Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-05-28

| Boscobel has purchased a site for a
public library, the gift of the late Geo
F. Hildebrandt.
| BY a decisive vote, Boscobel last
week decided against any addition to
| the present school building of that
place.
The Warren Hotel, of Baraboo, the
| leading hotel of the city, was dam
aged by fire to an amount of $4,000
on Monday, May II.
| The contract for the erection of q
fine new banking building at Hills
| boro for the Farmers State bank has
been let to a St. Paul firm, which will
start work June 1st The building
will be 36x60 feet with full basement
and one story above the ground.
Veteran John M. Downs of Gays
Mills died after only a few days i'll
ness and his body buried in Soldiers
Grove cemetery. He had been res
ident of the Kickapoo valley for over
seventy years. Fifteen children and
his faithful widow survive him.
The Kneeskern case is occupying
the attention of the Iowa county
courts again. The cattle buyers at
torneys are appealing the Van Brok-
lin murder of near Castalia two years
ago, to the supreme court and over
1000 typewriter pages OF abstract
constitute a brief.
Evan o. Edwards, Dodgeville, died
Monday at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Jasper Bondurant. Mr.. Edwards
was working in the garden with his
son-in-law, and seemed in usual good
health. He asked where to plant GER
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ward. He expired a few minutes later.
The Dodgeyille legion post solved
part of a problem to get money by sell
ling merchants standards for mount
ing flags in the street in front of
their stores. Practically every busl-
ness man in town bought standard
and flag and the city will present
gala appearance when celebrations
are in order.
The Ford of Earl Plumleigh, Dodge
Vile, took a notion to run away while
Plumleigh was out of the car ADJUST
ing brakes on a hill. The driver leap
ed in and drove the car toward bank
andthen jumped out. The machine
coasted over the incline and went
down into a ravine after tearing
through the fence. 1t was sadly dill
apidated.
On May 8, 1918, the Methodist
church at Ironton together with much
other property in that vicinity, was
DESTROYED by a cyclone. A year from
that date a new church was dedicated,
and each succeeding year rally day
is held to commemorate the event.
The rally was held on May 10th A
big dinner was served at noon, follow
ed by meetings and addresses in the
afternoon and banquet in the even
ing at the Methodist church.
At a school meeting over in Bos-
cobel the question of a new addition
to their schools was voted down and
in response to viva voce vote. The
Dial says the result was 80 predom-
mate that a deaf mute could easily
have determined the result" An adj
iournment of the meeting had the
same sharp action and tardy ones
didn't hear anything but the finish,
so snappy was the meeting. A ma
iority of the board of education ia
vored the project but three-fourths
or more of the taxpayers didn't.
Leonard Wherry, Maquoketa, Iowa,
auto dealer, and Mrs. Ella M. Jen-
nllSS, d pretty NllNO1CCC VI w ND''NSA'
CITY. Iowa, were apprehended at Nc
Gregor, at midnight Friday and taken
into custody upon receipt of tele-
gram from F. E. Thomas, prosecuting
attorney of Jackson county. Wherry
and Mrs. Jennings are said to have
registered at the Scenic hotel in Nc
Gregor as Mr.. and Mrs. l.. D. Walton
of Davenport. Saturday Wherrys
wife. father and sister arrived at Nc
Gregor. A scene ensued at which 1t
is said Mrs Wherry snatched Sl,5OO
diamond ring from Mrs. jennings
finger, saying it was her own. Wher-
nv senior denounced and disowned
his son. Later the trio left McGreg-
or together. 1t is said that Wherry
met Mrs. Jennings last Thursday fol-
lowing her appearance at a recital
in Cedar Rapids. The couple are SAID
to have driven north into Minnesota
and from there to McGregor. NO
criminal action is limited at but a pro-
ceeding for divorce will be started by
Wherrys wife. The sensational at-
fair has set sleepy Maquoketa agog