Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-05-18
LOCAL NEWS NOTES


Lawrence Lewis, of Patch Grove,
was in Lancaster Saturday
Claude Hickok, of Bloomington,
was in Lancaster Thursday.
Lewis BETTER, of Bloomington,
was in Lancaster Saturday.
Mrs. p R. Peterson. of Mont
fort, was in Lancaster Thursday.
-Chas. R. Fox, Of Mineral Point,
had business in Lancaster Friday.
&C. G. Roberts has sold new
piano to Sam Wehrle, of Werley.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Showalter
spent Sunday with relatives at Glen
Haven.
MINIS. Amelia Lisherness and
VIVA Stone were Dubuque callers
Thursday.
%. F. Tate and G.. A. Stevens of
Cassville, were county seat callers
Wednesday.
MIR. and Mrs. w. q. Rose, of
BoscobeI, visited at the county seat
Wednesday.
Deputy Pulsifer of the Beavers
has organized a thriving lodge at
Castle Rock.
VIM. Lewis, Sr, visited in Fen
nimore at the Jas. L. Morkins home
during the vast week.
Various improvements at Mont
fort Jet. are contemplated by the
officials of the Northwestern.
Mrs. George Tufley and little
daughter Frances, of Marion, visited
with Lancaster relatives last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert BROKER and
daughter Helen left on Saturday for a
visit in Platteville at the Clay Chap
man home.
Mrs. Richard Willis and sister,
Miss Maggie Harris visited last week
In Madison with the formers daugh-
ter, Mrs. VIM. Curtis.
Monte Bales, the old Galena third
baseman who is we'll known in Lam
caster, is making good with Rockford
in the w. 1. League.
Mrs. Lydia Moore, of Livingston,
was in Lancaster last week to see Ter
daughter Blanche. The latter has
been taking medical treatment hers
under DR.. Hassell.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Mcpherson,
of Ellenboro, start tomorrow for
Omaha, Neb. After brief visit
there they will go to Idaho and
Oregon. They expect to be gone for
some time.
Smoke from the forest fires in
northern Wisconsin and Minnesota
hung over the section last week in
much the same manner as it did in
the fall of 1908. On Wednesday the
sun had the appearance of red ball
of fire. Although several towns were
threatened by the fires the citizens
were successful in each case In keep
ing the flames from entering the city
limits.
You know it is in impossible for
you to do all of your week IS work in a
day or two, and is also true of news
paper Office. Our friends will please
remember this in the matter of
furnishing advertising, news items or
other matters for publication in The
Herald, and hand them In as early as
convenient. Don't wait until Tues
day unless it is really necessary as it
is sometimes very difficult to handle
everything that day.
On May 81 there will be an
election in Livingston to determine
whether that place will have a free
high school. The district is we'll
divided on the question and a hot
contest is expected. Livingston has
in the past. sent many young men and
women to Platteville. Montfort, Fen
nimore. Lancaster and other towns to
receive their high school education
and now. it is proposed, that educa-
tional facilities be provided at home
and the general expense be lightened
in consequence.
Justice G. W. Burrows heard two
suits brought by the Tate & Klein
pell Co., of Cassville last week. The
first held Wednesday was jury trial
the defendent being Grant Turner
After the cases were argued at some
length by the respective attorneys the
jury consisting of the following
brought in a verdict for the plaintiff
Ralph Barnett, Jake Hoffman, Elmer
Eastman, John Jordan, VIM. j. Car
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