Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-21
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The city is to have an automobile
association to look after bad roads
ana consider other subjects of in
terest to autoists. Fifteen owners
Of autos attended a meeting at DR..
Heraty's Office Saturday evening
and resolved to meet again next
Wednesday evening and perfect an
organization.
Robert Bohringer had the neigh
bors in last week to help him raise
his new barn, 36x48, with basement.
The siding and roof OF this barn are
steel. This is said to be protection
against destruction by lightning.
Mrs. Guy Horsfall and three chill
dren of Winnipeg, Manitoba, are
guests Of grandpas and grandmas
Joseph Horsfal and Marshall J.
Scott. They say they are enjoying
life in that country prefer it to
this, in fact.
Will G. Dean, prohibition lecturer,
will speak in the M. E. church on
Wednesday evening Of this week.
Saml Brodt, the Patch Grove
strawberry man, has had almost
monopoly this year, his patch
yielding nearly half crop. Mr..
Brodt has not been following the
trusts example, however, for he
has sold out the whole crop at a
shillin' quart. Early in the bloom
the crop was very promising, but a
late frost bllghted the blossoms.
John H1te came home Friday.
We are informed that John expects
to move this week to Spencer, Iowa,
where it will be easier for him to
get home than here His territory
Is in Iowa. We dislike very much
TO see the family go.
Sunday was Children's Day at
the Congregational church The
program was very interesting and
the attendance large.
Keith Dickinson of Chicago is
visiting relatives here.
r. n. Greer and wife of Prairie
du Chen visited here Sunday. Net.
says business is fine over there.
While blowing on his farm in the
moth part of the village Lee Bailey
found a tomahawk, which was a
lare specimen of that implement of
war used by the red man. The
tomahawk was very artistic in
design and was in an almost perfect
state of preservation, the iron
having rusted but little. The i'm
lement was decorated with silver,
which of course is as bright as ever.
This silver is il laid and is the usual
Indian art-half moon, animal,
figures, etc. Lees farm is known
as the cid Gilbert place and was one
OF the first farms opened in this
country; so the tomahawk must be
rather old.
Ben. benson and Hank LAY have
finished the foundation for Al.
Crabtree's new barn, and Casper
Auel and George Hillery start the
carpenter work this week.
Mort BARLEY has finished his
course in Northwestern Dental
College and is expected home this
week. We hear he expects to locate
ia Dakota
The cement walk gang is finishing
a stretch of walk along by the resi-
dences of W. v. Benefits, Crit.
Hickok, James Edwards, Mrs. Daisy
Brown, Mrs. Josephine Brooks,
John Pennock and Tim. Mogan-
three blocks, starting at the foot
bridge and finishing up at the
corner Of MRS. Witcomb's residence.
Ort Cooley is the chief cementer,
and he's smooth
Mrs. Witcomb went to Milwaukee
Monday to be with her daughter,
Charlotte the last week Of school
and then come home with her.
Prin. E. L. Jay expects to attend
the summer school at Madison.
Mark Hosklns, Linn Woodhouse.
JAY Martin and Leo BARLEY are
home from Madison for the vaca-
tiCn.
Mrs. Lewis BETTER has bought
MIS-. Strong's residence i'll Brooklyn
and the BETTER family will make it
their home. Mrs. Strong, we hear,
expects to go to Palmyra, where
she lived before coming to this place
years ago.
Miss Ada Woffendep, who has
been teaching in the northern part
Of the state, is home for the vaca-
ton. She expects to teach in Da-
kota the coming year.
The members Of the Merry Go
Round club went out and took sup
per at the Grant Tubbs home Thurs
day evening.
J. B. Ludden and wife took their
daughter Florence to Milwaukee via
Mineral Point last Wednesday for a
light operation on the ear. His
rother, DR.. Homer Ludden, went
WI them from Mineral Point
Miss Ollie Lord, who taught
school at Fort Benton, Montana, the