Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-06-18
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREV|TIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUentS
of WeekFron1 Tri-
State Area.


pleaded guilty to a charge of boot
logging and paid a fine of $500 and
costs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Haselhoff of
Highland celebrated their 50th we'd
ding anniversary on June 2. They
have ten living children.
John c. Kliebenstein, 83, an old
Platteville resident, died Monday of
| last week after a short illness. He
! leaves a widow, five daughters and
| four sons.
Sunday evening a week ago cloud
washing logs and rubbish over the
roads and fields. 1t took a week to re-
store the roads to travel.
Little Leora Elizabeth Fritz, aged
| II months, died at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Fritz of
Woodman township, after two days of
intense suffering from accidental
scalding.
Thos. S. Perkins, a well known
Dodgeville resident, celebrated his
| Saith birthday recently. Mr.. Perkins
has lived rs years in Dodgeville. He
is still in good health and tends his
garden and yard daily.
A $4,725 debt on the Methodist
church at Dodgeville was lifted to-
gether with the installation of new
pipe organ last week. The Queen Es-
Their and Ladies' Aid societies of the
church handed in $1,000 gift.
Frank Duren of Cazenovia, suffered
a badly sprained ankle and his little
son, Bobby, a dislocated shoulder in a
runaway last week The team they
were driving was hitched to a load
when the neck-yoke broke causing the
horses to run.
A peculiar automobile accident Oc
Cured on the hill west of LaValle re-
Gently when a machine driven by Har-
vey Doering of LaVaile, left the road
and crashed into a farmers shed,
tearing wheel off a wagon and do
ing considerable damage to the auto
mobile.
Harland Mel1um, Dodgeville farm
boy, has pigeon with rubber band
on one leg inscribed 500 S. On the
other leg is a band with 1892 A 20 E
on it, The pigeon flew on young Mel
lum's hand while he was at the barn.
He is holding it awaiting word from
the owner.
Despondent over illness, Thomas
Gibbons, for many years clerk of
court of Iowa county, took carbolic
acid in a Madison hotel and died. He
had gone to Madison the same day to
consult an eye specialist. Evidently
information given him disheartened
Mr.. Gibbons.
The new Badger theatre at Reeds
burg was opened last week with spec
ial attractions. The new building is
considered absolutely fireproof and is
built on the approved lines of archi-
lecture A 1923 stage for vaudeville
will be added later The seating cap
acity is 500.
Mrs. Robert Vial of Linden met
with a painful accident Sunday ev-
ening. AS she was about to enter the
barn going to milk, the door slammed,
striking her in the head and a pro-
truding nail tore a cash in her head.
DR.. Ludden of Mineral Point was call
ed and found it necessary to put sew
en- stitches in the wound.
A dwarf calf at the Lowell Lathrop
farm in Haney twp. Crawford county,
is exciting considerable curiosity. The
animal is the offspring of Guernsey
heifer IL months old, and at 4 days of
stood Is inches high. 1t is perfectly
formed in every way and one of the
cutest pocketsize productions of a
dairy COW ever seen in these parts.
Miss Mary Evans, Spring Green, a
mathematics teacher in Madison jun
ior high school, recently employed a
novel method in her class. Miss Ev-
ans used four homing pigeons be-
longing to her nephew, Orrin Evans, |
of Baraboo. The pigeons were re-
leased at the Madison high school at
1870, and reached Baraboo in an hour
and quarter, the distance being 40
miles The young mathematicians |
figured the rate at which the birds |
travelled.
Harry Rogers of Kendall was in
Dodgeville Wednesday and Thursday |
of last week. He brought two me-
chanics with him and while here re-
paired the roof of the Rogers build |
ing occupied by w. E. Williams drug |
store. On their way home as they |
turned sharp corner in Spring !
Green their car tipped over and one
of the men, Mr.. O'Rourke, was
thrown out of the car, hitting in head |
against post. His head was painful |
ly cut and he was under a physicians |
John Bray, a native of Cornwall |
England. born Dec. %, 1929, died May !
% at his home in Darlington. Mr. |
Bray came to America in 1S45, locat- |
ing at Elizabeth, Ill. In 1916 he moved |
to Elk Grove. Lafayette county. In |
1850 he joined party of 30 goldseek- !
ers and went overland to California. |
After two years in the diggings he |
returned to the states via Panama. In |
1857 he married Mary Elizabeth Han
ford and lived a happy married life /
for ga years. She died three years ago. I
Mr.. and Mrs. Bray resided in Darling
ton since 1905 The old gentleman was
a keen judge of livestock and spent /
his latter days buying and selling cat
tie. He was an honest buyer and while
he would often go back and pay a
man more than the first price in case
he had misjudged weight he was
equally keen in protecting his own in
terest Mr. Bray held many positions
of trust and was man of influence
in his community.