Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-11
NEIGHB0RHOOD
BREv|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

I
The May term of circuit court in
Richland county vii be postponed un-
til June and possibly until September
Unknown vandals threw a large
! rock through a 10X12 plate glass
house building at Pra du CHEN.
Richland Center building operations
include seven modern dwellings, one
business block and the completion of
department. store annex and Ma
sonic temple.
David d. Reese, former resident of
Dodgeville, died Tuesday at Irvington,
Ala, where he spent the winter. He
was Y years old and lifelong res
ident of Iowa county
Two stylishly dressed women ar
, rested at Pra. du Chen on suspicion
of having stolen jeWelry in their pos
session, were released The officers
found watches and rings that had
been taken from a Muscoda jeweler
but the owner refused to prosecute
the case
Blanche Finch, a Lone Rock girl
essayed to start a slow coal fire with
kerosene and is now nursing burns
about the face, neck and hands as the
result OF an explosion. Luckily she
escaped with her life The majority
Of victims Of kerosene explosions are
women.
OF thirteen cases OF communicable
disease reported by the Dubuque dir
ector of public health, for the last
week in May, there were four cases
of social or private" disease. The
other diseases were: Diphtheria, 2;
ChickenpoX, 4; Smallpox, 1; Scarlet
Fever, 2.
The p. Lorillard tobacco stripping
plant at Pra. du Chen, opened Mon
day of last week with 80 employees
following a shutdown of three weeks
A reduction of 1888 1-3 to $275 per
hundred pounds has been made to
piece workers. The General Cigar Co
plant remains closed.
Prospectors have struck fine lead
of lead ore on the G. A. Smythe farm
near Benton. At a depth of 40 feet
they have an opening several feet i'll
height, and have drifted Is feet from
the shaft with a fine showing of ore
Two men are taking out around 1900
pounds Of pure lead a day.
Burton T. Rossing, a young man of
the town of Eden, Iowa county, TOOK
his own life by hanging while de-
pressed over the hopeless condition of
his health due to that incurable mall
ady, H0dgkin's disease, from which he
had been sufferer for a year The
body was found hanging in the barn
by his brother, Earl.
Lyman Janney a farmer living near
Richland Center, in Willow Valley.
found what fine neighbors he had fol-
lowing the storm of two weeks ago
While Janney was trying to patch up
his wrecked buildings the neighbors
came laden with tools and materials.
They worked heartily and in a few
hours had the place presentable.
The Dubuque river season will
open officially Wednesday, May 18th,
and the post lights between Dubuque
and Rock Island will be lighted for
the first time of the season on that
date. The postlights between Bur-
lington and Rock Island will be lit on
May 9th. The lighthouse tender, Dan
delion, is north of Dubuque placing
aids to navigation and providing post
light supplies north 0 st. Paul.
Of all the mines operated by the
New Jersey Zinc Co. in the Wisconsin
field, but one is going and that is the
Penna-Benton. In the vicinity of New
Diggings, where during the war from
1900 to 1900 men found employment,
not a man is on the job at any point.
More than seventy applications are
on file for the city superintendency Of
schools at Pra. du CHEN. The pres
ent superintendent, Nicholas Gunder-
IN oh fon al re,t
goes to Sparta to take charge of the
schools. Pra. du Chen has a new
high school and the position is COW
eted one.
Fifteen carloads of unclaimed goods
comprising articles of every descrip-
ton, went under the hammer at Pra.
Gu Chen last week when the Milwau-
kee roads annual auction sale took
place. Several hundred merchants
and farmers attended and the articles
for the most part were sold in lots.
Groceries, canned goods, paper and
bottled goods were sold Thursday
and paints, oils, dry goods, clothing,
shoes, rugs, ETC., went in the after
noon. Furniture, hardware, farm
machinery, chinaware, glassware,
stoves, ETC., were among the other ar
ticles sold. The sale was largely at
tended, many people coming from
across the river in Iowa.
A reduction in salaries of the en-
ployes of the transportation depart
ment Of the Dubuque Electric Co., was
announced in an official bulletin is
sued last week. According to the new
wage scale set forth in the bulletin,
the minimum wage paid to any en-
ploye of this department will be 35c
an hour, as compared to 38c, the for
mer scale. The maximum wage will
be 45c an hour as compared to 60c,
the former scale. The amount of
wage is graduated according to the
length of service in the company. The
men are organized and will vote on
acceptance or rejection of the COM
pany's ultimatum in few days. The
company claims that its revenues are
far below a point that will provide
depreciation and reserve accounts to
say nothing of dividends. This not
Withstanding an increase of fare. The
company pushed the fare up to meet
higher operating expense and the pub
lie retaliated by walking or using