Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-04

| 80; Gu SURE DIT Werley trad
ing IN the Montfort opera house and
his residence. o anu
a spark from the smokestack of the
Phoenlx-Parfrey mill at Prairie dr
| Chlen, lgnlted the roof, causing s3O0
damage before the blaze was put ont
Inc night watch discovered the fire
Inc champion mine at New Dig.
glngs started mining Friday with r
L. Behan as superintendent Tho
houses on Champion hill are filling I'm
and New Diggings is coming back in
TO It's own as mining town.
Traffic on the main line of the r.
road out of Galena, was tied I'm for
several hours Sunday evening due IN
the derailing of a freight car on an
east-bound train. A brake beam fore
loose, caught on a switch and deraiIed
one car.
The Carl Binius home at Barneveld
was completely destroyed by a fire of
unknown origin last Tuesday. When
the blaze was discovered it had made
such Roadway it was impossible to ex-
| tlngu1sh it. Contents were carried ont
| by villagers.
Dist. Atty EARL and Sheriff Harry
Sherwood of Crawford county. have
opened campaign to rid the county
of booze and gambling joints. But
three towns, Soldiers Grove, GAYS
Mills and Eastman, were enforcing a
state law against gambling devices.
DR.. HI. H. Clark, Oldest registered
physician in Iowa, who practiced AT
McGregor for 81 years, died last week
He was a Civil war veteran and for
20 years maintained a hospital at Nc
| GregOr. Death was due to heart fail
ure. Three daughters and a son sur
vive
! Giant cottonwood trees prevalent
in the entire upper Mississippi valley
and numerous on the widely famed
/ Winnishiek, are fast falling before
the saws and axes of numerous log
/ ging crews. One giant recently felled
was over seven feet in diameter at
the big end and contained $500 feet
of lumber.
William T. Bingham, Galena truck
driver, had a narrow escape from
death when a machine was was driv-
ing was side-swiped by train at the
Perry street crossing. The car was
| thrown high in the air and hurled
!
picked out of the wreckage with a
| broken ankle.
Sportsmen interested in the preser-
! walton of fishing spots have started
drilling an artesian well in Big Lake
| two miles north of Lansing, Iowa.
| The well will keep an abundance of
fresh water flowing into the center of
the lake, used as a fish preserve. The
| Iowa state game commission is inter-
ested in the experiment.
| Guy Stead of Platteville, held for
| theft of an automobile along with Bob
| bic Alleman, since convicted, has
skipped out, leaving bondsmen to
| hold the sack. Stead was recently
arrested and released on bail. He
made a charge against man, which
| charge was answered by a counter
charge of attempted blackmal. Mr..
Stead then disappeared.
! Judge Grimm at GAINESVILLE dissolved
an injunction brought by one John
! Kamm, against the Rewey school dis
trict, holding up the expenditure OF
! $4,000 for a new school building to
replace one destroyed by fire a year
ago. Judge Grimm's decision allows
|
district for $4,000, and the borrowing
of $23 300 from the state school funds
Building will commence the coming
spring.
Elmer Disrud, Mt. Horeb night po-
/ liceman, averted the loss of thousands
of dollars when he found an incipient
blaze in the new Mt. Horeb bank
building. one night last week Dis
rud standing on a corner opposite the
bank, noticed a flare in the empty
building. He ran to the city hall for
| a fire extinguisher and then returned
| to the blaze. The fire was located IN
some oily rags left by workmen on
! the second floor Had it gone for a
| few minutes longer it would nave
reached a pile of lumber and probably
destroyed the building.
The Farmers Telephone Co. has
made application to the rail rate COM
mission for an increase in rate on lts
trunking calls to the Bell system III
| this CITY, and a hearing will be ne j
on Feb. 18 at p. M, iii the o1flce OF
| the railroad commission at Madison
The present charge for handling a
call which originates on one system
| and is LTuuhCQ " IiAO
cents. This applies with either com
pany but it is understood that the
Bell company has made no complaint
| as to inadequate charge. The FARMERS
company wants the price raised 10 Ten
cents per call.
Members of the Platteville Macca-
bee lodge are in a turmoil due 10
report that dues paid for some montns
past have not been forwarded to mead
quarters. The story is out that as a
result of this delinquency, old mem,
hers of the lodge cannot be relnstateu
without a new physical examination
This will practically prevent their en-
trance. A prominent Official OF Ine
chapter is charged with having falieo
to forward the funds, according 10 Tue
witness. a newspaper of the CITY an
effort is being made to adjust the mat.
ter with the promise on the part o.
the officer to make good the shortase,
Four Grant county townships Won
their fight in the Wisconsin sup on ne
court Monday to release $So.ooo ~
taxes from a temporary nJunctioni
/ -.4a ~ +bo inint school districts Oh