Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-12
SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.
NOTES FROM NEIGHBoRlNG TOWNS
AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.

Items of Interest from Grant. Iowa
Dane, Crawford and Lafayette Counties.
"ieaned from Exchanges and Condensed
for Herald Readers.
Max Sickle, the Platteville cigar
man, has a new baby boy.
Charlie Moulton. the Mazomanie
travelling man, is candidate for the
office of sheriff of Dane county.
The contract for building the new
poor house at Viroqua was awarded to
VIM. Lake & Son of Viroqua for 50, 900
Harry Thomas. clerk at the Mitchell
house in Richland Center. has in
creased the size of the diamond on his
shirt front. 1t is girl
Swingle Bros. hardware store at
Muscoda was broken into and robbed
OF about SIS worth of cutlery and
revolvers.
Milton H. Roseman of Excelsior.
Richland county, and Michael Delury
OF Prairie du Chen, Crawford county.
have been granted an increase of pen
sion
Forty thousand dollars in bonds
were sold at auction bv Richland
county to raise money for the new in
sane asylum at a fraction over per
cen interest.
Time Review: Fennimore is to
have sinerty pole. Tommy Peterson
Of Castle Rock, is going to donate it.
It is fifty-three feet high and per-
fectly straight.
0. B. Recob of Hoosier Hollow,
Richland county, has calf with two
heads 1t is d regular circus for the
old COW when the two heads get to
fighting over their dinner.
We are told that the Chicago Mil
waukee &St. Paul road is to inacurate
''lunch SYSTEM Lunches wrapped
in wax paper and bound with tin-foil
will be on sale on all trains except
those carrying dining cars.
Platteville Witness: Captain Beebe's
telephone exchange is rapidly pro-
crossing Already fifteen phones have
been put in and dozen more are
clamoring to have them put in.
Platteville ought to haye an exchange
of at least fifty phones. They cost
only nickle day.
Chas. Altenberg and sons of Hazel
Green have struck rich lead of min
eral on jeff Crawford's land near that
village. Thursday they were taking
out ore at the rate of several thousand
pounds per hour. The Schmerbo-Leg-
lar diggings are only about one hun
dred feet away, but at present are
showing up more. water than mineral.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state of Illi-
nois, incorporating the Galena ..Ga-
zette,' with capital stock of s25, 900
The incorporators are Mrs Elizabeth
Brown, widow of the late j. B. Brown
editor Of the''G Gazette, ''Abbie M. Gless-
ner and Arthur Glessner, daughter
and son-in-law of Mrs Brown. The
paper will continue to issue its daily
and weekly editions, and adhere to
republican principles as during Mr..
Browns lifetime.
A millionaire from South Dakota
named Ole Johnson was captured by
maiden named Lee at Castle Rock.
He boarded all winter with the lady's
father and wasn't charged cent.
Now, had he been poor and unable to
pay board. we suppose Mr., Lee would
have kicked him out early in the fall.
Not that we mean to insinuate against
Lees liberality, but desire to illustrate
point that nothing succeeds like
success. Spring coming on and also
the day appointed for his wedding
with Miss Lee, Ole grew restless and
skipped out A brother of the griev-
ing maiden followed him to Boscobel
and wedding took place in the
presence of officers of the law. The
next night Ole again disappeared and
he has not been hunted up again as it
was learned he hasn't got cent in
the world.
After the death Of Minor Hickok the
contract for carrying mail between
Bridgeport, Bloomington and Patch
Grove was awarded to a keeper
named Otto Oswald. Station agent,
Jas. f. Smith owns the bridge and
his charter allows him to charge 81
for crossing and returning over the
Wisconsin river; but for this service he
had always charged Mr.. Hikok so cts.
A few years ago the new stage and
mail man testified on the witness stand
in a certain case that he would not
believe Mr. Smith under oath Three
weeks ago Oswald began carrying the
mail and Smith, seeing a chance to
get even, charged the full fare of toll
81 for crossing. A lively row ensued