Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-20
NEiGHBORHOOD
BREv|T|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

sanitarium March 81. The remains
were taken to Highland for burial
Dora Won Claim, 17-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Won Claim OF
Belmont, died Tuesday OF tubercu-
losis.
Mrs. BERT Olesdatter Arneson of
Avoca, native of Norway where she
was born in 1S4S, died last Thursday
of cancer.
Mrs. Reuben Fine of Linden, a
young mother with two small child
rem, died following an operation Fri
day of last week.
Judge Aldro jerks, sitting at Elk
horn, sentenced Charles Burns to four
years at hard labor. Burns passed
bad checks on Walworth merchants.
Hannah Dunn died at the home of
her brother, Cornelius Dunn, of Min
eral Point, after a weeks illness with
pneumonia.
Miss Maude Calvert of Cuba City
returns to Washington, S. D., where
she has been teaching for two years
at salary of $2,4O0.
The remains of Phillip Gillie, who
was killed on the field of battle in
France, were returned to his old home
in Gratiot for burial.
Miss Harriet Grimm has been ap-
pointed principal of the Darlington
schools making her eighth consecu-
tive year in the position.
Richard John Bryant of Hazel
Green died April 7th aged nearly 6S
years. He was born on a farm near
Benton Six children and a second
wife survive.
The city of Dodgeville has fixed the
pay for street work the coming year.
Men with teams will be paid SO cents
an hour. Laborers will be paid 80
cents an hour.
Davis and Jones, two Dodgeville
boys pleaded guilty at Darlington to
the theft of two automobiles at Bel
mont. Sentence was suspended to in
vestigate the past character OF the
young men.
j. Allan Simpson of Shullsburg has
resigned as state prohibition officer.
The Rodham & McQuitty mine near
Shullsburg has been closed. The
pumps will be kept running to free
the mine from water.
A gang of fifty Swiss immigrant are
at work on road constructor in La
fayette county. The steep hill west of
the village of Blanchardville and eff
fectually hiding that little city, is be-
graded to an per cent grade a mile
in length.
A proposed relocation of the road
between Dodgeville and Mineral PIT.
has been abandoned. The DOdgeville
Sun intimates that the relocation plan
was made without consulting Iowa
county parties most affected and that
the state highway commission became
convinced that the relocation was i'm
practical and silly. 1t will be conven-
iently forgotten.
The Terrill farm near Mineral Point
taken up on government patent by
John Terrill in 1887, is still in the
family Henry Terrill, grandson of
the entrant, farms the place. Living
with him are his father, William,
who was born on the farm in 1847 and
has spent his life there, and his son,
Merrill, aged II, making three gener-
ations residing on the old home place.
In 1913 diminutive youth was
taken out of a DoX car at Dodgeville
and cared for until his people were
notified. The other day his former
friends received a letter from this
boy who is now a signal man in the
u. S. army stationed at Honolulu.
The boy has been all over the world
but has never forgotten the kindness
of Mr. and Mrs. w. P. Peters of
Dodgeville.
Mrs. Margaret Mylroie, the Dodge
Vile woman so seriously burned in a
kerosene explosion on April 2, died a
week later in Dodgeville hospital
Mrs MyIroie was native Of the Isle
of Man where she was born in l84l
She emigrated to America at the age
of Is and located at Ridgeway with
sister. There she married John Myl-
role. a countryman. She is survived
by three daughters and three sons
d. G. James, we'll known citizen of
Richland Center, was taken suddenly
ill Sunday while enrOute from Pra. du
Chen, where he had been taking SAN
itarium treatment, to his home. The
train was held at the Boscobel station
until DR.. c. f. Tuffley got aboard and
accompanied the sick man as far as
| Lone Rock Heart trouble was the
cause of the illness and the patient
was considerably improved by the
time he reached home.
Daniel Mahoney, the Oldest man in
Iowa county, died last week at his
home in Ridgeway, aged SO years and
and six months. Mr. Mahoney was
born in County Kerry, Ireland, in
1924. He came to America in 1916
and in 1856 located on farm near
Ridgeway The old gentleman lived
the usual pioneer life and never had
doctor until the last six months of
his life. A son and two daughters
survive him.
Walter Townsend, Shullsburg, died
last Monday evening after an illness
Of a day with pneumonia He had
| taken dinner Sunday evening but did
not appear at breakfast Monday A
party sent to his room found him un-
| conscious on the bed. Mr.. Townsend
was born in Shullsburg in 1848 and re-
sided there al his life except for ten
years in the west. He was a driver
and trainer of fast horses and for the
past thirty years was a prominent
figure. on the race tracks of the cir
cult. The funeral was held Wednes-
! day from the home of his niece, Mrs
Adkins, and burial made at Shulls-
burg.