Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-04-14

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Casper Lehner. of Galena. was
Lancaster visitor on Friday of last
week.
Mrs. W. F. JoeckeI visited with
her husband at Appleton several days
during the past week.
Dubuque Thursday and returned with
her brother who has been in hospital
there.
Albert Wiedenbeck, DR.. F. Rafferty,
and L. D. Eastman attended a Ma
sonic gathering at Platteville last
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. J. Laird have
been receiving visit during the past
week from their daughter, Annie
Laird James, of Dubuque,
w. H. Rose and wife have moved
here from Boscobel having rented
rooms in the Wright residence just
north of the G. w. Knapp business
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. JOS. Daniels are
now installed in the residence they
recently purchased form John Black
burn located in the west portion of
Lancaster.
Mrs. Reub. Garner and Mrs.
Henry Nauman and little son Ernest
returned last Tuesday evening from
Drexel. Missouri where they went to
attend the funeral of niece Miss
Ethel Cohlenberg.
The baby beeves exhibited Sat-
urdaY afternoon by L. Alt & Son we're
examined by large crowd of town
and country people. They are sure
ly fine lot. Karl F. Orion took
picture of them.
Thursday, April Is, marks the
opening of the trout fishing season,
and although the streams in this
vicinity only offer about one trout
for every two fishermen, the back
lots have been pretty thoroughly dug
over/for bait in anticipation of open
ing day.
The German Presbyterian church
has been undergoing numerous I'M
provements of late. A new roof was
placed on the edifce only short
time ago and during the past week
the interior walls have been kali
somined and the ceiling tastefully
papered in appropriate designs.
H. j. Schmidt is installing in
his ice cream factory this week new
Chapman & Smith Co. Reliable ice
cream freezer OF 10 gallons capacity,
together with a new gasoline engine
for operating same. He expects to
have the new outfit all ready for bust
ness by Friday of this week.
The fire department. was called
out last Sunday morning, the alarm
indicating that the blaze was in the
second ward. 1t proved to be
chimney fire at the Ed Oates resi-
dence but was at first so threatening
that it was indeed wise precaution
/ to send for the fire department. The
wind blew so fercely that had the
roof caught afre, it would have in
deed been hard task to exticguish it.
Mrs. S. Millard, an aged resident of
Lancaster died at her home in the
south part of this city Sunday. Death
was caused by pneumonia. She was
70 years old at the time of her death.
Mrs Willard was native of Illinois
but had lived here for a number of
years. She is survived by four daugh-
tiers: Mrs. Nero and Mrs. Livings-
ton, of Livingston, Mrs E. Carter, of
Madison and Miss Clara Willard of
this city. Funeral services were
held in Livingston yesterday and
interment followed in the Rock
church cemetery.
Congressman Arthur W. Kopp
has a vacancy at the West Point
Military Academy to fill from the
Third congressional district of Wis
consin He has decided to fill this
vacancy by recommending candidates
w no are successful in a competitive
examination. At his request this
examination will be conducted under
the direction of the state civil service
commission and will be held in the
county seats of Crawford, Grant.
Iowa, Juneau Richland, Sank and
Vernon counties at a. M, Saturday,
April 18th, 1909. All boys. desiring
to enter this examination should write
at once to the state civil service COM
mission Madison.
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