Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-09-27

Chlen Monday, aged ~ years.
Mrs. Bridget Fitzpatrick aged SO
years, died at her home in Highland
Sept. 18th.
Springer & Crippen of Darlington,
have sold their pacing mare "Bonda-
line" to Milwaukee parties.
Miss Myrtle Trembling of Cobb,
and Watson Ableman of Montfort,
were married Wednesday at Galena.
10 Daviess County, ILL.,, has appro-
priated $4,000 for the use of the farm
bureau in testing cattle and hogs for
tuberculosis
Clinton Young, New Diggings well
driller, died Thursday from blood
poisoning that had its inception in an
liberated tooth.
Miss Gertrude Bell and Harold Rus
sell were united in marriage at the
home of the brides parents at Shulls-
burg Wednesday.
Duck hunters on the Mississippi
river bottoms are plentiful for the fall
shooting and bags have been good as
the fall flight is heavy.
Thos. MCNEIL, assistant county
clerk at Galena, died Sept IS, after a
brief illness. Mr. Mcneil was ma
tive of the city. He leaves a wife and
six grown children.
Orville Reed and Miss Elsie Graf,
both of Ellenboro, were united IN
marriage Wednesday. They were at
tended by Miss Paula Graf, sister Of
the bride and Ben Gehrke.
D. L. York of Hazel Green, has
gone to the west coast of Florida to
spend the winter on property he owns
there. James Harvey accompanied
him. They made the trip by auto
Ida Kahle, young woman of sew
enteen years, died at the family home
at Keller, Saturday following a short
illness. She was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore Kahle of Kieber
The case of the state VS.. the officers
of the Dodgeville ball club will be
tried out in circuit court. Justice
Richard Arthur referred the case to
the higher court at a hearing last
Monday. The charge is violation OF
the Sunday observance law.
Henry Lavery, Dubuque clothier,
was robbed of 20 expensive suits and
a cravanette coat, the whole valued
at $500, by burglars who made their
way in through a rear door. The
the choicest stuff in the place.
Edw. Blewett, president of the
Standard Cigar Co., Galena, has
bought double gated PAGER, Lon c.,
with a mark of 2:12A Lon G. is a
single footer and Mr.. Blewett will use
him as a saddle horse during the
period before next years racing be-
gins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Yearous, son
Arthur and daughters, Mildred and
Elsie and nephew Leslie, were motor
ing to their home in Highland from
Denver, Colo, their car skidded over
an embankment All were injured
except Mildred. The car was total
wreck. They finished the trip home
by train.
The village of Dane near Madison,
has been having an epidemic OF IN
fantile paralysis. Two deaths in one
family were caused by it, within a
week of each other. A son OF Mr. and
Mrs. John Hauser, nineteen years OF
age and another fourteen years old,
both died from this disease. Two
younger children are seriously i'll with
the disease.
Carloads of road cement were
ruined by the storm near Monroe last
Friday night A great stack of cement
for use on the new concrete road,
piled fifteen feet high, eighty feet long
and sixty feet wide, was stored under
a tent which did not afford proper
protection and the pile got soaked.
The damage is variously estimated
but it will run high.
Russell Dobson, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Dobson, has returned nome
after three years of service in the U.
S. Army, says the Mineral Point Tr1-
bune. He spent two and one-halt
years in service with the Army OF Oc-
cupation on the Rhine. He returned
to the United States in March and has
since then been located at Portland,
Maine, and lastly at Boston, Mass, as
an instructor in the G.. M. T. G. at
Camp Devens.
Federal and state prohibition agents
raided La Crosse saloons, "mopplng
up a number of joints, Martin Patask1
had a still in full blast. He was fined
$3.50. Ed. Gilmeister lost Is gallons OF
wine, ~ cases of home brew and his
still. He was fined $780, Chris.
Kumm was fined $500 for having a
still. Fred Colvin, road house pro-
prietor, was fined $500 for having
colored alcohol. Earl Niesen, saloon
keeper, was fined $4O0 for the same
offense.
The large new barn on the John
Mongold farm, between BelTIont and
Mineral Point, burned to the ground
on the Thursday of the Iowa county
fair. The barn was built last sum-
mer was 72x60 feet, and one of the
finest in the neighborhood. 1t con-
tanned the hay crop off Of 80 acres
and a like amount of straw, besides
numerous farm tools. 1t is thought
the fire was caused by combustion.
Mr.. Mongold estimates his loss at
$4,000 Insurance carried $1,000.
A rumor got out last Sunday that
the large crowd had caused something
to give way under the church floor. An
examination was made by officers OF
the church but they found nothing to
warrant the rumors everything was
in perfect order underneath the floor.
What was heard by parties who
started the rumor was the cracking OF
the seats, when so many sat down to-
gether on them. That noise is heard
every Sunday when the audience rises
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