Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-05-12

( In PlatteVllle, lew days ago. lie
was SO years of age.
Another plug ugly fight has been
pulled off at Platteville. The al j.
legged athletic club got some ring
buns to come there and give an ex.
hibition, which was witnessed by g
| rather large crowd of spurts. Some
from Lancaster were there, but if
this paper were to print the names
there would be mutiny in camp.
Platteville likes that sort of q
thing, evidently.
By the will of the late Robert G
Owen, Dodgevile, the Welsh
Calvanistic church, of his town, gets
$1,000.
| Down at st. Clara's college,
Sinsinawa, the celebration of May
day is quite an event, and has been SO
for many years. This year, Miss
Elsie GRADER, daughter of MIR. and
Mrs. Louis GRADER, Mineral Point,
will be queen of the May. Miss
Elise has been a student at ST.
Clara's for eight years, and will be
graduated next month.
A week ago last Sunday there was
! a mighty thunder storm over at
Mineral Point, and on the farm Of
! Wenzel Stude, near town, the lightn-
| ing struck a bunch of fine steers,
| killing eight and badly crippling the
ninth. On another farm, not far
distant, a valuable steer was struck.
These cattle were worth nearly 800
a head. In other sections of southern
! Wisconsin damage was done by lightn-
ing.
Montfort is no dead one, not Mont
fort. On next Saturday the students
of the high school will make an ex-
hibit of their work. Each depart
ment will be represented, with the
loud pedal on manual training and
home economics. Then there will be
specimens of original map drawing,
writing. spelling and other studies in
the high school courses. Montfort
is live town, and a solid one.
Farmers and others at Warren are
rejoicing over the fact that the quar-
antine for the foot and mouth disease
has been lifted at last. For almost
ninety days or to be exact, since Jan.
%, not shipment Of livestock has
been made from Warren, and the
effect has been felt in all lines of
| business.
Starks potato farm near Rhine
lander, Wis, which has long held a
record for its large acreage in
potatoes, is going into clover this
year. Manager Hess announced that
the company will have 1000 acres
in clover, the crop being used to
rotate for a big potato crop next
year. About 500 acres will be plant
!. ed to potatoes. The farm gained
fame three years ago by reason of its
large acreage in potatoes, one field
having rows two and three-fourths
miles long.
In the Is new passenger engine
just ordered by the Burlington road
will be embodied features that will
allow not only great hauling power,
but new sensation in the starting
and stopping of passenger trains. A
few years ago it was thought rail-
road engines had reached the crest
in size and power. This remained true
until a new factor, the steel coach
and sleeper enetered the field The
new Burlington engines will weigh
/ 424, 300 pounds, compared with the
present largest locomotives of 1896, :
| 900. The heaviest wooden coach
weighed 125, 900 pounds. while the
new steel coach weighs 143, AS
pounds.
Warren Sentinel-Leader: Mrs. A.
L. Garfield, recently elected presi
dent of our board of trustees, has
received press notices, messages,
clippings and letters from nearly all
over the United States Among her
letters was one from William Day
ton, No. 1922, a convict in Joliet
/ prison. His letter is somewhat
pathetic and he asks Mrs. Garfield to
be friend to him. He claims that
liquor was the cause of his now being
an inmate of the pen. He enclosed
IN his letter what he claimed was an
original poem of nine verses, in which
/ he sketches a murderer sentenced to
die, and laying all the blame on
the use of liquor.