Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-04

Walter Weber was in Fennimore
Monday.
} Karl Wagner went to Sitter for
visit yesterday.
Place and Jerrett's next shipping
day will be Monday of next week.
Rev. and Mrs R. G. Heddon,
of Potosi, visited in Lancaster this
week.
Reuben Ward went to Sitter yes
terday afternoon to visit Jake Wool.
stenholme.
Mrs. E. Carter and daughter
Bessie arrived Thursday noon from
Madison for visit with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Alt left Satur-
tday morning for Milwaukee on COM
bined business and pleasure trip.
Sam Newton and wife are among
the Milwaukee home Corners They
left for that place Monday afternoon.
Miss Flora Rotnscbild is with her
brother Henry and wife of st. Paul,
Mimi, on a trip through Canada over
the Canadian Pacific.
Mr.. Hibbard. university student,
vicinity, left Monday afternoon for
his home in Milwaukee,
A bout one hundred and fifty in
vited guests assembled at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Theodore Calvin last
Thursday evening" July 80 and helped
them to celebrate their silver wedding
anniversary. 1t was a delightful
moonlight evening, and, the weather
being warm, much of the time was
spent upon the spacious lawn. Dainty
refreshments were served and a num-
Der of enjoyable musical selections
rendered. Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin were
recipients of a large number of
valuable and appropriate gifts given
in cummemoration of the occasion.
Ell V;ctress, the trotting mare
formerly owned by Chris Ellengen, of
Dodgeville, has won new laurels.
Wednesdays dailies in speaking of
the Grand Circuit racing at Detroit,
Mich, stated that Ell Victress
had won the 81. 900 purse in the 2: IA
trotting race the day preceding in
three straight heats. The time was
2:111I, :O81S, 2O81S. In the last
two heats Ell Victress lowered her re-
cord from :094. Ell Victress has
trotted on the local track many times
and is we'll known to horsemen around
this circuit. She won easily at De-
tIoit and was a greet favorite.
| Mrs Anne Hooking Smith of
Darlington, was in the city on Friday.
She has again taken up her work and
has already many engagements await
! ing her. 1t will be remembered that
Mrs. Smith was to have been mar
ried early in June to a prominent
Washington man, Malcolm Gray, and
expected to be travelling in Europe
now. While riding in mis- auto. just
before coming to Wisconsin to be mar
ried, Mr. Gray was killed in an accid-
emit. -PlatteviIle Journal, Several
years ago Mrs. Smith successfully stag
ed her opera A Romance of La Sale"
in Lancaster She is still doing similar
work, directing home talent entertain
ments in different places.
Sammy Draper ''gets his name
in the paper wherever he goes
and as he attends nearly every cele-
bration or circus df any consequence
within 100 miles of Lancaster the
"write ups he receives would fill a
good sized scrap book His constant
genialty have made him as popular as
he is we'll known, which is saying
great deal. The following appeared
in Wednesdays Madison Journal as
part of the account ofBarnum & Bail
1ey's circus IN that city: lone of the
conspicuous figures was Col. Sammy
Draper of Lancaster. Sammy never
misses a circus. He is three feet tall,
AZ years old, weighs 46 pounds and
wears tall plug hat of the Lincoln
day style. Sammy had his pockets
full of photographs of himself and he
did landoffice business. Last year
when the Madison ball team was in
Lancaster Frank Martin. who covered
second base. wore the colonel's hat all
day, and Sammy grew nervous about
night time because he feared Martin
was going to leave town with that
high lat.
Mrs. T. NJ. Young, formerly of
Lancaster and now residing at Burl
ingtoh, Iowa, in writing to a lady
| friend in this city tells a story con-