Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-27

As
or Lake Shore league work this year.
The marriage of Earl Kennedy and
Pearl Mcconnell, two Benton young
people, will take place in the near
future.
Mrs. Hanah Weston, aged SO, and
pioneer of Edmund, died Wednesday
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E.
A. Baker Of Dodgeville.
Callahan's lead over Carey for state
superintendent now exceeds $4,000
Mrs. Martha Mitchell, daughter of
the late Robert Mitchell of Mineral
Point. died recently
Frederick Hottenstein of this
county and Miss Mae Young of 10
Davis county were married at Ga
lena last Wednesday. Following
their honeymoon spent near Fenni-
more they will reside at Savanna
The Mound City Manufacturing
Co. of Platteville, has launched its
product known as the Triplex lawn
mower invented by W. j. Boil The
machine is said to have considerable
merit. A sales organization is now
being perfected.
Miss Elizabeth Morton of New Dig
gings died at the home of her sister,
Mrs. John Stephenson of Darlington.
Joseph Proctor, aged 68, died at his
home in Dodgeville of heart trouble.
Mineral Point has purchased two
ton truck for municipal use.
John Schunder, Savanna, was run
over by an automobile near his home
Friday evening. Schunder was just
stepping from the crossing to the
curb when hit. He had one leg
broken and several teeth knocked
out aside from numerous bruises.
The driver of the car did not stop.
A Lafayette county jury rendered
a verdict for $4,000 in favor of Chris
TOPPER Peacock, New Diggings farm
er, who sued the Wisconsin Zinc Co.,
alleging damages to his crops by
fumes from the rooster. The case
will be appealed to the Wisconsin
supreme court.
The body of Alfred Johnson, a
fisherman Of Dubuque, was found at
2:15 Monday afternoon in the Mis-
sissippi river near Menominee sta
ton by John A. Johnson. Coroner
w. A. Uehren of Galena held an
inquest over the body Monday night,
the inquest being held at East Dubu-
que. Johnson had been missing for
several days.
The extensive plant of the Cocker
mine near Livingston, is being taken
down and the entire equipment sent
to Mexico where the New Jersey
Zinc Co. has large holdings. 1t may
also mean that Mineral Point will
lose it's extensive zinc works, if the
company abandons the Wisconsin
-Montfort Mail.
Anthony Brandt, resident of Bel
levue since 1868 and for years pub
Usher of the Bellevue Herald, died
Saturday of last Week. Mr.. Brandt
was born in Millerstown Pa, in
1914 He was a lSe-long democrat
and held numerous offices being
postmaster at Bellevue during Cleve-
lands administration. He was high
Iy regarded in his home city A wife
and daughter survive.
The lottery of a 391 acre farm
near Arena was stopped and the
money paid in by thousands of
chance takers refunded under orders
of the district attorney. Matt Del
esano of Milwaukee, seller of the
lottery tickets, paid a fine of $50.
The winner of the farm was to re-
ceive $4,000 if he didn't want the
farm. Above 10000 numbers were
sold.
Miss Linda Miller, a school teacher,
and Robert Shulties, 10year-old pupil,
were killed, and the boys father, c.
Shulties, a contractor, seriously in
jured, at West Allis, Milwaukee
suburb, Friday, when Milwaukee
road train struck an auto truck. The
three were riding to school. Shulties
was taking his son to school in his
truck and invited the teacher to &C
company them. A binding rainstorm
is thought to have been the cause of
Shulties' failing to see the train.
Jerry George, Milwaukee road fire
man at Savanna, had six cars and
locomotive pass over his body on
Saturday of last week in the yards
at Davenport and lives to tell the
tale. George was walking across
the tracks toward his boarding house
and did not see the train until it was
directly upon him. He threw him
self fiat on the ground between the
tracks and the train passed over him.
The engine was of the high Rock
Island type and this construction
saved his life AS it was he was
badly bruised and his clothing torn
from his body by the brake rods.
George will recover.