Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-10


game will be played soon, PROBABLY
over in Little Grant.
NEW LIGEE PLANT -Burtis Field
has installed gasoline lighting
plant in jays store, and it works
good. The plant is Mr.. Fields own
idea -somethlng much simpler and
cheaper than the common makes.
He will give it a thorough test this
week and then construct several
others for homes and business
houses
NEW BALL TEAM. Bloomington
has organized an sll home ball
team, and now the boys are ready
to take on games. They play the
Lancaster professionals in that city
next Thursday, and here on Satur-
day. We have the material here
for a first class team, and all they
have lacked for some time is a
manager willing to keep them to-
gether.
PERSONAL. John Adams return
ed from Plainview, Texas, last
week. probably to remain in Wis
consin. John has been in poor
health of late-says the water
down there disagreed very seriously
with him y. j. W. Bidwell was
over from Prairie du Chen Friday,
looking hale and hearty. -. p.
BARLEY attended Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge at Marinette last week
Lewis BETTER is the delegate to
the Masonic Grand Lodge at Mil
waukee this week. /, Prof. Verne
Edwards, successful principal of the
Granton school, is home for the
summervacation. i. . Hodgson Moore
is out in the country working for
Grant Tubbs. (. James Hayden and
wife were up from Beetown one
day last week !. Otis Weld enter
tanned a cousin last week. +. Miss
Minnie Myers is visiting her grand
parents in Cassville Miss Alta
Sawyer, teacher at Peshtigo, is
home for the summer. j. B. Ben
netts, wife and daughter, Of Prairie
du Chen, were over Sunday visitors
In town =. Mrs. Carrie Geer, who
has been living in Chicago for
several months, returned to her
home here last Wednesday. Glen
Haven is to have a new physician
-. Earl Morrissey and Miss Ollie
Keller, bright teachers, were here
Saturday. Ollie teaches in Bagley
and Earl in Wyaiusing. Matt
Vogt was up on his auto-bike Sat
urday. Matt is rural carrier out
of Glen Haven village. Mrs.
John Henkel, of Lancaster, passed
a few days with the Greer families
=. Leo Philipson is entertaing his
father, Joseph Philipson, and broth
erin law, Myron Rinskopf of
Vincennes. Ind. The father will re-
main during the summer. Miss
Alice Patterson, student of the
Menominee school, is home for the
vacation. /. :. Frank Roach and Mr..
Monteith. of Fennimore, were erect
ting some lightning rods in this
vicinity last week. :: The many
friends of Mrs. John Lord are glad
to know that she is home from
California greatly improved in
health.
LOCALS The George Hickok
family moved about in q gingerly
manner several days last week, be-
cause a tarantula escaped from a
bunch of bananas and eluded pur-
suit. He was finally rounded up,
however.
All of our teachers living abroad
have returned to their respective
homes.
Our creamery ismoving along in
good shape, operated by Eric
Hermanson. Already they are
shipping fifty tubs of butter per
week, while last season the average
shipment was about forty tubs per
week. The prospects are good for
still greater increase of business.
Our cemetery, which presented
such a ragged appearance on
Memorial Day, has been neatly
cleaned up by A. OFT. Mr.. OFT took
care of it for several years, but re-
signed last fall. He could not see
it looking so tough, so he consented
to care for it.
The Clifford Company closed a
successful five-nights' engagement
Saturday evening. On that evening
their band united with ours for the
street concert, and there was music
in the air.
The street commissioner is maca-
damizing the north end of Congress
st.
George Hickok is placing a cement
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