Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-07-26

| The farm bureau drive in Iowa
county has so far netted $50 members
Potosi IS organizing a band 1t will
be directed by NJ. c. Biedhar, who is
director of the Cassville and the La
Motte, Iowa bands.
Fred Pfister, Barneveld, was ar
rested on complaint of Fred Schott, a
fellow villager, alleging abusive Ian
guage. The case Will be heard July
70.
James Schill and Mrs Eva Chesley,
both OF Platteville, were married at
Galena recently. They will reside at
Platteville where Mr.. Schill is en-
ployed by the Phillips Bros. Auto Co,
Merle Andrews, station agent at
Soldiers Grove, died SUDDENLY OF i'll
ness Wednesday. Andrews, 81, was a
victim OF apoplexy, and had been en-
ployed by the Milwaukee road for %
years.
Roy Adams, Plum Run cheesemak-
er near North Clayton, esayed co push
his car through mud up a hill as
substitute for putting on chains. The
car went over an embankment, taking
Adams with it. He suffered a broken
rib.
Gov. Len Small of Illinois passed up
the river one day recently, being on
steamer trip with his family to st.
Paul. Following the recent death OF
Mrs. Small the governor chartered a
steamer and took his children and
grandchildren for a trip away from
the scenes of their recent anxiety and
grief.
An entire family, father and mother
and five children, named MetZenberg,
OF Hollandale, were placed in the Iowa
county home after reports of destitu-
ton were made. Metzenberg, an in
dustrious man, lost his position as
section man and both he and wife are
in poor health. The family will be
cared for until the parents become
normally we'll and self-supporting.
Stanley Trentzsch, George Pengel-
ly, Richard Wilcox and Thos. Richard,
four young men of Dodgeville ascus-
ed of violating the liquor law, at
tackled Captain George Sellers, a
Dodgeville native now in the regular
army at Denver, but on a visit with
his mother at Dodgeville. The fight
grew out of a complaint made by Sell
lers against Trentzsch, alleging VIC
lation of the liquor law. The young
men were WOTSL0u ny IuC uOuSEIy
army man, according to reports Of the
battle Mr.. TrentZsch was held under
$4,000 bonds to await trial.
The state has accepted the offer of
the 65-acre park near old Helena, on
the Wisconsin, for state park. The
gift was made by Mrs. Jenkin Lloyd
Jones of Chicago, widow Of the ia
nous divine. When improved it will
doubtless be mecca for thousands
OF tourists each year, as Taliesan, the
famous Wright bungalow nearby, now
is. The property borders on the Wis
consin river, Mill Creek runs through
it, and Shot Tower Hill commands
view Of the river for several miles. 1t
is a scenic spot and historic one as
we'll. In the early days of Wisconsin,
the village located just south of it
(now a memory was busy town,
and it lacked but one vote of being
made the capital of the state. The
hill itself was the site Of the old shot
tower. The shaft, through solid stone,
down which the molten lead was
poured through sleeves to the we'll be-
low, and the tunnel running from the
bottom of the cliff to the bottom Of
the shaft are still there At the mouth
OF this tunnel there was, in the old
days, a warehouse to which river
craft came to load shot.