Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-28
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES And
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUents
Of Week From 7ri-
State Area.

Darlington has organized a gun
club of forty members with r. E. Or
ton as president and Raymond Nc
CarViIIe as secretary.
Viroqua has voted ID build a new
$4,000 fire station. This is mark
OF progress in keeping with the gem
eral attitude in the hustling little to-
bacco city.
Last weeks snow and wind caused
considerable damage to telephone
property at Galena and crew OF 70
men worked all week to repair the
pole and wire plant.
A dozen or more of the men of the
village were busy all day Monday at
shoveling snow from the lumber yard
to the VIM. Scadden residence. In
some places it was seven feet deep
Hazel Green writer.
John Shiefel, who was brought to
Lancaster from Waupun for second
trial on charge of having murdered
his brother-in-laW JOS. Stake OF
Highland, is out on $4,000 bail until
the October term Of court.
Thomas Vipond of Livingston died
at his home there Thursday at the age
OF 70 years. Mr. VipOnd was farmer
and had spent his entire life in the vi
cinity of Livingston. He was never
married. brother at Algoma, Iowa,
survives.
Grant Weber, talented pianist OF
Monroe, took his life by suicide
Thursday, when he hung himself with
a cord taken from a shipping box. He
played the Swan song shortly before
hanging himself Mr.. Weber was IS
and single
Viroqua is experiencing diph-
liberia scare but careful survey
shows but three cases in the city al
though rumOr had it 80 people were
afflicted. The proper treatment is
early diagnosis with prompt serum
treatment by a reliable physician.
An involuntary plea in bankruptcy
has been filed against the Palace
Clothiers, Dubuque, by the EVerwear
CO., Milwaukee, Flachs- Edelman Co.,
Chicago, and the Lindley Paper Co.,
Marion, Ind The Palace company
made a general assignment to credi-
tors March 49,
Test holes sunk on the Jos. Knee
bone farm, near Horseshoe Mound, 10
Daviess county, show encouraging re-
suits Drills evidence 81 feet of lead
i'm one hole, 20 feet of lead i'll the
second and So feet OF lead in another
Two holes show 80 and 80 feet of sui
phur. Drillers think a new mine will
be added to the large number in the
district
Miss Helen Stryker of Seattle
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Stry-
ker, former Galena residents, has
signed a contract with David Belas
co o pGly "Jessica" in The Merchant
of Venice, now on tour in the West.
The troupe later goes to London. Miss
Stryker, raised in Galena, is a present
playing in The Fool" Charming
Pollock society drama. She has a
bright future.
A Steuben, Wis. correspondent Of
the Fennmore Times says: We are
unable to give a proper write
the accident or just how it happened,
but. in some manner Frank Scott ran
against David E. Kelly with such
force as to run a stem of a pipe David
had in his mouth nearly through his
cheek, near his ear The doctor was
called and at last reports the wound
was very painful
For the first time in generation
according to the Older residents Of
Savanna, the Mississippi river has
frozen over again on March 20, after
the ice broke up in the spring. The
ice went out early in the month set
ting a new record Then along came
the big storms Of last week culmina-
ting i'm the sub-zerC weather of Sun
day night and Monday. That started
the ice to form again along the edges
and Tuesday morning a big jam al
Clinton held UP the flow Of tae cur
rent in mid-strcam and gave the ice
a chance to freeze clear across.
In the current issue Of the Satur-
day Evening Post is an interesting il
Illustrated article by Fl. H. Kohlsaat
entitled, Grant at Galena in is L."
The main portion Of the article re-
lates to Grants life in Galena before
and after the war and his interven-
ing. Many clever anecdotes were in
corporated in the article that will be
recalled by the "old timers" Those
familiar with the times say the ar
ticle is a correct portrayal OF tbs his
tory OF Galena in its connection with
Grant. at any rate it is a wonderful
ly impressive advertisement of Ga
lena as this article will go all over the
world The photo accompanying the
piece is Of General Grant and his staff
at City Point, his headquarters before
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