Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-28

loaVy rams Cnat transformed the ta1r
grounds into a miry lake. The asso-
citation carried no rain insurance and
after building beautiful new con-
crete amphitheatre, booking every
race completely full of entries and
preparing the best line of entries ever
shown there, the whole thing was a
complete failure. The general senti-
nent is that county fairs may be ne
cessary but they are very expensive
and fail to stand on their own feet.
The cost of keeping the enterprise
going falls upon the business men in
the county seat instead of the county
as a whole by APPROPRIATION from the
county board as it should.
At the funeral Of DR.. A. J. Dake o.
Viola, Sir Knight C. H. Nye, formerly
of Lancaster, acted as master in CIV
| ing the Masonis ritual. DR.. Dake was
| "a years. In speaking of the solemn
occasion the Viroqua Censor says:
sSir Knight Nye acted as master, de-
livering the the thrilling Masonic bur
lal service like an ancient patriarch,
his voice firm and expressive despite
his snow-white head, hoary with the
weight of many years. The glory and
beauty of the day, the solemnity of the
occasion, the presence of the knights
and brothers, the hundreds of sorrow
ing friends-all combined together as
a proper and fitting tribute to the
memory of the good man gone"
Sheriff Beatty of Richland county
searched and abandoned farmhouse on
the farm of Anton Stanek, near Yuba,
with the result that a good-sized still
oh tn iuht 1oiY
ed at his preliminary he had advanced
a stranger SIS for the outfit several
years ago, and the stranger failing to
appear, had stored the still in the old
shack. His story is being investigated
before prosecution is made.
Celestine Deery, years, daughter
Of Charles w. Deery, of Kendall, La
fayette county, died at their home on
Saturday of last week as the result
of burns from an oil stove five months
ago. At first the burns were consid-
cred serious but as time went on hope
for recovery arose. In the last few
weeks before death the child grew
worse and finally an end came to her
intense suffering.
Judge William McCorkle, county
judge of Richland county for twenty
years has resigned to accept a position
with A. H. Krouskop, the leading mer-
chant of Richland county The vacan-
cy will be filled by appointment of
Gov. Blaine in the next month. F. w.
Burnham, P. l.. Lincoln and Michael
Murphy are applicants for the county
job which pays $4,000 per year.
A severe lightning loss Monday of
last week is reported from the farm
of George Hosfeldt, three miles from
Kirkland Center, the Democrat says
A dairy barn and hay barn filled with
hay, poultry house with a number
of fowls and an automobile, the prop
erty of the hired man, were destroyed
The loss was partly covered by insur-
ance.
DR.. Grimes, former medical man
of Rewey, was shot and killed at Nor
ristOwn, Ga, by VIM. S. burden, a
well known cotton planter and mem
Der of prominent family. Dr.. Grimes
had been attending Mrs. burden He
went south several years ago. He
and his wife parted, she locating at
Platteville with the children.
The Platteville machine gun com
pany is planning a big time in October
Will SOLu0 lCdl uSnIlLS. lnGIG Will
be five companies, or about 700 men
participating. This will consist Of
light infantry, tank company, machine
gun company and infantry company.
There will be military band and air
planes on the program.
Weather observer, J. W. Huntington
of Darlington reports that the first 20
days of September had 81 inches of
rain. There were 90 inches of rain in
August and for the so days from Aug.
l to Sept. 20 there were 1873 inches of
rain. This beats all records in south
western Wisconsin.
The biggest hog in the world, a big
Poland China boar, the property of
Robt. Fletcher of Genoa, ILL.,, was on
exhibition at the Illinois state fair.
1t weighs 1410 pounds. Fletcher also
mas another boar called "the baby
hog" that weighs 100 pounds.
An ice famine was on at Boscobel
a couple of weeks since and the de-
mand was so great that business men
combined and purchased a carload of
Lacrosse dealers. The price laid
down in Boscobe1 was $72O per ton
and the ice was of excellent quality.
Il VI IGSb vi OdI IOIl,
son Of Rev. L. E. Hoisington, has gone
to Cambridge, Mass, to enter Harv-
ard university. The young man grad
uated from Lawrence last year and
won a Harvard scholarship for dill
gence and knowledge.
Monroe boosters plan to revive the
famed Green County Cheese Day."
an event that drew thousands of
people for miles around. The event
was suspended during the war and
has not since been resumed.
Henry Pinch, deceased, for whom
the Cuba City post of the American
Legion was named, was buried at his
home town Sunday a week ago. The
young man was killed on the Argonne
October 10, 1918.
The body of Pearl Waldsmith, who
was killed in the Argonne in the fight
ing of Oct. 8, 1918, was brought home
to Richland Center for burial, Sept. 16.
His parents, four brothers and sis
ter survive.
Michael Meighan, employed on the
Geo. Stiff new building at Calamine,
fell twenty feet to the ground. He
suffered the fracture of the left arm
and his shoulder and neck were bad