Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-02-14

Mineral Point, Jan. 18th.
Phil Slower and Miss Clara MURRAY
Of Benton, were married Monday.
Mrs. Charles Moore, of DodgeviIle a
daughter of Owen Wall of Highland.
died recently.
The Galena gas plant which has
been idle for some time will he put
in operation.
Miss Gretta Allen of Fennimore and
Mr.. Thos. j. Moore Of Highland were
married Feb. 8th.
500 guests participated in the an
nual Masonic supper given at Mineral
Point Friday night.
John West veteran of the Civil
war died at the home of his son, Will
liam, at Hazel Green.
Neal Simons, was found uncon-
sci0us in shoe repair shop at High
land and died that same evening.
Edward Lenehan of Mineral Point
and Miss Catherine O'Shea of Spo-
kane, Wash, were married recently.
The marriage of Mike Gangler Of
Beetown and Miss Adelaide Meyer of
Fairbault, Mimi, will soon take place
Miss Sarah Burgess of Lancaster.
and Fred Mcdowell of Boscobel were
united in marriage at Rockford Tues
day.
Miss Mary Barr of Glen Haven and
Monroe Thornton of Bloomington
wvre married at Lancaster Wednes-
day.
The Sanners & Co. cold storage
plant at Argyle was damaged by fire
last week and an adjacent elevator
destroyed.
Oates & Ellis of Bloomington have
started their $4,000 egg incubator
They have orders that will keep them
going until April /.
Will Clauer and Miss Vina Duncan,
both of Beetown, were married in Du-
buuue Tuesday. They will reside on
farm near Beetown.
Anna Kinch, aged 70 years, died at
the home of her neice, Mrs. John Fow-
Ter. at Belmont Death was caused
bv cerebral hemorrhage.
Fennimore high school students
taking the Agricultural course are
prepared to test samples of soil sent
in by farmers, for acidity.
Prairie du CHEN plans to hold a
historical pageant this summer to
commemorate the 250th anniversary
of traversing the Mississippi River by
Joliet and Marquette.
Miss Hazel Cottingham of Fenni-
more, and Mr. August braves of Mont
fort were married Wednesday. They
will reside on the Charles braves
farm near Montfort.
M. l.. Wright, former county agent
of Crawford county, goes to Wausau,
Wis. to take the work of organizing
boys and girls clubs and boy scout
troupes. He will receive a better sal
ary than he did as county agent
Sheriff o. A. Stevenson of Crawford
county, motoring in the county on 5.
T. l.. 27, came across two men and
Ford with fiat tire. The men hailed
the sheriff. While looking around the
sheriff found a jug of moonshine and
Immediately showed his star. Henry
Sprosty, one of the men, dug out 1or
Canada, instead of reporting as the
sheriff told him to. The other man,
Louis O'Brien, reported for Tine
Deputy Game Warden Keller OF
Bagley arrested Charles Tesar Jr. and
Mrs. Minnie Jackson of Pra. du CHEN
for having ferrets in their possession.
They were arraigned before Judge
Speck and fined $50 each and costs
amounting to about $12 each. When
he was asked who squealed on them
the game warden said he smelled the
ferrets when he was passing the
houses. Some smeller, we'll say
Press.
State highway 10 will be graveled
the entire distance from the Mlsslssl-
ppi river to Lake Michigan before the
close of 1923. There are now just TWO
gaps which are unsurfaced, one from
Montfort to Fennimore, the other
from Mt. Ida west to highway 90;
Mrs. Mary Louise Barron, born TUT
cote, a. native of Beetown, rep. -
1847, died Feb. 3, at the nome o. Aei
daughter, Mrs. L. r. Graham, 81 Faui'
Two daughters and two sons SURVIVE
Funeral services were held at Cass-
Vile.
Persons desiring to have game nsn
planted in specified streams oI Cno
state are urged to make immediate up
plication to the Wisconsin conserFSS
ton commission by Brayton y.
ster, commissioner in charge u nen
cries. He said that only in TINS way
couId their renuests for fish be met.
A larger supply of fingerllngs WIZ ~
available this year than ever Uelol - -
the commissioner says. he nop0o
meet most OIL TIE dpPAA~NAS
and trout. ,,1o
A. Macarthur, the aged DodgeVlllss
man motoring through the south ano a
supposedly lost at Atlanta. writes TIa
Avoca friends from JacksonVlile, ria,
He saws that hundreds of northern
homeseekers. who came south expect
ing to find land of milk and honey y
are stranded there without means "
get home. The population is 90 per- per-
cent colored and the SOIL IS pooi ,,laca
unproductive. The region is no plaoe
for a poor man or one who relies upon pom
labor for for a living. A few rich make aae
the state a playground in the wint 1at
going north during the terrlOie neal
when Jim Sharp, Richland Center
man whose name has been Engllshed
Considerably mpbf lett Russia in the days
Of the czar, a ruble was worth SHY SHY
cents in American money. hecen' r.
a rich uncle or some other leta ID left
T:.., Ala ~ tho fafhprldnQ anu IOAI