Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-04-09
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

was made at Mineral Point Tuesday.
Melville Coy, of West Lima, filed
petition in bankruptcy at Lacrosse
last week. The first meeting of cred
itors will be held at Lacrosse on April
10th.
The Milwaukee road annual clear
ance sale of unclaimed freight will
be held at Pra du Chen May 7. There
are 100 carloads to be sold and men
have been at work for weeks group
ing the materials. The total sales gen
orally run around $75,000
Jos. Greer of Bloomington, who has
a bunch of five trained jumping hors-
es, has closed contract to appear
with the Ringing circus this year, and
loaded his horses last week to ship
them to New York, where Ringlings
are opening their season.
Frank Matthys, Highland, picked
large tarantula from the hand of an
emplOye in his grocery store last
week The insect crawled out of
bunch of bananas and onto the mans
hand. 1t showed no inclination to bite
but was given no invitation to do so.
In reply to a letter from John l..
Grindell, Platteville, the quartermas-
ter general gives the information that
sign, without religious emblem, will
be provided for the grave of any for-
mer service man, if the nearest rela-
tive so requests.
Fred Gerschwiller of Mineral Point,
lost control of his car on Tuesday of
last week. The car leaped over the
water culvert, across an eight foot
cement walk, and crashed into the
Gundry & Gray store breaking plate
glass II 12X812 feet in size. 1t will cost
him 5000 to replace it.
w. F. Trunkenbrod a Monroe man,
has display of So pipes all of which
he has smoked with one exception, a
carved Chinese opium pipe. One of
the collection has carved on its bowl
a fac-simile of Iffert, the man who
made the sun dial which stands on
the south side of the Green county
court house. This particular pipe is
valued at $3.50.
Martin Helgerson of Soldiers Grove
has one of the finest herds of pure
bred Jerseys in Crawford county. All
of his herd are eligible to registry
and two of them are top notch testers.
CarlOfstun of the Larson Creamery
Co, made several tests recently of a
sample taken from both morning and
evening milkings, which ranged from
8.4 down to rs and the low ones to
SIS. He is developing quantity as well
as quality.-Courier
Miss Dorothy Jones of Barneveld
has received an honorary scholarship
from the French government. The
scholarship is given for merit to pro-
mote good will between the United
States and France. Miss Jones is en-
titled to travelling expense, living and
tuition at Ecole Normale, De st. Ger
maine en- Laye, which means nor
NAL school at st. Germaine. She grad
yates in June and takes up her new
studies in France in September.
Robert l. Dugdale, postmaster of
Platteville and publisher of the Grant
County News, a weekly, tells Platte
vile merchants not to fear good roads
to Dubuque half as much as the mail
order houses that the Platteville men
make no effort to combat. Mail order
houses have sent into Platteville and
surrounding territory 5000 catalogues
at a cost of not less than 81 each. AS
a result of this advertising campaign
there is not less than $1,000 day be-
ing sent from Platteville, and of this
amount 90 per cent goes to two firms.
Dubuque's share of this out-ot-toWn
trade is mighty small.
N. E. Anderson, age 80, is in the
Deaconess hospital at Monroe, ms
body completely paralyzed from the
neck down, as a result OF tearing
along the concrete pavement near
New Glarus at a 60 mile clip Monday
afternoon. The New Glarus- Monticello
bus travelling at 30-40 miles per hour,
turned out to let the big Studebaker
mass. When the car had gone about
six rods pas the bus, the rear wheel
struck snow and the car turned over
three times. Both men were thrown
quite a distance, tlthough the second
passenger. Fred Legler, age 90, es-
caped with severe bruises. The young
er man. who had come to New Glarus
to visit Henry Anderson, is IN the
employ of the Detroit 1nteriake
Transportation Company, and had
driven west from New York. Physl-
clans are doing everything possible
for him, although they believe ne can
not live more than a few days Inc
victims mind is perfectly clear, Dut
he has no sense of feeling below the
neck
Rev. Roscoe Sires of the Methodist
church at McGregor, received teie-
phone message Sunday afternoon say
ing he would receive call during the
preaching services that evening at
Marquette. The clergyman was some
what worried as to what the mysfer-
ions caller meant, but started his ser
vice as usual and was PROCEEDING
with his discourse when ABOUT o;oo
group of men in hoods and sheets
marched into the little church, deliv-
cred an envelope to him, and march
ed out again, without word being
spoken. The envelope contained
note which conveyed the information
that because of his stand for the COCA
and true and purity, they wanted TO
have a part in helping pay his salary
as pastor there, and a substantial do
nation in currency was enclosed. the
Signature to the note was Marquette
XII Klux Khan" And those who DOUBT
ed the existence of such an orgahlza-
4I,a+ now con-