Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-09-17
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREv|T|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From 7ri-
State Area.

employed with his uncle for year.
The water from a number of wells
in Mineral Point was found to be con-
taminated and unfit for driking pur-
poses.
Miss Annice Greenwood of Mineral
Point and C. j. Foster of Phillips,
Wis, were married at Galena Wednes-
day of last week.
Miss Hazel Stephens, granddaughter
of Mrs. A. w. Phillips of Dodgeville,
and Arthur Poole of Rockford, were
married Monday.
The Boscobel Ku Klux Khan adj
vertises meeting Thursday evening,
Sept IS, taking space in the local
paper to announce the fact.
Miss Ruth Alton is spending her va
cation at her home in Linden. She is
dietitian in the Congregational hos
pital at Des MONIES, Iowa.
Miss Leora Vail of Benton has de-
parted for Youngstown, O., where she
has accepted a position as supervisor
of lower grades in the schools.
Leo Heiliger of Fennimore, who was
gored by a bull, has been in critical
condition. His face was mutilated and
an arm and three ribs were broken.
Two Wisconsin girls are in the pho
to play, "The Forbidden Lovers" now
being screened. They are Barbara
Bedford, who was born at Prairie du
Chen, and Elliott Sparkling, who gives
Madison as her rative place.
Buyers from other states have been
coming into Grant county buying pure
bred and grade Guernsey cattle. 1t is
said the county has nearly as many
Guernseys as the old island itself and
is a leading Guernsey section of the
state.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph A. Nc
Gavick officiated at the confirmation
of class of So at Boscobel Monday
of last week A large number of
clergymen from neighborhood par
ishes and visiting and local laymen
witnessed the ceremonies.
An old stone fence on the Graham
farm near Fennmore that has stood
for three generations, will be ground
ina crusher and the product used to
lime acid soils with. A soil test evil
denced that the farm needed lime and
the old stone fence had to go.
The third annual picnic of the Fen
nimore chamber Of commerce will be
held at Marsden park on Sept. 25th.
The program will include games and
band music. The picnic has been at
tended by large crowds in the past
years and will no doubt be as popular
as ever this year
Mrs. VIM Faherty died at the home
of her son, Charles, in Platteville on
Wednesday of last week. She was 81
years of age. Deceased had spent the
greater part of her life in Cuba City.
She leaves a husband and two sons.
Funeral services were held at the Ca
tholic church in Cuba City Saturday.
A woman boarded train at Pra. du
Chen with 13 children. All were
under five years of age and entitled
to free transportation. There are II
children in the family, all twins or
triplets. She brought with her the
family Bible to prove to the conduc-
tor. The woman with the IL children
no doubt gets alorg better than the
mother of one.-Platteville News.
While visiting with Fred Foster at
his home near Millville one day last
week, he spoke of narrow escape he
had recently from being bit by a rat
tlesnake while stacking oats. The
snake, a large one with ten rattles,
struck at him twice, once on the in
step and once on the calf of the leg
but the fact that Fred had high and
heavy boots on saved him from being
nOiSoned Record
Deputy Sheriff Raisbeck of Iowa
county and Marshall Stevens of Min
eral Point, unearthed a small brewery
in the laundry annex of the U. S. hotel
at Mineral Point last Thursday. The
hotel proprietor and man said to be
his brewmaster, were arrested and
held in Jail until they can provide a
bond of 81 1000 each. Three drayloads
of paraphernalia and 40 to so gallons
of beer and two kegs of wine were
confscated.
Pilots Roschi and Monroe had quite
an experience one day last week with
the old airplane of Clarence Horizons
they had overhauled and fixed up
They were taking the plane TO Cass
vile and had planned to go on to the
Platteville fair next day. When near
Cassville the engine became over
heated and stopped, and although the
ground was pretty rough the boys
kept their heads and made success
full landing without power in corn
field. Neither boy was hurt and the
plane was not very badly damaged
showing that it is possible to make a
successful landing with an airplaRe
even if the power is gone,
James B. Prideaux, 81, died at his
home in Mineral Point Deceased was
a veteran of the Civil war, having en-
listed from Iowa county, May 8. 1861,