Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-03
LOCAL NEWS NOTES
Levi Garner visited this week
at Mt. Horeb and Madison.


at Mt. Horeb and Madison.
Lou Fisher was a passenger on
the afternoon rain Thursday.
Clarence Horsfall left on THUS
day for Vivian, South Dakota.
Mrs. Mary Bieg has returned from
three weeks visit in Chicago.
John p Vogt Jr.. of Glen Haven,
visited in Lancaster Thursday.
Samuel Birch, of Beeown, called
on his friends in Lancaster on Thurs
day.
r. F. Dougherty, of Platteville,
was a caller at the county seat Thurs
day.
Mrs. Sophia Kilbourn is visiting
her son L. H. Kilbourn, at Kincaid,
Kansas.
james Hicklin, the we'll known
Millville citizen, greeted friends in
Lancaster yesterday.
-Grif Hickock, of Bloomington,
has been visiting his daughter, Mrs.
VIM. Miller in this city.
Jas Jordan substituted for Reub.
Garner this week on the latter's mail
| route while he took vacation.
&C. G. Dixon and g. r. Kemp
thorne. of Rewey. passed through Lam
caster Wednesday in Mr.. Dixon s
auto.
Myrtle Draper has returned to
Milwaukee to take up his work as
medical student in Marquette Uni
versity.
F. Louthain, formerly of Platte
Vile. moved Thursday into the house
which he recently purchased of Mrs.
James Smith in this city.
Rev. L. G. Catchpole, of James
vile. the superintendent of the Chill
dren's Home Finding Assn was a
business visitor here this week.
John Kramer and wife have gone
to housekeeping in the house south of
the Lane residence. Mrs. Pendleton
will make her home with them.
Seats for the Schubert Symphony
Club concert will be on sale Tuesday
morning at Benefits drug store.
The enter tainment will take place on
October 8.
Elizabeth. Joe McCoy's mare took
second money in the 2 10 pace We'd
nesday at the Dane County fair. She
was entered in a fast field of horses
and certainly event some.
Marriage licenses since our last
issue were granted to the following
people: F. G. Lewis, of Patch Grove
and Neva narrower, of Mt. Hope;
August 9. Brodtkorb, Edgeley, N. D.
and Alice E.. Schreiner, Bloomington.
According to the detailed reports
received by Secretary of State John
NJ True, the potato crop is about
half that of former years. The con-
tinued drouth is said to have retard
their growth and while the yield is
smaller the quality is better.
| The report comes from Prairie du
Chen that H. J. Johnson formerly
publisher of this paper and who last
spring purchased the Prairie du Chen
Union, has retired from the publica-
ton of the Union and that j. D.
Hurlbut, the old editor, is again in
charge.
Hiss Alma May Taylor. elocu-
ZIONIST, gave pleasing entertain
ment at Tom Cox Post hall on Tues
day evening. Her selections were
mostly in a lighter vein, but were
cleverly rendered. Her pantomimic
work was good, but her most popular
number was ''How One Man Loved"
biblical episode of the life Of Joseph
and Mary.
The old man told of in Wednes-
days Herald. who claimed that he
was 102 years old, died Tuesday at the
county home, and was buried Thurs
day. Little is known about him. He
claimed to have relatives in Green
wood, Indiana which place he said
was his home. Efforts are being
made to find out for certain where he
came from so that his relatives can be
notified.
I Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Stippich, of
Wichita, Kansas. have been here
several days. guests of the families of
Lewis Wetter and Arnold Alt, Mrs.
Stippich and Mrs. Wetter being
sisters. One of the principal purposes