Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-13
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= AROUND THE COUNTY .
y What Our Neighbors Are Doing Reported by y
The Heralds Correspondents ~
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ing with 40 delegates In attendance.
MUSICAL e. ENTERTAINMENT The
Ladies' Fraternal Quartette gave al
entertainment and dance in the city
hall Saturday evening. They proved
to be good players, with lots of
trombone to spare.
The school board recently voted
to invite the following teachers to
remain next year: j. Holt, prin-
cipal; Nell Austin, Emma Glasier,
assistants, Louise Nelson, grammar
department, and Eugene Giasson,
first primary. The other teachers
have esigned to take up the work
elsewhere
Uncle Hardy Green, the only
colored gentleman residing in this
vicinity, recently suffered stroke
of paralysis and is at the point of
death He is about 80 years of age.
Joe Greer and Lester Pritchett
did the pitch catch work for the
Cassville team against McGregor
Sunday. Fifteen innings were
played and the game was tie, to
s. No scores were made in the
last seven innings. About twenty
people from here saw the game.
Harley HicKok sold his bay driv-
ing team to the Patch Grove
creamery men for a neat price.
Some of our boys played Patch
Grove team at that place Sunday.
but lost by score Of Is to 9
w d. Cox delivered a prohibition
speech IN the city hall Monday
evening.
Miss Reed visited friends in Lam
caster Sunday.
Fl. Tornowske and wife were
over Sunday visitors IN Lancaster.
LOCALS.
Earl Kuenster and wife, of Chi
cago. are guests of West Grant
relatives
A. G. Bishop and Miss Ella Wit
comb visited in Guttenburg Friday.
Rev j w. TAYLOR, of Chicago
Moody Institute, is expected to oc-
cupy the Baptist pulpit for few
Sundays soon.
While none of our pupils landed
a prize at PlatteviIIe, we are glad
that an Ontario girl got third place,
as Ersk ne Jay is principal of that
school SO it was a Bloomington
victory anyway.
Erskine Johnson is home from
North Dakota where he did some
breaking on his homestead.
Nose Hicklin and Fred Wetmore
went to Minneapolis last week,
where the former bought three car
loads of COWS and heifers, to put in
the Hlcklin pasture for the season.
Robert BOhringer has been writ
ing insurance for the Bloomington
Hail and Wind Co. in the towns of
South Lancaster, Liberty, Ellen
boro and Harrison. He wrote
1929, 600 in South Lancaster alone.
The company now is carrying about
$1,000, 900 insurance and is solidly
on it's feet.
G. w. Vince and John Day were
drown from Mt. Hope Saturday.
John it was who helped Cum y
Wayne kill an old wolf and six cubs
in a den on the Dagenhart eighty
near the east line of the town of
Patch Grove. They got a bounty
of $50 for the old female, and So
each, or $48 for all, of the cubs,
making a total of $68 for the lot.
Good hunting day, that.
There we're some pleasant Arbor
Day exercises in the schools Friday.
Andrew Foster and wife are on a
western visit Mr.. Foster is visit
ing his son George in Edgeley, N.
D and half expects to go to Mon
tana to see his brother William.
Mrs. Foster is visiting her sister,
Mrs. ]. Schweninger, in Malta,
Colorado.
Marguerite, daughter Of J. c.
BENEFITS and wife, of Prairie du
CHEN, has been having siege OF
small pox.