Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
NEICHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUentS
of Week From 7ri-
State Area.


VIM r. Graves well known Pra. du
Chen attorney, has been elected pres
ident of the Crawford county bank.
Orrie Theobald of Blanchardvllle,
broke one leg near the hip when he
fell through an elevator.
Geo. Beatty of Richland Center, a
present deputy sheriff, has announced
his candidacy to succeed present
Sheriff Dietzman.
The Platteville, Rewey & Ellenboro
Telephone Co. voted a dividend of Sc
per share at it's annual meeting. Old
officers were reelected.
Reedsburg is asking for a higher
power rate for its public utility. The
matter is to be heard by the State
Commission at Madison Jan. 18th.
1,O2994 miles of paved road were
built in Illinois last year at a cost OF
around thirty million dollars. 1000
men and 1000 teams were employed
on the work.
Coroner VIM. E. Uehren of 10
Dayiess county died Tuesday at lie
Seuer, Mimi, while on a visit with a
sister He was 81 years old. The
body was sent to Galena for burial.
William E. Nelson, formerly of Bos-
cobel, died Sunday a week at his home
in Chicago, of a throat malady. A
widow and three children survive.
The body was sent to BOscObel for in
terment.
Children and grandchildren Of Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Steinhart of Muscoda
surprised the old couple on Jan. IL,
the occasion being their Goth wedding
anniversary. There are six children,
25 grandchildren and Il great-grand~
children.
Mrs. John d. Merrill of Pra. du
CHEN, died Saturday at the age of Is
years. She was sick six months and
slumbered most of the time. An aged
husband is helpless invalid, due to
a fall last summer when he injured
two vertebra in his neck.
Fire starting from an overturned
lamp in the Roepert shoe shop at
LynxviIle caused loss of $4,000. The
shoe shop and the residence of Mrs.
Kate Hagerty, adjacent, were destroy
ed. Villagers pumped water and car
ried it to save the Woodman hall and
Copsey warehouse,
Orville Andrew Culver, infant son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Culver of
Bear Creek, near Spring Green,
smothered at night when he crawled
from his mothers side to so far under
the bed clothes that he got no air. He
was found dead when the parents
awoke in the morning.
Plans are under way to complete
gap Of 1 800 feet in Grant highway II
miles west of Rockford this year. The
Rockford Interurban and the North
western roads have been asked to con-
struct concrete subways for their rail
lines as the state road will pass over
the tracks. This plan eliminates two
dangerous grade crossings.
Russell Slauson, Spring Green ice
cutter lost a horse while clearing
snow from the ice of a slough prepara-
tory to cutting. The team stepped
through an air hole in such manner
as to leave the scraper on one side
of the hole and the scraper tongue on
the other. The horses were submerg-
ed between Slauson rescued one
horse but the other persisted.
George Shemak of Highland, was
painfully hurt in peculiar manner.
Shemak was hauling hogs to town Oh
a sled and walking beside the load.
The sleigh skidded and the hogs piled
out burying lShemak. He was taken
to town where an examination dis
closed a broken collar bone, arm
broken in two places, fractured rib
and numerous minor bruises
Merrill Holmes, %, town of Wauze-
ka man, was convicted of stealing Il
dog in Wauzeka last fall and in a
hearing before Judge O'Neil was fined
$40 and costs, which amounted to $50.
Holmes thought he was a good bust
ness man when he figured out that by
serving the sentence he would be get
ting 81 per day board and lodging, but
his wife and children have to stay at
home alone.
A revolver bullet discharged into
the left leg above the knee severed
the main blood vessel when Leroy
Jacobs, an American Railway Express
messenger slipped and fell on an icy
sidewalk in Freeport, while returning
to his home late thursday evening. In
falling he in some manner discharged
a cartridge in the revolver he was
carrying in his overcoat pocket. He
managed to walk to the Wilson hotel,
near which he had fallen and from
there he was taken to st. Francis hos
pital.
The case Of the Muscoda State Bank
VS.. F. ]. Kolar will be heard before
Judge Stevens at Madison. A witness
summoned from Los Angeles cannot
appear until March and the case will
be tried then. The bank sues Kolar
on a note held by a purebred pig COM
pany Kolar claims the note is a
forgery, saying he signed contract
but not note. The bank being a
holder in due course proceeded
against Kolar and lost its case. Upon
presentation of new evidence it was
able to get a retrial of the case.
Lead ore commands base price OF
$105.00 per ton, is in big demand, and
likely to go higher. Sales were made
in the district last week at $4,000 pei
ton. Carbonate zinc, (dry bone) is
selling at $25 per ton, base 40 per cent
zinc assays. A zinc company laid 6
price of $44.50 per ton, base offering