Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-04-15
NEARBY NOTES

gu 4hdppCo, oh Olu belmont DOy,
retired from railroading on March 10,
having reached the age of 20 years.
He started as brakeman when he
was II years old.
Veteran James Ackerly died We'd
nesday morning at his home in Pra
du Chen. He was the engineer that
pulled the first train into Pra du
Chen. The funeral was held Friday
afternoon.
A change took place in the Spring
Green post office on April LIST, when
Mrs. Grace Morgan succeeded Thos.
McNulty, who had been postmaster
for twelve years.
A family of Winnebago Indians from
the reservation at Mauston stopped at
WoOdruff's over Friday night. They
travelled by car and sold baskets man
ufactured by them during the winter
months.-Montfort Mail.
J. V. Galloway, register of deeds of
Crowfard county from 1895 to 1899
died at his home in Boscobel on Tues
day, April Z. The funeral services
were held at Boscobel Friday after
noon, in charge of the Masonic fra
ternity
hdyOI NClllG hIChS was QGIGdISu IOI
reelection at Boscobel by 35 votes.
He received 425 votes to 40 for his
opponent, J. N. Miller The fight at
BOscObel has centered around alleged
pro-klan activities of some of the city
officials.
A girls club was organized at Glen
Haven to carry out projects in sew
ing, cooking and canning Girls be-
tween ten and nineteen are eligible
for membership Marion AIetcalf was
selected as president Bernice Kauf-
man as president, Nellie Myers
as secretary and Olive Kuenster as
reporter
Friends in the town of Bear Creek
received word that Mrs. L. A. Clark,
many years a go a resident of Bear
Creek, died recently in California,
aged about 100 years. Mr.. and Mrs
Clark were residents of Bear Creek
until about the time of the Civil war
Mr.. Clark died many years ago.
Spring Green News.
Mrs. Ann Williams Davis Roach, ma
tive of Pwllheli Carnarvonshire,
Wales, died at her home in Barneveld
last week aged SO years. Deceased
came to America in 1850 and located
on a farm near Arena. Deceased was
married twice, first to John Davis and
second to Eben Roach. Both husbands
preceded her in death. She leaves one
daughter and several grandchildren.
c. F. Fuller. chief of the fisheries
bureau department of commerce, in
this district, has opened the govern
ment sub-hatchery at LynXville to
take care of a surplus of trout fry
Matched in the federal hatchery at
La Crosse A carload of the fry also
has been shipped to the government
station at Homer, Mimi. All records
were broken in the output of the La
Crosse hatchery
Wood fires north of Pra. du Chen
Sunday threatened farm buildings and
hay stacks With great difficulty a
large crew of men with water and wet
gunna sacks succeeded in keeping it
under control. The fire was famed by
a stiff breeze and would run like a
wild horse in grass that looked green.
Rain is needed badly to start vegeta
ton, also to place land in condition
to pillow and seed-Press.
The population of Pra. du Chen in
creased by twenty-one last week with
the moving in of three families H. n.
Stricken, James Stricken and S. A.
Strickler, all of Muskegon, Mich,
moved into the city and will operate
filling stations to be built here. H. n.
has a wife and eight children; James
has a wife and five children; and 7.
A. has a wife and two children. The
StriclllerS chose Pra du Chen on ac-
count of its educational and business
advantages.
Mrs Myrtle Thielen of Dubuque has
filed application for annulment of mar
riage in the county court. Mrs. Thiel-
on was married to Arthur Thielen on
May %, 1916, but is not now living
with him and has no children. On Aug.
IS, 1911, she was married to Warren
Willerton at West Union. In 1915, Will
lerton applied for divorce and served
papers on her She failed to contest
the action but was later informed that
she was free to remarry. Now she
finds the second marriage was invalid
as the divorce was never granted her
first husband.
The state of Iowa has been carry
ing on a rat determination week and
various county agents have been or
ganiZed for a contest. The bureau OF
biology says ordinary rats are of more
concern to the people of the United
States imam any OJn6f wiz dllIIhtI pest
in the world, and one of the most dan
gerous from the standpoint of the
Transmission of communicable dis
eases. One reason why rats are on
the increase is because the cruel
slaughter of their worst enemies has
taken place-namely, hawks, owls,
skunks, bull snakes and weasels.
Quick thinking, speedy action and
knowledge that one hundred or more
lives depended upon him, spurred
John Harrington. a farmer residing
three miles north of Arena, to raise
an alarm and halt the flames that
were slowly eating into the timbers
of the railroad bridge of Black Earth
Creek last Wednesday afternoon.
While driving by the bridge Harrng-
ton discovered the flames that were
Ieaping over the structure and know
ing a c.. M. & St. P. passenger train
from the east was due in less than an
hour. he hustled to farm house near
by and secured a team and then tel
enhoned to the station agent at Arena.
A section crew hustled out and put
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