Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-07-04

Albert Watkins, a prominent Ne
braskan and formerly a resident OF
Iowa county, this state, has had the
honorary degree OF doctor OF laws at
the University OF Nebraska at Lin
coin. Dean LIE Rossignol presented
MIR. Watkins name to Chancellor
Avery, who in turn happily referred
to Mr.. Watkins as "publicist, critic,
able writer, amiable friend and dis
tinguished citizen OF Lincoln" Mr.
Watkins was born in the city of W0r-
cesteT, England, Nov 16, 184S, and
came to America when babe in arms
the following May. The family fol-
lowed the devious steamer, canal boat,
stage coach route of that day from
New York to Mineral Point. Mr.. Wat
kins grew TO young manhood there,
graduating from Wisconsin Univers-
ity in 1871, with the degree Of Bach
elor of law. He was editor of the
Mineral Point Democrat for four
years; county superintendent of the
Iowa county schools for three years;
editor Of the Sioux City, Iowa, Trib-
une for four years; of the Daily
Democrat at Lincoln, Nebr., for five
years; postmaster at Lincoln from
1885 to 1890 From 1902 he was edi-
tor Of various Nebraska historical
publications, and since 1910 historian
Of the Nebraska State Historical So
ciety.
Four brothers, named Smith, pros
pecting on the c. A. Smith farm south
of Benton last week made a valuable
strikN Of lead ore. The brothers, no
one of whom, is a miner, cleaned out
an old shaft and ran a drift 26 feet in
a nOrthWesterly direction. They hit
a solid sheet Of lead at depth of IA
feet, but on account of the large chunks
OF lead being loosely imbedded in the
earth, were afraid to work under the
lode. They then sunk another shaft
over their discovery and at a depth
of 20 feet struck a vein OF lead ore
10 inches wide. Down to this depth
they had not done any blasting. At
ter putting in their first shot they
cleaned up. They found the sheet had
widened to three feet The next day
in one hour the brothers raised "a
! buckets of solid ore to the surface Of
the ground. They now have six tons
on the surface and the outlook is get
ting better daily. The Smith brothers
are now making a deep study of min
ing conditions determined to find
more Of the value of their land.
The new mill recently built at the
Black Jack mine was put in opera
ton Monday of this week. Work has
been in progress underground for
some time and the mill kept busy. 1t
is understood this mine is experience
ing the same trouble as other mines
in securing shovelers and all VINO
seek work are given a job. About 80
are now employed at the mine. The
numerous foreigners who returned TO
their native countries during the war
are greatly missed by mine owners as
! it seems few Americans desire TO
work at shoveling underground
| Galena Gazette.
Teachers for the graded school at
Livingston for the coming year are:
| Principal, G. L. Kies; 9Th and 18th
grade, Miss Reta Campton of Mineral
Point; 4th and 5th grades, Miss Laura
Jeffries of Amherst; End and 3rd
grades, Miss Leila Dietzman of Platte
Vile; 1st grade, Miss Mabel Living
| ston of Livingston.
The sudden death of Harmon Smith
was a shock to the people of Warren
last week. He had been working IN
the yard, and being quite warm took
| a cool drink of water and went into
the garage to rest. He sat in the seat
of his car where he was found dead a
short time afterwards. He was 60
years old
Kicks Bros. farming near BoscObel,
have "a acres of sandy soil in the
| Wisconsin river valley planted to
Watermelons and musk melons. The
crop is in fine condition and it is es-
| timated that they will have at least rs
cars Of melons from the "a acres.
Dan Martzell, a respected citizen OF
Warren, died suddenly last week. He
was in APPARENT good health up to the
! time of his demise. His body was
! found in a small building near the
house Deceased was 76 years old.
Michael Mccarthy, teamster at
the mines near Hazel Green, disap-
peared Sunday, June II. He was
| found dead on a mining dump with
| a key of moonshine along side of him
He was buried at Galena.
10 Daviess county, illinois, will
! have a county veterinary at salary
of $4,000 per year His principal oc-
cupation will be testing cattle.
The milling plant on the Connecting
/ Ling property that was destroyed Dy
/ fire is being replaced by new seven
/ cell Jig mill to cost $4,000.
A little daughter of Ralph Porter
of Montfort, had the flesh of her fore
arm badly torn and mangled by a
! hound dog