operation at the General hospital.
o. c. Kramer, so, Galena jewe1er,
and daughter, Mrs. Otto Glockner of
Dubuque, were run down and serious
ly hurt by motor car driven by Vic
tor Rogers, painter, the accident TAX
ing place on Grandview avenue. Mr..
Kraemer was recently discharged
from Finley hospital where he had
been for six weeks. Both he and the
young woman were badly hurt Rog-
ers was held on charge of reckless
driving.
VIM. Rayner, No. Clayton farmer,
has a seed of Golden Glow Dent corn
which is 10 inches long and weighs
20 ounces. The ear contains 900 kerr
nels. Rayner says it will plant $50
hills, harvest four shocks eight hills
square. At two bushels to the shock
it will produce eight bushels of corn
which, at 97c bushel, would be val
ued at $7.76. The ear is not for sale.
1t came from seed bought of a Neills-
vile farmer.
Miss Mildred Bou1rette of Bridge
port and Virgil Henrichs of Patch
Grove were married at Ga1ena June 81,
but kept the event secret until last
week. Mrs. Heinrichs was awarded
. ~ 81
lie last month, being known as Miss
Dubuque" One of the main points of
charm was her bobbed hair. She was
employed as a stenographer with a
Dubuque firm up to her marriage.
The young couple will live on the
groom's farm near Patch Grove.
The State Bank of Mt. Sterling went
into the hands of the Wisconsin Bank
ing Commission Wednesday upon re-
quest of the banks directors. 1t is
said that the banks closing grew out
of the straitened condition of farmers
and the many suits for hail insurance
brought in Crawford and Vernon
counties the past year due to damages
being sustained by farmers who had
paid insurance premiums to an eastern
company but had failed to collect af-
ter the hail had swept their crops
bare.
Willis Bickel of McGregor has a Ii
cense from the Wisconsin Conserva-
ton Commission to establish a private
fish preserve and fur-bearing animal
farm on 700 acres of land owned by
him in the Mississippi bottoms. The
land is an island in Horseshoe lake
which also belongs to Bickel. 1t is
estimated that within five years there
will be thousands of muskrats on the
island and an immense profit is in
sight. Horseshoe lake level will be
raised five feet by boring artesian
wells. No one will be allowed to hunt
or fish on the farm.
Robert Roach, Dodgeville road con-
tractor, pleaded guilty to charge of
assault and battery made by Otto
Johnson of Minneapolis, an employee.
Johnson claimed he quit the job near
Spring Green and as he turned away
after receiving his check, that Roach