Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-06-07
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From 7 RI
State Area.

started down cellar and then looked
around at the barn. She missed hel
footing, fell the entire flight and sus-
| tanned bad bruises.
The crossing lights on the Missis-
sippi, showing the cratic courses OF
the channel of the big river, turned
on Thursday night when up river
navigation officially opened
Billy Heidenwegg, charged with en-
tering the home OF Erwin Ward, Patch
Grove, with felonious intent, was ar
rested at Davenport by Sheriff Dick
Holmes. He is held in Jail at Lancas-
ter
The city of Pra. du Chen has been
enjoined from filling mudholes on
certain streets with cinders. DR.. An
tome brought the injunction. He
wants the streets mended but not that
way.
Sheriff Kennedy and aides of Du-
buque county discovered 40-gallon
still, 500 gallons of mash and ten gal
Ions of moonshine in cottage near
Specht's Ferry Wednesday night. One
E. Morgan was arrested.
DR.. Leary, Soldiers Grove, "vet,'
testing cattle for tuberculosis, found
reactors in the herd of Fred Kram-
er at Eastman. Other cows afflicted
with bovine disease have been located
Eventually all cattle must be shown
free Of disease to be sold.
Martin Anderson, kellogg, Idaho
youth, fell or was thrown from train
at Pra. du Chen and was badly skin
ned up. Anderson sought to sue the
company for damages, claiming he
was thrown off, but being hobo was
out of luck
The machinery and equipment of the
defunct Boscobel Table Co., was sold
at sheriff's sale to Jos. N. Reopen OF
Madison. Mr.. Reopen bought the
building of the Boscobel Realty Co,
which had previously bid it in, and
will open the plant for business about
Sept 1st
Miss Marjorie Fielder, Dodgeville
girl, drove her fathers car to the
high school and parked it. While
Miss Fielder wGs in the building the
car ran away down the hill and
smashed telephone pole. On the
pole was a transformer which fell on
the car smashing" the engine.
Sid Olson, charged with the robbery
of the Jones e Starry hardware tore
at Barneveld last September, pleaded
guilty before Judge jerks at Dodge
Vile last week and was sentenced to
serve two years in Green Bay reform
school. Sever SkaarnesS, arrested
with Olson, was held for the burglar
izing of the Hoff store at Mt. Horeb
last spring.
The Muscoda Progressive, truly a
we'll named paper, has been agitating
for a free toll bridge over the Wis
consin at the village. The bridge
would cost the tidy sum of 100000.
The state would pay one-third, Grant
and Richland counties One-third, and
Muscoda village and the adjacent
township in Richland county, one
third. That would give the local peo-
pie very cheap bridge.
JOS. Brunker, we'll known Ridge
way stock raiser, endeavored to stop
fight between two boars. Both were
gigantic animals and when Brunker
attempted to be the peacemaker, one
of the boars dashed him with it's tusk,
cutting his leg badly. Brunker fell
and the other boar caught him in the
back The man wriggled out OF the
way and the boars resumed their
fight. Brunker went to town for a
doctor.
Miss Mary Ann Miller, an aged
colored woman who was born slave
and brought to Wisconsin in the early
forties by the late DR.. Monroe of Men
roe, died at the Iowa county home
Sunday a week ago. For several
generations Mary Ann served in the
Bliss family at Mineral Point, first for
G. w. Bliss, then for E. U. Bliss and
last for w. P. Bliss. She was known
as one of the old type of colored
people, cheerful and obliging and a
sincere Christian, attending the Cen
gregational church at Mineral Point
I'D to a year before her death.
In circuit court at Pra. du CHEN
last week Frank Bauman avs fined
500 for selling moonshine on Jan.
16 For selling the same stuff on
March % he was fined $500 and then
a bond of $500 put up with the federal
authorities guaranteeing that he
would cease his pernicious activities,
was forfeited. Total-$S00. Lester
Young, a youth who broke into a
Burlington ticket office at Lynxville
and stole a ticket good to Pra. du
Chen, was given a year in Green Bay.
The ticket was worth about Soc Geo.
Bayne, who sued Sheriff John Herold
for false arr est asking $4,000, failed
to appear Balm was arrested for
Iewd conduct. An examining board
found him sare and he was advised
to leave the county which he did. The
case was lGrown out of court. Chas.
Tesar. wno fell down an open window
recess in the Henry Kozelka store and
asked $1,000, was awarded $50.