Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-02-23
COUNTY AND
NEARBY ITEMS
General NelUs Notes of
Interest to sHeraId'
Readers.

The city bridge across the Pecaton-
ica river at Darlington has been COM
plted at a cost of $3.50
Mrs. Lettie Smith OF Mineral Point
died Friday of diabetic coma after an
illness of but a few days.
Josiah Matley, rs, died at Darling
ton, after an illness of several months.
He was a civil war veteran
Mrs. Margaret Jane Burhyte Hale
died at Georgetown Sunday a week
ago at the age of SO years
Miss Viola Williams and Donald
Livingston of Lancaster were mar
ried at Galena Friday, Feb 10th
The Darlington Electric Co, has
been authorized a 20 per cent rate in
crease with minimum bill of ST.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Coward, resid-
ing near the Yewdell mine at Living
ston. mourn the death of little babe.
Frank Austin Of Mineral Point shot
himself Thursday. He had been a res
ident of Mineral Point for forty years.
Platteville truck gardeners doubled
their orders for cabbage plants when
they learned that the Kentucky to-
bacco growers had decided to make
no crop this year.
The old Link mine at Meekers
Grove has been shut down. Water is
being pumped from the mine in order
to be ready for production in case the
ore price raises and the mine reopens.
Louis Cleary, son of postmaster
Cleary of Platteville, is reported as
making an excellent gain toward re-
covery from tuberculosis at the Villas
sanitarinm. Madison. Mr.. Cleary con-
he
David Billion Walker, an old res
ident of Platteville. died there Thurs
day morning, Feb. IT, following an
Illness of one year. He leaves a wife,
row seriously Ill, three sons, John w.
Of Los. Angeles, James and George on
the Walker farm in Smelser, and
daughter, Nellie, at home. The flu
neral was held Saturday
Edgar Smith and Jack Pingle of
Chicago were arrested at Galena Jet,
Wednesday night by Sheriff Shipton
and deputies, and placed in the 10
Davies county Jail on a charge of rob
ling the O. depot at Galena the same
afternoon The men were unable to
furnish the $1,000 bond demanded by
the authorities. The culprits are Is
years old or Whereabouts. 1t is said
that they came to Galena from Chi
Cago and after several days of loafing
went fiat broke. In desperation they
robbed the depot safe while the agent
vas at lunch. The robbery was dis
covered at once and the men suspect
as they had made a practice of hang
ng around the depot. The officers
traced the boys to the junction and
arrested them before they had time
to catch train east. The petty sum
of $31.10 was the entire loot and all
this was recovered except $3.50 the
boys had spent for food.
Federal officers in a series of raids
put the blind pigs practically out Of
business in Dubuque county last week.
The "revenooers" seized 1000 gallons
of mash and 800 gallons Of corn Whis
key, six stills of which two were the
largest ever captured, in their five
days work. The property seized is
valued at $4,000 The Iowa Prohibi-
ton agent r. c. Adams and Deputy
u. S. Marshall A. L. Houston conduct
ed the raids aided by deputies. The
largest stills ever found in the state
of Iowa were discovered on the farm
of Edward Marshall near Zwingle.
Marshall and a man named Ernest
Merkle were captured. The stills had
capacity of 35 gallons each making.
Other moonshiners, mostly farmers,
were arrested The raids were the
elimination of six months of detective
work on the part of the officers. One
man named Don TempletOn, tenant on
the Boyle farm at Bernard, was held
and his supply of liquor confiscated.
This consisted of 800 gallons of mash
and ten gallons of barley whiskey. He
was held under $500 bonds and the
agents think they have in limbo the
biggest bootlegger in the county. The
still was going in full blast when the
raid was made. $50 pint bottles of
moonshine were broken on the prem
Uses by the agents. The booty is held
in the vaults of the federal building
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