Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
NEIGHBORHOOD
BREvITIES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUentS
of Week From Tri-
state Area.

! ding anniversary the TIN.
Miss Blanche Roger and Raymond
La Flash of Montfort were married
at GAINESVILLE Wednesday.
Lester Dunwiddie and Miss Anne
jackson of Mineral Point were mar
ried at Dubuque the first part of the
week.
Miss Mary Lucille Williams of
| Dodgeville and r. p. Holt Of New Or
leans were married at Milwaukee
| Wednesday,
/. j. Harvey of Hazel Green has a
valuable Holstein herd that is attract
ing much attention. His herd sire cost
more than $1,000
Fred Marriott, former resident of
Darlington was accidentally killed in
Milwaukee, His body was crushed be-
tween a freight car and loading
platform.
Mrs. Anna Roberts of Dodgeville
died at the home of her son at Rewey
Wednesday. Funeral services were
held from Carmel church Friday af-
ternoon. Deceased was SO years old.
Wisconsin will keep the snow
cleared from about 1000 miles of Fed
eral State and County Trunk high
ways this winter according to N. M.
Isabella, maintenance engineer of the
| Wisconsin highway commission.
DR.. ]. D. Paquette of Cuba won the
following prizes at the Dubuque
Poultry Show on his exhibit of Part
ridge Rocks: LIST on hen, list on cock
erel, and LIST, End and Sd on pullets.
A score of 80 was required for blue
ribbon.
DR.. G. f. Lehnkering of Darlington
has recently been appointed on the
medical staff of teh Freeport General
hospital The doctor will lecture at
regular intervals on the subject of
obstetrics to the training class for
nurses.
Delos Bowden of Hazel Green owns
a valuable and well kept farm near
Hazel Green. His sons represent the
| fourth generation that have occupied
this farm. Mr.. Bowden besides having
a fine farm has a splendid herd of
Holsteins of which he is justly proud.
John Martin was badly injured at
the Booty mine near Benton Tuesday
when some boulders rolled down the
stope, burying him. His left arm was
| broken in two places, he received a
bad cut above the right eye and was
generally shaken up. He was taken
to a hospital.
The Wisconsin Cheese Producers
Federation has voted to erect a mod
ern cold storage plant at Dodgeville
near the l. G. tracks. The federation
bought the old cold storage building
from the railroad company and will
tear it down before building the new
and larger one.
Andy Fielder, center, has been
I 4oi1 Of +ha ,hn hSrr11
school basket ball team. With Andy
are all last years letter men. Three
Peacocks, all brothers, hold first
string positions on the team. Schmei-
der and A. Peacock are the outstand-
ing forwards; Fielder and Club Pea
cock, the centers, and NJ Hendricks
and W. Peacock, guards.
Ernest Beerkircher, Is, of Linden,
in company with Thomas Hampton,
went hunting Sunday morning. He
shot squirrel and while clubbing it
with his gun the firemarm went off,
emptying the charge in his side. This
happened in the middle of the fore
noon. The boy died at four p. m. He
was the youngest of 10 children and a
sophomore in high school.
A loss estimated at $4,000 resulted
|
near Hazel Green was burned to the
ground about six o'clock Thursday
morning. The cause of the fire has not
been definitely determined, but it is
thought to have been due either to an
overheated stove or short circuit
This mine was beginning to come to
the front as producer. 1t was owned
by the Vinegar Hill Zinc Co
| nc inv
anteed a greeting from ten picked
marksmen of the local guard unit as
well as from police officers. Ten mil
itiamen have been deputized by Sher-
if burst and a secret system of per-
sonal notification in an emergency
has been worked out. Each man will
be armed with a high-powered army
rifle. Points of vantage on roofs adj
jacent to the bank buildings are being
picked for the sharpshooters.
Mrs. Chris Griesbach, who was born
in st. Paul when that city was but a
trading post and her childhood play
mates were northwest Indians, died at
her home in Pra. du Chen last week
following a long illness. She came
with her parents down the Mississippi
by boat when she was little girl and
Il
The aged husband and six children
survive her. Her maiden name was
Bremen and her father was an early
day Indian trader.
Only a few hours after he left Mon
roe where he had spent pleasant
Sunday with his parents, the body of
Fred d. Schneider, %, was found by
motorists on the concrete highway a
few miles south of BelOit on the road
to Rockford. Schneider had taken his
fiancee to Freeport and was enroute to
Beloit via Rockford. 1t is not known
just what happened, but the remains
were found with the wreckage of the
new Ford coupe in ditch, the head
almost severed from the body by a
two by four plank which had crashed
through the front of the car
Judge O'Neill of Crawford county
tried out case from Ferryville last
week brought to Pra. du Chen on a
change of venue. 1t involved two
sows and fourteen pigs that John
Tweed claimed to have owned and had
them on an island but which he
claimed VIM Nelson and John Bechtel
had appropriated for themselves. The
case developed quite an interest, sew
eral witnesses being called to testify.
After hearing evidence Judge O'Neill
decided the case in favor of the plain
tiff, Mr.. Tweed. 1t is reported that an
appeal may be taken-Press.