Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-01
year begins to-day.

J. 7. Morgans.
u he following holiday visitors
in Lancaster left on Saturday for
their homes and duties Mac Nc
Grady, Robt Morse, Walter Webb,
and Robert Williams.
Geo. Kinzel. a Rockford bust
ness college student, who has been
spending his vacation with relatives
in this city, left Monday to resume
his studies at the beginning of the
New Year.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. j. Duncan, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred A. Cox, Rev. and
Mrs. Hannaford, were pleasantly
entertained at the home of "a. J.
Guernsey, to six o'clock Christ
mas dinner
Mr.. And. P. Anderson on Sun
day Joined his wife and children,
who have been visiting at the home
of Mrs. Anderson's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. E. Dickinson, in the
second ward.
DIR. Karl Doolittle of the 0Mil-
waukee county hospital after an en-
ioYable holiday visit with his
brother, DR.. S. W. Doolittle and
family of Lancaster returned to his
duties Monday.
The next number on the Star
Lecture Course will be the Dixie
Jubilee Singers. They come highly
recommended and will no doubt
keep to the high standard set by
the preceding entertainments. They
wi1l appear in Lancaster, January
9th.
-Messrs. John and James Graham
and families, who a short time ago
moved to Dubuque, are again Ian
caster citizens, having moved back
TO their homes in the western part
of the city. Two more good families
are added to our growing popula
ton.
George Schuster, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Anton Schuster, who is
now attending st. Lawrence College
at Fond du Lac, is visiting at the
home of his parents in this city.
George is an exceptionally bright
lad and will make his mark in the
world.
/ 1t JoI,uco,, fo,r,,, or ~ I,I,cl,o,,
of the Herald, has been confined to
the house a couple of days this
week with a case of gastritls. Mrs.
Johnson has also been sick several
days during the past week and two
of the children have been passing
through a siege of whooping cough.
A. j. McGranahan, real estate
and mining man Of Platteville, has
been in Lancaster and vicinity a
couple of days this week. He has
been engaged in settling up a deal
on the Jas. Reed farm, eight miles
east of this city, on Buckwheat
ridge, which was sold some time
ago to Mr.. Edge.
Judging from the amount of
space, the city papers are devoting
to the subject of la grippe, its
history, causes, etc, the city
jewellers are having their share of
the epidemic. Some of them fear
that the country is about to have a
siege of this disease even more seri-
Gus than that of 1889.
Newspaper work has its disad-
vantages IN Lancaster this week.
Three of the printers vino were de-
pended upon for getting out the
Herald are off duty this week-one
on a vacation and two laid up with
the prevailing complaint, Ia grippe.
In the Teller Office the senior and
Junior editors are both la grippe
sufferers, as is also one of the lady
assistants.
Warren Gelbach is visiting with
his father and sister in the thirG
ward. Mr.. Gelbach is civil engi-
neer and has been located IN Iii
nois but expects shortly to go to
Texas where he will be, employed
in the vicinity of Austin. Warren
is University of Wisconsin grad
uate and will be remembered as the
captain of the football team of that
institution IN 1906
Wesley Grindell, the veal
known furniture dealer and under
dertaker, of Platteville, died ct his
home in that city Saturday night.
Mr.. Grindell was widely known in
G. A. R. circles and the time of his
death was president of the Grant
County Reunion Association. Dur
ing the Rebellion he served In Co.
A, 41st Infantry. He had been Ill
g. cox1oral