Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-12-10
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From, Tri-
State Area.

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children, all of whom are living.
Il Judge S. w. TRADER of Platteville
7 celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday
week ago. The old judge enjoys
good health and attends to office bus
mess daily.
Porter Ellifrit, 81, PlatteVille retired
farmer, died Sunday, Nov. 30, after a
long illness. He leaves a widow, two
daughters, Ruby and Florede, and a
son, Porter.
The Gutenberg schools had an art
exhibit last week with $50 master
pieces, in the high school auditorium.
with the exhibit.
Mrs. Maude Guernsey Williams, for
mer teacher and librarian at Platte
vile, died at her home in Monmouth,
Ore, Nov. 80. The body was brought
| to Platteville for burial.
The E. H. Parfrey veneer mill at
Mound City, ILL.,, burned to the ground
Wednesday night. Mr.. Parfrey, resid-
| ing at Richland Center, says he will
not rebuild the mill as veneer de-
mand is light.
James Silvers, well known farmer
of the town of Ithaca, Richland coun-
| ty, dropped dead while at work in
the woods Friday a week ago. He was
81 years old and is survived by his
widow and four children.
The Pra. du Chen Phoenix Co. be-
gan shipping logs from Bagley the
past week, where they have crew
of men in the woods cutting material
| for egg case and box manufacture at
their plant in the fourth ward.
A state wide commission has ordered
! the construction of slough bridges
across the bottoms of the Wisconsin
river near Lone Rock. The matter
! has been under discussion for year
and all objections have been over
! ruled.
The Richland Center tax rate is
/ $24.30 on the thousand valuation. The
net city budget is $29,300 county and
state tax $33,470, school tax, city and
county, $58,540. The total tax is
$121, 277.40, against an assessed val
uation of $4,000, 903.40.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Chase of Platte
Vile celebrated their golden wedding
day Sunday of last week. All children,
grandchildren and other relatives
were present. Mr.. and Mrs. Chase
were parents of ten children, seven
! of whom are living.
81 people gathered at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ Price of Barne-
weld to help them celebrate their 50th
wedding anniversary. Mr.. Price is a
native of Prince Edward Island, d. e.,
and his wife was born in Iowa county.
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The Bloomington Record notes that
in the past so days 101 carloads OF
cattle have been shipped from Glen
Haven station. The total from Bagley
was 70 carloads and from Bridgeport
78 carloads, making grand total OF
West Grant shipments amounting to
249 carloads, or six trainloads of live
stock.
The loud clang of bank burglar
alarm frightened burglars away from
the Iowa county bank at Mineral Pit.
Friday morning early. An investiga-
ton showed the safe had been tam
pered with but nothing was taken.
The alarm aroused the town and CIT
liens appeared on the street with fire.
arms to protect the bank from a loot
| ing.
VIM. Muller, while going to Mont
| fort, ran into a bunch of hogs being
driven along the roadway. He put on
the brakes so quickly when coming
around the corner, that the car skid
ded on the slippery road and over
turned in the ditch. His neck and
body were badly bruised, but two
daughters with him escaped unin-
jured.
Richland and Sank counties plan a
suit against Iowa county to force the
! latter county to pay its share toward
the building of bridge across the
| Wisconsin river at Lone Rock. Iowa
county has refused to chip in the
bridge, saying it is of no particular
benefit to the people of the county.
An effort will be made to get the ac-
ton through before the legislature
can pass a bill repeating the manda-
tory features of the bridge law
The Lansing Business Association
is a wide awake bunch. They have
been very active in the proposition
for the government to take over the
Winneshiek and other things of inter
est in that thriving little city. The
latest move is a plan to flood the
!
graphs of their picturesque little city
to draw the tourist traffic for 1925
and succeeding years. A committee
is at present producing some hilltop
panoramas that are beautiful, unique
and interesting.
/ Three arrests were made last week
by Sheriff Dietzman. Jesse Walsh
was arrested near Ontario and taken
to the city to answer to charge OF
wife abandonment. In court he did
not deny his guilt and was sentenced
to pay $40 pc rweek to his wife until
May LIST, and $6 after that date, or go
to Waupun Everett Mick, of Forest,
was arrested on a bastardy charge
preferred by Helen Gather. He plead
not guilty and his to have hearing
on December 10th. Oscar Dalberg was
arrested in the city Saturday evening
| for being in a state of intoxicat1on.-
Richland Democrat.
| Lee o. Newcomb of Marietta, en-
ployed at Minneapolis, met death IN
an auto accident in northern Wlscon-
sin Wednesday a week ago while
driving home from a business trip
Mr.. Newcomb's Ford car swung OF an
embankment and turned turtle, pin
ming him beneath it. He was taken
out dead, hours later. The remains
were shipped to Boscobel for burial
1 A peculiar discovery was made by
those who removed the body from the
machine They found a pencil gripped
| tightly in the dead mans hand. At one
side was a piece of note paper and
on it were the words: II am not suf-
fering. Take me to 402 So. 7th St.
Zida, Cod, bless you all" Doctors ex-
aiming the body said death was due