Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-04-25
NEARBY NOTES

stockholders $4,000
! ALT. T. Ringing of Baraboo, one of
| the famous Ringing Bros, who died
two years ago, left an estate of 81 ,000,-
| 600.
Fred Sapp, Canton, ILL.,, was ar
rested at Scales Mound on a charge
that he robbed the DR.. Logan house at
Galena of $50 in bills, fountain pen,
revolver, watch, etc. Sapp made a
| full confession
! Fire starting in a defective chin
ney was the cause of destruction of
| the Frank Rosemeyer home one mile
north of Sinsinawa Mound Friday a
week ago. Some furniture was saved.
The loss toUaled $4,000.
| Dodgeville citizens have organized
a city band under the leadership of
F. o. Rand. The band will consist of
| 26 pieces to begin with. Uniforms
have been ordered and public con-
/ certS will soon be under way.
The Rev. FIR. Herman, Reedsburg,
left recently to visit various Euro
pean countries, excepting Russia. He
will also spend some time at his old
! home i'll Ireland. His congregation
presented him with a purse of $500
before his departure.
| L. K. Upton, former Richland Cen
ter piano cealer, has begun serving a
| two-year sentence in Waupun for
emrezzhng $4,000 from the Smith &
Barnes Piano Co., Milwaukee, his
employers. Upton was known as a
good fellow" but given to the vice of
drinking.
The farm home of VIM. Nation, near
Nora, ILL.,, was entirely destroyed by
fire Wednesday. The blaze started in
the garnet and spread through the
| building. A daughter who attempt
, ed to smother the fire was burned
about the face. The house was newly
erected at cost of $4,000.
The annual sale of damaged and
unclaimed freight will be held by
| the Milwaukee road at it's warehouse,
| Pra. du Chen on May 8. There are
about 10 carloads Of unclaimed or
damaged stuff to be sold The list
| includes every conceivable object of
merchandise, from baby cabs to auto
mobiles.
The government steamer DandeliOn
is on its way up the river with a
| bargeload of buoys, channel markers.
bank line guides, lamps, etc., for the
river light keepers. The crew is also
clearing the channel of all obstacles
that might hamper navigation. An
increase in river traffic is looked for
the coming summer.
Contracts are being made with the
Swiss cheese factories in Green coun-
ty for April cheese at 24c and Csc
Swiss cheese has been cleared up with
the exception of some fancy stock
which is bringing as high as SEC. The
market shortage has resulted in the
early contracts. A few advance con-
tracts are reported for block Swiss at
% cents.
Campion College Thespians under
direction of Russell T. Dorgan, presi-
dent of the Masquers club, will stage
sherlock Holiness" four act melo-
drama. The play has many changes
of scenery and is difficult to put on
The action is sustained and myster-
ious until the last moment The
.Masquers have staged number of
difficult plays and do not hesitate to
attack the difficulties of Conan
Doyle's masterpiece.
Richland Center baseball fans last
week accepted franchise in the So.-
western Wisconsin baseball league,
closing the circuit. The season opens
May and closes Sept. 16, with a ten
game schedule for each team. Six
teams participate: Dodgeville, High
land, Lone Rock, Muscoda, Richland
Center and Spring Green. Clubs are
limited to $500 month for non-resi-
dent players and it is figured that the
personnel of the teams will be large
!ly recruited from local talent.
Sorrow lay heavily in the James
Lewis home in Woodman township
last week when Mr.. Lewis and his
son, James, passed away with pneu-
monia. The entire family of seven
persons had been i'll with flu, but a
doctor was not called until Mr.. Lewis
and his namesake developed pneu-
monia. A double funeral was held at
Boscobel. Mr.. Lewis was 48 years
old and the son 8 years old. The
father died on Friday and the son
passed away the following Sunday.
Four self-propelled steel barges of
10 tons carrying capacity are being
erected at Grafton, LII, to use on the
upper river freight service The new
type of river carrier is radical de-
parture in construction from the time
hOnored Steamboat" These barges
are covered, 81 feet long, 20 feet wide,
and have oil-burning engines and
power derricks. A number of govern
ment barges 300x50 feet designed for
river traffic proved to be unwieldy
and impractical. The latest attempt
is private enterprise, hailed with
delight by residents of towns along
the river.
Marvin Jacobsen, Bellevue, Iowa,
head of piano factory, has a life in
surance policy for $150,000 written in
favor of the factory's bondholders.
Since the arrest and conviction of
four men for robbing a Burlington
boxcar at Wyalusing, Kit Adams and
Harry linus of McGregor have been
arrested on similar charges. Whole
sale robbing of freight cars has been
going on for the past year. The rail
road detectives of the Burlington and
Milwaukee roads declarethey have a
list comprising some 100 names of
persons implicated in some form or
another, and as cases are disposed of
they will decide who shall be the next
victim of outraged justice
The Fennimore Times recently car
ried news items concerning enor-
mons acoc that had como undnr itc