Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-28


more was a visitor here Monday
Rush Godfrey is home from the
University.
Miss Carrie Wetter is visiting
in Dubuque with her sister who is
confined in hospital there.
Miss Clara Weekend, Of Boscobel
is spending a few weeks at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Funk.
The Beiharz entertainers had a
muddy trip to and from Bloomington
where they appeared Monday night.
Mrs Fred Mackey and daughter
Minnie left Monday morning for
Platteville for a visit with relatives.
Louis McBrien, Harvey Schmidt
and George Pink went to Stitzer on
the Monday afternoon train on a
hunting expedition.
The Missionary Society of the
Congregational church will meet Fri
day afternoon at o'clock with Mrs.
Bertha Maiben. Everybody invited.
Erwin Oaklief was a passenger on
the Monday morning train en- route
for Albany, after short visit at his
home at Elmdale.
Mrs. Olive Shaw, of Jamestown,
was examined Saturday for insanity
and committed to the County Home
She had been left out on parole over
two years ago from Mendoza.
The first snow fall this season
came Sunday morning. The snow
melted as soon as it fell however and
soon took the form again of the
drilling rain that had been falling
almost continually for several days
Once more the smell of burning
leaves is in the air in Lancaster.
Property owners state that the ''leaf
CROP is larger than ever before. This
amounts to quite a little in Lancaster
for we have more beautiful naples
and elms than any city in this sec
ton.
The Mitchell Hollow mine, at
Platteville, in which a number of
Lancaster people are interested has
again started operations and as the
pumps have beaten the water, a force
of men have been put at work to con-
tinue the sinking of the shaft, which
they were obliged to abandon on ac-
count of the strong water.
Stock shipments this week were
Monday, l car hogs-Geo Moore,
cars hogs-A. E. Lewis, car hogs
Bennett & Dobson; Tuesday, 2 cars
Bennett & Dobson, 1 car cattle
and / of hogs-Place & Jerrett, 2 cars
of CATTLE H. Bennett, 2 cars cat
tle-J. G. Welsh, 1 car CATTLE.
GaIthwaite.
One of the engines in the recent
MIlbrig wreck, No. 681, is again in
service and has been making daily
runs to this CITY, The locomotive
was sent out of the shops a short
time after the accident nearly as good
as new. Another item of interest
in this connection is that Engineer
Frank Jaquish who lost part of one
leg in the wreck is able to get around
with the aid of crutches He is still
at his home in Baraboo.
Marshall Hannum, who is we'll
known in Lancaster and vicinity and
who teaches the Glen Haven school,
was Dubuque visitor Saturday and
but for the honesty of clerk in a store
in that city would have returned home
minus SIS He made a purchase in
the store and laid the pocket book on
the counter, and when he left the
place forgot it. A clerk found the
pocket book and handed it to the
proprietor. Mr.. Hannum soon dis
covered his loss and not having any
idea where he left the money went
over the entire route he had travelled
during the day. He finally reached
the store and recovered his property.
1t would have been easy for the clerk
to make away with the money and Mr..
Hannum would doubtless never have
been the wiser.
While John Cook of this city was
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Joe Blac-
bourn at her home in Dunbarden,
Wisconsin, several days ago his grand
daughter. little girl of four years
met with an accident that nearly cost
her life. After spending some time
in the business portion of town one
morning, Mr.. Cook decided to re-
turn to his daughters home. On
there he asked Mrs, Blac-
bourn who was working about the
house, where the little girl was and
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