Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-09
COUNTY AND
NEARBY ITEMS
General NeuUs Notes OF
Interest to Herald
Readers.

MdLtOA 0ICOICg Oh OAO ASoANSAAS -
Boscobel, died there Saturday OF last
week.
The Vinegar Hill Zinc Co. is ship
ping car of acid daily from its Cuba
City plant.
A Matthews of Muscoda, was listed
among the forty-two dead in the Por--
ter, Ind, accident.
Livingston is shipping its ice sup
ply from Madison the Andrew pond
having failed to freeze.
Hunters have been tantalized by the
large flocks of ducks sailing north but
spring shooting is taboo.
Work is going on at the Big Dick
lease at Meekers Grove. Recently a
prospector opened up three good lead
sheets.
Mary Evans Kendrick of Barneveld,
born in Wales in 1884, died at her
home last week aged Sc years. Six
children survive.
Shullsburg heard the presidents
inaugural address by wireless tele-
one-fifth of second after the words
left Harding's lips.
The farm home of Francis White of
ground Thursday night The loss is
covered by insurance.
Lawrence Landers, an orphan liv-
ing with the Geo. Seeley family of
Marietta was stricken with scarlet
fever and died after four weeks i'll
ness.
Richard SherWin former mayor OF
Benton for two terms died last week
at Freeport He was part owner and
developer of the old Ida Blind mine.
Mrs. Daniel Buss of Darlington cell
ebrated her 91st birthday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Leonard Bates
For the past nine years the old lady
has been bedridden.
Prof. Jorgenson of Gutenberg, Ia,
was given a rousing sendoff when he
left there Monday of last week for
Txas to join the White Sox in training.
The entire village turned out at one
g. m. to bid the prof goodby.
Francis e. Burgess, native of Darl-
ington, died at Mare Island hospital
off the coast of California of pneu-
monia This lad, he was 16, enlisted
in the navy last November. The body
was brought home for burial.
was held up near the proving grounds
Geo. Pulford, Savanna taxi driver,
and robbed of $40 by two strange men.
Benton will vote March 8 on a $15,-
600 bond issue the money to be used
for water and street improvements.
Bishop F. Muldoon, Rockford, was
presented with a seven passenger
Stephens Salient Six Sedan as the gift
of the churches in his parish. The car
is painted deep blue, trimmed with
black with upholstery of tan velour.
Messrs. Oates and Ellis of the
| Bloomington hatchery had $40 White
! Leghorn chicks hatch from 1900 eggs
/ Sunday of last week. The eggs were
| furnished by Ralph Hedeman. The
| chicks will be raised for early broilers.
! Albert Williams, former resident
| OF DodgevilIe who returned to his
home in Great Britain in 1906, died at
Llangydeiern, Camarthen, Wales, on
Jan 26, aged past 70 years. Mr.. Will
liams lived near Dodgeville for over
/ forty years. Several relatives in that
| vicinity survive him.
| Fred A. Parrish, former Boscobel
! boy whose father of the same name
! still resides there, was a principal
/ in a picturesque Denver elopement
| The intrepid young man and his
fancee chartered an airplane and flew
| to Colorado Springs where an hour
after their fight began an obliging
parson tied the nuptial knot and all
was happy Mr.. Parrish is on the
staff of a Denver film firm.
The Wisconsin Agriculturist of
Feb. &c devotes it's entire front page
to a history of the Jewell family of
! Mineral Point For three generations
the family has given special attention
j to the raising and showing of pure
bred stock. For siXty-three years
they have been winning prize ribbons.
Miss Viola Williams, eldest daugh-
! ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Williams,
and Donald Livingston, eldest son OF
| Village President W. M Livingston,
! Livingston were married at Galena
on Thursday, Feb. 10. After few
days visit with relatives in Benton
| they returned home Friday evening
to receive the congratulations of their
many friends. Donald was one of the
early volunteers of the World War,
served overseas experiencing injuries
that necessitate his receiving med
ical care in the Resthaven sanitarium
at Waukesha. AT present he is home
on ten days furlough. The Odd Eel
low and Rebekah orders with their
relatives gave them wedding feast
and miscellaneous shower at their hall
Wednesday evening .-Livingsto cor
respondent in Dodgeville Sun.
Illinois authorities are on the look
out for counterfeiting moonshiners
who sell bonded" whiskey as the
genuine article later events proving
the stuff to be moonshine cleverly
doctored and labeled with Uncle Sans
mark Cases of men becoming blind
from drinking the stuff are becoming
frequent Federal agents say that the
whiskey sellers in their greed for
money do not hesitate to sell pure
poison as bonded goods. Steaming
off government stamps, removing or
needing glass bottoms, using needle
syringe to suck whiskey out and pump
poison into bottles, and other clever
lodges have been worked wholesale.
One counterfeiter had $4,000 bogus
"Old Grand Dad labels, $1,000
counterfeit government stamps and
600 gallons of imitation whiskey. One
printer ''fell down" when he dated
stamp to read "one-year-old' when
the government requires four wears