Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-11

Postal inspectors have been look
ing into the question OF postmaster
at Mt Ida
John j. Saunders has been named
as postmaster at Patch Grove in the
place OF Thos. Millen, resigned.
Members or the Monroe Moose
lodge. were invited TO ''cannibap
supper. Sixty pounds of moose meat
were on the bill of fare.
Capt. Arthur Swift, who has been
with the American forces in China
and other foreign lands is spending
his furlough at Darlington.
! Richland Center was visited by
terrific storm Friday night a week
ago. Buildings were unroofed hay
| stacks blown over and other damage
| done.
/ Mrs. Jennie Winter of Bagley has
Irecently returned from England She
was II days from Liverpool to Bag
! lev. Mrs Winter has crossed the big
pond five times.
/ Jennie V. A, we'll known racing
mare, owned by Clarence Van Matro,
/ Darlington, was sold at the Chicago
horse sale for $3.50 and shipped 1T
once to Belgium.
! The various wOmen's societies Of
: the Dodgeville Ladies Aid have
signed contract for new Estey
pipe organ for the church. The in
Strumelit bwill have bretaoi
strument is of the two-manual type
with eleven speaking stops and ten
couplers with tubular pneumatic ac-
| ton and an electric blower. 1t will
be installed by Easter Sunday.
! Ice cutting on the big river has be-
gun at Pra. du Chen and the local
firm, Geo. SchWeigler Co., will ges
out 11700 tons of product. The zee
| is ten inches thick at present of very
| fine quality.
Elmore Godfrey of Mineral Point
has bought a farm of several hun
dred acres from Richard James and
wife. John C. Harker and wife and
! Chas. r. Harker The consideration
was $4,000.
ProhibitIon officer Kantcheff an@
Deputies Johns and Culver conducted
raids on a number of fishing shacks
on the Wisconsin shore below Eagle
Point without bagging any unlawful
booze makers.
A veterans cleanup" squad will
visit Pra du Chen Feb. ! and 2 FOR
| the purpose of taking up the disabil-
! ity claims OF service men. Claims OF
veterans in both Crawford and Grant
counties will be heard.
{ Michael Connors, one of the oldest
men in Dane county, died Dec. y at
his home at Cross Plains. With two
!other men lie hauled 700 cords of
wood across the lake to. the state
capitol in the winter Of 1914.
Ed. Phillips, St. Paul, came to vi
roqua to work for his brotherin-law,
a contractor, and expired very sud,
Idenly in the bathroom of the place he
was boarding at. Deceased was 81
years old and had been in perfec:
health up to the day Of his death
Joseph Palmer of Potosi is dis
playing a plate of fine rOsy-cheeked
apples in the window OF the PotOsi
State bank which were grown in his
orchard on the hill above town. They
lare of the Gano and Northwestern
Greening varieties on which he re-
ceived two blue ribbons on each at
the recent meeting of the state hOr,
tticultural society at Madison.
Hal r. Martin, Madison lawyer, met
his death by drowning FRIDAY night
when in attempt to drive a car across
Lake MonOna he broke through the
ice a thousand feet from shore. NJ.
Martin had vainly tried to get the car
off the ice and on the shore but was
impeded by rough ice and thin ice.
His drowning was witnessed by sew,
eraI men who were powerless to aid
him. He leaves a wife and two small
children
officer Kantcheff has importuned
/ his superiOrs to send him a force of
/ q i 20
tof making a wholesale raid on the
entire area along the Wisconsin bank
/ from Eagle Point to Cassville. TnN
islands in the river are said to Dc
thick with moOnshiners unless the re-
cent raids have driven the men to
cover This and cold weather have
caused the market price Of moon"
/ to go up in the past month
4 BoscobeI claims that in Jack Ship
I ley they have a record for faithful
service. For 46 years, with the ex-
ception of a few months some years
ago when he was i'll, he has been con-
stantly on duty behind the counter at
the corner drug store. On Christmas
/ eve. 1875, he was offered a position as
drug clerk by Pittman & McWilliams,
and has been on the JoD in the same
! location ever since. 1t is now known
as Meller's. **>
The first shack raided Melted the
officers three stills and paraphernalia
| incident to moonshining along with
several gallons of liquor but the hab-
tues were tipped off in time to make
their escape. In the second shack
nine barrels of mash were found but
the still had been removed The or
! ficers have a clue which may lead to
the arrest of the men at work in the
shack At another shack three men
and three women were found in a
maudlin state of drunkenness but no
liquor or evidences of moonshining
were to be found.
Fred, Edward and Marion Valentine
were taken from Allamakee county
Iowa, and locked up at Pra. du Chen
by Sheriff Herold on a charge of il
legal fishing and shooting a gains
warden Iowa authorities honOred
the requisition papers issued by Gov
Blaine. A short time ago Game War
den Frank Hickok saw the men sem
| ing in the sloughs on the east bank
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