Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-23

Ed Lind. of Sitter. was in Ian
caster Thursday,
Bud Bates was over from Glen
| Haven Thursday.
L. E. Wilkinson, Of Flora, was
in Lancaster Friday.
George Alcott, Of Montfort, was
III Lancaster Friday.
Mrs. David Cornwall has been
quite i'll the past week,
F. L Pendleton, Of Fennimore,
Was caller here Friday
John Thompson. Of Bloomington,
was in Lancaster Thursday.
George Grange, of Mineral Point,
was in Lancaster Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Edwards, of
Potosi, were IN Lancaster Thursday.
H A Reed, Of PatteviIle, had
business at the county seat Friday.
Mrs. John Phillips has gone to
Mineral Point for a months visit.
Marshal George Mccarthy and
family will make their home this
winter in the Ryland Park residence
Wilbur McGonigal took a vaca-
tion the past week from his duties as
brakeman on the Lancaster Galena
run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Reese are
visiting in Elroy. Mr.. Reese recent
ly smashed his hand and is taking an
enforced lay off from his duties as
baggageman on the Lancaster Galena
run.
Miss Bessie TrauGwein is visiting
this week with her parents at Du-
buque. Her father has just purchased
some property at Miami, Florida, and
starts for there today, expecting that
that place will become their home.
w. j. Schade announces that on
the first Wednesday Of the New Year
he will resume his boys class, which
was discontinued several weeks ago,
and requests that both old and new
members who wish to join the new
class will report at the gymnasium at
I o'clock p N. on Wednesday. Jan.
4. 1911.
Once each year the Quaker Whist
Club, which is composed entirely of
ladies. suspends its rules ard in
vites to its regular weekly meeting
the husbands of it's members. upon
which occasions said husbands give
an exhibition of the noble game Of
whist as it should be played in their
estimation and are rewarded with a
fine supper the company of the
ladies, and a prize or two for their
efforts. This meeting will take place
tomorrow evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. L Il. Stevens in the second
ward.
Max Brinckman, formerly a Lam
caster merchant was recently arrested
on the charge Of setting fire to store
building that he had previously owned
in Linden. He was ar1aigned last
Monday November IA before Justice
Arthur, of Dodgeville, and after con
siderable testimony was given was
bound over to appear at the next SEES
sion Of circuit court. He secured the
necessary bail of ST., 900 and returned
home. On Tuesday and Wednesday
be is reported to have committed
several thefts and was again taken to
Dodgeville Thursday. The next hear
ing however resulted in his being
adjudged insane and committed tc
Mendoza hospital.
Little does one realize how
crime will end. says the Bara boz
News. A Madison dispatch says
Bidding goodby to freedom for
ever, Mrs Theresa Steinhaeuse1 has
of her own volition returned to the
Wisconsin penitentiary in Waupun,
with request that the prison be al
lowed to be her home for the re-
mainder of her years and that she be
allowed to die within its walls,
convict. On January oath last, Mrs.
Steinhaeuser, who has served twenty
years of a life term in the peni
Tertiary for the murder of her hus-
band in Jefferson county, was paroled
A few weeks ago she petltioned the
board of control that the parole be re-
voked. So insistent was her appeal
that although the choice of the woman
is great grief to her relatives the
board reluctantly granted her request. "
On the front page Of the Chicago
Tribune there daily appears a little
ssermonette'' from some prominent
citizen Of the western metropolis.