Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-01-04


VIM. A. Priestley, Shullsburg, has
been granted pension of $50 a
month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. s. Sawyer, Bloom
ington. celebrated their golden wed
ding, Dec. II.
The Bacon Bldg, Baraboo, was in
jured by an early Wednesday blaze.
Considerable damage was done to
store stocks in the building.
John Van Matre, Wiota, fell 20
feet from the barn loft to the floor
and escaped with sprained ankle.
JAS Gowman, Mifflin, died at the
home of his daughter, Irs. William
Wiseman. Benton. Funeral was held
at Mifflin. Friday.
Clyde Winn, former resident of the
village of Cuba City, was suffocated
in fire at Escanaba, Mich. The body
was brought to Cuba City for burial.
John Konstant, Greek youth order
ed to report to Constantinople for a
failure to pass the literacy test, 70
ceived a reprieVe of 80 days from Tie
Secretary of Labor on application Of
Cong Voiet of Sheboygan
VIII Hillary, Jefferson, working in
a prospecting shaft near the Hazel
Kreen mine, was injured when the
shaft caved in and broke his leg and
hurt his head and back He is re
covering from his injuries.
The home of Leo Collins, four miles
south of Hollandale, was Destroyed by
fire early Wednesday q week ago.
The blaze originated around a china
ney The family had 10 insurance
oo6 furniture
Rev w w. Hurd, old soldier ana
resident of Dodgeville, died at his
home there Friday a week ago aged
rs years. Five sons survive. Rev,
Hurd was born in Ohio and enlisted
in the Union army at the age of II.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Wickham, aged
their SD wedding anniversary Dec.
35. They had the pleasure of seeing
their relatives and children gathered
around the tree in honor of the day.
The old people are hale and hearty
Mrs. Christina Schubert, aged 10i.
died at Galena, Wednesday. Up 10
recently the old lady did her ow,.
housework and ascribed her longevity
to hard work on the farm. She was
a resident of 10 Davies county for II
years.
While the Northwestern railroad
operator at Oconto was at breakfast,
hoboes, dissatisfied with the heat from
the stove, started bonfire on the sta
ton floor. When the fire assumed
alarming proportions they fed The
blaze was extinguished.
Floor moisture caused the explosion
Of babbet metal, Henry Henning, en-
ploye of the Galena Mfg. Co., was us
ing to secure the frame Of a machine
to the floor and molten metal hit Mr..
Henning in the face and eyes. tla
was given immediate medical atten~
ton and no serious results are lookea
for.
The big increase in population CT
the state prison at Waupun and the
reformatory at Green Bay, has start
led penologists The number of in
mates has grown from $50 to 1917 in
the past year. There are now 791
male and 81 female prisoners at the
state penitentiary and 1896 males at
Green Bay reformatory
Joe Zickevich and Andrew Evan
ovitch, miners at Cocker, near Liy
ingston, were raided by officer Ivan
Kantcheff and Sheriff Hillary of Iowa
county Friday a week ago. Stills and
liquor were found in both places. The
men are foreigners and hardly able
to talk English. They put up a feeble
defense or explanation of their hav
ing the contraband articles.
Eva Huntington, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Huntington, Platte
Vile, was married at Harry Vein
bergen at Madison Tuesday They
will reside at Mt. Horeb where Mr..
Weinbergen is a school instructor
Richard Thomas, former resideno
/ of Rewey, died last week at Bisbee,
Arizona. He was postmaster at Rev
| ely before moving southwest. Buria,
was made at Bisbee.
| Peter Soliva, IA, son of a Monroe
farmer, is in hospital with a gun
shot wound in his arm. de was hunt
/ ing rabbits with gun his father
1 had given him for Christmas pres
/ emit While crawling through a fence
he dragged the gun after him by the
muzzle. The gun went off and the
charge struck him in the arm, splint-
ering the bone. An operation was
! performed and the arm may be saved.
| From the Platteville Witness: Old
time prices for haircuts have cone
back around Fennimore, and it is
making lots of folks happy, especial
/ ly IdIu6IS, WHO live uSCIdIGu CltGN
would not spend two bushels of corn
/ for a hair trim. The barber who
shaved down the war prices is j. NJ.
Weaver Give me anything you
want" is his reply 20 strangers who
ask what the damages are. To one
Weaver explained: People aroun
here kicked so much about war
prices that I'm telling them to pay
me what they can afford"
Dubuquers who thought they were
on a private booze line and able to
purchase standard brands of wills
key, brandy and gin, have been rude
ly awakened with the discovery that
the booze ring selling the goods has
employing statesmen who visited Gus
toners with the real article in bot
ties. The goods are sold at a fancy
price. Then the fine work comes.
Moonshine is put in bottles already
labeled and supplied with counter,
| felt revenue stamps. 1t requires d.
p1omacy to put the sales over The
delivery of the spurious stuff is
matter of course. Chicago is tue
Headquarters of the ring and the