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Grattan.
Mrs Lemuel Brooks is gaining.
Wheeler Pond is sick with grippe.


DIR. Edwards and wife took dinner at
p. McCauley's Thursday.
A. A. Weekes Jr. OF Grand Rapids
was visiting in Grattan last week.
Mrs. Eli Smith is very sick with
pneumonia but is reported some better.
Mrs. j. "A. Lessiter is able to be
about the house after an attack Of
grippe.
Mrs. Henry Miller is very sick and
is in search of trained nurse to care
for her.
Mrs. w. ). Fuller, who reached her
S0th birthday February 18th, is inn
proving.
Mrs. John Byrnes and daughter,
Mrs. ID. Howard, visited in Grand
Rapids last week.
Ed. Adams, who has been working
at Mrs. Hollis Brooks, has returned to
his home in Langston.
Mrs H. Brooks and Mrs. NJ. Brigham
visited friends in Langston last We'd
nesday and Thursday.
Miss Mary Heating has returned
home from three weeks visit with
Grand Rapids relatives.
Mrs. Thos. Heating and her three
children from Grand Rapids are visit
ing at Patrick Keating's.
Mrs. Benjamin Storey of New York
state, formerly OF Grattan, we learn
died at her home last week.
Miss Myrtle Weeks Is engaged TO
teach the spring term of school in the
Brownell district west of Rockford.
Mrs. M. A. Lessiter, who has been
very low with lung trouble and ner.
vous prostration, Is greatly improved
Chas. Andrews is going down near
Lowell TO spend two weeks with his
aunt while her husband is visiting in
the north.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lessiter, who
were out from Pontiac to attend the
funeral of their brother, VIM. Lessiter,
have returned to their home.
A certain Oakfeld lad seems TO be a
little smitten on Grattan lassie, as he
not only visits her on Sundays but also
two or three times during the week.
Jas. Ward, supervisor of Spencer
township, and we'll known to most OF
the potato raisers OF this section, died
last Saturday afternoon at his brothers.
home north OF Harvard.
We learn with regret that Bert Pat
t. IL
school at Big Rapids, is sick with
typhoid pneumonia. His father visited
him Saturday in answer to telegram.
Mrs. John Walsh passed to rest Sun
day. She was very highly respected
by everybody in the community and
the family have the sympathy of all.
She was taken to the Alton cemetery
for burial Tuesday. Her mother died
last week and was buried in the Alton
cemetery
About seventy-five friends and neigh
bors went last Friday to remind Mr..
and Mrs. George Youngs that it was
their ninth wedding anniversary and
in remembrance of their visit left them
a very fine upholstered chair. All re-
port very enjoyable time.
One of our Grattan boys is very fond
OF fishing on Sunday evenings. Oak
held seems to be his favorite resort
and although there is only one fish in
the pond, it seems to take quite a
while to catch it. One evening he
fingered little too long. The horse
became tired of long standing, took the
hitching post and started for home,
and although there is no doubt about
the post being sincerely frozen down
now, be prefers being on the safe side,
consequently he walks.
The young ladies OF Grattan met
with Miss Sarah Clemens Tuesday
afternoon, February Z, and organized
a Bachelor Girls club. Those present
were the Misses Imogene Woodward,
Ruby Slayton, Sarah Clemens, Maude
Hessler. Mildred Randel, Fannie
Bookey, Kittie Matice, Dorothy Del
ziel, Bessie Pond, Floy Ramsdell and
Kittie Randel. Literary work will be
taken up by the club. With equal in
terest OF all the members the club can
be success and very instructive also.
All the young ladies OF Grattan are re-
auested TO attend the next meeting.
The club met at the home OF Miss
Maude Hessler February Il, in the
evening. After the regular order OF
business was disposed OF singing, in
strumental music and social chat was
engaged in by the members OF the
club. At our next meeting which Is to
be held at L. L. Brooks two weeks
from this stated meeting in the alter
noon, book named daylight and
Darkness will be developed by two
selected members to the club. Liter
airy work will also be rendered. The
Bachelor Girls feel very thankful to
their hostess, Miss Hessler, for the
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