Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-18

Mr. and Mrs. john Jackson, Min
! eral Point, celebrated their golden
wedding day recently.
| John t. Grenfell, living with his
son, Thomas. Dodgeville, died Tues
day at the advanced age of 81 years.
| Mrs August Harms. Highland, died
Tuesday jan 8, after an illness OF
several weeks, leaving husband and
/ several small children.
/ H. P. Hellmer, Platteville. observed
; his 10th birthday Tuesday by working
all day filing saws and doing repair
work in his wood working shop on
Mineral St.
! Marian O'Neill, II, daughter of Jas.
iO'Neill, Dodgeville postmaster. had
her left leg broken while coasting one
lday recently when her sled swerveo
from the path and struck telephone
jpole.
| William Goldspohn, Lodi, passed
laway last week at the ripe age OF SO
years. He was born in 1928 in Neus
trelitZ, Mecklenberg, Austria, the son
| of a soldier of Napoleon in the i'll
fated Russian campaign.
The Iowa County Bank, Mineral
Point, had resources above one mil
| lion, one hundred thousand dallors,
| in its last report The city had
disastrous bank failure a few years
ago and the report speaks we'll for
the city's return to prosperity as evil
denced by strong banks.
| The three men before Judge jerks
at Dodgeville, charged with moon
shining. found that the path, bright as
| it may be- is also hard at the end.
Monte Blight and Joe Zeckevitch first
offenders, received two months in
Jail Andrew Eyanovitch, third time
offender, drew two years in Waupun.
Mrs Christina Schubert. Rice, 10
davies cobalt, died recently q. thc age
Iof LOG years. # was thought Al first
that she was 101, but her will drawn
in 1915 gave her age as 9S and this
proved that the lady was 106 years
old She was active up to shortly
before her death, came to town sew
eral times year and insisted upon
working around her yard and home
While Thomas league, Waldwick
Iowa county, was in between two
horses hitching them to a sleigh. the
team became skittish and ran away.
iTeague had no choice but to run right
dung Will IllC IOi GlllO hC 0lU ~
until the sleigh tongue struck tel
ephone pole when he was released.
He escaped with one bad ankle bruise
and considers himself fortunate
man indeed The horses were but
islightly scratched.
L. Bower, travelling auditor of the
Fidelity & Deposits of Maryland, was
lin East Dubuque last week checking
Iup the alleged shortage OF 1882 in
1.-THE accounts of W. j. Gutenberg, the
Iformer city treasurer. Mr.. Bowen as
!sured the city that the treasury
Iwould be reimbursed in full. Luten,
berg was bonded for $4,000. No action
has been taken against the man as
yet and the bonding official declined
to say what his company intended to
do
w. II GoIdthorpe, editor of the
Cuba City News-Herald, sprung a
surprise in his paper last week. He
announced he has evidence that the
signature of the president has been
forged and that the bogus signature
is in his possession. The forgery was
brought to light in connection with
the editors candidacy for postmaster
in the city he resides. Mr.. Gold
Thorpe says the forgery is crude
lpiece of work. He declines to say
what action will be taken over the al
legged forgery but intimates that the
Isecret service has been informed.
Captain Mcdonald, globe trot-
ter for 20 years stoppe din Dodge
willie last week and was INTERVENE Ell
by a reporter from the Sun of that
city. Captain Mcdonald is "hoofing
it, from northern Canada to the
southern part of South America to
fulfill a wager made by George New
mes, London publisher, and Mr.. How
ard, proprietor of the Hotel Cecil OF
London. The famous sportsmen bet
thirty thousand pounds as to whether
or not it would be possible for a
man to walk from Hudson Bay, in
the Northern part of Canada, to the
southern tip of South America. Mr..
Newnes took the affirmative and M.
Howard the negative side of the bet.
The huge sum is to be paid TO Mr..
Mcdonald if he wins. Should he lose
the money goes to charity. The dis
lance is 9,795 miles. The Canadian
government refused to allow the cap
tain to start from Hudson Bay owing
to the rigors OF winter and he was al
lowed to make detOur in Canada TO
cover an equivalent distance. Cap
tain Mcdonald took 40 days reaching
Dodgeville from Ottawa, 1928 miles.
He went from Dodgeville to Mineral
Point and Dubuque and thence down
the Mississippi to old Mexico When
Ehe reaches South America he plans
to travel the east side of the Andes
through the jungles, pampas and icy
Iregions to his destination. Captain
Mcdonald has travelled all over the
known world and kept the reporters
entertained for quite while with his
interesting narrative. He is a son CT
Sir John Mcdonald, former premier
tof Canada.