Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-23
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

WhGI6 they spent Ln0 winter.
Unknown parties broke into the
Presbyterian church, Galena, Satur-
day night but no damage was done
and nothing taken.
Henry James Arthur, a freshman in
the Dodgeville high school, died on
Thursday week ago of heart trouble
following a short illness.
RUDE Noble, who pitched last year
for the Dubuque club of the MISSISSIPPI
pi Valley League will play with the
Tomahawk American Legion base
ball club
Frank Ross, So, of Galena, died in
a Dodgeville hospital Sunday after
weeks serious illness with heart dis
ease. The body was taken to Mineral
Point for burial
Miss Velma Wood of Nankin, China,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mary Ham
nton at Darlington. Miss Wood is
missionary and will remain in the
states until August.
Frank Lloyd Wright the noted
architect, is at his BUNGALOW near
Spring Green. Mr.. Wright IS spend
ing some time there alone according
to a dispatch in a Sunday paper.
VIM. Bertram of PlattevilIe had
about one hundred apple trees ready
them he found that mice had eaten
the bark so that they were worthless.
Jesse Stead of Platteville received
1900 baby chicks Monday by parcel
post from Ohio The post office was
a noisy place during their short stay.
Hundreds of chicks are being receiv-
ed every day.
The annual unclaimed freight sale
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad will be held at Prairie du
CHEN commencing May 18th. There are
about 100 carloads of freight to be
sold and comprises about everything
known to man.
Arlene, the little daughter of DR..
and Mrs ]. w. Beckwith of Shulls
burg, suffered a fracture of the left
arm Monday. She was swinging from
a rug that hung on the line, and fell
to the ground. She fractured the same
are last year while roller skating.
Mrs Geo. Quick passed away on
Wednesday of last week at her home
in Patch Grove, after an extended
illness. Deceased was a daughter of
J. HI. Day Of Boscobel, and is sur
vived by her husband, four brothers
and a sister, Mrs. Leo Hudson of
Madison.
At last Mineral Point is to have a
new poStoffice, for which an apprO-
priation of 100000 was made by the
government ten years ago. The con-
tract was let April to the Fred r.
Comb Co. of Minneapolis and calls
for the building to be completed
within twelve months
Iyer A. Lund of Mt. Horeb hung
himself in his woOdshed shortly be-
fore noon Saturday. The unfortunate
f q
face and as the disease was incur
able he was to be isolated. This and
stringent finances preyed upon his
mind, causing the deed
Mrs. John Drane, of Stockton, died
at 4:3O o'clock Friday morning at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Rhoda
Schultz, of Stockton after more than
seven years of failing health Last
wear Mr.. and Mrs. Drane celebrated
their Goth wedding anniversary on
Feb. S. During all their life the couple
have lived in Rush, 10 Daviess coun-
ty.
Thos. Cant, farmer of the town OF
WaldWick Iowa county, reports that
9 ewes on his place gave birth 10 ~
lambs, all but two surviving. four
ewes belonging to Peter Jackson,
neighbor, gave birth to IL lambs. Jess
James. also resident of WaldWlck'
has 8 Chester White sows which III
tered 101 pigs.
Geo. w. Brown of Fenn1more mas
received a commission from the war
department making him End lieu
tenant in the infantry service, OIL
GERS reserve corps. MI Brown is Ell
gagged in the mercantile business III
Fennimore, is prominently identlhed
thnrn
tarv of the business mems assocla-
ton.
Clarence Arid, Clayton county 1ar-
mer. was killed last week while Try
ing to doctor sick COW ARA useu
block and tackle to raise the AMI
NAL with. A pole on which the Tackle
was suspended fell and the tachie
fell on Ards head. He managed 10
oct tn the house but died an hour lat
or Arid. SO. leaves a widow and three
small children. ~,
give hundred acres of land In the
vicinity of Cobb are being sowh 70
meas this spring by farmers lnterese-
ed in the new canning factory nov
under course of construction III tnae
village. Promoters OF the ehle, 20
purchased $4,000 worth OF SEED anu
furnished the farmers the same a.
ing the first crop. 40
The Warren village board mas, ue-
cided on the purchase of new com ON
bination hose and chemical nre
equipment. mounted upon am an inter- T.
national model IS" Speed Truck, al
a cost of about $500. The new
truck is equipped with two oo-sait sor
tanks for chemicals. and reel !oL
tha bose It also carries quantity
Of water hose, and is fully equipped
A Stockton correspondent says the
s+ort is still busy multiplying our
n T.U, in this locality On April
p'b he fooled Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Loge-
nv NE near Greenvale. At 10 o'clock
,n~ N, MIS-. Logemann gave birth to to
= baby girl. This was all right oue
when half IN hour later sue -
h;rth to another girl baby insteao 2.
how Ira felt as if the stork had pun
poy -, on him for sure. The twins