Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-20

sister, Mrs. Leslie McBain, near Bloom
City, Richland county, met death by
drowning in cattle tank on the farm.
| Cross fell in an epileptic seizure and
landed in the tank. He was single.
The Richland Democrat reports that
large f1ocks of yellow canaries were
numerous about the city Sunday
week og. The birds were probably of
the finch family enroute north after a
summer in the sunny lands along the
gulf.
Spring Green is laying out 9-hole
golf course. Muscoda is talking of
course. Reedsburg and Sparta have
courses started. Richland Center and
| Lancaster have talked of laying out
courses but no progress has been made
at either place.
| The Cashton high school building
was totally destroyed by fire at an
early hour Thursday morning The
| furnishings, records and all else in
the building are complete loss. 1t
! is estimated it will take $50, 900 to re-
place the building.
| Mrs. Mary Grindell Hawk died at
the age of 80 in her Platteville home
on May T. She was buried the follow
ing Sunday, the Rev. c. D. Frankel
officiating Mrs. Hawk is survived by
six children, Is grandchildren and six
great grandchildren
All the ballots cast in the ALBANIA
kee and Winnishiek counties at the
general election last fall have been
sent to Washington by registered mail,
20 sacksful, to be counted and the
status of the Brookhart-Steck sena-
torial controversy settled by the U. S.
senate.
Robert Medley passed away at his
home in Platteville Tuesday evening
at the age of 81. He had been ill for
some time. A widow and seven child
rem survive him. Funeral services
we're held from the home Thursday
afternoon to the Union cemetery. The
Rev. Guy Campbell officiated.
| Mr.. and Mrs Jos. Lins, Spring Green
residents left last week to spend the
summer in Europe. They will be
Joined in Hamburg, Germany, by their
son and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Llns,
who have been engaged in teaching III
the Philippines and are enroute nome
via the Red Sea and Suez Canal.
The Onalaska Pickle Co. has signed
I'D more than so farmers for cucumber
acreage at Bagley. Watts are being in
stalled at that station and the company
| is offering So per hundred for No. l
stock, down to 75c per hundred for
"cripples." Most of the acreage now
contracted is on the river bottom
where the warm, friable soil lends it
self for that form of cultivation.
D. J. Murphy, Waukon, Iowa, finan-
cier. under indictment on numerous
counts and scheduled to go to trial at
Cresco this month for emblezZlement
has been adjudged insane by a com
mission at the state psychopathlc nos
pital at Iowa City, where he has Deen
under observation for month or
longer. The state declares Murphy
will be put on trial regardless OF the
finding of the commission.
The Grant county delinquent tax
list now being published in the Her
aid. shows around 600 descriptions.
This number is about the same as the
| list for Richland county which is
about half the size of Grant county
In Vernon county list occupies page
! in the Censor and for Monroe county
page of the Sparta Herald is used.
The delinquent tax list in Grant
| county does not exceed the list year
ago, if not slightly smaller.
| Tavern. Leroy and Delford Fry,
Earl Scott and Will Imhoff, boys l1v-
ing in the vicinity of Worley, killed IL
rattlesnakes, all big ones, while hunt
ing for reptiles on the farm occupied
bv Will Imhoff and named erin
Park" by H. E. Roethe, when he was
owner. The farm is now owned by
John Miller, John Anderson and John
Parnell, and is called the '"Three John"
farm. 1t is located near Conley cut,
& miles northwest of Fennimore.
A genuine Indian battle ak was
found on the farm of Tom McMullen,
two miles east of Cascade, by Albert
Fay, young man employed on the
Mace. The ak is perfect in shape,
s inches long and 2.5 inches thick,
round on one end and tapering to
fine edge on the other. 1t is the first
ak of this nature to be found IN Du-
buque county in years. A large IN
dian burial mound was formerly 10
Gated near where the ak was found.
$500 pounds of dynamite were used
in a blast at he Eagle Point Lime
works in Dubuque Thursday week
ago. So well managed was the blast
that no effects were noted in the city.
The huge amount of rock will be used
for general purposes. During the
blast a camera man for the Fox Film
| Co. stood at a nearby point and indus
| triously cranked the scene at great
peril to himself and outfit. He suf-
fered injury and obtained a perfect
| filming.
U. S. engineers, making a survey of
the Mississippi river from the head
waters at st. Paul to the gulf, were in
Dubuque last week. The north sur
vey of the Father of Waters will be
completed when the party reaches
Rock Island In their survey of the
river the engineers are finding 80 per-
cent of the markers placed in sur
vey made in 1895. While many of the
markers had to be dug for, practically
all of them were found One marker
is located on the government property
in the rear of the Dubuque postoffice
and another at Iowa and Second SITS.
Elmer Thimpson and Bevere Butts,
enroute home to Ithaca from their
studies at Milwaukee Normal and rid
mo n ToOfnrovoIa cO11idnd with Ford