Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-04-12


City.
Edward McCluskey, 50, Clyde, died
Wednesday after days illness with
heart trouble.
A S. Childs, Galena, has rounded
out his 10th year as bookkeeper for
The Taylor Lumber Co.
Edwin Samuels, for years station
agent at Darlington for the Milwau-
kee road died suddenly Friday.
Mrs. James Anderson, residing near
Shullsburg, died Thursday a week
ago leaving husband and five chill
dren.
Floyd Smith has been retained as
principal and Herman Jacobsen as
athletic director of the Cuba City
High School for the coming year.
Miss Hannah Fuka, night clerk at
The Old Sanitarium, Prairie du Chen,
was first cousin of Josefa and Rosa
| Black, "Siamese Twins" who died
recently in Chicago
Mrs Franklin Eustice, before her
| marriage Elizabeth Jane Richards,
| native of Hazel Green, died March n
at Freeport A husband and four
! children survive.
| Marion Wing, Lynxville, and Gene
| Callahan, Prairie du CHEN, are under
arrest on charges of operating per-
| fectly good stills and finding ready
! sale for their products.
| Galena, on the main line of several
| important roads, is besieged with
| hoboes who are "panhandling the
| citizens. AS Galenians are notorious
| ly hospitable the guests" are hardly
ever turned down.
| Robert Bratton Galena peace JUS
tice, has offered to marry any couple
free who present themselves for
welded bliss on Galena's big field
| day, next July 4th. The justice ex-
| poets to do a rushing business.
| The village of Gutenberg, opposite
| Cassville has a bad water supply and
| the Iowa state board of health has
| condemned the water as UNFIT for
drinking purposes. The council is
cleaning the reservoir and mains.
August Jentz, a Platteville barber,
| who opened a basement shop, was or
| dered to close by a state barber in
spector. The state frOwns on base
| ment barber shops and the man had
not properly applied for license
The Mound City Manufacturing Co.,
| Platteville, making lawn mowers,
has shipped a carload of mowers and
has two more ready for shipment.
| The company will obtain a factory
site and plans to make 5000 mowers
| a year.
A west bound l. G. freight derailed
| at Menominee, south of Sinsinawa,
Saturday, spilling eight cars over the
bank The cars were loaded with
furniture, machinery, lumber, ETC.,
and the goods were scattered and
considerably damaged.
Mrs. Catherine LaWlor, widow OF
the late John Lawlor of Prairie du
Chen died Sunday a week ago. she
was co-worker with her husband in
many benefactions including gifts to
Campion and st. Mary's college, and
the local parochial schools.
Roller skating proved to be a dam
gerous sport for Misses Lorraine
Schmidt and Margie Reddell, both OF
| Dodgeville. While the girls were
| practicing on a cement walk, they
| tripped at the same time. Miss
Schmidt suffered broken collar bone
and Miss Reddell had one ear cut.
Johnnathan Raisbeck, native of
Yorkshire, England, where he was
| born in 1910, died last week at Shulls-
| burg Mr.. Raisbeck came to America,
| locating at Benton in 1850. He was
married twice and the father of
| twelve children two Of whom are
| .P =.
The large farm home of Louis An
derson, near Galena on the Council
| Hill road, was totally destroyed by
| IRE last Monday. The blaze was dis
covered by a travelling man who was
stopping at the house. He smelled
| moke and looking around, found the
oof on fire near one chimney. In a
! :hOrt time the large structure was III
| ruins.
A petition for school consolidation
| adding to district one of Benton dis
tricts s. and A. was voted down
unanimously by the boards to be in
;luded. The board wishing to absorb
votcd in favor of the plan. Each side
has counsel, the petitioners retaining
A. w. Kopp and the opposers, Judge
dodson of Galena. The matter will
90 before the Lafayette county school
committee for further consideration.
Gordon C'Slim"O Lewis, former
coach and captain of the University
of Wisconsin baseball team has
signed a contract with "Al'' Tear
pey, and will re attached to the
Three | League umpiring staff. The
contract may not be kept if deal be-
ween Lewis and the Grand Island,
Neb., baseball association material
Us. The former Badger coach has
)een offered the berth as manager OF
he western team
An accident happened to Gus Still
ter of Woodford last week that might
aave resulted much more seriously
than it did He had an old i've gal
lon can that he wished to nil with
cylinder oil, but before doing so
rinsed it out with gasoline, after
which he poured in quantity OF
cylinder oil, then wishing to know
how nearly full the can was, lighted
a match to look in. There was loud
report and the can and oil were no
more Sitter was severely burned
but no serious results are anticipated.
Argyle Atlas.
FARMER FINDS COIN HE