Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-08

Saturday. ..Y -. e11>- "a
I ALFRED Stephens. of Platteville.
was visitor here Saturday. "
Mrs. L. B. Newell, of Stitzer,
visited Lancaster relatives last week!
"A. c. Morse had business in
Dodgeville the fore part of last week.
1 Joseph Caspers left Monday
morning for Marshalltown, Iowa.. on
business.
Harry Gingricho arrived home
Saturday noon from Chicago where he
attended the stock show. r.~~
Mics Edna Walker, of Lancaster.
has been visiting In Dodgeville at the
home of Miss Laura Roberts.
Mrs. Frank Schreiner left Mon
day afternoon for Prairie du CHEN
to take treatment in the sanitarium.
John Clark and his. corps of as
sistants have been engaged the past
week in shingling the county Jail
and the barn. Jaals q las isH
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Congregational, church will meet at
the church Thursday afternoon, Dec.
9th to elect officers. ,....-y
Two Lancaster boys were mar
ried in Dodgeyille. Wednesday atyhigh
noon. Accounts of their weddings
may . he found elsewhere. aca=8 -.
john Anstey, Geo. Peterson and
George johnson. of Beetown, and
lQuincy Williams and j. Peterson, of
Burton. attended the meeting of the
Masonic lodge here Friday night.
AN Interesting display has been
mads in Schreiner's show window the
past week. It consists of a large
pile of Lincoln pennies all fresh from
the mint and shining like gold
pieces. They are used by this firm in
making change.
e H. Hyde is finishing a large
room in the upper part of his fiat
iron" building for use as lodge or
club room. 1t may also be used as a
dance hall. Mr.. Hyde intends buy
ing a steel ceiling tor it in Chicago
this week.
Patch Grove, Wis. jumped into
print Yesterday with two fires, in one
of which a 4-year old boy saved his
7-year-old sister; and in the other
buttermilk was used as quencher of
the flames instead of water. There
is reason to suspect that a Mil
waukee newspaper man is wintering
in Patch Grove. Ma iison Journal
L. 81. Stevens V. L. Showalter,
l.. A. Clark and Bert Shipley were out
TO the Boyd farm Thursday night on
coon hunt. They had nearly given
up all hopes of securing any of the
animals and we're preparing to return
home when they ran across three
coons and managed to kill them in
short order. They were served Sat-
urday night at the Country Club rooms
The boys were accompanied on the
hunt by Will Matthews, Lee and
Frank Boyd.
Lancaster high school debaters
will uphold the affirmative side of
the Guarantee of Bank Deposits ques-
tion in the coming debate with Dodge
Vile high school. The debate this
year will be held in Lancaster perhaps
in January or February. and will no
doubt be accompanied by great deal
of enthusiasm as it was last year.
Dodgeville will no doubt send a good
sized delegation as quite number
of the local students accompanied the
debaters to the Iowa county town last
year. by a preliminary debate Fri
day night the Dodgeville representa-
tives were chosen but their names
have not yet been announced.
The lecture of the Hon. A. W.
Kopp delivered at the High school
room last week, was not only in
structive but highly interesting. The
Introductory remarks enumerated the
many different canals and the length
of each and other interesting details.
The slides showed many of the places
at the Panama Canal zone. Many
questions were aksed; all were fully
and satisfactorily answered. The audi
ence was pleased with the lecture
Mr.. Kopp is intimately acquainted
with the details of the construction of
the canal 1t should be a source of
a good income if he concluded TO go
on the Chautaqua platform.
Bert Quigley. of Cassyille. was
brought before Justice David Schreiner