Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24

shipped two carloads OF eggs to Chi
cago last week
JAS Funk of Bridgeport and Clara
Taylor of Patch Grove were married
at Dubuque last week.
Percy E. Itunkell, Potosi, and Miss
Vera Schepele. Dubuque, Will be mar
ned the later part of June.
Miss Dorothy Field of Bloomington
and Harry Gruenewald of Dubuque,
were married III Dubuque Monday
Jas. McCabe died last week at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Nc
Rae of Benton. He was a Benton pi-
oneer.
Mrs. John S. Williams died at her
home in Hazel Green, May 5th. She
came to America from England at the
age of three.
Darlington. in d spirit of economy,
| dispensed with night watch. The
other night the Orpheum billiard
hall was entered and $13 taken.
DR.. Gratiot, Mineral Point, has sold
his practice to DR.. L. S. Graves, Viii
ton, and gives possession June 1st.
DR.. Gratiot will locate in California.
Mrs. Thos. Gavagan, sc, Blanchard
vile, fell at her home, breaking her
right leg at the hip joint. The break
is a serious one and will take a long
time to heal.
Griffith Jones, Ridgeway youth, had
one foot catch in the flyWheel Of a
tractor while he was operating the
clutch He was taken to a hospital
and the bones set.
The Galena Manufacturing Co., a
large concern, has discarded its
steam power plant and line shGfting
ant installed individual motors on all
machinery. The steam plant will be
| used for heating.
FIR. M. Morris, Catholic priest OF
Darlington, left Thursday for his old
home in Ireland where he will visit
his parents His destination is Car
rick, county Longford. He will sail
for home August 8.
Albert Sincock, Galena, chopping
down a large oak tree on Buck hill
near the city, found a pocket knife in
the trees heart. A count Of the rings
showed that the knife had been stuck
in the tree ninety years ago.
A. j. Benn and Jerry Stratman did
some fine work in their speciality Sun
day morning along the Pecatonica. AS
a result Jerry brought home five cat
fish totaling II pounds, and Art re-
turned with four that weighed tnir-
teen pounds.-Dodgevil Sun.
Gwynette E. Smalley, son of Judge
and Mrs. S. E. Snalley, received. the
degree of bachelor of law at the Uni
versity. He received a certificate of
graduation last June, and having. re-
Gently copleted the apprenticeship re-
quired by law, received the degree.
he III of
RMS. R. H. Perkins, Dodgeville, fell
into an clubhouse vault and had not
aid been quickly coming when the
child's absence was missed, he would
have smothered The building was
overturned and the child taken out.
The C. R. Byrne store at Seymour
corners, east of PIatteville, was ran
sacked Thursday night by band or
unknown parties who arrived and de-
parted in automobiles. The robbers
took Byrne's safe along and opened
it at a school mile away. Byrne
had removed all money from the safe
the evening before and the only thing
found inside was a parcel OF papers
which were scattered over the school
yard About $50 worth of tobacco was
taken. The nature Of the work IN
dictates local amateurs.
Joe Ball, Dubuque, motoring on the
Hawkeye trail near Julien, saw car
blocked across the road ahead OF him.
Ball stopped thinking the other car
was in trouble. He was met by two
masked men who came from behind
the car and forced him to give up his
money AID valuables. Ball was then
ordered on. Ball reported the robbery
to Sheriff Kennedy of Dubuque cOun-
ty 1t was one CT the boldest holdups
reported to the county officials to
date as the Hawkeye is extensively
travelled at all hours of the day and
night.
Tom Mitchell, Iowa county lsher-
man, caught an eel in the Wisconsin
river. The eel was three feet long.
1t was considered quite a curiosity
by river men. Missouri river fisher
men would laugh at this as cells are
commonly caught and considered de-
licious eating despite their snake-like
appearance AS boy the writer used
to take cells on "trot-line" we set in
island channels along the river.
Wading and swimming a hundred or
more yards pulling up a ''trot-line"
and taking off number of fine cat
fish and maybe an eel or two and then
rebaiting the hooks with pork or liver
was fine early morning sport. And
there's another fish story.