Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20

Miss Irene Fox of Mineral Point
and Dean Field were married Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Mary Ann Thomas, who for
81 years was a resident of Dodgeyille
died Monday last.
Miss Eunice Armstrong and Paul
Gallagher, both of Darlington, were
married Monday last.
Mrs. VIM. Imhoff of Highland died
Wednesday of tuberculosis. Interment
was made at Linden.
Miss Catherine Wenner Of Dodge
vile and Frank Rohr of MaZomanie
were married Monday.
AdOrine Mcclure of Highland and
Bert Shaffer of Muscoda were mar
ried Tuesday, Aug. II.
The Hazel Green COW testing assO-
citation enjoyed a picnic at Eagle
Point park, Dubuque, Tuesday
The marriage of Miss Mary Elem
ing and James Harry of Shullsburg
will take place in the near future.
The Orpheum theater at Darling
ton, owned by Arthur Keyes, has been
sold to ]. E. Grimm of Dyersville, Ia.
Miss Susan 10y of Animation has re-
signed as commercial teacher in the
Benton schools and will rest for a
year.
Angelina Leibfried, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Leibfried of Potosi
has gone to Manitowoc where she en-
tiers the Holy Family convent.
Miss Elgie Tomlin, formerly of Min
eral Point and Waldwick, was united
in marriage at Madison, on Saturday,
Aug. 2, to Mr.. Seeman of Madison.
Mr.. and Mrs. James He'll of Cuba
will move to New Vienna, Ia, where
he will superintend the building of
a new parochial school for R. F. Con-
ION.
Henry Cruise of New Diggings, who
was taken to Wales sanitarium for
treatment, died Tuesday. His body
was brought to New Diggings for in
terment.
The barn on the Harry Dunn farm
at Rockville was destroyed by fire
Sunday The barn which was new
was filled with hay making big loss
for Mr.. Dunn.
Webb Permission on Monday pur-
chased the coal business of the Mar
tin Coal Co. at Darlington. The Mar
tin Coal Co. has been in business for
the past four years.
Ernest Stader of Hazel Green has
purchased the insurance business of
H. H. Fawcett of Platteville. Mr.. Faw-
cett has gone to Dubuque to take
treatment at the tuberculosis sanitar
ium.
Leroy Williams, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Williams of Rewey, and Lii
liam Bake of Edgerton were recently
married They will reside at Edger-
ton where he is employed as drafts
man.
State highway engineers place the
total number of bridges destroyed by
storm and flood of the past couple of
weeks at not less than 800. The cost
of replacement will fall largely on
the towns and counties.
Richland county has several wOm-
en- candidates for county office to be
voted on at the coming primary. Mrs.
Scott Barnes is an aspirant for coun-
ty treasurer; Mrs. Estella Austin,
Margaret Smith and Mrs. F. w. Burn
ham are after the register of deeds
job.
Benton fire department won prize
of $25 and the silver cup at the tour
nament at East Dubuque in the hose
cart race. The team also won in the
relay and coupling men, and indl-
vidual mans coupling and 3rd in re-
lay bucket and ladder climbing.
The 7-year-old son of Herman Feig,
who lives on a farm 16 miles from
Prairie du CHEN, found a dynamite
cap in a stone quarry and his left
hand was almost torn off and he suf-
fered severe decorations of the body
when it exploded as he struck it
against a stone.
Fire centering in the attic destroyed
the modern farm home of John Elan
agan northeast of Argyle, Wednes
day. Mrs Flanagan saw the blaze
after it had gained Roadway. Assisted
by neighbors the family were able to
remove most of the furniture and eff
fects
change of ownership ensued at
the Cuba Motor Co. Saturday, when
Geo Loeffelholz sold his interets to
his partners, Messrs. Bartlett and Eus-
tice. The business proved to be too
combining for George so he has decid-
ed to take up carpentry and rest up
a bit.-Cuba City News.
A couple of young men from Dodge
vile bumped into the strong arm of
the law at Shullsburg last Thursday
in the person of Marshal O'Donnell,
and were fined SIS each and costs for
driving an automobile while intoXi-
Gated They refused to stop when or
dered to do so by the marshal, so he
commandered car and cOrralled them
in the ball park. Intoxicated drivers
should be punished to the limit, as
they endanger the lives of others but
very seldom get hurt themselves.
Friday evening as Herman Muen-
der and Buford Martin were going up
the Mt Sterling hill with a truck
load of cherries, which they were
taking to La Crosse, their truck
caught fire AS soon as the boys no
ticed the fire they stopped the car but
the fire had a good start and they
were unable TO put it out. They I'M
loaded the crates of cherries that
were not on fire and managed TO save
about half of the load. Neither of
the boys were hurt but the truck was
badly damaged.-Gays Mills Indepen-
dent.
The Wisconsin river road a short
distance east of Riverview Gardens,