Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03


thursday a week ago.
VIM. &. Hosking, q we'll known and
respected resident OF Mineral Point,
is dead al the age Of Sc years. A
wife, one son and three daughters
survive.
Mrs. Mary Rowlands, 81, a native of
Wales, died Sunday a week ago at a
Dodgeville hospital where she had
gone TO visit convalescent relative.
GranJ MCutcheon of the town OF
Arena. Iowa county, killed an old
pair of wolves and eight cubs. He
received $104 bounty for his days
work.
The Rev. James H. Moore, founder
OF the famous Methodist camp meet
tile Oldest ministers in Illinois, died
Friday at the age of SO years.
Mrs. c. A. Williams of Hanover, ILL.,,
wife of the recently deceased editor
of the Hanover Journal, has been ap-
pointed / Jstmistress OF the village.
Sneak thieves stole 81 from the till
Of the Evert garage at Galena last
Tuesday night AS this is second Of
months, Evert, the owner, is on the
war path.
The farm residence of Marion Mar
shall in the town of Rockbridge, Rich
land county, was totally destroyed by
fire Wednesday morning with all the
contents. The origin of the fire is q
mystery.
James Hayden of Hanover is in a
hospital at Freeport with fractures of
both legs. Hayden was pulling tree
CT yInT or In
and the flying strands struck him on
the legs.
Louis H. Polander, "a, died Tues
day night at his home in Platteville.
lie is survived by his wife, two sons
aid three daughters. Deceased was
a veteran of the Civil war. He was
bind for number of years.
The city of Boscobel has passed into
the second class of government post
offices with receipts in excess of
$4,000 per year. The city office will
now report direct to Washington in
stead of with the Milwaukee office.
VIM. Hase, Platteville poultry man,
has 1000 baby chicks Matched this
year. He was recently offered a dol
lar apiece for one hundred Of the
chicks but refused the offer Another
thousand chicks are due to hatch this
week.
H Elmer Briggs, so, Lone Rock
druggist died suddenly from blood
poisoning that had its inception in a
bruise on his arm. Mr.. Briggs was
the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
Briggs of Muscoda. He is survived
by his parents, wife and one daugh-
ter.
The Platteville ministerial associa-
ton officially voiced its opposition to
the showing of the Dempsey Carpen-
tier pictures in that city. The Herald
agrees but from a different motive
the pictures are distinctly old stuff
and not worth seeing at the price be-
Jig charged.
A. M. Plumb, Platteville, has in
vented a paddock for a motor car tire
or the thousand other uses a lock can
be put to. The unique feature of the
lock is that it requires no key-can
be manipulated only by a cOmbina-
ton. Mr.. Plumb has placed the man
ufacture with large lock maker.
Samuel Dudley, Rockford, colored,
has brought suit for SIS eco against a
local theatre man. Dudley bought a
ticket to a concert given by colored
jazz orchestra but was elected on &C
count of his skin. He contends that
the same line should have been drawn
against the performers.
Pra du Chen is making plans for
a celebration to be held July 3, 4 and
under the auspices of the American
Legion post there. A parade in the
morning, motorcycle races in the
afternoon and fireworks display az
night are the special features now
planned for Independence day.
Leland Weitenhiller, 16, son of Phil
Weittenhiller, formerly of Platteville,
lost his life in fire at Crane, Oregon,
where the lad was attending school,
The fire started from d gas stove in
the boys room and spread to the rest
o. the building. LELAND was the only
one to meet death. The body was
taken to the family horne at Garfield,
Wash, and buried on Easter day.
The H. Marcus Co., operating a
string of stores at Muscoda, Spring
Green and Viola, have added Bosco-
bel to their list. They recently ac-
CURED the Comstock block at Bosco-
bel, and after making alterations will
open a department store. George NJ
Gunderson, the present occupant OF
the store, will dispose of his dry
goods and notion business and trans
Ter his meat and grocery business to
another location.
Vernon hundert, II, the Dodgeville
youth who accidentally shot himself
Wednesday a week ago while hunting,
is recovering. The lad shot sparrow
with % rifle and attempted to use
the, butt end of the gun to stamp the
life cut of the wounded bird. The
gun went off and the bullet entered
the boys abdomen, penetrating clear
through the body, and lodging i'll the
muscles of the back. A doctor re-
moved the bullet and young Kundert
will recover.
Four small boys, aged from 10 to
IL years had miraculous escapes from
death at Pra. du Chen when they
ventured out on the slough, ordinar-
lily placid but this time raging tor
rent, due to flood waters. The boys
were carried rapidly along by the
current and under the slough bridge.
Two of them failed to duck when the
bridge was reached and were swept
out of the boat. The two other boys
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