Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-14
LOCAL NEWS NOTES

"A. E. Lewis returned Saturday
from his st. Louis trip.
Miss Winnie Willis arrived
home from Madison Saturday noon for
short visit.
Robert Burgess and wife are the
proud parents of a new baby daugh-
ter, born Friday.
The w. G. T. U. will meet on
Thursday afternoon, at 2 80, in chapel
of the NJ. E. church.
Miss Louisa Wetter left yester-
day for Dubuque where she will take
treatment in a hospital.
MIR. and Mrs. r. B. Showalter
spent Sunday at the home of JAS.
Hughes in Glen Haven towship.
WIN Lewis ST., returned home
Sunday from Bloomington. He at
tended the Lewis narrower wedding at
Mt. Hope.
The ducks and geese are coming
back from the north which reminds US
that in spite of the fine weather we
are now enjoying, old winter is again
rapidly approaching.
"A. w. Hastings has been busy
loading his car preparatory to moving
to Oklahoma. Mrs. Hastings and
Ina, while enroute for their new
home visited in Dubuque.
"A steer, belonging to 81. Mar
burger and which he was bringing to
town, ran wild in the second ward
last Friday and after tearing franti-
cally around Gov. Rylands spacious
yard for some time finally made its
escape by breaking down one corner of
the fence.
H. J. Borah, of Fem imore died
at the home of his sister Thursday
after suffering for a long time with
cancer of the stomach. He was 90
years old at the time of his death.
Funeral services were held Sunday.
Mr.. Borah was we'll known by Lam
caster citizens and leaves large circle
of friends to mourn his death.
Fred G. Burr was inviting his
friends Saturday to a fish dinner to
follow his intended fishing trip. The
fact that Fred is one of the kind of
fishermen who never catches fish
worth while. except in his lnagina-
tion, before he starts on the trip, took
the edge off the pleasure such an in
vitation would have otherwise con-
| tanned
Mrs. Brooks, widow Of the late
T. J. Brooks, rhe we'll known Bosco-
bel lawyer, died suddenly in Chicago
last Sunday. She is survived by
four children. Thomas Brooks, state
agent of the Milwaukee Mechanics
insurance Co.. Paul Brooks and Miss
Marie Brooks. of Chicago and ]. w.
Brooks, vice president of the Peoples
bank located at Philadelphia. The
funeral will probably be held in Bos.
cobel today. Mrs. Brooks was well
known in Lancaster.
The following Grant County resi-.
dents were in Lancaster this week
Many had legal business here: Peter
Bernhardt, Patch Grove: Marx
Cooper Bloomington; T. e. Brodtt,
Bagley; L. W. Okey. Cassville; s. F.
McIver. Glen Haven: Clyde Bachelor,
@. G.. Smith and Geo. Johns. Platte
Vile; J. w. Jones and e. H: Roewe,
Fennimore Jay Abraham and Will
Smith, Little Grant; Albert Ketterer
Werlev; Frank Brandt. Mt Hope
Peter Quick. Ellenboro; Joe Williams,
FairplaY; John Wegman, Hazel
Green.
In one of the most closely con-
tested football games ever played in
this section Dubuque high school de-
feated Platteville State Normal last
day by score of 6 to s.. The
open game played throughout by both
elevens and forward passes were fire.
quent. In the first half neither team
scored point but early in the Sc
cond Matthews. the Dubuque right
half back. made pretty run of
twenty five yards for a touchdown
which team mate followed by kick
ing goal. Huntington scored Platte
vilIe's touchdown on a forward pass.
Why go west or north to home
stead when you can get just as good
land in Grant county under the same
IawS That's what VIM. J. Ketner,
of Bloomington. thought and then
proceeded to file on forty acres of good
timber land located a short distance