Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-08-29
NEIGHbORHOOD
BREvI7IES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of WeekFron1 7ri-
State Area.


county board, died Wednesday at the
age Of 81 years.
Miss Inez Piquette of Platteville,
for many years employed by the In
terstate Power & Light Co., has open
ed school supply and grocery store.
Rev. F. J. Lillis, Catholic priest at
Platteville, celebrated the % the an
niversary of his Platteville charge
recently A number of neighborhoOd
priests were present for the reception
given in honor Of Rev. Lillis.
The dry weather is causing marsh
fires in the vicinity of Delton and be-
tween Baraboo and Portage. The peat
of marshes is so dry that it burns
down to some depth, and is impossi-
BILE to put out, remaining smoldering
to be famed into blaze by eacn
wind
Two young fellows from over near
Platteville, who were flirting with
strange girls on the streets in Bel
mont Sunday night and asking them
to take a ride in their car, paid fines
in Squire Gibbons court Monday
morning. Success.
A company has been organized at
Pra. du CHEN to manufacture COM
binatiOn floor lamp and talking ma
chine The reproducing device will
! be concealed in the body of the lamp.
Farmers along the Mound road out
of Platteville are preparing to COM
pIetely electrify their farms since the
I Interstate company has Installed Z
commercial line to their premises.
Electricity will be used to light the
buildings and operate various ma
chimes on the farms.
Con Duren, Ithaca freight driver,
charged with theft of merchandise
and store robbing, confessed in court
at Richland Center last week. Mr..
Duren was given his choice of 500
fine or four months in Jail. He was
also "laced under $1,000 bonds for
two years and required to replace the
value of the goods he took.
Carl Becker, of Dubuque, brakeman
on the Illinois Central, lost the front
half of his right foot in railroad ac-
cident at Warren, about eight o'clock
Friday morning. Becker was switch
ing a car when he slipped from his
position on the side of the car and his
foot was caught and crushed under
the wheels This is the second rail-
road accident in which Becker has
suffered injuries About a year ago
an auto in which he was riding was
struck by a train at the foot of 10th
street and Becker's leg was broken
in three places.
1t is said that the officials of the
Green county fair received large
sum of rain insurance when the
amount Of rainfall specified in the
contract was precipitated from the
heavens. A number of other fairs
have taken similar insurance and the
Galena Odd Fellows will carry it
against rain on their Labor day cele
bratiOn
A ton bull owned by Warner L.
Squires, Savanna farmer, fell from .
bluff and landed on narrow shelf of
rock 60 feet above the Mississippi
rvier valley Seeing his predicament,
with almost human intelligence the
bull waited quietly for hours until
help came Men with block and
tackle finally hoisted the bull back 10
the plateau. The animal did not move
while the hosting apparatus was be-
ing fitted and was rescued uninJured.
Sister Winifred Mary and Sister
Rosemary, of St. Clara College, Sin
sinawa, Wis, who have been study
ing at Freiburg, Switzerland, for the
past five years returned to St. Clara's
College Tuesday. Sister Winifred
Mary has been studying school social
service at Our Institute Of Higher
Studies in Freiburg and Sister Mary
Rosemary, who has been at the Erie
berg University for a period of five
years was given a degree in Romance
languages recently.
John Melhop, II, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Meihop, Dubuque, was
drowned in the Mississippi river near
McGregor Sunday week ago. The
youth stepped off a sandbar where he
had been picnicking and was carried
away by the swift current. The body
was recovered an hour later by fisher
men. The Melhop family were visit
ing in McGregor at the time and the
parents had the sad duty of taking
their sons body home for intermcnt.
The number of drownings near Nc
Gregor this year has been something
appalling.
Jos. w. Perkins, 60, retired farmer
of Dodgeville, died at Portage tour
list camp Friday night week ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins were enroute to
Greenwood, Wis, for q visit with rela-
tives They stopped at Portage for
the night About $50 Mrs. Perkins
spoke to her husband and receiving
no answer, touched him. He was
dead. The body was taken to Dodge
vile for burial which took place the
following Monday. Besides the wife
Mr.. Perkins is survived by son and
daughter and five grandchildren.
Oliver Leib has confessed that he
killed his partner, John Kirkpatrick,
whose body was found in a woods
near Cascade, Ia, last week, Dubu-
que officials announced Friday. Lelb
declares he killed in self-defense. A
charge of murder will probably be
placed against him, County Attorney
A. J. Kane announced last Thursday.
In confessing, Leib said he struck
Kirkpatrick over the head with the
barrel of a shot gun which was
broken while the two men were strug-
Cling for its possession during a quar-
rel on the night of January 20, 1923.
The trouble. he said, was instigated
by Kirkpatrick. Both men Leib said,
had been drinking and had just re-
turned to the cabin they occupied af-