Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-01

visited in Fennimore Sunday.
j. H. Place left yesterday morn
ing on a short trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Thomas Wright left yester-
day morning for Barneveli where she
is visiting friends.
Miss Warene Bracket arrived
home Saturday from Lin colin, Neb..
where she had pleasant visit.
-Louis Vesperman, Ben Petty and
Hugo Kuhlenberg returned Monday
from their visit to South Dakota.
While there Mr.. Petty disposed of
half section of land he owned near
Washington. at a substantial profit
During the past few years Mr.. Petty
and his brother have disposed of
their entire holdings there-about
1900 acres.
Mrs. Eugene McReynolds, living
east of this city is enjoying visit
from her brother A. Dietzmann, of
Arthur, who passed tn rough this city
Friday night enroute to her home.
The following stock shipments
have been made from the local station
since our last issue: Thursday
George Moore, one car of hogs and
sheep; Monday Place and Jerrett,
one car cattle, one car hogs and one
car sheep; Tuesday-Place and
Jerrett, one car cattle; Ray and Dob
SON, one car sheep; George Moore,
one car cattle.
w. A. Nanny, a chauffeur for the
Carol Bros. land agents. was arraign-
ed before Justice e. w Burrows We'd
nesday on charge with running his
machine over the speed limit and also
refusing to stop at a signal John
Chapman of West Grant was the COM
plainant and he states that the VIOLA
tion occurred August 8. The plain
tiff pleaded not guilty and was bound
over to appear before Justice Burrows
on the afternoon of Sept. 80, at two
O. clock. ~
Mrs. S. R. Green arrived home
Saturday evening from Salt Lake
City where she has been visiting for
a few weeks. A rather strange
coincidence was that on the trip out
there the train that Mrs. Green was
on was delayed fifteen hours by u
wreck and the one on which she re-
turned was held back eighteen
hours by another wreck, the latter
occurring in the Royal Gorge.
Neither of these accidents took place
within dangerous proximity to the
train Mrs Green was on and her trip
both going and coming was very en-
joyable.
Miss Mabel Vincent resigned
her position as deputy county super
intendent several days ago, Supt.
Brockert appointing Miss Elsie Van
DuseD, daughter of DR.. Van Dusen, in
her place Miss Van Dusen assumed
her duties the first of the week. Miss
Vincent, during the time that she has
been acting as assistant to the super
intendent has been faithful and,
courteous in the discharge of her
duties and her friends regret greatly
to hear of her resignation. Miss Van
Dusen is a graduate of the Platteville
Normal, has had considerable ex-
perience as a teacher and with her
knowledge of Office work. is excep-
tionally we'll qualified for the posi-
tion.
"A number of Cassville people
were brought to the county seat last
Wednesday by law suit in which
two fellow townsmen were the in
terested parties. This suit brought
by 81. L. Starr against John Hernon
concerned 500 commission which the
plaintiff claimed he had coming to
him on land deal which be tran
sscted for the defendant. me cases
were presented for the respective
parties by Attys. Geo. B. CIementson
and Ed NJ Lowry. A number of
witnesses were examined and the case
went to the jury which brought in
verdict in favor of the plaintiff.
The following made up the jury i:
Chas. B Ziegler, John S. Wright,
Phillip Goldstein, John. V. Collins,
John Schmidt and Horace Hymer
The suit was held before Justice
David Schreiner.
The baseball game between Lam
caster and Bloomington last Thursday
resulted in favor of the visiting team
the score being 2 to 1. The game
was an interesting one and helped to
enliven things bit at the Catholic
anniversary celebration. For an