Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-07-08
NEARBY NOTES

Robbers entered several stores and
other business places at Cashton last
week, and their thefts total $3.50.
Clarence Miles and Miss Leila Bur-
ton of Lancaster were united in mar
riage at Nassau, Iowa, Saturday
week ago.
The Dodgeville ChaurauGua paid
out in full after five days Of good en-
tertainment. Dodgeville uses the
Redpath-said to be the best.
The Wisconsin Power & Light Com
pany is making offers to buy the cleo
trio light plant at Elroy, but the
Tribune of that place announces that
the village board is in no mood to
SELL
Jacob Heffner ST., pioneer of Mus
coda, celebrated his 96th birthday on
Thursday, June 25. Mr.. H9tfner is
Civil war veteran. He and his wife
reside alone but have many children
and grandchildren.
From Platteville come reports OF
devastating rain that visited that sec
ton on Wednesday evening OF last
week. Railroad tracks were washed
out, rivers flooded and wagon roads
and bridges suffered damage.
When the new insterstate bridge is
built between Iowa and Wisconsin, it
will be built at Prairie du Chen.
Press dispatches announce that this
decision has been reached and pre-
1iminary steps have been taken III the
/ two states towards the building OF the
bridge.
Two of our exchanges changed own
ership last week. The Cazenov1a Re-
porter was sold by Mrs. Bertha Herli-
/ by to E. w. Kredl. She has been con-
| Quoting it since the death of her hus-
band a year ago. The Muscoda Pro-
gressive changes publishers, D. H.
/ Webster selling his interest to E. A.
| Lee, formerly of that village.
/ A baby girl just learning to crawl,
drowned Sunday in tub of water at
! the Grover Jones home in LynXvllle.
! The mother had left the 8-months-old
child in the kitchen while she went to
! the garden for a few minutes. When
! she returned she found the babe
drowned in the tub, where she had
evidently crawled, raised itself to the
rim and fell over the edge.
Hugh Updyke, 11-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Updyke of Lynx
Vile, darted between cars to meet
his brothers truck on the opposite
side of the street when touring car
| hit and ran over him. The lad jumped
/ to his feet and ran home, then played
with other children for several hours.
In the evening he complained of
severe headache and died before medi-
cal aid could reach him.
| C. w. Bennett of Monroe is in
| Stoughton hospital badly hurt as a
result of an auto accident last week.
A car III which Bennett and wife,
! residents of Monroe, were driving,
was hit by -Stoughton train
/ at lake Kegonsa. The Bennett carl
stalled on the track Mrs. Bennett
managed to jump and escaped with
! broken arm and minor bruises. He
was thrown many feet and the car de-
molished.
| Wounding his wife and sending four
! bullets into her body and attempting
/ suicide with the same gun after Mt
of Jealous rage. Raymond Robbins, "A,
| hanged himself in his cell at the
Rockford city Jail few hours after
| he had been arrested. The attempted
murder took place Friday afternoon
and the victim of her husbands Jeal-
ousy is in a Rockford hospital, suffer-
! ing frob a broken arm and fractured
skull. two bullets entering the head,
and is in a serious condition. with the
chances about even as to her recovery.