Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS
Golden Wedding to be Ceiebrat-
ed at Bloomington.
Ice Harvest in Full Blast Big Dance at
North Andover-General News
Gathered by Our Cores
pondents.
BLOOMINGTON.
Correspondence to the Herald,

E1FTlETH &SNN1VERSARY.- dF. auO
Mrs. Peter Woodhouse are prepar-
ing to celebrate their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary on Jan. 10th
next Friday. They haYe invited all
the relatives of the family, which
will make full house. The Wood
house family are pioneers, having
settled on the prairie at an early
date. They grew up with the COM
munity here, the name being
prominently identified with the
history of the town. We hope to
see this worthy couple remain with
us for many years to come.
PATTERSON FINED. Judge Schrei-
ner's court was occupied with a
lawsuit Saturday afternoon. At
torney Leo Philipson prosecuted
William Patterson for using to-
ward him language tending to
create an assault. It was a jury
trial, the jurors being A. G. Tubbs,
c. w. Stone, George Garside, Fred
Edwards, James Sprague Jr. and
Harry Witcomb. The jury found
defendant guilty, as charged, and
he paid a fine of SO and costs,
amounting TO $21.
House BURNED. Mrs. R. D.
Walker writes from Lindsey, S. D.,
that their store house and bunk
room destroyed by fire on Dec.
%. The building contained a lot
of goods for the store and some Of
the personal effects of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walker. The residence narrowly
escaped destruction, but with the
assistance of some neighbors it was
saved. The Walkers are located
away out on the frontier, where
they have homesteads and a store
PACKING CE.-Vern Brookens
has the ice industry going good
over on the fat east of town. A
chute runs from the creek to the
large shed, and the ice is run up
this chute by horse power. The ice
is cut with plow. When they
were in good running shape last
week they hoisted a load every d
minutes. Vern expects to put up
over thousand loads. That should
be enough to keep this village cool
next summer. Yves. Woodhouse
and Chas. Clegg expect to cut some
for farmer families IN the neighbor-
hood.
A CHIME OF BELLS. Blooming
ton has SIX large bells-four church
and two schoolhouse. When they
are all turned loose at once there is
music in the air. The new wear
was ushered in by the ringing of
five of these bells, and nearly every
body in town heard their merry
chime, and hoped that the harmony
foretold a happy and prosperous
new year to the community. We
are proud of our big bells and the
town clock in the high school tower.
NOTES. -Monroe Hoskins and
wife have started housekeeping in
the r. N. Hoskins house, south of
Canal street They have a host of
friends, who are glad to greet them
as neighbors, and to know that they
will remain with us.
Thomas Woodhouse is here from
Gordon, Neb.. for a short visit with
relatives and friends. Some say
Tommy has come for a wife. It's
high tune, anyway. He is too good
a fellow to be a lonesome bachelor.
Tommy raised 5000 bushels of
potatoes on 81 acres of land, selling
the lot for 45 cents per bushel.
Elmer Yayer's sale Tuesday. Jan.
IA. See notice.
w. 0. Smith advertised his farm
three weeks, and then sold it to
Frank Ellis of Mt. Hope. 1t pays
TO advertise. Try it.
We are to have a masquerade
here Friday evening.
There were 22O numbers at the
udSQuordu0 dl NOIIA AhUOfOA
Thursday evening.
Nearly all the holiday visitors
have departed for the several places
of residence, leaving us little lone
some. Come again.
Nearly everybody in town has
been i'll of lagrippe or other troubles
the PAST week.
The Royal Neighbors installed
officers and had supper and program
Thursday evening.
Joe Stockert and wife had the
bee5 Christmas present IN town-a
daughter.
Some of Ben. Hickok's Woodmal
brothers hauled him up a nice pile