Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-12-28
COUNTY AND
NEARBY NOTES

right 4 week ago. The family We're
awakened about two a. m. by SEED
corn dropping to the floor. the hFe
had ignited the husks and the corn
fell with a crash, this warning saw
ing the lives of the a;eeplng famlly
AS it was the children were over
come by smoke and rescued with dlI-
f,culty. A detective chimney caused
the blaze. The family saved their
furniture and are living in granary
until new house can be erected.
Martin Dillon, we'll known Galena
lawyer. died last Monday after an Ill
ness of ten weeks.
Oscar Haffle died at Shullsburg on
Monday of last week.
Mrs. Albert Halyorson, the mother
OF eight children, died Monday OF las:
week at Highland
Ansley Mcconnell, son Of Mrs. and
Mrs. Frank Mcconnell Darlington
died at Madison He served eighteen
months overseas.
Robert Peacock, Cuha, and Bernice
Holden, Yela, Mich, Will be married
at the brides home, Dee. 3lst
Mrs Sarah Rodham, 81, died at her
home in Shullsburg Saturday
Frank Rob, 40, die at Highland
last Monday after q severe illness.
Mrs. Sarah CALDWELL widow OF the
late John Caldwell, died at the honiS
of her niece, Mrs. Mary Caldwell, OF
Mineral Point The old lady reached
the age of 81 years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Bowden, Cuba
City are the parents of a daughter
born Monday of last week that had
weight Of 31a pounds at birth.
The Viroqua Censor has the follow
ing to say: Our good friend. Sam
Lake, dropped in today to ocer FOR
sale fine 4-year-old Percheron, at
SIS, and incidentally makes US won
der what is wrong with the railroads
This Vernon county travelling man
through the Dakotas attended an auc-
ton in one of the crop failure dis
tricts and bid in fine team of Per-
cheron mares for $15. Jubiliant over
his purchase he went to the depot to
ship them back to Gods country
Vernon count. TO his indignation ne
learned that the charges would be
$50. 80 long as the railroads get
more for hauling the farmers pro
duce than Che farmer gets for raisins
it. real prosperity will stay far Off.
Edwin Andrews died at his home in
Denver, Colo. The remains were
brought to his old home in Minera,
Point He is survived by his wife,
formerly Miss Susan Gray of Mineral
Point.
A representative of the society OF
Friends, or Quakers, recently inspec-
ted lands at Marshfeld with view
of securing 300 to 400 acres for col
ony to be devoted to the culture OF
fruit. The land, if purchased, is to
be divided into 5 and 20 acre plots.
r. O. Quick, recently connected
with the athletic department of the
university, has accepted a position
with the federal prohibition office in
Milwaukee, good place for an ath-
letic young man.
Contrary to early reports of the
scarcity of deer advices from the
office of the state conservation COM
mission at Madison are to the effect
that more deer were killed in Wis
consin this year than a year ago.
During the ten days Of open season
1876 bucks were slain. More than
double the number Of deer licenses
were issued this year, than in 1920,
the number being 55,000 as compareds
with $4,000 last season.
Whether Daniel r. Lawrence, 50,
Civil war veteran of Boscobel, will
be granted a divorce from his wife,
Grace NJ Lawrence, or whether the
decree will be Issued to his wife, Ga,
whom he married following a court
ship by correspondence will be de-
cided by Judge Hoppman OF Madison.
| The case was argued last Tuesday.
Each charges the other with divorce.
Lawrence claims his wife married
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sum running into thousands out of
him. Mrs. Lawrence says her aged
spouse lost the money she had by
making poor investments Mrs Law
renee, on the stand, said she could
not remember living as the wife of a
Chicago doctor before she married
Lawrence. Reprimanded by the court
she said she had used the doctors
name, passing herself as his wife, for
business reasons but that she never
lived with the doctor.
George Devine, Do, was sentenced
to four years in Waupun prison by
Judge Fowler at Wausau after a jury
had found him guilty Of assault upon
Edward Stone, a neighbor, at Lewis
ton. Stone was awakened at midnight
by noises in the barn on his farm, and
on entering the door was shot down.
Bloodhounds the following day fol
lowed a trail to Devines farm home
where Sheriff Dempsey found Devine
and coniscated a still Devine de-
MED his guilt.
Hiding in the woods near Ashland
for two weeks, getting shelter and
food in deserted cabins, John VIM.
Bearegard, an Indian, charged with
the murder of his old uncle was cap
tured Thursday An old tribal feud
is said to have led to the killing.
Trapped on the upper floor of her
home in Waukesha when fire broke
out at midnight Tuesday, Mrs. Clyde
Bell saved her three children, eli
under four, by dropping them from
a window into the arms of neighbors.
Mrs. Bell was rescued by firemen.
The blaze was caused by an over
heated stovepipe
Friends Of Alvin b. Peterson, Pra.
du Chen lawyer, are mentioning him
as candidate for the republican
nomination for governor at the fall
primaries. Mr.. Peterson is central
chairman of the renub1ican e+ata corr,