Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-04
COUNTY AND
NEARBY NOTES


publican administrations, has been
lreappointed.
! VIII Mcbride, Platteville farmer,
/ whose herd was afflicted with cholera,
has lost 1853 hogs to date and still has
other hogs seriously i'll. His loss to
date is $4,000
| Mrs. Thomas Perkins, Dodgeville,
| fell down cellar stairs in her home
and severely sprained one ankle.
/ Her eyeglasses caused her to mis-
Judge two steps for one.
John Dougherty, Avoca cheese
maker, was fined $25 and costs on
complaint of state inspector who
alleged that cheese made at the fac
tory had too much water in it.
Thelma Webster of Montfort and
Herman Kleinhammer, PlatteyilIe,
were married at Madison SATURDAY.,
Dec. "a. They will reside in Madison.
The drug store Of A. j. Klofanda,
Montfort, was entered Tuesday night
by thieves who cut panel out of the
rear door The loss included $40 If
money and an unknown quantity Of
goods.
r. NJ Heron ard NJ. Glass OF Gal
va, Iowa, purchased fifteen high grade
Guernsey COWS from Marsden Bros.
and W. SchWer, Fennimore. They were
all tuberculin tested and suitable fOf
sale outside of the state.
Len Elliott, Yuba, Richland county.
was arrested on a charge of having
kicked his 13-year-Old daughter in the
back so severely that the little girl
had to be taken to a hospital at Hills
boro for treatment. Elliott was fined
S63 when the jury found him guilty.
The River Power Co., Sank City,
has bought the Spring Green NUM-
cipal electric plant and will disman
tie it. In the future the people of the
city will buy their power and light
from private corporation. The COM
pany assumes considerable indebted
ness owed on the plant by the city.
Earl Throst, confessed slayer of
Inga Magnuson, 20, school teacher,
in the basement of lonely school
house near Dorchester, Iowa, few
weeks ago, was sentenced to death
by hanging by Judge H. E. Taylor OF
Waukon, Ia. Throst confessed on
Dec. 18th, to beating Miss Magnuson
to death because she Tilted him.
John Garside, 20, aged resident Of
| Patch Grove, was accidentally shot
Friday evening a week ago by one
Of his grandsons, named Day. The
| boy was handling a revolver and
the gun went off, burying itself IN
/ the grandfather's side. The % cal
ibre bullet was impeded in it's pas
sage by heavy clothing. The injury
was not considered serious.
The Richland Center city fathers
| have prohibited the use Of the city
! streets by itinerant peddlers by put
! ting a very heavy license fees upon
such vendors. 1t is related that noc
! long ago purveyors of army gOots
sold blankets on the streets for from
soc to $3.50 a pair above what the
merchants were asking for the same
article. The move OF the Richlanl
/ Center council could be followed with
profit elsewhere.
I A double wedding was performed
at the manse of the LIST Presbyterian
church. Galena, Wednesday afternoon
/ by Rev. Harry Lothian, the partici-
pants being VIM. A. Foltz and Lille
/ IzydOrak, and Glenn Chamberlain and
Pearl Clifford Both couples were
, from Platteville and after the cerc-
mOny left for FreepOrt and other
points for their wedding trip, after
which they will make their home III
/ tteville-JOurnal.
Dr. c. J. Fawkes of Pra. du CHEN
and r. P. Lotus were appointed as
commissioners by Judge Smalley to
investigate the proposed drainage
project along the Mississippi river in
Crawford county The scheme is to
drain $4,000 acres of bottom lands by
means of levees and pumps, convert
ing the alluvial soil into rich farms
/ The project is the most daring ever
conceived along the upper river and
if it goes through will call for inn
mense sums of money with a rich re
ward for the promoters.
Much interest is being shown at
Galena in the news that the sentence
imposed on Francis Wiley. Galena
music teacher for the murder of Earl
Fitch, cashie. at the time of the Ga
lena Merchants bank, was reversed
and the case remanded to the 10
Davies county circuit court for a new
trial by the Illinois supreme court
Wiley and Fitch were neighbors and
the trouble arose over a cellar door
or areaway as to its being closed or
opened concerned the Fitch children
Wiley was sent up ior life
Judge Taylor, HOluluS court dC FL
kador, sentenced Peter Kleinow, 81
| to life Imprisonment at FIT Madison,
! Iowa, penitentiary, for the murder Of
Miss Cecil Kersten. 20, daughter of
! a prominent Clayton county farmer.
kleinow entered the Kersten yard in
the evening of Oct. 2Sth, and fired a
shotgun at Harvey Sass and the girl,
who were seated in the parlor. The
girl, badly hurt, rushed into the vard
where. at close range. Kleinow, shot
again, the charge tearing a great hole
! in the girls abdomen. He carried her
| to the house, laid her on a couch and
| phoned for physician. He said: Il
told you | would do it, and by God,
shave," Kleinow waived trial and was
sentenced five days later.
According to the Montfort Mail,
1 friends of Maurice Billings, Platte
vile, and his new bride, who was
Miss Faye Stephens, waylaid the
couple on their return home and had
little difficulty in capturing Mr.. Bill
/ lings and putting the handouts on
him The luckless swain was then
taken to a room and locked up for