Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-07-01
NEARBY NOTES

Joseph Hitler of Dodgeville and Miss
Anna Luff of Milwaukee were married
June 18th. The groom is a member
of the Hitler Bros, firm of this city.
The dwelling house on the farm of
Frank Reilly, nine miles north of OAR
lington and occupied by Thomas Jol-
loft and family was struck by lightning
Sunday last and burned to the ground.
Miss Ella Hale of Mineral Point and
DR.. A. M. Fawcett of Viroqua, were
united in marriage at the home of the
bride Saturday evening. They will
make their home in Racine where DR..
Fawcett has established dental prac-
tice.
Petitions are being circulated in
Sparta for special election to vote on
city ownership of the electric light
and power utility. At present it is
owned by the Northern States Power
Company. The election will be held
July 10.
East Dubuque again voted Eyes"
Saturday at its second election on an
$4,000 bond issue for the paving of
Sinsinawa Avenue and other streets.
The vote was 1S4 for to 1913 against.
lie uISI 6l6Cl1Ou was u6C1dIGu 1llf dllC
because of technicality.
Only a fair crop of apples, cherries
and other fruits are expected in this
section. The condition of apples on
June LIST was nearly 400 below the
usual average and the big orchards in
the Kickapoo valley will produce only
one-third of normal crop.
Miss Lenice Laughton of Livingston
will spend her summer vacation in
Europe. She left Monday for New
York and will meet a party of teach
ers from Milwaukee. The young
women will spend the 4th in Paris and
will visit Constantinople, London and
the battlefields of France.
Six Spring Green young men, who
belong to the reserve naval force,
left last week for cruise of the great
lakes. They go in the naval craft,
Dubuque Their names are Al. Boil
grien, John Hathaway, Corneal Will
liams, Arthur Barnard, Kenneth Nell
son and Ray Peterson.
Miss Jeanette Stauffacher of Fenni-
more and L. H. Goan of Millville, were
married two years ago, but have just
made the announcement of their mar
more schools last year. Both are
attending the summer session at the
University and both will teach in the
Kenosha schools next year.
Eau Claire authorities are investi-
eating the death of Charles Hutter, a
| young man from Arkansaw, who met
his death in the shallow waters of a
creek near the city. With him at the
time were John Hutter, g. brother
Allen Colstrom, 10, and Will Huellett,
81, all of Arkansaw. They claim Hut
ter fell from the bridge and broke his
neck, but all are in custody.
| Forty COWS on two farms near Juda
may die as the result of not having
been MIXED for four days, following
desertion of the places by tenants who
are now under $500 bonds to appear in
Green county circuit court in October,
on charges of stealing 80 bushels of
oats. The cows udders were enor
mously swollen by the inhuman fail
ure to relieve them of their milk.
Jay Maxwell of Bear Valley, driving
a Ford, collided with Lone Rock car
occupied by two young men named
Christian near Lone Rock Wednesday
night Both machines were wrecked
beyond repair. Maxwell was thrown
out, landing in field 80 feet from his
machine. He suffered a crushed spine
and is paralyzed from the hips down
but has a chance for recovery. The
Christian boys were not hurt.
William Graul and sons have just
completed the erection of big barn
on their farm along Gran Grae in
Crawford county The barn is mod
ern $1,000 structure, 100x34, with
stanchions for 80 COWS, bull pen, fif
teen calf stanchions and a calf pen in
the basement. The hay NOW is COW
cred with matched flooring, making an
ideal place for dancing. People from
all around celebrated the barn opening
with a big dance Friday evening.
The Richland Center city council is
considering the installation of an cleo
trio transmission line to SeXtOnVille,
near that city. The city is given first
chance to build the line and sell cur
rent outside but unless it's acts the
Wisconsin Light & Power Co. will
build in, barring the city from the
territory indefinitely. While there are
many municipal electric plants in the
country, a municipal transmission line
would be an innovation.
Earl Kaiser, young farmer living
near GarnavillO, was attacked by
Jersey herd sire which tore open his
left side. Kaiser entered the barn
wearing light colored suit. The bull
became frightened or enraged and at
tackled him. Kaiser's brother came to
the rescue and drove the bull away
with pitchfork and Earl was rushed
to hospital where physicians worked
on him from p. m. until 2 a. m. to
sew up the wounds caused by the
bulls horns, The doctors finished
their work with the aid of flash lights
when the storm cut off the electric
service.
The Kickapoo valley baseball league
has gone up in smoke. Only one of
the six teams in the league had what
might be called a crowd last Sunday.
The attendance ali through the league
has been slim all season and pros
poets are not encouraging. The
players give as a reason the fact that
automobiles carry all those interested
in salaried clubs to the larger city,
v-boro fboU would rather drive Sn or