Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-18
ALL OVER THE STATE.

The village of Knapp will erect a 3d.
500 school house to replace that destroyed
by fire.
Orlando Ford, 15-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Huntley of GAINESVILLE,
is missing.
Burglars entered the store of John Kas-
par in Kenosha and secured booty valued
at between $3.50 and $500.
The English speaking Lutherans have
purchased two lots and will build new
church in the southwestern part of Ra-
cine
Mrs George Allo, go years of age, the
first woman teacher in Neenah, is dead.
Mrs Peter De Cramer, another pioneer,
died.
A. L. Howard, aged 65 years, jew
eler in Beloit for thirty-fve years, drop
ped dead on the street on his way to his
store.
o. L. Grays has announced his candi-
dacy for county superintendent of schools
in I<enosha. The election takes place
next year.
Of cashiers checks issued by the Be
lott banks to the amount of $4,000 a
year ago only ST. worth remain unre-
deemed
According to County Supervisor of As
sessments F. p Starr the true value OF
the assessable property of Rock county
is $67, 559, IA.
Rev. Carl o. Lundquist has resigned
as pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church
L toll n
church in Minneapolis.
T. J. Bryan, Menomonie's veteran har-
ness maker, has retired from business at
ter sixty-one years at the bench. He had
been in business in that city thirty-three
years.
While playing with a rife Christ Birch
of the town of Birch was shot in the
head and instantly killed by younger
brother The boys had been amusing
themselves playing Indian.
Dispatches from Washington, d. c.,
announce the death of John Reilly at the
age of "a years. John Reilly was one of
the pioneers of Racine, and manufac-
turer and Democrat of great prominence.
Joseph Campbell, believed to be one of
and Warrens and the postoffice at Stan
ley, arrested at Chippewa Falls, appears
to answer the description of one of the
men wanted.
Mrs. Caroline Bingham has offered the
city of Monroe the twenty acres known
as Bingham's Grove for a public park.
provided the city will retain the name and
I-oo.. -, 4I,o amman no Yoo IF fhn nla0o The
property is worth $500 an acre.
1t is reported from Spencer that E. e.
Coon has discovered a trace of silver IN
the vein of ore recently discovered there.
While drilling at a depth of twenty feet
oil was struck and at sixty feet vein
of ore was found through which the drill
could not penetrate.
In Crivitz fire destroyed the two-story
building owned by the Hochgreve Brew
ing Company of Green Bay, and for a
time threatened the postoffice. The Hoch-
grove company building was valued at
$4,000 and insurance to the amount OF
$4,000 was carried.
Ashland avenue residents in Kenosha
have started injunction proceedings to
prevent the use of Jerome Greek as an
open sewer The movement is taken to
force the building of a trunk sewer
through the southern part of the city,
costing about 100000.
Nels Peterson, a farmer living five
miles southeast of Hudson, narrowly es-
capped death by being gored by bull. He
was knocked down and showed into the
corner of a fence, when Mr.. Patterson's
hired man came to the rescue and saved
him. He was severely injured.
Arthur w. Shelton, aged 40 years, died
in Rhinelander. He was president of the
Rhinelander Power Company and the
White River Power Company of Ashland;
was prominently identified with leading
manufacturing interests, and owner and
publisher of the Rhinelander Herald.