Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-16

the power OF the ballot ana the right
to hold office, they have been quick
to take advantage of this opportun-
ity. Nine women in Iowa county
were elected to town, village or city
offices at the spring election held on
April LIST. Five of them are clerks:
Mrs. Mort Paulson, Arena Town;
Mrs. Margaret Lewis, Ridgeway
Town; Mrs. Mayme Devoe, Arena
Village; Mrs. Jas. Holley, Ridgeway
Village, and Mrs. Eunice Kelley, Min
eral Point City. Three are Treasur-
ers as follows: Mrs. T. G. Lewis,
Ridgeway Village; Mrs. Clara Will
liams, Mifflin, and Miss Dorothy
Schmidt, Pulaski. Mrs. Mary Liv-
ingston of Livingston has been elect
ed Justice of the Peace. The women
serve efficiently and take great in
terest in their work
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Mullaney, old
residents of Crawford county, cele
brated their golden wedding day at
their home in Pra. du CHEN, Sunday
April 6. Mr. Mullaney and his bride
located on 240 acres near Seneca in
1874. In those days Indians were
fairly numerous. Large bands used
to pass down the trail near the Null
laney homestead, walking single file.
Sometimes the files were miles long.
Mr. Mullaney relates also that this
region is more heavily timbered than
it was half a century ago as the grass
fires on the ridges burned every
thing but the largest trees. Cultiva-
ton curbed the fires and permitted
the forests to grow. Mr.. and Mrs. Null
Ianey have five living children out
Of ten born to them.
Rev. l.. T. Barr, pastor of the
Warren Presbyterian church, says
that he was very agreeably surprised
Sunday evening while giving his ey-
ening sermon, when four White-rOb-
ed Khan members walked into the
church and approached the altar. One
of them handed Mr.. Barr roll of
bills with a piece of paper on which
was written, "TO Rev. and Mrs. L. T.
Barr from the Knights of the Ku
KIux Khan" The four men turned
around and walked out without say
ing a word, and Mr.. Barr says he
was too surprised for utterance. He
says that this kind act, coming just
as it does after sickness and opera
lions in the family, is very much ap-
preciated.-S entinel-Leader.
Several Crawford county women
were favored with municipal offices
in the recent election. In Pra. du
Chen Mrs. Stella Herold was re-
elected treasurer. In the village of
Bell Center Mrs. Fred Dobson was
chosen trustee and Mrs. Frank Hill
man treasurer. Agnes Frey was elect
ed supervisor in DeSoto village. Gays
in dealing out local plums to the
ladies. Mrs. Harriet Hayes and EN-
ma Stuckel were elected trustees, Lo-
rena Smith clerk and Sadie Waddell
treasurer.
If a coin that was dropped at
Rewey Tuesday night had fallen the
opposite way from what 1t did fall,
Iowa county would now have wOm-
an member on the county board. Mrs.
Mary Warne was candidate for the
office of supervisor in the village OF
Rewey. She and her opponent, Clyde
Carpenter, polled the same number
of votes, each receiving A. Lots were
cast by the flip of a coin to see which
should be declared elected and Mr..
Carpenter won.
Peter Fox, Apple River farmer,
died in a Freeport hospital from the
effects Of an operation made neces-
sary by an accident occurring on
March "a when a bale of hay slid
from a wagon seat on which Mr.. Fox
was riding and carried him to the
ground The front wheel passed over
his body and the team came to stop
with q rear wheel on his chest. Fox
lay in that position for several min
utes before help came to pry him
loose.
Gotfreid Kant, 66, wealthy Gratiot
farmer, hung himself in a shed on
his place, using rope and horses
bride. Kant made a loop by running
the rope through the ring of the bit
and then fastening the rope around
his neck. He then jumped through an
opening in the shed wall. A son dis
covered the body Poor health is as
signed as the reason for the act.
The Dubuque Boat and Boiler Co.
has turned out seven more barges TO
be used on the Mississippi river and
its tributaries Two oil barges OF ali
steel construction and 1900 barrel
capacity, are nearing completion.
They will be taken to Cincinnati as
soon as traffic conditions permit. Inc
other five barges go to Rock Island
for use on river improvement.
Mrs. Mcclure, aged "a, a pioneer
resident of Pra. du CHEN, dropped
dead at her home there Sunday, APP
ril 9Th, following her return home
from church. Her husband, VIM. Nc
Clure. died in January, 1922. Both
had spent their lives in Crawford
county. Five sons and two daughters
survive.
Forrest Perkins, two, son of Rich
ard Perkins, Dodgeville, fell into
cistern in the St. Joseph's Catholic
church yard. A small companion saw
little Forrest fall and ran for help.
Searchers found Forrest caught on
the cistern wall by a nail that had
caught in his clothing.
The Harley Thompson farm OF 1ZO
acres % miles north of Livingston,
was sold at auction in Platteville Sat
urday of last week, for $156 an acre
lanes Galligan of Cuba City bought
the place. 1t sold three years ago IN
September, during the boom, for $40
an acre.
Thomas R. Egan, retired farmer
Of Highland, dropped dead while
talking and laughing with friends IN