Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-07
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREVIT|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important News Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

of Linden for a lifetime, died August
25, after years illness.
At reunion Of the Christensen
clan at Crystal Lake, near Dodgeville,
one day last week, two hundred people
were present
Eunice Smith, years, daughter of
Ed. Smith Of STANDARD, Iowa county,
died Wednesday after weeks illness
with appendicitis.
Chas F. Ruskel of Belmont had a
roam pure-bred mare and her colt
killed by lightning in a recent cleo
trical storm. His loss was $500.
Mrs. Ella Owen, 81 years, resident
of Iowa county for 81 years, died at
her home in Dodgeville Wednesday.
Mrs. Owens was native Of Wales.
Mrs. Rose Williams, lifelong resi-
dent of Iowa county where she was
born in 1865, died at her home in
Dodgeville Sunday night of last week.
Frank Marks, sixty years, resident
of Dodgeville for many years and a
travelling salesman, died at Lincoln,
Nebraska, of uremic poisoning. The
body was brought back to Dodgeville
| for burial.
Mrs. Thomas Roach, aged 80, died
at her home in Dodgeville Monday of
Rebecca Bennett and she was born in
ST. Ives, Cornwall, in 1841. She came
to Iowa county in 1871.
For owning still, Lewis Jasper of
Cazenovia was fined 5000 and costs
by Judge McCorkle at Richland Cen
ter. John LaSage, operator of the
still, was fined 500 and costs. The
men paid in 1851 in all.
Mn1nn nWnnpc around Rich Ia n6 Gem
ter have been watching for youthful
and adult thieves. AS a result sew
eral parties Of merry melon robbers
have been taken before the local po
lice judge and fined SO apiece.
A splendid and enjoyable time was
had last Sunday at Gratiot when about
one hundred relatives and friends
gathered at Gratiot park with Mr..
and Mrs. Conrad Doring to help them
celebrate their fiftieth wedding an
niversary.
OWE Smith, resident of Horse
creek, Richland county, was found
in his car in a sleepy state of intox-
ication. Owe paid fine of $25 and
costs for operating a car while drunk
and gave bond to answer at the cir
cult court for having transported
liquor.
Mrs. and Mrs. Jos. Reilly of Bos-
cobeI celebrated the 42nd anniversary
of their marriage on Wednesday a
week ago. Twelve children have been
reared by the old couple and they all
reside in the Boscobel vicinity. The
party at the wedding feast numbered
forty.
At a big dance in the Highland
municipal hall, a 1922 Buick six was
won by Gus Novak, farmer of Castle
Rock township, Grant county The
car is valued at $1,000. The dance
and rattle were given for the benefit
of the Highland BASEBALL club.
Oscar Hamburg, farmer living near
Loganvillc, suffered the loss of nearly
all of his fine herd Of dairy cows
Tuesday when fourteen Of tire animals
broke into the cornfield and later
died from the effects Of 0wpreating.
Hamburg has only four cows left.
Harold Stewart of RichlaHd Center,
entered a plea Of guilty to, living with
woman other than his lawful wife
at Madison. He was placed on parole
for three years. Mrs. Clair Turner,
the woman in the case, was allowed to
return home under q similar parole
regulation.
Ivan Kantcheff of PlatteviI1e, nat
uralized citizen of the United States,
and for several years welfare manager
for the Vinegar Hill Zinc Co, was
recently appointed a federal prohibit
ton enforcement officer. Mr. Kant
chef thinks he will be located in the
southwestern part of the state.
The biggest day of the Monroe fair
was Saturday, when the gate receipts
came to $3,66750. Friday was 3,39425.
Total for the week, day and night, was
81, 742.75, or $4,000 more than last
year. Their free attractions cost the
neat sum of $4,000. Premiums were
around $4,000. Concession money
came to around $500.
Col. Cyrus NJ. Butts, O. pioneer cit
izen of Vernon county, died at his
farm home near Viroqua last week.
He was district attorney three terms,
county treasurer two terms, county
judge twelve years, assemblyman one
term, state senator one term, mayor,
alderman, asylum trustee and school
officer, making his official tenure more
than seventy years.
Heberlein & Howell VIM Brod-
beck, Frank Burg, Chas. Burg and
the Peoples Shoe store were among
| the PlatteV1lle hrmS that caShed
forged checks for $24.50, presented
by an unknown who made the rounds
with paper signed by 81. w. Living
ston," on the Montfort State bank.
The checks came back in q day or
two with the words mo funds" on the
face None of the merchants seem to
have a description OF the man who
duped them. Saturday nights are
busy in Platteville and hundreds of
checks are cashed without much at
tention being paid.
/ The Mineral Point chapter of the
American Red Cross has turned over
to A. f. Bishop, cashier of the Iowa
county bank, the sum of $1,000 the
roney to be used for the establish
ment of city park and the building
of an artificial lake affording bathing
and boating facilities. Mcclellan Dodge
of Madison, 9 civil engineer, has been
engaged by the city council to survey
for an appropriate site and look after
the building of a lake and park. The
council has also provided for a park
board, under the Wisconsin statutes.
The Red Cross donation is a generous