Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-11
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tr;-
state Area.

mOur, and Rev. O'ShaughneSsv of poor
Pra. du Chen, narrowly escaped ser
ious injury last Friday when their
cars met at the Seymour corners
Bell and Wiege1 were headed west and
although not going at high speed. were
moving along at the average elm ono
usually hits on good highway. FIR
O'Shaughnessy was coming from the
south onto the main road, and without
a seconds warning the two cars
clashed. The Buick, driven by the
priest is not badly damaged aside
from the tenders, running board and
one wheel, but the Dodge, driven nv
Wiegel was hit in such a way as tn
be almost demolished. 1t is damaged
beyond repair, so report has it. All
three men escaped without a scratch
and consider themselves very FORUM
ate.
The Argyle Canning company has
completed it's first years pack and
put up half million cans of beans
tomatoes and beets. Around $4,000
was paid to farmers for the produce
Beans Melted from $50 to $3.50 per
acre. Tomatoes went from S1OO to
$165 per acre and beets from S12O to
$3.50 per acre. Around thirty carloads
of canned vegetables are to be shipped
out, most of which have been sold at
good figures. The company expects to
increase its acreage a third next year
Carl Lang, well known citizen of
MuscOda, was found dead in his room
shortly after he had retired for the
night. Mr.. and Mrs Lang had en-
ioyed their usual light lunch just be-
fore retiring for the night. When
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home they found the old gentleman
was dead. Mr.. Lang was born in
Germany in 1849 coming to this
country when a child He leaves a
wife and nine children. Burial was
made in the Pulaski Presbyterian
cemetery.
John Boom OF Boom Bros, Belmont
enraged following two robberies of his
store in few months, has hired de-
tective to locate the ones guilty of the
latest raid on his property. Mr.. Boom
retained Detective Cunningham, the
man who tracked the five robbers of
the Shullsburg bank last summer.
Around 5000 worth of valuables were
stolen from Boom Bros store.
VIM. Mitchell of Mineral Point had
the misfortune to crush the third fin
ger Of his right hand when it became
caught in the gears of cement mixer
Mr.. Mitchell was engaged in cement
work near Dodgeville when the acct
dent occurred. The throwing of the
belt when his finger lodged between
the gears probably saved his whole
hand from being mangled.
Tom Leahy, old Darlington boy and
Milwaukee passenger conductor with
wider acquaintance in Southern
Wisconsin railroad circles than any
other man on the road, informed us
Monday that next Saturday would be
his last trip Mr.. Leahy lays off then
for at least six months, spending the
winter months in MISUNDERSTANDING
ton Democrat.
deplorable accident occurred at
Homer Monday of last week when Mrs.
Ellen Boehmer, an aged lady, fell at
her home, fracturing her right arm
and hip Kind friends and relatives
are doing all that is possible to make
her comfortable Mrs. Boehmer is 83
years of age and has lived alone since
the death of her husband seevral years
ago.-Times.
An editor recently wrote a puff
for the belle of the ball saying, "her
dainty feet were encased in shoes that
might have been taken for fairy boots. !"
The laundering compositor made it
read, cher dirty feet were encased in
shoes that might have been taken for
ferry boats. South Dakota Rural
Press and Print Shop.
James Jones, farmer, shot a great
gray eagle near Monroe, Monday, as
it flew from his chicken yard with a
fowl in its talons. The bird had started
to tear and eat the chicken as it flew
away and when it fell had the heart
in it's beak The eagle had a wing
spread of feet and weighed IL lbs.
Bernard Gerlach, who has been IN
the U. S. navy for nearly three years,
arrived at Belmont Monday on fur
Tough and a visit with his mother,
Mrs. John Albaum, and other Wlscon-
sin relatives. He was recently released
from the hospital where he underwent
an operation for appendicitis.
Nicholas Ley, residing about six or
seven miles southwest of DodgeVllle,
had the misfortune willie driving cat
tie Tuesday to have the herd struck
by passing car from Madison. Five
of the animals were knocked down ana
one was killed.
Game Warden Hall of Darlington
brought Alvin JOhnSrude Oh MoSCoW'
before a justice Saturday where ne
was fined $50 and costs for illegal
hunting.-Dodgevill Chronicle.
Rev. o. S. Paulson, for the past hVe
years pastor of the Lutheran churches
at Argyle and Adams, will leave next
week to assume charge of his former
pastorate at La Crosse.
Eva Garcia, the 12-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Venden OF the
town of Perry, near BlanchardVllle,
died Wednesday morning after an ILL
ness Of a week.
The sum of $6250 was realized by
means of the tag day in Dodgeville
Saturday to raise funds for carrying
on the work of the state Humane So
ciety.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Wat
son of Barneveld a daughter, at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
S. David, Montfort.
Joseph Horsley of Benton died at
a Freeport hospital. He and his wife
recently celebrated their Goth wedding