Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
County Correspondence.
BLOOMINGTON.


to the protracted and severe sick
ness of his daughter Celia, returned
to their home in the village last
week, his daughter having fully re-
covered her health, a fact that his
troops of friends will be glad to
hear.
James Geiger and wife, who have
spent the winter in California, re-
turned home last week, having en-
joyed a very pleasant outing. Mrs.
Geiger's mother, Mrs. Humphrey,
has been very sick during the last
month, but is rapidly recovering.
Burnell Newman, who has spent
the winter with friends here started
last week for Brownsville, Texas, to
resume the duties as teacher, in
which he is said to be very success
full.
Henry Day of Brodtville, took
advantage of the sleighing last
-hitched his flyers on to the
big sleigh, took his family and came
over to Bloomington to see the folks
and provide himself with supplies
for the coming spring. Hank is as
quick to see a good thing as Balboa
was when he discovered the Pacific
ocean.
Mr.. Beeman, one of the inventors
and dealer in the patent pump litter,
is visiting at the home of his father
in-law, S. A. Hatch.
Lewis Bohringer and family
visited Mrs. BIS mother, Mrs.
Brookens Wednesday.
M. F. Woodhouse was ct the Hub
on business Wednesday.
We have new dentist with DR..
NARROW, from Milwaukee named
Flohr.
James Gull, an old business man
of this place, now of Mount Hope,
was.in the village Wednesday,.
VIM. White of Mount Hope, was
down to attend the funeral of Geo.
w. Pike.
Perry McGovern, who has been
the efficient clerk of D. f. Brown,
will go back to Highland, his old
home, where he accepts a position
in business.
Miss Amy Foster and Christopher
Coombs were married in Galena re-
Gently. Success to them.
A. M. Zeigler and wife were in
town Saturday, laying in supplies
against the time of need.
Mrs. John Ryan of North Andover
was in town Saturday, one of the
objects of her visit was to see Mrs.
John Carey.
Owing to the almost impossible
condition of the roads, the parties
who were to give the last lectures
of the course, Saturday night, could
not get here and the lecture was
postponed until Monday night last.
Fred Geiger and family were over
from Brodtville last week on visit
and business combined.
Mrs. VIM. Myers of Beetown,
Diamond Grove,) was here last
Saturday greeting her many friends.
Her father-in-law, John Myers, who
has recently passed through severe
spell of sickness, she informs us is
rapidly recovering
Mrs. John Wise, (nee McDaniels)
of Beetown, was in our village Sat-
urday and was on her way to Patch
Grove to visit her daughter wholives
there. Mrs. Wise was one of about
eighty pupils who attended school
in old Beetown, where We scribe
played the pedogaguo In the far dis
tant past. The patrons OF the school
at that time were the McDoniels,
the McDonalds, the Ersts, the
Coles, the Edwards, the cations, the
Gamers, the Tates, the Higgins, the
Haydens, the Jamiesons, the Hulls,
the Browns, the Wilson's, the SCOTS
and the Glovers, the recollections
of whom sets the memory galloplng
through 1.-The dear, dead past" stops
at the present and takes a spin into
the future, remembering the great
majority that are gone, who started
in life with hopes as buoyant as
loves young dream, and of the fear
full rapidity that one generation fol-
lows another to that realm where
the rainbow never fades"
John Horsfall and Era Pendleton
were in town on business last of the
week. John has leased his farm,
the old Sawyer place, to his son-in-
law, Mr.. Pendleton, who will take
possession at once, and as the farm
is very good one, adjoining the
village, Mr.. P will no doubt make