Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
NEARBY NOTES

A fire at Strawberry Point destroy
ed the opera house and several stores,
at loss Of $4,000.
BARRIERS of Boscobel charge 75c for
woman's hair bob on Saturdays. The
Dial announces that it has materially
reduced the number of woman patrons
on Saturdays and that the barber
shops of the city now belong to the
men on that day.
Frank Montgomery, living in the
Excelsior community near Reedsburg,
died in the Reedsburg hospital last
week, following an accident with a
farm tractor. He was 80 years of age,
married and the father of three chill
dren.
The Double Five Club of Dodgeville
performed a meritorious act for the
state when they bought a piece of
ground on which stood the home of
Wisconsin's first territorial governor,
Henry Dodge. A beautiful granite
monument was placed on the site May
4th.
A sad death at Preston Saturday
was the passing of a young wife and
mother, Mrs. Albert Needham, aged IS,
of pneumonia She leaves a husband,
infant child, parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nels Christopherson, one sister, Mel
va, and other sorrowing relatives and
friends. Funeral was held Tuesday.
-Montfort Mail
! r. B. Nolan will soon resign his po-
| sition as head of the Richland county
! schools, to accept position as head
of the normal school of Langlade
county. His resignation will take eff
feet Aug. 1. The vacancy will be
| filled by appointment from the state
superintendent of schools until the
next regular election.
Judge S. E. Smalley in circuit court
at Pra. du Chen, ruled that o. w. Hell
gerson and X. 0. Johnson, agents for
| the Hartford Insurance Co., foreign
| corporation, cannot be held as defen-
dants in the suits brought against the
| insurance company, for damages af
fecting their 1924 tobacco crop on
which they paid premiums. The crop
was hailed out.
Pra. du Chen papers state that the
orchards near Gays Mills and Peters,
burg, embracing $500 acres, escaped
damage from the frequent frosts that
occurred in the early part of May, and
that prospects were never better for
bumper chop. Orchardists have the
view that an effect of the chilly
nights was to thin out the over album
dant blooms, leaving a good stand of
| fruit.
After being lost in the woods for al
most "a hours, the 4-year-old daugh
ter of Seymour Ward, farmer of near
Boydtown, was found Tuesday about
three miles from her home. The girl
had wandered away from her home
Sunday afternoon. There are many
wolves in the woods. The fact that
she wore coat and mittens probably
saved the little one from the freezing
weather.
Ira Rose, farmer living near Post
vile, Iowa, while on his way home,
ran into a telephone wire which hung
across the road. The wire was so low
that the windshield of the car caught
it, breaking the glass. So fierce was
the impact that Rose was jerked out
of the front seat and into the back,
skinning his hands and holding him
in that position until passersby re-
leased him.
Dr. and Mrs H. C. Mccartney of
Richland Center left Friday on their
trip to France, expecting to be gone
about two months. On their way to
New York they will make short stops
at Waukesha, Chicago and Niagara
Falls, and will take a boat down the
Hudson to New York city. DR.. Nc
Carthy plans to visit some of the bat
tlefields of the late war on the trip
and to see Paris.-Democrat.
| o1ai dc
of cheese last year and the F. w.
Brehm Co. of Sheboygan is installing
cold storage plant in warehouse in
that city. The average shipments are
about two carloads week and the
warehouse handles the output of 26
cheese factories in the vicinity. Most
of the cheese is hauled to the ware
house in trucks. The shipments out
of storage last year included consign-
ments to Laredo, Texas; Liverpool,
England; and Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sunday was national Gideon Day
and the event was celebrated in Bos-
cobel where 26 years ago three COM
mercial travellers, sojourning there for
the night, conceived the idea of form
ing the organization which today num-
bers many thousands. At Sundays
| services III the O6uITdl house, dC
which many people took part, a
bronze tablet, representing in enlarged
form the emblem of the Gideons, was
| installed at the top of the fireplace in
the big reception room. The tablet is
richly chased, of ornamental design,
SKI feet. The program, which was
held at 2:30, was interesting and i'm
pressive.
For number of years some of the
sportsmen of Pra. du Chen have been
raising wild ducks as pastime. The
hunting for wild duck eggs along the
river the past few weeks has been on
and though the eggs are exceedingly
hard to locate, yet few have been
found. Those who indulge in the I'M
dertaking are very careful that the old
duck eggs are not molested, nor any
of the eggs destroyed. Over at Usage,
Iowa, w. H Rodemaker has a flock of
AZ wild young geese. He obtained the
eggs from Minnesota early in the
spring and set them under domestic
fowls just as our local sportsmen set
tho T,oo11o ri ouoc under setting hens