Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-11
BLOOMINGTON NEWS
Gathered by Our Hustling West
Grant Correspondent.
NEW VILLAGE BOARD.

organization. President Frazier was
reelected at the recent election and
Ed. Patterson and James MOrkin
hold over. Crit. HickOk, Reuh.
French and An lrew Roberts we're
elected trustees for two years and
TomMyers for one year. y. II. Hinch
was reelected marshal at salary
OF $40 per month; also street com
missioner, pound master and fir
warden. His salary for labor is to
be cut down to Is cents per hour up
to May I. The assessors Salary is
to be $40, and the clerk will receive
$50, with extra pay IN both cases for
work on the board of review. Dr.
Sala was elected village physician
on a salary Of so. The new board
of health will be President Frazier,
Clerk Witcomb and DR. Heraty.
Voted to raise tax Of Il mills
for road purposes. Aldermen HiC-
kOk, Patterson and Roberts we're
placed on the road committee, and
Morkin, French and Myers com
pose the finance committee. We
think that we have a good board
for the ensuing year.
BY ORDER OF THE COURT.
There was a sale in town Friday
''by order Of the court" Auctioneer
Hoskins sold the real estate of the
estate of the late VIM. Powers
The farm of 266 acres was bought
by John O'Connor for $44 40 per
acre. A two-acre lot in Patch Grove
was bought by Theo. Hope for $3.50,
The house, also in that village, was
bought by Lewis Bohringer for
1925. The farm, 81 miles south
west of Patch Grove, is the we'll
known Blake farm, entered by Page
Blake in 1834-5, for whom Blakes
Prairie was named. He entered
two quarter sections. The property
afterward changed hands many
times, having been mixed up with
mortgages, estates, ect. Some Of
the well-knOwn owners of the land
We're Thos. P. Street, Dan Banfll,
O. B. Thomas and II. L. DOusman.
Mr.. Powers bought it from Dous-
man in 1870. Another item of this
sale was the formality of selling the
Mutually farm. Mr. Mutually had
the money in the bank for some
time to pay off a claim held by the
Powers estate, but the execu' or
could not receive it until certain
amount of red tape has been IN
wound.
NEW DEPARTMENT.
The new department In our school
for the instruction of deaf and dumb
promises to be an important event
in the educational affairs of the
village. Six pupils have been
secured for the department, and
probably more will come soon.
Miss Catherine Reed. of Milwaukee,
will have charge of the department.
LOCAL CELEBRITY.
The picture of Victor Mok, the
Glen Haven pugilist, was in the
Police Gazette again last wee, &C
companied by the announcement
that the subject ''can strike
harder blow than John L. Sullivan"
Will some laurel-crowned gladiator
please give Victor a match!
AT LOS ANGELS
Mrs Carey, Miss Katherine and
John are at Los Angeles, Calf,
where John has opened an employ
ment agency, so we were informed.
A good employment agency is a
benevolent institution.
WON A PRIZE.
Eva. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Hickok, won one OF the
Roberts & Groenier prizes on the
piano guessing contest. Her prize
was a SIS credit on a piano, and
now Martin Bros. piano graces
the Hickok home. Eva is IA years
old and a pupil in our schools.
HIGH SCHOOL ORATORS.
The declamatory contest of our
high school pupils was held in the
Baptist church on Friday evening.
Beulah Hickok won first place and
Jay Martin second. The others
contestants were Olive Lord, Pearl
Wilson, Grace Tubbs and Maude
Peacock. The judges were Rev.
Fuller, Vern Edwards and Miss
Emma Glasier. They say the speak
ers were so evenly matched that it
was difficult to decide on the win
ners. The successful ones will rep
resent our school in the debate at
Cassville, to occur soon.
PERSONALS