Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-13
BLOOMINGTON.

Ramos Orchestra. the first number
of the lecture course. entertained
large crowd Thursday evening. Mr..
Irving, baritone, furnished several
choice selec ions. The entire enter
tainment was a success.
A horse driven to town by Mrs.
Walter Scott last Thursday ran away
and was stopped out near the cream
cry. The buggy was somewhat
damaged.
On Saturday of this week occurs
the seed corn contest given by the
Woodhouse q BARLEY Bank. See
program in another column.
Hodgson Moore gave birthday
dance in the city hall Friday even
ing, which was attended by number
of friends.
We enjoyed ride in that new
autombile of r. N. Hoskins'. 1t is
shud with silence, fleet as the wind
and strong as locomotive.
Henry Diesel and wife of Hickman,
Neb., were guests at the VIM. Macke
home last week. Mrs. DIESEL is a
sister to Mrs. Macke.
Out of thirty students of. North
western Dental College, two took an
eight weeks course in anatomy at
the Northwestern Medical College
last term, three had perfect standings.
One of the three was Mort BARLEY of
this place, another was Goldthorpe,
of Cuba City and the third was
Huntington OF Chicago. Seventeen
applicants were marked good, seven
fair. and three failed Thus Grant
county in general and Bloomington
in particular hold their own in learn
ing as we'll as in other ways.
Ora Hatch and wife visited in MIL
wakuee and Chicago last week.
Some of the people from this
vicinity who attended the Gays Mills
Fair last week: J B. Gilligan,
Oscar Brady. L. Abraham, Ed. Pagan,
Walt Taylor, Val. Ertel, Bert Fen
nell. Thos. Lawless, Nose Hicklin,
Dave Parker. Peter Mutually, Andy
WEIGH, James Smith, Thos. Long
metre, @. Lyness. They reported
good fair and large attendance.
There will be a dance in Patch
Grove on Friday evening, Oct. %.
THE Forger'' Friday evening
at city hall.
Clara Foshay is attending the
normal school at Wjnona, MINI.
Eugene Sawyer is clerking in
Greer's.
Dan'l Trainer had dance in his
new barn Thursday evening, which
was attended by a large crowd OF
friends and neighbors.
Mrs. John BENEFITS and Clarence
Smith were over from Prairie du
Chen last week.
Mrs. Pike is visiting relatives in
Boscobel.
d. 7. Parker and wife, Misses
Parker and Mrs. Roach were over
from Fennimore one day last week.
Mrs. Smithyman of Platteville is
visiting her sister. Mr. John Pennock.
Ford Brittenham and wife and
Mrs. Will Smith departed for their
new home IN Ismay, Mont, Saturday.
Will started on Wednesday with a
carload of goods. Before leaving
Ford sold his residence here 1.-THE j.
D. Clatyon house, to W. H. Prideaux.
NJ. W, Hopes favorite snephsrd
dog was killed the other evening Dy
hounds in charge of hunters. Mr..
Hope feels the loss, and SO he has
advertised for tresspassers to keep of
his farm.
Jed Barnett and son Fred, Herman
Buchnner and Walter Knox were over
from Lancaster Thursday. Mr..
Barnett Sr. remarked that it was his
first visit here since the fairs were
being held down on the fiat south OF
town when the show was not large
but everybody had regular picnic Of
a time. the one race of the meeting
was harness event for a purse Of
$25, divided SO and SO. Uusually
two horses competed for these purses
and when Sam. Sharpley of BoscobeI
and the bay stallion circled the tract
three times TO make a mile. We
thought we were having the rarest
kind of racing sport.
Rev. A. 7. Lacey attended the
Congregational state convention al
Appleton last week.
Misses Genevieve Mcnamara, Ada
Allen and Alta Lewis were home over
Sunday They attended the normal