Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-20
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. AROUND THE COUNTY 8
- What Our Neghbors Are Doing, Reported by =
The Heralds Correspondents
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installing fine new 1OO-drop
switchboard in the central office of
the Farmers Telephone Co.
The Cassville high school boys
played ball with the home highs
here Saturday. Score, 81 to 3, in
favor OF the home team.
Bert, Lester, Mabel and Glennie
Pritchett attended the funeral of
their cousin, Leste Bidwell, IN Lam
caster last Wednesday.
Peter Campbell, of Campbell ridge
bears the grandpa" honOrs bravelY.
That new girl at the Art Lawless
home IN Bridgeport is 1T" all right.
The village board held a special
meeting Wednesday evening when
the members voted to have the
road taxes paid in cash. That's
right, too, if they continue to have
capable bosses to expend it.
VIM. Bateman, who lives out in
Nebraska, is visiting old friends in
this vicinity.
T. B Davis, son of Mr.. and Mis-.
James Davis of this city, now of
Evanston, ILL.,, recently took unto
himself a wife.
It is proposed to lay a cement
walk from the M. E. church to the
corner of the G. w. Stone home.
Oscar Selle is laying the walk in
front of the A G. Tubbs residence
l1at present. Why not give him all
of the jobs, and thus save the money
to the home people2 Don't ask him
to do it cheaper than you would ex-
pect stranger to do it.
Will Stark broke the we'll drilling
record. He drove a 40 foot we'll
and put in the casing IN just rs
minutes at the Mont. Quick farm,
near Bridgeport Sand all the way
down.
A. 81. Blackburn sold his lots in
Lancaster to J. W. Horsfall last
week.
Miss Star Hildreth, of Iowa, is
visiting her friend, Mrs. Joe Greer.
Miss Ennor, of Lancaster, visited
at the Reub. French home last
week.
Mrs. Ramsey, of Glen Haven, was
a guest of Mrs Catherine Brookens
last week.
Robert and Frank Hoskins re-
turned home Saturday from six
weeks business and pleasure trip in
California. They saw many Bloom
ington people in the many towns in
which they visited.
The Bloomington Mutual Hail
and Cyclone ms. Co. paid $3.50 on
account of the losses incurred dur
ing the recent storm about Lancas-
ter. One man had his property in
sured on the Thursday preceding
the storm, and OF Monday his barn
was demolished. He recovered $500.
John BENEFITS was over from
Prairie du Chen Sunday TO see his
mother, who was i'll
New daughter at the Frank Ed
wards home, town of Glen Haven.
At Glen Haven Sunday our scrub
ball team was beaten by the local
team to the tune of IL too
At Cassville Sunday Guttenburg
defeated the local team. Score to
1. Greer and PriUchett once more
served as Cassville battery.
Memorial Day will be observed in
this place with impressive cere-
monies. All neighbors not going
elsewhere are cordially invited to
come here
Uncle Hardy Green, the only
colored gentleman i'll this place,
died Sunday. Mr.. Green was about
80 years of age. He was a slave
until he was about 40-the better
portion of his life After coming to
Flora he engaged in farming and
married and raised family of chill
dren. He was good man kind
and true hearted to his inmOst
being, and true Christian.
A meeting of citizens discussed
waterworks Monday evening, but
as the attendance was light the
meeting was adjourned to next
Monday evening.