Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

Misses Connie and Alta Lewis and
! Nellie Mcnamara of Bloomington and
Hazel Brindley, teachers, are spend
ing two weeks in Door county pick
| ing cherries.
The silver jubilee anniversary of
Rev. P. ]. Jones pastorate at the st.
Charles church at Cassville was cele-
| brated Sunday. A generous purse was
given Rev. Jones by his people.
The body of Nathan Brooke, GA, of
| Dubuque, was taken from the river
near Bellevue Wednesday afternoon
| Mr.. Brooke, a Brunswick employe, left
home the Sunday preceding on fish
inc trip and was not seen alive after
that.
Mr.. Meloy of Benton, formerly SUI
perintendent of the MILDLY, is now the
new superintendent at the PaQuette,
and the mine is taking on more men
daily. They will be on a heavy pro-
ducing basis in very few days
Shullsburg Pick & Cad.
Miss Alta Albers, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Henry Albers of Platteville,
who is now visiting in Hawaii Will
have the opportunity of seeing Kllauea
volcano, which is now spoutlng lava
and presenting phenomena unknown
of in modern times. Miss Albers re-
turns to the states on August 3.
The bankrupt stock of the Boston
store at Richland Center was sold at
auction to /. ]. Rosenberg OF MlIWau-
kee, brother-in-law of l.. Saplro, for
lmer proprietor of the store. Rosen-
berg purchased the outfit for S4,4(5,
which was about half the appraised
value. The sale is subject to court
confirmation.
After being five times in court in
wear on charge of being drunk, Ed.
Burkhagen of Dayton, Richland Co.,
is now on his way to Waupun Tor a
wear of drying out" Burkhagen S
lapses into inebriety became SO ire
uuent that his mind became affected.
On his last spree he ran his motor
car through fence, wrecking the
fence He was picked up IN drunken
state and held for trial Burkhagen
is 80 and single. 1t is hoped that d
wears confinement will result in his
acquiring sobriety.
Charles Baker, yard foreman at the
Krouspkop sawmill at Richland Cen
ter, steepd on weak board Whlle
steadying cars down an incline at the
mill and landed in a pit beneath the
track Baker was caught between the
crushing weight of lumber and con-
crete wall of the pit and would nave
been killed had it not been for the
presence of mind of bystander who
thrust a block of wood under the
wheel of the car in time to check fur
Their movement of the heavy load.
lT4 efforts Ot
men to lift the lumber and rescue
Baker from his perilous position. He
escaped with bruises.
While enroute home to Richland
Center from a Kiwanis club picnic at
Gotham. the car of F. o. Smith col
lided with another machine on hill
and was badly smashed up. Mr..
Smith left the machine for the night
and went home in another car. In
the morning he found that miscreants
had looted the car of everything Oh
value. The spare tire was gone along
with one from the wrecked wheel and
an effort had been made to get a
third but the thieves were evidently
frightened away before completing
the lob. The thieves even took the
cylinder oil from the engine and a
pair of rubbers from the rear OF the
car.
Seven hundred dollars is the loss to
Charles Rundell OF Livingston, who
found one of his pure bred Guernsey
( COWS dead. The animal came in con-
tact with one of the electric transform
eres of the Mineral Point Public Ser
vice company. Charles Wilkins, sec
rotary of the Guernsey Breeders as
sociation. Platteville; Fred Stephens,
cashier of the Livingston State bank,
and Joseph A. Livingston, real es-
tate dealer of Livingston, acted as
board of appraisers. and placed the
yarlue of the COW at 500. The loss
will be made good. :,
The circus outfit calling itself
"Gollmer Bros. Trained Wild Amman
| Circus" which has been making the
neighboring towns, receives a good
"panning" from the Stoughton Cour-
ier-Hub. The paper says that the
rankest fake ever imposed on the peo-
ple of Stoughton was this little two
! for-a-cent pony show. They used the
Golimar Bros posters and stereo-
types for their advertising and drew
| a big crowd to see their street parade
which failed to materialiZe. Besides
their ponies and one dog they carried
three little elephants and one enact
ated camel. The capacity of five rail
way cars was not enough for much
street parade paraphernalia. The
/ Hub further states that in addition to
being a fake the show was hold-up
I concern, numerous attempts being
made to short-change both children
and grown-ups at the ticket wagon
land extortionate prices were charged
for everything offered for sale.
| The American Legion and the fair
association of Galena have engaged
the staff of the Thurston management
| for the staging of stupendous his
torical pageant of 10 Daviess county
at the fair grounds Thursday night,
July 81, and August /. In the party
that have already arrived are Robert
Thurston, general property manager;
| the Misses Mildred Chamberlain and
Gertrude Clark, directors of dance;
Mrs. Pauline Mooney, costume direc-
tor. and Mrs. B. L. Thurston and 9TH
ers. Over five hundred people will
take part in the various casts and all
the history of 10 Daviess county from
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