Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-02-14
COUNTY AND NEARBY

j. ]. Callahan and Chas. Knorr, Pra.
gu Chlen, paid fines OF 500 and costs
f! each al La Crosse, where they plead
| guilty to bootlegging.
John P. Beckius, for 60 years resi-
dent OF Iowa county, passed away
early Tuesday morning at the farm
home near Union Mills, following an
attack OF pneumonia. His wife died
two years ago
Mrs. Ellen O'NeiIl Sullivan, a resi-
dent OF Iowa county for 58 years, died
at her home in Ridgeway, Feb. 1st.
she WIS the mother of five daughters
and four sons. The old lady had a
paralytic stroke in 1910 and was bed
ridden since that time.
A Ford car occupied by Roy Blotz,
Lawrence Davis and Nels Hagerty,
turned double somersault on S. T. L.
70, near Dodgeville Sunday of last
week when the driver tried to Jump
out of rut. The three young men
were taken from beneath the car un-
injured
Kenneth Hirsch, Fennimore and
Miss Rosenthal OF Dubuque, were
united in marriage at the parsonage
of the First M. E. church by Rev. A. H.
Smith at two o'clock Thursday after
noon. They were attended by Oliver
Henry and Miss Verna Eustice of Fen
nimore.
William Alfred Clark, Marietta,
aged 10, son of a Boscobel lineman,
who was electrocuted last summer,
was adjudged an incorrigible and sent
| to the state reform school at Wauke-
sha. The boy was stealing small ar
ticles and his mother was unable to
| restrain him.
VIM. Wilson, 81, Darlington citizen,
died Wednesday morning after an ill
ness of 13 months caused from blood
| poisoning. An operation removing
one leg failed to save his life. Mr..
| Wilson was recently rendered the Of
flee of sheriff but declined on account
of poor health.
! A three-cornered contest for coun-
ty superintendent of schools in Craw-
ford county will add interest to the
coming spring election. The candi-
dates are George E. Dagnon, princi-
pal of the Mt. Sterling schools, Geo.
Burton of Eastman and A. B. Schoon-
over, the present incumbent.
| Daniel Weeks, II, a Dubuque lad,
who ran away from the home OF his
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Smith, was taken into custody at
! Dodgeville Saturday week ago by
! Miss Cassie Lewis, Red Cross worker.
| The boy told a number OF thrilling
stories and caused the worthy Red
Cross official much trouble before she
got to the bottom of his tales. The
uncle. phoned, said that Daniel was an
omnivorous reader and particularly
! Il iv OF ohO1It
boys. He had skipped out several
times, the uncle said. The boy has no
parents and makes his home with the
uncle and aunt.
The Richland County Agricultural
Society find themselves indebted about
$4,000 at the present time. 1t was
voted to withdraw the free admission
| ticket from the stockholders for
! period of three years in order to help
| get the association back on it's feet in
a. financial way. Another proposition
taken up was that of holding 4th of
July celebration on the grounds this
wear. The society at the present time
is about $4,000 in debt and it is hoped
that by charging stockholders admis-
! sion and cutting out all free tickets
that the gate receipts can be boosted
considerable. There will be no free
tickets for the fair next year, every
person entering the grounds will pay
full admission.
| Officers of the Platteville American
Legion post, closed contract for
wild west competitive Rodeo to take
place in that city two days. July
and 5. Al. DeHaven and Reed Wat
son. western agents for two big ranch
outfits of western South Dakota and
wyoming were here to execute the ar
engagements for putting on the big
wild west show which will include
outfits from two distinct ranches,
bringing 20 noted COW boy riders into
competition for top honors. In the
outfit will be included IS outlaw hors-
es. 25 wild west long horn steers, and
paraphernalia to give the stunts in
roping, trick and fancy riding, bull
doging and all the thrilling stunts put
on each year in the famous Cheyenne
Dodeo real wild west color.
At a sale of fall and spring big type
Poland China gifts held on the John
hendricks farm, one mile north OF
Cuba City, SO offerings brought $3.50,
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