Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-05-31

Mr.. and Mrs. NARROW Kidd were
in Cassville Sunday.
Lincoln Abraham was over from
Bloomington Tuesday
d. B. Stevens, Of RhineIander, is
visi ing Mrs. Helen Barlow.
-Platteville will not celebrate the
fourth this year according to the lat
est report.
| "A change has been made in the
time of the evening passenger train
It now arrives at clock instead of
6 :15
james Woodhouse who has been
seriously i'll for some time has recov-
cred sufficiently to take daily rides
about the city.
C Fl. Basford was called to Chi
cago last week by the illness of his
son L. P, who he found in an i'm
proved condition.
The annual picnic of the Woman 8
Club will be held the eighth of June
at Schreiner park. The members will
assent BILE at the home Of Mrs Rees
and start for the park at half past
two. For further information in
quire of Mrs Fischer, Mrs. Rees,
or Miss Schreiner.
Invitations have been received by
lancaster friends to the wedding of
Miss Nellie Sprague formerly Of this
city, who will be united in marriage
June IA to Mr.. Herbert N. Pettigrew,
of New Orleans. The wedding will
take place at the First Baptist Church
in Portage. The young couple will
live at New Orleans where the bride
has been teacher OF music in the pub
lie schools for the past three years.
"A sanitary spray drinking foun-
| tain has been installed at the corner
of Baxter & Diapers by the Lancas-
ter Womans' Club. There are now
but few public fountains equipped
with the germ gathering tin cups left
in the city. The crusade against the
common drinking cup has been taken
up in the schools. The children have
| learned to make individual cups out
of waxed paper and great many are
provided with the aluminium collap-
sible kind.
Rev. Myron g. Argus last week
rendered his reignation as rector of
the Emmanuel Church in this city,
! He has accepted the position Of assis-
tant to the Rev. A. A. Ewing. rector
of Grace Church. Madison. Rev.
Argus has been in Lancaster for the
past two and one half years and has a
host of friends among the townspeople
as we'll as the church members, who
regret to hear Of his leaving this city.
1t is not known when his resignation
will take effect.
The schouls of District No. 3 and
joint district No. in the town of
Little Grant held closing exercises and
picnic together last Saturday after
noon A stage and seats were built
out-of doors and an audience of about
1875 enjoyed the exercises and the pic
mic. A ball game was one of the in
teresting features. The teachers Of
Districts 3 and 7 are Misses Pearl
Wilson and Agnes Hope respectively.
The entertainment reflected great
credit upon themselves and their
pupils Supt. j. z. Brockert was
among those in attendance.
| -Supt. Brockert has received
statistics from nine Of the thirteen
high schools of the county giving the
number enrolled in the various classes,
the number of tuition pupils, the
number of graduates etc. Of the
nine schools heard from Lancaster has
the largest attendance and also
graduates the la! gest class this year.
The following figures are CLEANED from
the reports. The first number in each
case is the enrolment at the close of
the year and the third the size of the
graduating class: Cuba City, IS. Z;
Hazel Green. Al, 7; Boscobel. IS, Is (;
Bloomington, SO, Il; Montfort, 90. IL /;
Mt. Hope AZ, s.; Muscoda, 81, Z;
Fennimore, 119, 81; Lancaster,
121, %. The four that have
not been been heard from are: Cass-
Vile, Platteville, Patch Grove and
Potosi.
-Burne Pollock, associated with
his father, Edward Pollock, in the
publication Of The Teller. has secured
an appointment by the Commissioner
of Banking, A. E. Kuolt. as State
Bank Examiner, and goes to Madison
to assume the duties of the office June
1. He secures the appointment under