Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-03
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREVITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.


home in Mineral Point, Sunday. She
was the mother of ten children.
John McCune, veteran of the Civil
war and piano merchant of Kenosha.
was instantly killed when struck by
train.
Shullsburg people were let off easy
this year Sixteen guarantors were
compelled to pay but $719 for the
dtticit in the Chautauqua this year.
Mrs. H. Y. Green, wife of a Green
Bay grocer, is in the hospital as the
result of poisoning from a tarantula
bite. The spider was caught and put
on exhibition.
The city of Racine has borrowed the
sum of 100000 to give idle men en-
ployment. Road and bridge work will
afford the men work instead of placing
them on charity.
The Junction House near Monroe
was raided by officers and the pro-
prietor, Wyss and wife, placed under
bonds of $4,000 for running a still
and maintaining a nuisance.
Chester LOjeski, 10, Kenosha, was
drowned while swimming with other
boys He went down and persisted as
the other lads did not know what to
40. Auc UOuy was IGCON0I0u.
The Legion of Belmont will hold
its End annual picnic August 9th.
Attorney Villas Whaley will be the
speaker of the day. The fine Mineral
Point band will furnish music.
Karl Kleinpell and Miss Viola Behl-
mer both of Cassville were united in
marriage in the beautiful new home
that the groom had built for the bride.
The groom is member of the Klein
pell Bros. Lumber Co.
Miss Katherine Obye, former sup
erintendent of Galena schools has ac-
copied a position as instructor of
English in the Rockford, ILL.,, high
school, which has over 1000 pupils
in this department alone.
Mrs. John Bray, one of the oldest
citizens of Darlington died Sunday,
July a. In 1858 she was married to
Mr. Bray at Bashford. At the close of
the Civil war they moved to Darling
ton where she resided until her
death.
Lester Van Tassel, Madison, taken
into custody for the shooting OF the
wife of Capt. Moss at Rockford, was
committed to the Mendoza hospital for
the insane. Van Tassel was in the
company of the man who shot Mrs.
Moss but was cleared of the charge.
His queer actions convinced the au-
thorities that he was insane.
Two old gentlemen of Rockbridge,
a village of ancients in Richland
county, had an argument one day last
week and finally fell to it with canes
and fists. They emerged with broken
eye glasses, bloody noses and black
eyes, some of the younger element
separating their hot-blooded elders.
The old men are both past "a years.
Fire started in a large tanK of
tarvia at Darlington and soon spread
to five barrels of tarvia on the street
nearby The city chemical engine put
out the fire in the tarvia and citizens
shoveled sand on the street which was
burning also. The intense smoke
and heat caused great excitement as
a black mass arose that could be
seen for miles. One store had its
windows broken from the heat.
Willis Lesperance and "Frenchy
Yaegers, charged with being mem
bers of the gang robbing the state
bank at Wabeno of $4,000 in cash and
securities, were ordered held for trial
after their preliminary hearing at
CrandOn Thursday Both were re-
manded to Jail upon failure to fur
nish bail of $4,000. Both pleaded
not guilty The case comes up Aug.
10th.
Captain Fred Bowen, formerly OF
Richland Center, has returned TO the
states from central Europe where ne
acted as liason officer with the Red
Cross. He says that Polish children
are in an appalling condition from
malnutrition, their ration being Dean
soup and broth made from one part
LARD and five parts water. Germany
is further ahead in Reconstruction
than any other European country
Captain Bowen says. The Red Cross
has made superhuman effort to resus-
citate life overseas particularly
among the young. Serbia is the
cock of the walk among her nelgh-
bors and terrorizes with her constant
intrigues. immortality is prevalent
in many cities where many women
openly sell themselves on the streets
as a means of subsistence.