Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-03

Dr. Thos. Egan and family of High
land go to Tennessee to spend the
winter
has finished its seasons pack of 49,
900 cases.
Milo Gilbert and Helen Finnegan
both of Fennimore, were married at
Dubuque this week
Lloyd Chandler of Montfort, and
Miss Marie Murphy were recently
married at Rockford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Helms of the
town of Belmont, are the parents Of
daughter born the 18th
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mohlman of Bel
mont, welcomed twins to their home
the 18th, boy and girl.
A bicycle stolen from Raymond
Winters of Shullsburg last summer
was located in Dubuque last week.
John March, one of the oldest and
best known men of southern Wiscon-
sin, died at his home in ShullSburg
Friday.
Smythe Brothers and Bennett of
Benton sold car load of lead last
week and have another car ready for
shipment.
George E. Weatherly died at his
home in Shullsburg Saturday. He was
a pioneer of Shullsburg and was one
of the oldest l. o. o. F. members in
the state.
The town of Belmont purchased the
Shullsburg rock cruSher, which has
been brought to the Mound where ma
terial for roads of La Fayette county
will be prepared.
A Richland county jury gave $3.50
damages to Frank Miller, Kate Holl
and John Holl, suing w. Fl. and H. NJ.
Pier for $4,000 as the result of an
auto collision two years ago.
Howard Snyder, son of Editor and
Mrs. Snyder of Belmont, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Earlville, Iowa.
Rev. Evans has charge of the work
on the Cuba park and tourist camp.
1t is the plan to spend $4,000 on the
improvements.
Miss Goldthorpe, daughter of Editor
and Mrs H. Goldthorpe of Cuba, who
is taking training in La Crosse hos
pitaI for nurse was given William
Taylor woman husband" as patient
She made the discovery of the decep-
ton that William who posed as a man
for forty years was woman.
James Toay of Mineral Point, has
purchased Southern Boy of E. j.
Curtin of DEBORAH, Iowa. The horse
lowered his own record this year of
2:11A and in six races did not lose
single heat The horse is fifteen years
old. He will be retired from the races
and will be used for breeding pur-
poses.
1t HAS been estimated that the
Township of Potosi annually furnish
es SO per cent of the clover seed pro-
duced in Grant county. 1t also furn-
ishes large per centage of the grapes
produced in the county, and 80 years
ago it produced practically all the
hops raised in the county, and that
was no small amount.
Viroqua city has just completed a
$4,000 fire station, dimensions being
40x30 feet. 1t nicely houses the pow
erful and adequate fire engine. The
positions for the big motor mounted
fire fighting apparatus, and the hook
and ladder wagon are each fronted by
double doors. The second floor of the
station is made into a nice fiat, al
ready inhabited by a family.
Joe Mitchell had a herd of 200 pigs
a few weeks ago, but about forty OF
them are somewhere else being fat
tened for the fall market. He did not
miss them until a few weeks ago and
connecting their disappearance with
other incidents, he is convinced that
they were stolen at two different
times His suspicion was further
aroused when he discovered that some
of the herd was sick, and apparently
had been chloroformed. Other farm
ers report thefts of poultry and live
stock, and it begins to dawn upon
them that the menace of thievery by
truck at night is becoming too COM
mon.-Brodhead Independent.
Love nests are where lot Of inter-