Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-16
PAGE FIVE

-Myrl Whitish, of Preston, was
here yesterday.
| -Chas. Krohn and family left
yesterday for Roscoe, South Dakota.
Gertrude Drinkwater returned
Monday from visit at Boscobel.
Mrs. F. w. Halferty returned
yesterday from visit at DodgeVille
MIR. and Mrs. Joe Pink and Henry
Pink started Tuesday for New Rich.
mond.
Misses Gertrude and Adeline
reson. of Dubuque, are guests of
Anna Hoffman.
Mrs. Leroy Judd, of South
Pasadena, CAL, is visiting her with
her sisters, the Misses Crosby.
Clyde Prideaux who has been
employed at Milwaukee for the past
six months returned home Sunday.
The meeting of the w. G. T. U.
will be at the home of Mrs, Chas.
Klarman. Thursday Aug. II, at 80
| p. N.
Stock shipments for this week:
Monday, Geo. Moore, 2 cars sheep:
John Dobson, car hogs; Place &
Jerrett, l car hogs. Tuesday, Place
& Jerrett, 1 car cattle.
w. T. Hardy has been elected
secretary and treasurer of the Wis
consin Board of Dental Examiners.
He is an old school mate of DR.. F.
W. Rafferty,, of this city.
Miss Lillian Thomas, of Stevens
Point, and Miss Nellie Altoona, of
Galena started this morning for
Galena, by way of Potosi They
have been visiting friends here
Walter Damn came home yester-
day from Minneapolis where he has
been employed for the summer. He
expects to enter the University at the
opening of the fall term in September.
&C. lverson who has been located
here during the summer, canvassing
for the Wear ever" aluminium goods,
left yesterday for PlatteviIle He
will return in September to deliver
his goods.
There will be preaching ia the
g. A. R. hall next Sunday afternoon.
by w. A. Taylor, of the Church of
Christ, who is an old Grant county
boy of the Boice Creek neighbor-
hood. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to old acquaintance.
Mrs. W. N. Stone. with her sons,
Frank and Ralph, leave today for
their new home az Madison. The
family has always lived in this
vicinity where they have formed many
friendships which it will be a
pleasure to look back upon. When Mr.
Stone, the husband and father, was
alive he was one of Lancaster s lead
ing druggists, owning the store now
occupied by ]. D. Hatch on Maple st.
Mrs. Stone has always been active in
church work in the Methodist church
and the boys have both graduated
from our public schools and intend to
further their education at the uni
versity. Their new home is located
at 432 Frances st. and it is the wish
of their many friends that they may
soon take their part in the social life
at Madison and become as popular AS
they have been here.
John W. Pier, a farmer living
east of Sitter. was brought to this
city by DR.. Doolittle on Wednesday.
He had been troubled with weak
heart for some time and the doctors
did not expect that he could live
much longer without medical aid.
He was taken to the hotel FarwelI
where he was attended by DR.. Doc
little and was given the best tof care.
He grew steadily weaker on Thursday
and at late hour that evening he
breathed his last and passed across
the great divide. His two brothers,
of Dubuque, Fl. l.. Pier and Philip
Pier Jr., were present when the end
came and took the remains to Du-
buque his native home, on Friday
The deceased was 48 years of age and
was born and reared in Dubuque.
He was a mailman there for num-
Der of years and then took up farming
near Sitter. He is survived by his
father, Philip Pier. four brothers and
sisters The funeral was held at Du-
buque, Sunday afternoon with burial
at Linwood cemetery.