Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-04
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES And
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From 7 ri
State Area.

birthday last week. The major has
recovered from recent operation and
is fast regaining health.
A bus line is to be operated daily
between Madison and Richland Cen
ter, making stops at ALI she important
points between. Other bus lines are
in prospect.
Capt. Purl Harms of Platteville, has
been transferred to, the 18th U. S. Inf.
at San Francisco. He and Mrs. Harms
will sail Oct. goth, for the Hawaiian
Islands On a two year tour on duty.
A small chapter of the Daughters
American Revolution, IL members,
has done effective work at Pra. du
Chen The chapter recently paid
$3.50 for the site Oh old Fort CraW-
ford, near the city.
A double wedding was performed at
st. Matthew S church, Shullsburg,
Tuesday when Margaret Mccarthy
was pledged to Bernard Conlon and
her sister, Laura, married Ellsworth
Duggan. FIR. Croke officiated.
Pra. du Chen ice cream sellers re-
sent an ordinance taxing vendors of.
Mrs. WunscE, F. A. Garvey, Henry
Ndu6II, hIuG0J DCAulLA anu d. W. l1lo
gins have organized to fight the case.
By action of the city council, OAR
Iington now has a police court with
the mayor as police justice. In cases
where affidavits Of prejudice are filed
the case may be tried before any JUS
tice of peace or court commissioner
of Lafayette county
Grant county has more breeding
stations than any other county in the
state-a total of rs. Of this number
81 are pure breds, 8 grades and 5
scrubs. Crawford county has 16, all
pure breds; Richland county Is, OF
which 16 are pure breds.
A number of rattlesnakes have been
killed near Glen Haven lately. Henry
Hilgers and Ted Gray killed couple
along the railroad track; M. n. Petry
killed one Thursday in his corn field
that had ten rattles and measured
nearly 5 feet long.-Record.
John McBoyle, 8, Galena, learning
to ride bicycle, plunged over an en-
bankment on one of the steep streets
in the Lead Mine city and fell down
considerable distance. The boy was
cut and badly stunned but will re-
cover. The machine was damaged
but little.
Marley AIKEN, Richland Center, and
family with two girls as guests, en-
route to a ball game at Viola, were
crowded too close to the side of a road
near Viola and their car went down
steep bank turning over twice. The
car was wrecked but the occupants
escaped injury.
The Tavera robbery case, hearing
of Eldon Powers of Gays Mills, who
is charged with assault and robbery
on Miss Ellen Horrigan last July, has
been indefinitely postponed. The
states principal witness, Miss Horrl-
gan, has been in a mental collapse
since the beating she received and in
competent to testify or identity
The case brought recently in Dane
county against DR.. F. L. Griswold, in
which an illegal operation was alleged
to have been performed by the doctor,
was dismissed a week since, the court
holding that the facts brought out
charge. The doctor resides at Mazo-
mamie, going there from Viola.
The rumor persists that engineers
of Henry Ford have been looking over
various sites along the Kickapoo and
lower reaches of the Wisconsin river
for a power site. The power, the
story goes, would be used to develop
electricity for a zine oxide plant.
Zine is used in auto tires and for all
kinds of galvanized iron products.
Schmidt Bros. Elkader, owners and
GENERATORS of the local light plant,
have sold out to a group of business
men of Elkader, Garnavillo, Gutten-
berg. Littleport, st. Olaf and Coles
burg. The company has organized
the Turkey River Power Co. One OF
the purposes is to raise the present
Turkey river dam four feet, install
larger dynamos and sell current to
surrounding towns.
H. V. Day, wife and two sons, ana
George Loring and wife went pic
nicking over in Bridgeport Hollow,
Saturday, and while the two men
were out in the woods gathering
few butternuts, a young deer Delong-
ing to the Glenn state park visited the
ladies and the two boys. While one
of the ladies shielded the children the
other tried to shoe away the deer
which wanted to be petted.-Pra. du
Chen Courier.
The low water in the Mississippi
has been hard on the ferries the past
six weeks and they have experienced
considerable trouble. The Rob Roy Ii
has been laid up for repairs over two
weeks and Sunday evening the Wanna
mingo ran onto wing dam and was
fast for the greater part of the night.
They had on a special party for an
evening ride, but that is only small
matter and they were on schedule
service Monday morning.-Courler.
Louis Bigler of Postville had an
exciting time about daybreak the
other day while going after his cows
saws the Ossian Bee. He heard ms
dog yelling and bowling and barking
the noise of which indicated that ne
was in a death grapple with another
dog. Mr.. Bigler hurried home by the
nearest way and procured his SHOT
gun. When he arrived on the scene
he found the dog engaged in hight
with Eli old wolf and three young
ones better than half grown. After
half an hours work he put an end to
the fight, as well as the wolves. Mr..
Bigler took the wolves to Elkader, the
county seat, and drew a voucher IN
the sum of $3.50 as bounty on the