Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-06-10

Will Yarish of Highland, died Tues
day at the home of his brother, Frank,
after an illness extending over sew
eral years.
DR.. G. H. McAllister, former Avoca
physician, died Thursday, May %, at
his home in Los Angeles, Calf. The
body was shipped to Avoca for burial,
arriving there Friday afternoon.
Rev. Ernest E. Clarke of Richland
Center left Tuesday morning for a
two months trip to his old home in
England. His parents and numerous
other relatives reside at Hull, and he
will visit them and other parts of
England, and also plans to make a
short visit to France.
Albert Geffert, prominent farmer,
living near Reedsburg, dropped dead
suddenly on Wednesday while playing
cards with friends in a soft drink par
Tor at Reedsburg. He was about sixty,
a trustee and secretary of the Sank
county poor farm commission and
treasurer of the town of Reedsburg.
James Turk and wife of Mt. Zion
celebrated their golden wedding ami
Versary on the 18th inst About 200
relatives and friends gathered at their
home to help them do honor to the
event. A big dinner was served to the
assemblage. A number of gold pieces
and gold presents were given the aged
couple.
Another shipment of homing pig
cons was released at Wauzeka by the
West Side Central Homing Pigeon
Club of Milwaukee, Sunday There
were about 900 of them and the coops
were taken to the village park, where
the flight began at 11:00 a. m. Theo.
Flaschel was the name of the man in
charge.-Chief.
Mrs, P. T. Stevens was pleasantly
surprised Saturday evening when
many neighbOrs and friends gathered
at her home to help her observe her
birthday. The party was planned by
her daughter, Mrs. Tina Stephens, and
was a complete surprise and a happy
success. A covered dish supper was
served and enjoyed by aIl-Montfort
Mail.
A large fossil is on exhibit at the
Banker & Klinziing window at Rich
land Center. Embedded in the stone
are remains of salamanders and partly
developed frogs. The rock was locat-
ed by Hiram Fritz in the vicinity of
Cazenovia, but had but recently been
put on display for the public and is an
exceptionally fine fossil formation. -
Democrat.
Albert Feiner's cheese factory on
Wilson Creek was burned last week
with all its equipment. Henry Ferris
and family, the cheesemaker, occupied
the rooms over the factory and they
too lost everything. The Black Hawk
fire department was called to the
scene of the burning factory, but ar
rived too late to be of service.-Rich-
land Democrat.
The Trukenbrod pharmacy at Mon
roe was entered some time Tuesday
night and robbed of $255 in cashs and
$500 worth of fountain pens and cam
eras. No insurance is carried to COW
er the loss. Green county has no fund
to provide for special Investigations,
and the Trukenbrod brothers feel it
would be futile to investigate since
there are no clues
John Schneider, resident of Cuba
City, died there May 25, at the age
of 80 years and 20 days. Mr.. Schneider
came to this country in 1879 from
Germany, locating at Dickeyville,
where he worked as a shoemaker. On
March 20, 1876, he married Miss An
ME Degenhardt, who with three sons
and three daughters, survive. Mr..
Schneider farmed until 1918 when he
retired to Cuba City. Funeral services
were held last Wednesday, the Rev.
Hardcastle officiating. Burial was
made at Cuba City cemetery.
The village of Yuba is soon to have
an electric light plant that will fur
nish juice to the village and the sur
rounding territory. The old mill prop
erty has been purchased by Robert
Novy and he is fixing it up to house
a modern light plant. The dam will
be rebuilt and by fall it is expected
to have things ready to open. Mr..
Novy is getting the work done as rap
idly as possible and he should meet
with success. An electric light plant
for Yuba is something that has long
been needed and it will fill long felt
want in that thrifty village.-Rich-
land Republican.