Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-04-19
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES and
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Raymond Beebe Of Benton and
Hazel Andrews of Hazel Green, were
married Wednesday at the Galena
Methodist parsonage.
Joe Burns, Prairie du CHEN, charg-
ed with enticing 14-year-old Violet
Ahrens from her home, has been held
for trial under $4,000 bonds.
A. j. Klofanda, MontfOrt druggist,
has Beagle rabbit dog that won a
$15 prize at the Milwaukee dog show.
kIofanda has refused good offers for
the dog.
Citizens of Mineral Point and Milf
lin have raised fund Of 5000 to be
met by like amounts from the county
and state to resurface the road be-
tween the two towns.
The re-trial at Galena of Frank
x. Willy, charged with the murder of
Earl Fitch, has begun. The jury is
rapidly being made up and the trial
will be in full sway this week Willy,
Herman Blauser, who shot and
killed Ernest Stadler at a cheese fac
tory near Darlington on Christmas
day, 1920, was released from Waupun
after serving ten months of a years
sentence.
Will Graham, Linden, splitting logs
with a double-bitted ak, was struck
an ugly blow in the head when the
blade glanced back and laid open his
forehead. He will recover and bear
the scar for life.
George Needham of Fennimore col
iected $32 bounty from County Clerk
Webb for eight fox pelts he brought
in. Mr.. Needham found den with
eight baby foxes in it on his farm
The mother made her escape.
The authorities searched the High
land premises of VIM. Baker and To-
Gated a horse stolen from r. G. Ry-
man, Arena, in the Baker barn. Baker
saw what was up and fed He had
served termn in Waupun and was
suspected in other thefts.
a bachelor neighbor of Fitch, the par
g ent of young children, killed Fitch in
a foolish quarrel which arose over the
Fitch children running over WHY'S
cellar door. Willy was tried, cOnvic-
ted and sent To prison He appealed
and the case came back for retrial.
A. f. Gratiot, editor Of Pick & Cad,
was elected mayor of Shullsburg. No
candidates names were printed on
the ballot but Gratiots name was
written in sufficient number of
times to insure his election. He is
the chairman of the Lafayette county
road and bridge committee.
In the slowing down process in eff
feet on the Northwestern line, the
main line men exercising their senior
ity rights are coming out on the di-
visions where the milk and honey may
last longer. Scarcely a day passes
but that some junior is forced to
change his berth.-MOntfort Mail.
j. ~ Cook, manager, and a few
l. - HrN41k FrNTa% ~
Co, retail store, have bought the COM
pany and will continue in business
under the old name. They have leas-
ed the lower floor of the Masonic
building and will enlarge the business
considerably. The Montfort Coop.
is one of the few concerns of the kind
that have proven successful
Among the big filters reported
around Lancaster this spring are
Baxter and Charles Judd, seven Duroc
sows narrowing IS pigs, with no SOW
having less than nine pigs. Gene
Croft & Son, Duroc breeders of note,
report get of 254 pigs from "a sows.
One SOW narrowed Is, two others Is
each, three narrowed IA each and two
narrowed 10 each at Croft's. Ed.
Cummins, Ellenboro, had four sows
farrow "a pigs-16, IA, ID, II.
AuSIlu A, WI t anu hdClll w
Cooper, wealthy Nbuque family and
owners of the Cooper Wagon and
Buggy Co, have been indicted and
held under bonds of $4,000. by fed
eral grand jury meeting at Cedar
Rapids. The government charges
fraud perjury and violation of penal
and criminal codes of the internal
revenue act The amount the Coopers
are said to owe the government is
said to total $169 ,297.56. Those in
dicted are the children of Augustus
Cooper, who founded the works nearly
a century ago
The proposed new road between
Cobb and Highland, starting at the
hotel corner and running east to the
railroad track, and thence to Cobb,
met with strenuous opposition at
mass meeting held Friday night TO
protest the building of the road as
the present plans specify. The point
of contention was that to put IN the
new road from the hotel to the rail-
road track would require a great deal
of grading and rebuilding when
would cost in the ne1ghborhood Oh
SO 600. and would leave Highland
one-half miles west from the mann
travelled road from Dodgeville and
Cobb to Muscoda. The present road,
while in a very bad condition, could
he rebuilt much cheaper, and it is
not many years ago that the Rubado
hin was macadamized and put in f1rst
class condition at cost of several
thousand dollars. This is practically
the worst part of the old road. and
with the road bed in a fair condition
could be improved at a figure much
below $4,000, that would be required
to build the road leading out from the
hotel corner. The meeting appointed
Wessrs. A. ]. Pusch and Frank Fecht
to go to Madison and interview the
Highway Commissioner and see what
could be done il regard to changing
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