Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-01
COUNTY AND
NEARBY NOTES


Mrs. Ella MOrcum, former resident
of Grant county, died at Omaha. The
body was sent to Hazel Green for bur
ial.
Wesley Rundell, Richland Center,
was hurt by the overturning of a load
of hay. He suffered painful bruises
and cuts.
At the Rewey sale OF cambridge
Bros, Holstein cows sold for $134 and
heifers for 80 per head The sale
aggregate was $500.
Sales of lead ore in the district have
averaged $63 per ton with high grade
milled concentrate at $50 a ton or bet
ter. Lead buyers say the ore is
scarce and wanted badly Better
conditions in the field are candidly
looked for
Ellis Davis, Richland county farmer
ssayed to walk out on the tongue Of
is rig when a a rein caught on the
ongue's end. This act frightened the
theam and they ran away. Davis was
brown beneath the outfit and carried
,ver the frozen ground for sine dis
lance, sustaining severe bruises.
Cuba City American legion post
gave a benefit dance Thursday night
for William Champion, whose home
was destroyed by fire while he and
wife were attending a party at JET
ferson The blaze was discovered at
midnight too late to prevent the res
idence from burning to the ground.
George Foley, Kenneth Holly, Jas.
Cornford and Thornton Pake, all OF
about 16 years, left their homes at
Pra. du Chen last week and headed
west. No reason except spring fever
and wander lust" can be ascribed
by their relatives. The boys, high
school students, are being traced.
Robert Wilhelminia, years, Ga
lena child, saw a man putting sawed
wood in the basement of a neighbOr's
home The little boy picked up sew
eral sticks to throw into the basement
and threw himself down a flight of
stairs with the wood. He was injured
internally and died after a days ill
ness.
John Amrose, %, graduate of the
Wisconsin School of Mines at Platte
vile, died at Eureka, Utah, from in
juries received in a fall of so feet
down a slope in the Tintic mine. He
had been employed as chemist IN a
Utah sugar factory up to shortly be
fore his association with the Tintlc
company
Farmers in the township of Orion,
ichland county, found a slain buck
n the farm of F. l.. Ryan. Eleven
deer have been counted in that COM
nunity this winter but no one sup
POSED that any person would have
he temereity to kill one. The ami
nal was shipped to the state con-
ervation headquarters at Madison.
Miss Antoinette Durant Of Platte
Vile Normal was elected president or
the Southern Wisconsin Teachers
Association at the convention held IN
Madison week before last. Other of
ficials are A. J. Smith, Union Grove
1st vice president; Winifred Edsan,
FIT Atkinson, second vice president;
Mary Hargrave, Madison, secretary;
r. A. Buell., Milton set, treasurer.
Business men and farmers of Rich
land Center banded themselves to
save the county fair from foreclos-
ure by advancing long time loans to
the amount of $6100 to clear up the
most pressing debts. The fair is one
of the best in the section and last sea
son new amphitheatre costing $1o,-
.O0O was erected. Continued bad
weather, year after year, has put the
fair far behind financially.
Relatives of Thomas Armstrong, so,
Darlington, who died in Monroe in
great pain, blame three pints OF Mil
waukee moonshine for his death. The
man had been in Milwaukee in bus
mess and procured three pints OF l1q-
uor. On the way home he was taken
seriously ILL., He was taken from the
train at Monroe where he died. The
elatives found that the mOOnshine he
carried was poorly distilled and con-
tanned substances that sometimes
cause death. No action can be taken
Ialthough Armstrong was murdered
just as surely as though he had been
stabbed in the back.
OSCOBEL-Several tobacco buy
ers have visited this section of late
but the taking of crops here was OF
no consequence The big hail ana
wind storm of last summer we'll nigh
destroyed the growing crop in TINS
locality and raisers are realizing but
little for their crops. from to cents
a pound for ragged leaf, buyers refus-
ing to buy the damaged crops. How
ever, in localities where the leaf was
lot storm beaten, demand is notice
able and many crops are being sold
for from 10 to zoe a pound. To tobacco
!raisers, the drop in prices from 4Oc
per 10 for the 1920 crop to 1212c to
1Sc or zoe for the 1921 crop, is little
short of a calamity.
Michael Murphy, Richland Center,
is campaigning for the office of county
Judge on platform Of eliminating the
circuit court features of the office as
"a useless expense to the county The
Richland county court has jurisdlc-
ton in civil actions up TO $4,000 and
all criminal cases except murder.
The circuit has a circuit judge and
court reporter and many Richland
county people believe the county is
unduly burdened with local court
when the regular circuit judge is
paid by the state for this work. P.
IL. Lincoln is present county judge,
succeeding Judge McCorkle who re-
signed last fall. Lincoln is a candi-
date.
The Richland Center Rustic of Fri
day states that last Wednesday night
marked the height of the food in
Richland county and that the waters
were subsiding. All valleys were Sc
r.