Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-10

! Clyde Fox that he has the Job OF
managing the Visalia branch of the
Price Pump CO., of San Francisco
He likes the job and will not return
to Wisconsin.
The members of the Peoples
Telephone company north company
will hold their annual meeting in
Mt. Hope on Jan. "a.
Misses Orcutt and GLEASON visited
at their homes in Mortified, Mimi,
and Lacrosse, respectively, during
vacation.
Friends of Rev, Witherbee in this
place received word that he had an
operation for Uumor in the Metho-
dist hospital at Chicago last week.
He is recovering and expects to be
back to his home in Belmont in a
couple of weeks.
Otto Oswald was up from Bagley
Saturday, and reported his wife to
be gaining in health.
Hoskins' rustling ice men have
one crop harvested from the pond
south of town. The second crop is
nearly ready. One of the boys who
fell in all over the other day thinks
the water cold enough to freeze to
the bottom of the pond.
Miss Allie Ryan enjoyed we'll
earned vacation last week, by visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Joe Weiss, at
Merrill. Miss Ryan gives assiduous
attention to the business of the mil
liner store.
DR. Lewis and Mrs. J. M. Donnelly
were in Lancaster Friday. Their
mother, Mrs. VIM. Lewis, recently
returned from Finley hospital, Du-
buque, much improved IN health.
Several farmers of West Grant
received notice that notes held aginst
them by the state bank of GLUTEN
burg were past due and should be
paid. Said farmers were very much
surprised and informed the Gutten-
burg bankers that the notes were
forgeries. 1t was learned that the
notes had been endorsed by Mrs.
Mary Bagley, of Bagley, who up to
a late hour declined to discuss the
matter. Investigation however, re-
vealed the fact that she had mort
gagged her 240-acre farm to the First
National Bank and Kramer Bros
of McGregor, the former for S., 500
and the latter for 1900, with a
third mortgage just filed with the
remainder at Lancaster in favor of
the Guttenburg bankers for S., 800
to reinforce her endorsement of the
notes. The supposition is that two
travelling spectacle dealers over a
year ago induced her to take some
stock in an oil we'll, when she
placed the first two mortgages on
the farm. They appeared to be
working on the prairie, and present
ly came to Mrs. Bagley with some
notes against good farmers, which
they asked her to endorse, in order
that they might get them cashed at
the Guttenburg bank. Not doubt
ing the genuineness of the notes,
Mrs. Bagley no doubt endorsed
them. When the Guttenburg bank
ers found last week that the notes
were forged they induced Mrs.
Bagley to place the third mortgage
upon the farm to make good her
endorsement.
Mrs. Bagley is entitled to sympa-
thy in her misfortune. Some of our
shrewdest business men are some
times caught by these sleek travel
ing SINNERS Some of the men
whose names we're forged on the
notes for 800 to 5000 were o. H.
Martin, Fred Mason, Ed Orr, John
Kranz Jr, Will Schreiner, John and
VIM. Patterson, Will Thornton and
Will Morrissey. None of these men
would be likely to sign any kind of
papers presented by strangers. Mrs.
Bagley has the reputation of being
careful, but the stranger probably
had such fine story that she was
partially hypnotized. We hope that
she can recover at least a portion of
the loss.
The annual meeting of the Grant
County Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
occurs today. We notice G. P. Him
and Frank Roach over from Fenni-
more to attend said meeting.
Mrs. II. E. Taylor is quite ill with
pneumonia.
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FAYETTEVILLE.