Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
NE|GHBORHOOD
BREv|T|ES AND
NEARBY NOTES
Important EUents
of Week From Tri-
state Area.

Michael Barry, 70, residing near
/ Mineral Point, died Thursday. For 40
years he worked for the Northwestern
road.
! The Ed Dole garage at Lena was
broken into Monday night and IA new
automobile tires, valued at about $500
were stolen from the place.
The big white bus of the Kickapoo
bus line which has been operating be-
tween Viroqua and La Crosse, burned
last week while in service.
A. H. Krauskop, pioneer Richland
| Center merchant, lumberman and fl
nancier, has presented Richland Cen
ter with fifteen acre tract of land
| to be used as a park.
Richard Perkins, 35, a young bus
| mess man of Dodgeville, dropped dead
at his home after a short illness with
| influenza Heart disease was the
cause. A widow and four small chill
dren survive.
! Earl Hover, who has farm south
| of Lanark, is about to engage in fox
raising and has his fox farm almost
ready for business. He has construct
ed 81 pens, long and narrow, which
will cover about two acres of ground.
| Jesse Gilberts and Miss Winnifred
| Yelineck of Fennimore, were united
in marriage at the Galena M. e.
parsonage Saturday morning at ten
o'clock, Rev. Harry Lothian of the
First Presbyterian church officiating.
Friday night the auto belonging to
Henry Burwitz was wrecked near Bos-
cobel in peculiar manner. In turning
to miss a culvert side, the bumper
caught the front wheel and threw the
car into a ditch. No one was injured
but the car was badly damaged.
The Prairie City Canning Co. has
finished a pack of 10000 cases of to-
matoes grown from 223 acres both on
their own farm and through contracts
with olcal growers. During the height
of the season $50 people were en-
ployed in the canning plant and fields.
A man giving his name as Darwin
Martin was captured at Wyeville, who
is supposed to be one of the bandits
who robbed the Prairie du Chen
postoffice Sept. II. He is about "a
years old and gave his home as Chi
cago and that he was born in st. Pet
ers, MINI.
Mart Breneman, aged about AZ years,
was almost instantly killed late Tues
day when he fell from a scaffold at
the home of Eugene Crazy near the
Richland Center light plant. In the
fall his skull was crushed and he was
taken to the city hospital where he
lived about an hour
A verdict awarding $1,000 to the
wife and $4,000 to the husbands es-
tate was returned by circuit court
jury at Medford in the suit brought
by Mrs. Matt Kramer against H. r.
Hyland for the fatal shooting of her
husband while the two men were
hunting deer last fall.
Miss Hazel PAUL., Ridgeway, won
81, 565 in her damage suit for $4,000
against Mrs. Rebecca Meiss, of the
same place. Miss PAUL was run down
while elaving a band concert by a
motor car driven by Mrs. Meiss. She
suffered severe injuries to one leg.
! The jury held that Mrs. Meiss was
negligent in driving and the cause of
Miss PauIl's injuries
The high power transmission lines
of the Wisconsin Light & Power Com
pany are being built into Sextonville,
where that company will take over
the Schuerman power plant. Some de-
! lay was experienced in getting poles,
which held up the work to some ex-
tent. The wire will be strung as soon
as all the poles are set.
| Merle Banker, daughter of a Sex
tonville farmer, was found floating
in water tank by her father one day
last week. Doctors were summoned
and a pulmotOr was brought into use
and after ten minutes, signs of life
were brought on. How long the child
| had been in the water tank is un-
| known and it was thought she was
dead when first discovered
Much to the regret of everyone, the
Crawford county fair at Gays Mills
encountered inclement weather and a
very creditable agricultural exposition
and amusement enterprise suffered
from the effects of the storm. The ex-
hibits were excellent and the attrac-
lions f1rst-class. The attendance was
good considering the disagreeable
weather.
! Dale Burgess, a Colesburg man ov
er in Iowa, brought to the county au-
ditor Monday afternoon for soc boun-
| ty, fifty-one rattlesnakes. One day
/ last week he took to the Elkader au-
ditor sixty-three rattlers. He is a pro-
! fessionaI snake hunter and has an
art of dispatching the dangerous rep
| tiles down to a science in which he
| does not fear them and makes bus
| mess of reptile hunting.
| Harry Barry, notorious bOotlegger,
sentenced last fall and later freed by
Gov. John j. Blaine and then rear
rested on order of the governor, was
| given one TO three wears in the Deni-
! Tertiary last week as an habitual
| criminal. Barry's violations of the pro-
| hibition law were frequent while he
was at large, police averred. When he
was freed, the governor declared it
was because of the neediness of his
family Welfare Investigators then dis
covered that the family had radio
| set and an automobile Barry's conf1ne-
ment in Waupun will remove one of
] the leaders of the city's bootlegging
| industry, according to the district at
| torney's office.
| Archbishop Keane of Dubuque sailed
| from New York last Saturday for
| Europe where he will spend two
months He was accompanied by Ri.
Rev. Edmund Heelan of Sioux City.
| The steamer on which they have pas
sage viii land at Naples, from where
they will go to Rome to take part in
the jubilee year ceremonies. Their
travels will take them into France, and
at Lyons, Archbishop Keane will visit
Monsieur Loras, a great-great grand
nephew of the late Bishop Matthias Lo-
ras, the first bishop of Dubuque. The
| trip also includes a visit to Lourdes,
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