Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-03
Nearby Notes

Geo. Cox, Mineral Point, Civil war
veteran, died Of apoplexy.
Mrs. Solomon Richards of Dodge
vile, died after six days of illness
with pneumonia.
William A. Owen, Dodgeville, Civil
war veteran, died at the home of his
daughter in Madison.
]. H. Frazier, Viola. bought the
Crawford County Press of w. E. Mart
ner, and has begun operation.
The Monmouth mine near Hazel
Green, has been sold % the Mineral
Point Zinc company which will oper-
ate it on an increased scale.
Roy Gardner, Dodgeville, has been
elected principal of consolidated
township school at Freeborn, Mimi.
| The new building costs 100000.
/ William Vial, Linden, died aged "a.
/ He was born in Redruth, Cornwall,
England, in 1885. Mrs. Vial died five
years ago after 81 years of welded
/ life.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. John Dunstan, who
have made their home in Cuba City
for the past six years, are making
plans to return to England, their ma
tive land.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton VanNatta of
Platteville, were pleasantly surprised
on Feb. 20, when some friends gath
cred to celebrate their 25th wedding
anniversary.
Tomas & lockwood of Fennimore
bought an entire carload of soap in
Cincinnati, and offered it for sale in
small lots. The shipment comprized
! 600 boxes or 100000 bars.
The home of James Allison, Mar
shall township, Richland county, was
+ doubly stricken with pneumonia. Ber-
4 ME Hillesheim, a ward of the house
hold, died aged 90 Mr. Allison died
! two days later
\ Arthur B Grindell, a major in the
/ Red Cross, died Of pneumonia Feb. %
4 at Vladivistok. Siberia He was sick
a week. Mr.. GrindeH was 46 years
i Old He was a brother Of ]. A. Grin
! dell of Platteville The body will be
brought back to Seattle where a wife
and daughter reside
The Heney Mfg Co., Freeport
bought a forest of black walnut tim
1 Der near Dodgeville and has begun
\ cutting down the trees. The lumber
/ is worth from $50 to $3.50 a thousand
feet in the tree 1t will be used to
make pianos and talking machines.
AdoIph Johnson, Boscobel. intends
to sail from New York on May 9Th for
his native land-Denmark. Mr. John
son has been here for sixteen years
August Carl of Platteville, died at
4 the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry
/ kruse, Thursday a week ago, aged IA
years.
DR.. Ketterer Of Montfort in his calls
on flu patients, to save his horse. used
an invention of Mr.. Manley's of Mont
fort for making his trips. In place
OF the two front wheels of the car
the two sleigh runners were used
1t is stated that this machine can go
over any road Travelled by sled
Ernest Ballard, 26 and Edwin Bal
lard, 20. brothers who lived at Lime
Ridge, Iowa county. died within "a
hours OF each other of pneumonia.
The men were buried side by side.
4 Ten DAYS after the death of her faith
/ or, Edward, Lilly Ballard, years.
died and was buried beside her faith
er.
James S. Stetler, 81, retired farm
er and evangelist. well known in Yer
non, Richland, Crawford and Grant
counties, committed suicide while Wis
ting with friend a short distance
from Muscoda He hanged himself
from beam in the barn after build
ing a scaffold composed of corn fod-
der, kicking out his foot support. He
leaves a wife.
Campion Council. K. of c.. Prairie
du Chen, met in conclave a week ago
Saturday and Sunday A class of 20
was initiated. disqualification of the
work was carried on Sunday after
noon. Candidates were present from
radius OF so miles. Following the
eXemplification program was Civ
en- at st. Mary's college to the knights
and their ladies. After the inner man
was satisfied an interesting program
was rendered.
H. T. Dratham of Gotham. Rich
land county. won the first prize at
the Madison grain show making the
| fifth consecutive year he has brought
home the prize bacon" Mr.. Drath-
am won the largest number of rib
bons of any exhibitor present. With
| his entries of grain, corn and clovers.
Mr.. Dratham won IA prizes, ten blue
ribbons, two seconds and two thirds.
besides winning grand championship
sweepstakes on pedigreed oats No.
!
/ Chas. N. Thode, Galena. will open
an old-fashioned coffee house with
| up-to-date features. The very best
coffee and other delicious soft drinks
! will be for sale at the Thode shop.
| Mr.. Thode will specialize in service
for motoring and fishing parties. The
coffee house was a feature of the
Elizabethan days in "Olde Englande. ;"
Many of the great minds of those DAYS
met over steaming cups of fragrant
coffee evolved wit, humor and phil
osophy that has endured thru the CEN
turtles.
The pioneer elevator of the Upper
Mississippi which for so years has
stood on the river bank at Prairie du
Chen and was the objective of all
the grain shipping from Minnesota in
the pre-railroad days, has been sold
by the st. Paul railroad company to
Joseph Zimmerman, president of the
Farm Products Company Of Prairie
du Chen. The upper stories will be
torn down and the lower floor re-
modelled and used for the manufac-
&x,..< 80 IL H.