Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-04-29

! Frank E. Owens, Democrat, defeated
his opponent, Gus E. Brown, by a
majority of PIP votes and SO succeeds
himself as mayor of Galena
The birthday of U. S. Grant, Ga
lena's illustrious citizen, will be Gel
ebrated in that city on Monday, April
| 27 Congressman J. l.. Dickinson of
Iowa has been secured at the princi-
pal speaker of the day
Thomas Hooking, Benton, died at
hospital in Dubuque Saturday after
an illness of two months Mr.. Hooking
was born at Buncombe and is survived
by his wife also his parents and four
brothers and four sisters.
Residents of the town of Eagle in
Richland county are preparing to con-
test the building of new bridge over
the Wisconsin at Muscoda 100000 in
1 tax would be assessed to the town in
case the bridge goes through. A warm
election this month is prophesied.
! Prospects for a two cent gasoline
tax in Illinois went glimmering at
Springfield Wednesday when the
House judiciary committees wreck
| ing crew brought in reports killing
the two bills providing for such a
! tax
| Jos. Phaelon of Lone Rock pleaded
guilty to having liquor concealed in
/ his room at the Lone Rock hotel and
was fined $500 and costs by Judge
Lincoln. Phaelon works in a soft
/ drink parlor, hence the assumption
that he was selling booze for profit
The body of James Larkin, Sc,
Gratiot, who died of pneumonia at
/ Kin gman, Ariz., arrived in Galena on
| Tuesday and was taken to the funer-
al rooms of Sullivan & Cailie. Ser
vices were held Wednesday and bur
ial was made in st. MichaePS ceme-
| terry.
The farm home of Ben Dawson of
+, Ithaca, was destroyed by fire Satur-
day morning together with consider
able of the contents. The fire caught
from a defective chimney 1t was
discovered early, thus allowing con-
siderable of the household goods to
be gotten out. The loss is but partial
| ly covered by insurance.
Fred Brown of Dubuque. an en-
ploye of the Eide Robe and Tanning
company in that city, was recently
had in his pocket, as he was about
to go into his home after putting
his auto in the garage in the rear
of his home. The holdup man dis
played no gun or other weapon, and
after rObbing Brown warned him not
to notify the police.
The large cement and steel bridge
which has been under process OF
erection just west of Elizabeth over
Apple river as a part of the state
hard road is nearing completion. Inc
bridge with its polished cement work
and large steel arch makes very
strong as we'll as attractive structure
It consists of two long approaches
and three spans which are built high
above the river beyond any danger
from floods.
The little two-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Ole j. Dittmar, residing
east of Elizabeth, is in serious con-
dition at a Freeport hospital as a re-
suit of taking medicine by mistake.
The child found pills which were in
tended for an adult and ate some OF
them, believing they were candy. 1t
is not known how many were taken
by the child for she afterwards went
| to sleep and it was nearly two hours
afterwards that the parents found
what had happened. The little girl
who was then in severe pain, was
rushed to the local physician who did
everything possible to stay the work
of the medicine after which the child
was rushed to the F'reeport hospital.
| She will recover.
+, AS the result of jazz party at
Madison a girl student drank poison.
A neighbor asked the members to stop
the noise at a. m. In the belief that
police were raiding the place, two
boys jumped from the third floor and
were seriously injured. One of the
girls, a pretty high school student,
| locked herself in the bathroom of the
apartment and swallowed bottle OF
iodine. Her companions battered down
the door and took her to hospital,
| hut refused to give her name. The
girl. said to be a member of prom
inent family, was taken to the police
station and locked up for the night.
District Attorney Philip La Toilette,
son of Senator La Toilette, has been
conducting a campaign against boot
leggers who frequent the student sec
tion. following several other sensa-
tional parties in which high school
girls and university students were
said to have participated.