Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-06-24
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREVITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important Events
of Week From Tri-
State Area.

at his nome at Edmund FRIDAY even
ing.
John Welsh of Benton and Gertrude
Banfield of Cuba were married in Du-
buque.
Sylvester Wedge and Mary Hoppen-
jan, both of Elk Grove were united in
marriage.
Ellsworth Brown of Benton has gone
. to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he will
work in the new acid plant.
The l. o. o. F. picnic will be held in
the park at Livingston, July 3rd.
George Mundon charged with gamb-
ling at Cuba paid fine of $40 and
costs which amounted to $32.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lightbourne of
Bermuda, will spend the summer in
Mineral Point guests of her mother,
Mrs. Calvert Spensley.
The melon crop at Galena will be
late this year due to the frost, which
made it necessary to replant some
fields for the second time.
Frost is reported to have damaged
the pea crop in this section to some
extent
Miss Cornelia Doser of Potosi, and
Albert Parks of Dubuque were married
at Dubuque Tuesday
John Ellingen and Miss Hulda Kar-
len of Dodgeville were married at
Waukegan, Ill.
Norma Anderson and Lola Laird,
both of Shullsburg were married at
Galena June TO-
Miss Edith Russell of Woodman and
Archie Jones of Potosi were married
June 4th
Harry Frieden of Mineral Point, an6
Miss Peterson of Eau Claire, were
married in Chicago recently.
Miss Genevieve Phillips Hutchinson
of Madison, and John Stewart Riley of
Rockford, ILL.,, were married Saturday.
John Cretney of Ridgway, celebrated
his Goth birthday, Saturday, June 13.
He enjoys excellent health and facul-
ties.
James H. Regain of Mineral Point,
deals in dairy cattle. He recently
shipped a carload to Mexico, also New
York state and Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs T. O. Berry, hustling
tradespeople of Chicago, have secured
a lease on the Howe building in Bosco-
bel, where they expect to open var
iety store some time this month.
Paul Lembke, &c, EdgertOn, shot and
killed himself Tuesday at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Ed. Jacobsen, with
whom he resided. No motive is known
for the act Lemke was separated
from his wife.
Efforts to trace the robbers who
entered the Fred Zarndt garage at
Middleton have so far proved fruit
less. $4,000 in notes and other val
liable papers were stolen. The val
4 70 t11n fvr1
by a man who found them on Mad
ison street where they had evidently
been thrown after their character was
recognized.
A fire occurred at the Old Hoppe
brewery at Platteville, Tuesday.
Sparks from the engine stack had ig-
nited the shingled roof and the flames
were playing wildly before the wind
when the fire chief and his men arriv-
ed. The big Hoosier mogul pumper
was put into action and it soon made
short work of the flames, but skinned
the shingles completely off the roof
on the side of the building ablaze. The |
damage is estimated at $500.
Max Bloom, a travelling salesman.
lost $500 in Benton Tuesday evening |
last week The roll of bills fell out |
of his pocket while he was seated IN
front of one of the stores. He TOOK
the bus for Darlington and did not
know of his loss until he got there. /
]. A. Winskill picked up the roll When
Mr.. Bloom returned to Benton he was
pleased to find the loss had fallen INTO
the hands of an honest man. He gave
$25 of it to the American Legion En-
dowment Fund.
Andrew Travis, 60, Madison, arrested
at Hyde's Mills, near Ridgway, on
charge of manufacturing moonshlne,
pleaded guilty to four charges before
Judge jerks and was given six months
on each count, sentences to run con-
Travis will put on road
work under custody of the sherln.
Iouis Johnson, owner of the farm
where Travis operated, pleaded that
he knew of Travis's actions, but had
feiled to eject him. He was given the
failed to eject him. He was given the
in Jail.
At Dodgeville controversy has
been going on between the citizens OF
the town and the Commonwealth Tele-
nhone company over rates. The latest
ia that the farmers lines will with
draw from the Commonwealth eX-
change and organize new exchange.
which they will locate just outside OF
the CITY. Four hundred and twenty
i've telephones will be connectedwlth
he farmers exchange If it is installed.
The Izaak Walton club at V1roqua
will build a trout pond on the George
cunningham farm, on Bishop Brancn
, few miles east of Viroqua and the
work is now going forward on the
,ond. The Viroqua Censor in report
ng it says in part: .
The location is ideal. One pond
viii be built this year and filled with I
nv A second will be constructed next |
oar and the trout moved into it, where t
hey will be kept until five or six inch
e long. while the first pond is again
lied with fry or fingerlings. There is
DOM for about $4,000 trout and these T
viii be distributed among vernon
rout streams every year. u