Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-02

The Boscobel Catholic parish on last
Tuesday celebrated with their priest,
Fathed M. F. McQuaid, the tenth an
niversary of his ordination into the
priesthood.
The Lightcap, Lynde e Lightcap |
store at Hazel Green was robbed the !
second time within a month, and all |
their tires, tubes and oils were taken.
The safe was also tempered with bue |
the robbers failed to get it open.
An attempt was made to rob the |
post office at Soldiers Grove during |
the night Wednesday of last week. |
The screen was torn off from tran
som over a rear door, and the glass
was broken or cut, but evidently at
this point the robbers were frightened |
away, for nothing in the post office |
was touched.
Mrs. George Roudebush suffered a
fracture in the bone of her lower
limb as she was preparing for bed
Saturday evening. So bad was the
fracture that on Monday morning she
was taken to Madison for care. Mr..
Roudebush and Dr. and Mrs. H. c.
Mccarthy accompanied her to Mad1-
son-Democrat
The shops of the Northwestern rail-
road at Wyeville are to be moved to
Adams. The Adams and Madison
shops are supplanting the shops here
tofore operated at Baraboo and Wye
vile. This will be a hard blow to the
little village which has largely grown
up since the opening of the new line
of the Northwestern from Wyeyllle to
! Milwaukee.
Arthur McLaren, of the town OF
| Orion. was arrested on Sunday even
| ing for raising a disturbance at the
home of his neighbor, Jim ELLIOTT.
Moonshine was supposed to have been
the cause of McLaren's fighting blood
being aroused, and to quiet him,
Elliott used a chair over his head
Sheriff Dietzman was called to make
| the arrest of Observation-Disclosures
Democrat.
The aeroplane craze hit Viroqua
hard this spring and three planes
were in use in that city. Last week
while doing jitney passenger service
at Cashton, the plane of Bernard ROOF
went wrong while landing. Root es-
| caped injury, but his two passengers
! from Cashton, TheO. Torkelson and
Lester Mitby, were badly injured and
were taken to the Lacrosse hospital.
The plane was a complete wreck.
Congress in it's closing hour passed
a law which will preserve the bottoms
of the Mississippi from Rock Island,
Ill. to Wabasha, MINI. A total OF
343 900 acres will be included and in
it wild life may develop, fish can
hatch and the people have place for
recreation The Winneshlek bottoms
are included in this tract over whose
preservation the Izaak Walton
Leagues have been making a hard
fight
Sank county is to put on big his
toricaI pageant at BaraDoo soon, !
showing the history and progress OF |
the county The Thurston Manage
ment, of Minneapolis, is to write the
pageant and superintend It's pro
duction. Here is a suggestion Tor
Grant county as such historical
pageant could well be produced ana
much of historical nature concerning
our county brought to light while IL
is still obtainable.
Harley Elliott, who was arrested by |
Sheriff Dietzman about ten days ago,
has developed a case OF small pox.
When arrested, he told the sheriff he |
had chicken pox. Sheriff Dletzman
did not put him in the general jail,
DUL DuL MIN Ill OllS VI IIIS AoOAhAS ~
his living quarters. When he re-
leased him, he recommended that he
see doctor, and when it was learned
that Elliott had small pox, the quar-
tiers of the Jail in which he was kept |
were thoroughly cleaned and fum1-
gated, and it is hoped that the disease
will not spread through the jail
Richland Democrat.
Mrs. Hugh Peckham on Monday re-
ceived letter from her brother-ln-
law, Herman Schuerman, telling OF |
the tragic death of his daughter,
Evelyn Schuerman, early in June.
She was one of the twenty-one girls !
who were burned to death when the |
Hope Girls School at Los Angeles, |
California, was destroyed by fire dur
ing the night. One teacher also lost |
her life. Mr.. Schuerman lived for
years on Ash Creek, but left Wiscon-
sin some thirty years ago, and now
resides at San Fernando, Calf. He |
is brother of August Schuerman, al
so a former resident, and his wife |
who died several years ago was Miss |
Leah Lewis.-Richland Democrat.