Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-18
NEARBY NOTES

! TWO dogs were sold. from a Platte
vile kennel last week for $110. They
were of the English Springer and
Spaniel type and both were pups.
The stores of W. g. Correll, B. K
McNulty, A. V. Hare and Chas. Cross
at Spring Green were entered by burg
lars last Tuesday night. Some goods
were taken in the different places, but
nothing of any great value.
The Lunenschloss store stock at
Ithaca was sold at bankrupt sale last
week to F. B. Porter of Bloomin gton,
for Sl062. The store closed in the mid
die of the summer and John Gunnill
has been acting as trustee for the
bankrupt.
The Wisconsin Power and Light Co.
has completed surveys for a trans
mission line between Kilbourn and
Reedsburg. The new line will be con-
structed to transmit energy at $4,000
volts, and will considerably improve
the service in towns supplied by the
company.
Henry Langley, alias James Marsh,
alias Oklahoma Blackie,' was ar
rested at La Crosse after a years
hunt by federal and railroad detec-
tiVes for robbing mail and postoffices.
He was one of the men implicated in
the Pra. du Chen postoffice robbery
two months ago.
When Elmer Fowler gazed out in
his pasture Thursday morning he
found deer grazing with his sheep.
| The animal which had strayed down
from the north was perfectly content
ed and seems to have decided to re-
main with Mr.. Fowler for some time
Benton Advocate.
Chris Herring, of Twin Bluffs, was
injured quite badly last week when he
was caught between a work bench in
| his garage and a car being backed
out of the garage by his daughter.
His injuries were so serious that they
kept him in bed for a few days, but
it is thought that no bones were brok-
en-.
High prices for lead and zinc are
leading to the greatest activity in
years in the mining district of south
west Wisconsin. A new zinc COM
pany has been formed at PIatteville
to promote mine, and a new 200-ton
wet zinc mill is being erected at
Shullsburg by the Vinegar Hill Zinc
| Company.
The Ed Matthews bake shop at Mus
coda was badly damaged by fire at an
early hour Wednesday morning of
last week. The interior of the build
ing was badly burned and smoked,
but it is thought the baking machinery
was not damaged beyond the point
where it can be cleaned and used
Sank county celebrated the opening
of the new cement road on Route IL
by monster parade over the new
| road on Nov. II out of Prairie du Sac
and continuing into Baraboo The pa
rade ended at the Ringing theater in
Baraboo and county and road officials
took part in program celebrating
the opening of this piece of road.
Surveyors are busy at work at the
location of the new river bridge TAX
ing soundings and generally getting
things lined up for actual work on
the project. The three men are work |
ing under the authority of the State |
Highway Commission and they will |
undoubtedly make plans for relocating |
routes go and 80 so as to make suit
able approaches to the new structure.
-Muscoda Progressive.
A young man by the name of Sell
leck, driving a Buick car, and III. B.
Valley of Madison had a collision of |
cars at the corner of Second and !
Main SITS. Wednesday afternoon. The
front wheel of Selleck's car was brok-
en-. Mr.. Walsey's car, an enclosed Au-
burn, received damages to the fender,
hood and door.-Platteville Witness.
The thirteen mile stretch of ce-
ment on Route connecting Stockton
and Elizabeth has been opened to
traffic Not only does the new road
provide new highway in place of
what was formerly one of the heavi-
est-traveled but most impossible road
in this sector, but the state engineers
succeeded in cutting the distance be-
tween the two towns. More than
mile is cut off the old route.-Gazette
The papoose born at Monroe recent
ly was named thus: Reota, the first
name is for the make of the auto in
which she first saw the light of day;
the second name is Nellie for the
nurse; the third is for the city in
which she was born and the last is
the surname. Reota Nellie Monroe Van
Noy is the papoose's christened name.
The father is a full blooded Indian
and the mother is Swiss. A local his
tory says that the last papoose born
in Monroe was in 1885. II
An auto accident occurred on the
Gunerius corner few miles south of
Viroqua on Friday afternoon, when
Bob Smith and his Californians, COM
ing to Viroqua to fill dance engage
ment that evening, crashed into a
Ford coupe driven by Peter Solverson.
The Ford was thrown up on the bank
and badly wrecked. Smiths Buick had
the running board and tenders torn
off and back wheel broken.-Censor.
A movement which has the backing
of civic organizations and the county
highway department of Grant county,
has been started to secure funds from
the state to build an adequate and
safe road to Nelson Dewey state
park. The proposed road will lead
down the Wisconsin river from the
south end of the Bridgeport toll
bridge. There is a standing state APP
of $4,000 for building
roads to and in state parks, and it is
hoped to secure the road to Nelson