Grant Mace

 Grant Mace was killed in a runaway witnessed by hundreds on Main Street in April 1911.  He had been doing some plowing in Brown's addition and was on his way home to dinner.  Near the Frisco House the team which was pulling a farm wagon became frightened at an automobile and ran south at a terrific rate of speed.  At the street crossiing near the post office, the plow in the wagon was thrown out.  At the section line south of the school house, the team turned to the west in spite of his effortrs and Grant was thrown to the ground and received such injuries that he never regained consciousness.  The first to reach him was his brother-in-law, Josiah Bierschback, janitor at the school housee.  Drs Howard, Sutton and Wuttke examined him and disclosed that his face had been crushed in from both sides and his skull was fractured at the base of the brain.

   Grant was born in Missouri in 1868 and moved to the Halstead farm adjoining town in 1872 with his parents.

   Survivors: aged parents; four brothers, James; Chester; Tecumseh and George; sisters, Mrs. Josiah Bierschback and Mattie of Halstead.