Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-09-12
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Ed. Seaman of Benton, has bought
the Sanitary creamery at Boscobel
John Morrell, 80, Pra du Chen, fel.
IA feet from the caves of his house
while repairing a leak. He was bruis-
ed, but no bones were broken.
Geo. w. Spratt, Galena, a former
miner of Cripple Greek, Colo, has re-
turned West TO open a claim he 10
Gated in 1900. He has excellent pros
poets Of wealth.
A cloudburst at Waukon SATURDAY.
week ago filled the creek with
muddy water and debris was piled 10
feet high along the shores. No prop
erty damage resulted.
John Gockel of Glen Haven, was
elected president of the Grant county
rural carriers association at their La
Dor day meeting held at the Reuben
Garner home in Lancaster
Mr. and Mrs John r. Laughton Of
Platteville, plan to celebrate their
golden wedding Dec. TO- They were
married in Platteville so years ago
and have resided there since.
J.. P. Mooney of Pra du Chen has a
prize tobacco plot of seven acres on
sandy ground. Mooney has topped the
y
bacco grown on sandy soil near the
city.
Aldro Pengelly, Dodgeville, was at
tackled by a boar he was exercising
prior to shipping it to show at the
state fair. The animal bit Penge!ly
on the leg. He is under a doctors
care.
John Murphy, Platteville horseman,
recently bought Ganetta, 2:11A PAGER,
from the G. w Sells stables of Wau-
kegan. Ganetta won second in her
four last races and is q mare Of much
promise.
G. Fl. Bender, Boscobel, home from
a summer visit in Germany, reports
conditions there as bad. Over-pOpula-
ton, unemployment ana disrupted
government are the chief causes Of
disaster.
Clifford Miller, Richland Center,
jumped his board bill and was put at
work to pay out his sentence. He
again Jumped and was pursued by
the sheriff and locked up for lengthy
sentence.
Smythe Brothers and Bennett have
made another big strike of lead a
short distance west of the first big
strike says the Benton Advocate The
strike was made at depth of so feet
and has the appearance of making a
run.
Prohibition Agent Roy Muhs con-
fiscated 1873 half barrels of beer at
Davenport. The beer had been shipped
from Dubuque, via Freeport, one K. ).
Casson being consignOr. Dubuque
police have been unable to locate Cas-
son.
G. w. Van Atten, editor of the Wau-
zeka Chief for year or son past, dis
appeared week before last. Mr.. Van
Atten is said to have applied for al
mission to the Odd Fellows home at
Mason City. The paper is on the
rocks.
Amour Moen, 16, Madison, riding a
hike home from Iowa, stole two new
tires from the Fuerstenberg farm near
Pra. du Chen He was pursued and
arrested. The lad was sentenced u
the Waukesha Industrial home until
he is of age.
A threshing machine that has been
in use forty-three years is now at
work in field near Monroe, run by a
tractor and pulley instead OF i've
teams formerly necessary for opera
ton. The machine requires cutting
of the bands and is hand fed
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Elllott OF Be
lott. lost their six-year-old daughter
by diphtheria. Coming to Richland
Center with the body, the mother was
taken seriously i'll. The child was
buried at Bloom City. The family IS
in quarantine.
Horn lake, an artificial body OF
water at Platteville, has been trans
formed into an inland seaside resort
through community enterprise. The
lake was dredged early this spring
and the bottom lined with mine tai
ings. A double-deck diving platform
was erected. Life lines were set loE
oroo+eurs and two change houses were
hui1t with concrete floors, electric
lights and lockers. The municipal
beach is in charge of two officers, one
a noIicewoman. The water is replaced
every "a hours through a splll-way'