Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-23
NE|GHBORROOD
BREv|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Louis Monum, Mt Horeb, was killed
while saving down trees, Saturday
OF last week.
A majority of Benton citizens voted
in favor of spending $4,000 for paw
ing the main street in that village.
A purebred Duroc SOW on the farm
of William Weittenhiller, near Platte
vile, farrowed p pigs, all but one
living. Two other sows on the same
farm narrowed II pigs each.
Miss Mary Weiskircher, young
woman of Dodgeville, died last Sat
urday following a years illness. Lung
trouble developed into an abscess on
the lung
The unsettled weather in Grant
county the first of last week devel-
oped into a sleet storm when the
wave struck Iowa county. Poles
were down in power and telephone
lines and trees broken by the hun
dreds. Telephone and electric SER
vice were maintained with much diff
ficulty.
Packers on the William Hanson
wholesale house, Dubuque, uncovered
a cOpperhead snake four feet long
and two and half inches in circum-
ference while unloading bananas. The
snakes bite is deadly poisonous but
the workmen discovered it's presence
before harm was done. The men
built a special cage for the snake and
then gave it to the boy scouts for
exhibition purposes.
Whitley" Miller, Dubuque youth,
arrested for carrying a gun, made his
escape from the county Jail there last
Wednesday. The boy used fork to
pierce the partition OeIWeen his cell
and the council chamber covering up
his operations with a picture When
the hole was large enough he slipped
through and then walked boldly
past the police officers who discover
ed his fight some time later
Mrs. Janet Eastman, Lena woman,
died Saturday following a weeks ill
ness with sleeping sickness. The fam
lily moved to Lena from South Wayne
a few days before. Mrs. Eastman at
that time complained of tonsilitis.
Shortly following the SYMPTOMS of
sleeping sickness appeared and des
pite careful medical attention she died
Mrs. Eastman was forty years old.
She leaves a husband and three
daughters.
The Sam Williams market at Ga
lena was rifed last Tuesday night
by robbers who took few pennies
as the total loot they could find in
the cash register. The thieves then
went to a nearby grocery store and
took quantity of cigars, cigarettes
and candy but overlooked sack of
cash in the cash register The police
believe that local youthful talent is
responsible.
The CarnatiOn milk cOndensery at
Richland Center is again going full
blast The cOndenseries all over the
state were forced to curtail operations
last fall when the tremendous slump
hit the packed milk business. They
seem now to have Weathered the crisis.
The Richland Center city council
fatty refused to submit the election Of
a chief of police to the voters at the
spring election. The council held that
the position should remain one of the
appointment in order to supervise and
direct the chiefs work and policy
quarrel arose between n. NJ
Marcus and Sam Biggs, Muscoda
neighbors, due to Biggs relocating the
line between the two premises dur
ing Marcus's absence. When the lat
ter came home an argument arose
followed by a fight. Biggs then had
Marcus arrested for violation of viii
lage ordinance on one count and civil
damages on another. Marcus went
to Boscobel and swore out warrant
charging Biggs with assault and bat
terry claiming that Biggs attacked
him with an axe Biggs pleaded not
guilty but was fined 81 and costs.
He took an appeal to the circuit
court. The Muscoda actions are still
pending.