Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-06-28


Williams, both of Darlington, were
married June 18th.
Miss Loretta Long and Mr.. Russell
Benson, both of Mineral Point, were
married June 4th.
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Smith of Mont
fort, celebrated their Goth wedding
anniversary June 18th.
Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd of Seattle,
Wash, are guests at the George and j.
A. Mcpherson homes at Ellenboro.
DR.. Baarsness and Miss Caroline
Miller of Superior, Wis, were married
at the Calvert home in Benton Thurs
day.
Robert Hunt died at his home in
Darlington. He was janitor Of the
Darlington schools for about forty
years.
Mr.. and Mrs B. c. Berg of Hazel
Green are enjoying a camping trip to
Yellow Stone Park They will camp
enroute.
The remains of Terrence ]. Knight,
who died at San Francisco, Cal, were
brought to Darlington, his old home,
for interment.
Elizabeth Nauert and Fred Schein-
plug, two popular young people Of
Thursday. The young people are on
wedding trip to Omaha and upon
their return will reside in Boscobel
Sister Mary Basil, for more than
half a century a member of the Domi-
nican Sisterhood and for many years
superior of st. Mary's convent, Free
port, and a teacher in St. Marys
school in that city, passed away at
Ci1aci r1o Txyo
Mr.. and Mrs. Jens Grimslid, Free
man, Crawford county, recently cele-
brated their 10th wedding day. Mr.
and Mrs. Grimslid were born in Nor
way and came to America the year
they married. They have twelve chill
dren and twenty-one grandchildren.
A. l.. Spencer, age "a years, of
Marshfield, Mo-, and Miss Mary Cowan,
aged 70, of Warren, ILL.,, were married
at Warren last Wednesday in the
presence of few relatives and init
mate friends The bride and groom
were sweethearts some forty years
ago.
Judge Eugene Tichenor, for many
years police court justice at Pra. du
CHEN, died at his home there June
Is, aged Sc years. He was an invalid
the last five years of his life but kept
busy in a wheeled chair, dispensing
Justice and advising rich and poor
alike.
A river packet named ''Noah's Ark"
has been under construction at the
Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works, and
will be launched soon for passenger
and freight traffic on the upper river
between Clinton, Iowa, and st. Paul
re ~
ships will follow.
Florence Graves, IA, daughter of At
torney and Mrs. w. r. Graves, proml-
nent residents of Pra. du CHEN, died
Tuesday evening from blood poison
ing. The young girl stepped upon
nail last April and while the wound
healed tetanus developed later. The
parents, two brothers and one sister
survive.
Miss Elizabeth Parkinson, niece of
Mrs. w. w. Peck of Darlington, died
at a sanitarium of tuberculosis. Miss
Elizabeth Parkinson, prima donna,
sang Musette in the quartet of LA
Boheme" at Covent Garden, London,
with Caruso, Melba and Scott, and
took Melba's role in singing duet
with Caruso, in one of London's great
houses.
Ernest Schultz, Pra. du Chen
storekeeper, was sold" the local
rights to the United Cigars Stores
Co., by two smooth looking strangers
of Israelite appearance. The leader
Of the strangers left 1000 cigars as
deposit" and took a check for $3.50,
which he cashed promptly. Schultz
surmised that something was wrong
and phoned the U. G. S. office at La
Crosse He was informed there that
the company had no men out and that
he had been swindled. Schultz then
flew to the train and collared the
strangers but was refused his money
by the men who boarded the train and
pulled out. Phone calls up the line
to officers were without avail and the
swindlers escaped.
Attorney Alvin Peterson, Pra. du
Chen, enroute home from Lancaster
Thursday night a week ago with JOS.
Evans as passenger, had bad acct
dent near Mt. Hope. One wheel left
the Peterson sedan which turned
over. Peterson suffered scalp wound
from his left eye to the back of his
head, caused by broken glass. The
car was a wreck. Parties motored
home from a dance discovered the
men and they were taken home after
Peterson was given medical attention.
William Koehn, IS, Elkader, Iowa,
youth, met death Friday swimming at
the Turkey river dam. Koehn was
standing on the stone wall near the
flood gates and lost his balance, fall
ing to the concrete base between the
gates. Other parties endangered
their lives to rescue him but the
youths neck was broken.