Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-01
BLOOMINGTON.

missionary, is conducting a series of
revival meetings at the Baptist church
in this place. The attendance is good
and much interest is manifested.
Some of the young people home for
Thanksgiving: Mark Hoskins, Jesse
Riese, Will Enke, Misses Mary
Knapp. Edith Pennock, Geneva Nc
Namara, Vera Hickok. Ada allen.
: Sherm Tubbs, home from Beardsley,
Mimi, on visit. wears full beard,
and on this account many of his
friends did not recognize him.
Frank Newman has shingled and
otherwise improved his recent acquisi-l
ton. the MIS-. Dopp house. Mr.. and
Mr.. Newman expect TO go to Montana
to spend the winter.
VIM. Garner and family are now
comfortably settled in their home in
this city.
Albert G. Bean, who for many
years resided at the south end of the
Bridgeport bridge, died last Wednes-
day.
The death of John Harris at the
home of his daughter at Modesto,
California. last Tuesday, was shock
to people Of this community. Mr..
Harris was for many years member
of the buard and chairman of the
town of Bloomington. until he moved
to Bagley. and then the people of
Wyalusing elected him chairman of
that township.
Miss Ollie Walters of Chicago
visited her sister, Mrs. DIR. Ellis, here
last week. Mrs. Ellis returned to
Chicago with her for brief stay.
Dan. Kinney and wife OF Hurricane
passed Thanksgiving at the home of
Alfred Kinney.
About twenty-five or thirty couples
from this place attended the Thanks
giving dane at Patch Grove. All had
a royal time with the hospitable Patch
Grove neighbors.
Joe Stockert and family of Roscoe,
s. D.. are here for short vsiit. Joe
is prospecting in his new Dakota home
and likes it there very much.
Button & Him have the floor of
their new creamery laid and have
started laying cement blocks. If the
weather permits they hope to have
their work we'll under way in another
week. This new creamery will be a
fine building, and the owners intend
to equip it for business.
Our merchants report business good,
Notwithstanding the soft weather
Myron Davis and family are com
fortably settled in the j. A. Davis
home.
THE Texas Cattle King, billed
for this place December 18th, has been
side-tracked and will not appear here.
Rev. John DAILY, rector of the Boys
Home in Milwaukee, speaks here
Monday evening. Dec. 9Th This
will be one of the regular numbers of
the lecture course, the proceeds of
which go to the public library
Father Daly's part of the proceeds goes
to the fund of the home. The subject
of the speech will be, The Home
less Child.
Miss Peterson passed Thanksgiving
with friends in Wyalusing.
Mrs. Patch and Miss Morris were
in Dubuque Friday.
At the Lee Greer home Saturday
evening party was held in honor of
A. G. Bishop and wife. Their friends
made them a present of set of silver
knives, forks and spoons.
Budd Bates is home from Wood
stock, Mimi, where he passed the
summer.
DIR. DooIittle of Lancaster made a
professional call here Saturday.
j. NJ. Donnelly made a business
trip to Chicago Sunday.
Tom Millin Jr. Of Patch Grove has
little son three or four years old
who deserves hero medal. One night
last week while the parents were out
milking the lamp was overturned and
broken and the oil was spilled on
the clothing of the little sister about
five years of age. In an instant she
was enveloped in flames, and the little
boy with rare presence of mind hustled
her out of doors and down into snow
bank, extinguishing the flames before
the parents, attracted by the chill
dren's cries, arrived upon the scene.
The girl was not seriously burned.
How is that for the work of a four
year-old.