Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-01
LOCALS.

Clarence Smith Will move INTO tue
d. T. Brown house soon.
The friends of Mrs. Mary Kavan-
augh surprised her Sunday. the &C
casion being her 18th birthday.
They left some nice reminders OF
their visit.
Will. Smith is building barns for
Fletcher Miles and Frank Critchlow.
Dimensions 36x4O.
Art Lyness is building a new
barn 34x72.
Miss Anna, daughter of Mrs.
Joseph Stockert of this place, will
wed P. Joseph Hoffman of Lancas-
ter today.
Ora Hatch's ice cream factory is
1t work.
Mrs. P. BARLEY entertained the
Salmagundi club Thursday after
noon. It was the last meeting OF
the season; so there was both love
feast and banquet, each of which
was enjoyed.
The ground was frozen and there
was ice one-half inch thich on water
standing out in pals Friday morn
ing.
Field & Myers ale finding some
lead in their mine on the John
Burns farm north of BeetOwn.
Street Commissioner Bates is lay
ing some rock crossings where the
old lumber ones are rotting away.
Frank Newman delivered some
nursery stock for the Charles City
company last week. The company
replaces poor stock. Also, Frank
KoIb of Patch Grove delivered some
goods here for a Rochester firm.
Pat. Morkin has removed the
historic old picket fence from about
his place, the old DR.. Chambers
home.
The David Taylor machine shop is
empty, and it is reported that
Taylor Bros. will offer the building
for sale.
Potatoes are scarce here, selling
at so to 65 cents per bushel.
Samuel Kitto has a legal docum-
ant in the shape of a deed to his
winter resort in Texas which Is
longer and more formidable than
the proverbial Missouri search
warrant.
s young boy named Ishmael fol-
lowed the school children of Cass-
vile to this place ON the goth inst,
by riding borrowed old horse. He
started to return a10ut o'clock,
but when near J. E. Connell's farm
the poor old horse dropped dead.
The ConneI family took the boy in
FOR the night. You can't beat boy
Of the right spirit out of his fun.
T. H. Fischer writes from Montana
that business is good out there, but
he is not especially stuck on the
country.
Small grain is all planted in this
vicinity, and now the farmers are
preparing the ground for corn.
We will have lecture course OF
four numbers next winter.
Bloomington base hall boys went
10 Cassville Sunday and defeated
the team of that place by a score of
6 TO 10.
Alex. Garner, brother of the old
stock of Beetown Carriers, died
suddenly Sunday morning at the
home of Joe Mayne, where he was
a guest. Heart failure was the ap-
parent cause. Mr.. Garner was
about 40 years of age.
A large hay shed on Will. ellis
farm, near Dodge schooi house,
burned Monday morning. Will.
thinks that tramps did the job.
Mrs. F. L. Greer. writing from
ST. Paul Sunday, said that at that
time it was showing as hard as she
had ever seen it come down.
Gus. Pohle's ice house burned last
week.
Harry Geiger, accompanied by
Birdie REESE, went to Cassville for
his wife Sunday. Mrs. Quigley re-
turned with them.
Rev. Paul Brown of Lancaster
preached in the Baptist church Sun
day.
Personals A. Hatch and wife
are visiting relatives in Nebraska.
Frank and Don. Lewis were in
town Saturday. They will batch
and run the W. E. Lewis ranch
north of Patch Grove. Miss Celia
Thornton went to Dubuque last
week for medical treatment J. Mrs.
John Kinsler has erysipelas Of the
lace Mrs. VIM. Garner was up
from Glen Haven few days last