Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-15
City and Vicinity

r. A. Watkins went to Madison
Monday.
Mrs. Frank Horton was in Fen
nimore Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. Hannaford are
visiting in Platteville this week.
Joseph T. Bennett transacted
business in Dodgeville this week.
Thomas Vincent was a passenger
on the incoming noon train Monday.
Mrs. R. B. Showalter is conval-
escing from a weeks contest with
Ia grippe.
Clyde Suttle, of Cuba City,
visited this week with his parents
in this city.
Postmaster Walter Kleinpell, of
Cassville, visited with friends in
Lancaster, last week.
William j. Bailie drove to
Platteville, Mondays to see his
mother, who is i'll with pneumonia.
The LADIES' Aid of the Congreg-
ationaI church will meet on Friday
at the home of Mrs. David Schrei-
ner.
The ladies of the 6. A. R. will
serve,meals at the rink during the
period of the farmers institute in
this city.
Start out this morning with a
few extra hankerchiefs. If you
haven't the grip you may get it
before night.
Turn about is fair play. June
days in January and December are
sent to make up for winter days in
June and July.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
M.E. church will meet this Wed
nesday) afternoon, at the residence
of Mrs. W. n. Stone.
Mr.. Mcmahon and family of
Madison are here for short visit
at the home of their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Johnson.
Mrs. Ed Shaw and child, of
Fennimore, are visiting with Mrs
Shaw's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. c.
Smith, IN the second ward.
Misses Mabel Vincent and Pearl
Jordan, teachers IN the Sitter
schools, visited at their homes in
this city Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Gladys Eastman of Chi
cago arrived in Lancaster from
Platteville Monday evening. She
is visiting friends in and near the
city.
Mrs. K. Z. Hyde is in Madison
this week visiting her daughter Mrs.
Warren Hannum. Mr.. and Mrs.
aannum will shortly move to Penn
sylvania.
Irene Miller, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. John
Collins, in the first ward, returned
to her home in Richland Center,
Monday.
The members of the Autumn
Leaf Club gave their first leap year
party last Wednesday evening. 1t
was we'll attended and all reported
a good time.
The Northwestern road is now
running passenger trains IN and out
of Hazel Gren daily except Sundays,
connecting with the morning and
evening trains at the Kennedy mine
switch.
Mick Adams had the misfortune
to lose a check for over $500 last
Saturday while in this city, but
fortunately an honest man, Joe
Ivey, found it and returned it to
the grateful owner.
Judge Clementson went TO Mil
waukee Monday, where he will
preside in Judge Braces court. He
will hear the celebrated johnson
murder case, told of IN last Satur-
days edition of the Herald.
"A significant placard hung in a
receut dairy exhibit in Kansas. 1t
embOdles a vast deal of the wisdom
which Is to settle the transportation
problem for western farmers. The
placard read: "A carload of corn
is worth $3.50. A carload of butter
is worth SIS, 600. Convert your corn
into butter and save the freight on
nineteen carloads"
The passenger and freight trains
coming into this station Monday
from the eastern part of the state
were covered with snow as a re-
suit of the blizzard in those parts.
How different from this sectionl
We have been having Florida