Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-07-15
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Rlchland Center Will spend SIT 525
on her schools next year, the approp-
ration being the same as last year.
Allowing for sources of income, the
net budget comes to $4,000.
Freddie Baxter, aged 10, Brodhead
lad son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Bax-
ter, was badly burned in an unusual
manner on July 4th The lad was
asleep in a Dodge coupe when a pas
serby saw smoke coming from the
car doors. He dragged the boy out,
finding his clothing afame and his
lower limbs charred. Strangely enough
the boy did not feel pain. His con-
dition is serious but doctors say little
Fred will recover. 1t is thought
someone threw a lighted frecracker
in the machine and that red powder
on the floor of the car became ignited
Nh and Mrs. Joseph Minter and
son, Harold, Miss Evelyn Cox and
Emily Locke of Madison, enroute to
Highland to spend the 4th, had a mar
row escape from death when a disc
front wheel on their new Dodge sedan
broke, throwing the car over on its
top Harold was badly cut and
bruised; Miss Cox received injuries
to her back, limbs and one hand;
Rosaline had a dislocated shoulder
elbow and hand injured; Emily had
her arm and hand injured-Montfort
Mail.
Frank Hansen of Dubuque was ser
iously injured and Miss Gertie White,
also of Dubuque, was badly bruised
ait noon Tuesday when motorcycle
on which they were riding spit in two.
The motorcycle was equipped with
sidecar which from an unknown cause
broke away from the other section.
The accident occurred at Alburnett,
Iowa Hanson was thrown Is feet,
knocked unconscious and badly hurt.
Miss white was thrown with great
force but her injuries were not so
severe.
DR. and Mrs. Wilson Cunningham of
Platteville announce the engagement
of their daughter, Mary Augusta, to
William Dempster Hoard Jr. of Fort
Atkinson The wedding will take
place in October.
Gov Blaine has signed the outdoor
boxing bill which permits holding
bouts in open air arenas, ball parks,
etc Under the bill the commission
will receive an appropriation of SILL
600 a year, an increase of $500
The Shullsburg bank robbers are
still at large Although the Burns
detectives and insurance company &c
tectives are securing the country and
Chicago police have been active on the
case, no arrests have been made.
An Overland sedan occupied by
Messrs Daley and Kelley of Mineral
Point and Ford roadster occupied
by Jack Leach another young man
aid two young ladies from Dodgevllle,
Collided near the corner, half mile
south of Highland Sunday night. The
parties were picked up and brought to
Highland, where DR.. Trentzsch at
tended them Daley was thrown
through the windshield and received
several cuts about the face. The
Ford was wrecked and the Overland
badly damaged
Virgil Fritz, fishing for trout IN
stream north of Highland, caught "a
fine speckled trout Monday, the small
lest in the lot being II inches long
Dr. Grant Newly of Platteville caught
3-pound speckled trout in Little
Blue river north of Montfort Tuesday
dILGIuOOu. t(SpOIIS VI CoISAANS
trout in streams adjacent to the Little
Platte river west of Plattevllle, are
made, James Fawcett of Plattevllle,
securing a string of five.-M1neral
Point Democrat
While coming to Wauzeka with
load of hogs Tuesday, James Hubka OF
Shanghai Ridge narrowly escaped
serious accident on account OF a de-
feCtiye approach to the Plum creek
bridge above the Dvorak place The
side of the road caved in and one
horse was ditched, but quick action
and a quiet animal made it possible
TO escape without further m1shap.-
Chief
Tom Hillery of New Diggings has
been taking medical treatment at Ben
ton for a badly burned arm. he was
repairing a roof with boiling pitch,
when he slipped and overturned the
cOntainer, the molten substance COW
ering his right forearm. 1t made
nasty burn as the skin and hair pulled
off with the pitch, but he will soon De
IN soOd shape again.
Local people may remember Harry
Rich The Man Who Fllrts win
DEATH" who has caused many
SILVER and thrill when he did his
death-defying stunts at Platteville on
TWO occasions. He "flirted" once too
often and was killed Thursday in Mil
waukee He was making slide TOT
life in carnival, such as he made at
PlatteviIle from the top of the city
hall, when the wire broke and he was
instantly killed.
Joe Beering, Pra. du Chen resident
aged go was a blacksmith at Wauze-
Ia so years ago. Mr.. Beering is ac-
tive except for infrmities in his legs
and would like to show the modern
smiths a few tricks of his vanishing
trade
A Ford truck owned by the Mineral
Point Baking Co., ran away from lts
parking place on the steep main street
at Mineral Point, and after following
a winding course, crashed through the
front of the Globe hotel. A number OF
windows were broken, radiator pipes
bent and the sidewalk caved in. The