Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-30
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

ROAD west or harrington toward
Platteville on 65.
Boscobel has set the dates for it's
Fair and Home Coming early again
for the coming fall. The dates are
August IL to Is.
George Young, veteran business
man of Galena, died of paralytic
stroke Wednesday evening. He was
rs years old. A wife and four chill
dren survive.
The A. A. Cooper estate at Dubu-
que has paid states taxes OF $12 ,681.51.
Considerable litigation has ensued
between the government and the
estate over the payment of taxes.
Louis Eberle, we'll known il Grant
county, died at a Madison hospital
Thursday a week ago of pneumonia.
Burial was made at Highland. Yves.
Hymer of Potosi was a son-inIlaw of
Mr.. Eberle.
The residence of Mr.. and Mrs. A. r.
Manley was destroyed by fire Satur-
day morning of last week The Man
legs were fortunate enough to own
another house and they took posses
sion at once.
On his way from Denver to Phoe-
nix, Ari., Alan Kirkpatrick, Richland
Center, was taken i'll with appendi-
citis and conveyed to hospital at
Albuquerque, N. NJ. Late reports are
that he is doing we'll.
Dale Yerke, Wingville youth, aged
18, died at Madison hospital Jan. 49,,
Of pneumonia. Young Yerke was
taken i'll Dec. 16. He was operated
on Jan 10, but failed to rally. Burial
was made at Highland.
Walter Stephens of Oshkosh, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Amo Stephens of Platte
Vile, is in Milwaukee, where he I'M
-derwent the fifth operation on his
throat. He has every assurance that
the operation was a success.
Benton, merchants have decided to
keep their stores open three nights
and closed three nights a week. The
open nights will be Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Saturday, and the closed
nights, Monday, Thursday and Friday.
The farm home of Hubert Suhr,
near Eastman, burned to the ground
Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. Suhr was
at the barn and his wife was at
neighbours when the fire started. The
building and contents were total
loss.
William Reidel, Ithaca, suffered
painful hurts while grinding feed.
The Jacket he wore caught in the
crank of a tractor and Reidel was
thrown Is feet, landing on frozen
ground. His clothes were torn from
his body and he suffered a broken
shoulder and three broken ribs.
James Burbank Marble, 80, veteran
engineer of the Milwaukee road, died
at Finley hospital, Dubuque, Wednes-
day afternoon. Mr.. Iarble was born
in st. Louis in 1882. For 35 years of
his life he worked for the Milwaukee
road. All but one daughter preceded
the old veteran of the rails IN death.
The Muscoda village board has vot-
ed to accept a contract with the In
terstate Power Co. whereby the cor
poration will supply the village with
electric current for all purposes.
Heretofore the village has manufac-
tared its own power at local water
plant. Under the new arrangement
saving of 40 per cent will be realized.
Rockford police discovered a moon
shine still in a hurry when LOUD eX-
DlOsiOn took place in the basement OF
a fiat building. Entry into the base
maent disclosed a 5O-gallon still, 10
barrels of mash, two smaH stllIs, hVe
gallons of hootch, 300 pounds Oh SUI
mar and five packages of yeast. Inc
stills were up-to-date in equipment
bat something went wrong
a petition is being circulated IN
Crawford county for speclal meet
ing of the county board to protest the
nrl1ocation of State Trunk Highway
40 in the western side of that county.
THE opposition to the newly located
road is backed by e. l.. Haggerty,
FARMERS of the towns of Scott and
Marietta. 49,.
church. Chicago, died of pneumonia
January 18th, at Tarpon Springs
FIa where he had gone for rest. he
was former Mineral Point boy, be
ipg reared to manhood in that city.
rho remains reached Mineral POINT
Tuesday afternoon of last week, De-
INC brought by a special train, with
hnrial Wednesday from st. PauIs
church conducted by a nephew, TT
ID. D. Hishen.
Sheriff Dietzman or hlchianu ~
ter with Deputies Beatty and HuDrlck
on Tuesday night visited the tenant
house on the farm of Paul Springer
in the town of Buena vista. 1hey
fonnd there Martin BCenneman ana
vida Ewers occupying the same room
and when the house was reached tney
were both in bed clothing. They were
,r1aced under arrest and brought 10
thn county Jail. The Ewers woman
we understand has been arrested for
"a similar offense before and VIII
mrobaIbly not get off with fine this
fime.-Denocrat
The closing of the Citizens say
;0rs Rank at DEBORAH, Iowa, last Sat
mr d caused considerable furry IN
the placid little city. The bank ks is
practically insolvent due TO a SLOW nv,
naner and an offer has been made Dy
pne OF the other banks to take over
tha accounts and pay Is percent at
once the balance to be paid as the
slow CV paper is collected. There are
three other banks in the city. Ine en-,
are many people in DEBORAH who stIii
s.aToember some years ago when the
FTst National Bank went up and a
receiver stayed there about six OF
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