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rusty nail. Gus Hesselman, well known real es tate man of Dyersville, Iowa, is lai up with a broken leg due to an aut accident of recent date. St. Thomas congregation at Mont fort cleared $850 at the fair and din ner held Saturday a week ago fo benefit of the new church. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Bowen of Dodge ville celebrated their golden weddin; day on Nov. 5. They have four daugh ters, a son and ten grandchildren Both old people were born in Wales David Clark, Bagley farmer, set trap for skunks and caught a rattle snake with 11 rattles. He put th snake in a box with a blue racer and the two snakes got along togethe amicably. J. S. Winn, employed in a chees warehouse at Richland Center, mis judged a step and took two steps fo one when he ran to mail a letter. H suffered a broken leg at the hip and will be laid up for a long time. A new steel bridge over the Littl Baraboo river at Germantown, nea Cazenovia, has been opened for traf fic. It is the largest bridge built i the county this summer. Some grad ing is still to be done at the ap proaches to the bridge. Ralph Walters, who disappeare from his home near Postville, with his father's Ford, in January, 1920 has been located at Zanesville, Ohio where an old neighbor recognize him at a filling station. When tol about the anxiety of his parents, h immediately wrote them and prom ised to start back home at once. Fire Sunday a week ago destroye the two-story residence owned by Wm Williams, Bert Thomas, tenant, a Ridgeway. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas ha been away two weeks when the fir occurred. Thomas recently closed hi hardware store and had a quantit of uninsured stock in the building Williams carried $1,000 insurance. The Postville creamery made dur ing the month of September, 77,68 pounds of butter, which sold for $27 904.59, and together with the butte milk brought $28,035.85. The in crease over the same month last yea was 17,022 pounds and the averag price paid for butterfat was 41c. On hundred and five patrons drew check of $100 or more. Judge Jenks of Iowa county hele that two notes held by the defunc 1st National bank of Highland were forged and of no value. Suit was brought by the bank against the es tates of Augusta Fleming and Johr Hudek. The Fleming note was fo $1,361.17, and the Hudek note for $1,800. The bank cashier, named Elam has been missing for some time. A gift of $12,000 has been offere to the Waukesha Methodist church by a member, provided the church will forever forego the holding o suppers, bazaars, sociables and rum mage sales. John Becker declares the public is fed up on these thing and he believes the church should be run on business principles and should not solicit items for barter or sale. Iowa county headquarters of the K1 Klux Klan have been transferre from Dodgeville to Mineral Point where they are occupying the old K of P. hall. A prominent member o the order states that J. T. Gunnell and William Rooks, organizers, are now in Jacksonville, Florida, and that the Mineral Point office is in charge of Walter Stephens and Jo Miller of Darlington. Elmer Hurt is being held by the authorities in Iowa, accused of slash ing four persons, one perhaps fatal ly, in a brawl at a barn dance nea Northwood Saturday night. He i: alleged to have been drunk and at tacked Ed Gould, severing an arn muscle and hurting the bone. H also cut a gash across his stomach Owen Nelson suffered a bad gasl above the eye and in one arm. Mayor Art Ricks of Boscobel is get ting a reputation as a sleuth. Head ing a party of city officials, the mayo waylaid Clifford Nauert, alleged boot legger on his way to a dance in Crawford county, at the Wisconsin river bridge. Several gallons of alco hol were confiscated, according to the Dial. Nauert made no resistance It is reported also that a party of of ficials tracked a man who was paying Vick Levy of near Yuba, is suf fering from a broken leg, sustaine when he was thrown from a load o chicken crates last Wednesday after noon. He and his brother-in-law
