Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-08

! Galena postoffice has received a
motor delivery truck for parcel post
packages.
The City Council of East Dubuque
refused to grant licenses to IA soft
drink parlors.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Cook of Bagley
celebrated their 9th wedding day,
Thursday, Sept. rs.
Clara, the seventeen year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Meylor
of Darlington died Monday.
Harvey Bullian employed at the
| Cocker mine, and Miss Smith of Rock
ford, ILL.,, were married Sept. 9th.
VIM. Roodewig, who had lived in
Galena for 80 years died Monday. He
came to GaIena when he was four
years of age.
James Pratt, an old resident of
| Dodgeville, died there Monday of last
week at the age of SO years, three
months and % days.
A. C. Christensen, district repre-
sentative of the John Deere Plow Co.
lost his Jordan auto by fire near Po-
| tosi While driving a back fire start
ed the blaze.
John Polla Sr., Rewey, was hurt
about the head in motor accident
while coming home from Edmund.
The steering gear broke, causing the
car to overturn.
Ruth Peterson, 8, daughter of
Peter Peterson, Dodgeville farmer,
was kicked in the forehead when she
opened a gate to allow cattle and
horses to go out to a pasture. One
of the horses kicked playfully as it
went by, cutting a cash over her eye.
A gale of wind blew a barn door
off on the Hugo Garvey place at
Rewey. Ernest, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Garvey, happened to be in the way
and suffered a broken leg.
B. D. Hunter of Virquoa celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary the
other day when one hundred neigh
bors and friends came to the home to
remind them of the event. All had
well filled baskets and a big afternoon
and bounteous luncheon was en-
joyed.
Platteville was highly honored at
the national Legion convention in st.
Paul Special mention is given by
the Twin City papers to their splen-
did Legion band and H. ]. Youmans,
veteran of the Civil War, who was
one of the snappiest members in the
Legion Convention.
C. Walker of Homer, was quite badly
injured Friday while raking hay with
side delivery rake. The tongue drop
ped down, causing the team to be-
come frightened and run. The tongue
ran into the ground, throwing Mr..
Walker against the horses and onto
the ground. The rake ran over him,
injuring his left limb to some extent,
but fortunately no bones were broken.
The Mcneil garage at Postvllle was
broken into Sunday night and the car
belonging to Charles A. Hafner, au-
ditor of the Central Live Stock Com
mission, was stolen. The man had
parked his car in front of an hotel,
as is customary for commercial tour
lists, and there noticed several young
men cycling it, so he took it to a gar
age where it Jared no better at the
hands of the thieves.
George He'll of Cuba was in Platte
vile Saturday. In speaking of the
farm conditions he said he never saw
such an enormous hay crop as this
year. Oats were good and if the corn
could be saved would make a good
year. Farmers in his section he
stated were dependent upon corn as
they were heavy producers of hogs in
that locality and needed the corn
News.
In Iowa county court Judge jerks
dismissed cases brought by the state
against Chas Lamke and William
FELTON, of Avoca, and Anthony Sem
rad of Highland, charging the unlaw-
full manufacture and possession of in
toxicants. A raid was made by state
enforcement men on July %. The
court found that search warrants had
been improperly made out and threw
the cases out of court.