Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19

kind and decent and charitable.
The Womans Club will meet
Monday with Mrs Frank Schreiner.
Most of us feel like we work hard
enough to get more out of life than
we are getting
Walter Pollock and family. of
Cleveland, Ohio, are visiting at the
Edward Pollock home.
"A marriage license was issued
Saturday to Teenan Oleson. of Lone
Rock and Annie Rust, of Boscobel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Oleson and
children of Dodgeville spent Easter
at the home Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Martin.
Mrs. Tom Blackburn has returned
from Dubuque, where she had been to
see her brother, Frank Huftil who is
very sick in hospital there.
Edward Nathan. son Of Adolph
Nathan Of Chicago and a friend, Mr.
Schupp, of the University of Wiscon
sin, visited relatives here the past
week.
Mrs. Carrie Blackburn and Mrs.
David Cornwall, while hunting water
cress last Monday killed seven snakes
ranging from eighteen inches to three
feet in length.
Hon. David Schreiner has suffi-
GENTLY recovered from his long and
serious illness that he was able to be
at his Office yesterday portion of the
day and expects to return to Madison
to resume his duties as member of
the assembly next week.
DIR. S. W. Doolittle arrived in
Lancaster last week after nine
months absence in Europe-two mouths
of which was spent in travel and the
remainder in study at Vienna, Austria.
Doctor and Mrs. Dooltttle, daughter
Dora and Miss Lila Wendall landed
in New York week ago. The re-
turn trip was made on the Kaiserin
Augusta Victoria. Mrs. Doolittle,
Dora and Miss Wendall are at
present visiting Brodhead relatives.
The doctor visiting the more i'm
portant hospitals of Chicago and
Philadelphia and that of the Drs.
Mayo at Rochester MINI. Upon his
return to Lancaster he expects to open
an Office as a consulting physician.
He will not engage in general
practice.
Mrs. Sophia Kilbourn a pioneer
resident of Grant Co. died suddenly
at the home of her daughter Mrs.
George P. Goble Tuesday evening
shortly after o'clock. Death was
caused by heart failure and was not
preceded by any illness. Mrs. Kill
bourn was a native Of Chautauq1a
County, N. Y, and came to Grant
county with her people in 1887 when
but six years old. The earlier por-
ton Of her life was spent near James
town but after her marriage to James
A. KlIbourn she went to Glen haven
where She lived until about thirty
years ago when she came to Lancas-
ter. Mr.. Kilbourn died about thirty
two years ago Mrs. Kilbourn is sur
vived by one son Leroy, of Kincaid,
Kansas; Mrs. E. "A. Williamson, Of
Albion Neb. and Mrs. Geo. P,
Goble of this city. Funeral services
were held Friday afternoon at 3
O'Clock from the home. Rev. w. H.
Hannaford of the Congregational
church officiating. A more extended
obituary will be published next week.
Jared Evans Barnett, better
known to his friends as JED Barnett,
died at his home in the fourth ward
Wednesday morning after several
weeks illness suffering from acute
peritonitis accompanied by a severe
attack of la grippe. Mr.. Barnett had
lived in Lancaster for sixty -four years
and was one Of our pest known and
most highly respected citizens. He
was born in Jefferson County, Pa,
1881, and came here with his parents
i'll 1847. His father, Andrew Barnett,
was the Lancaster ''hotel man" for
several years. In 1857 Jed E. Barnett
was united in marriage to Miss
Harriet Fisher and for a time they
lived in Boscobel where Mr.. Barnett
was postmaster After a year or so
they returned to Lancaster where Mr..
Barnett commenced a teaming aud
stage line which later developed into
the large dray line business owned by
j. E. Barnett & Son. Mr. Barnett is
survived by four daughters Mrs. N.
Baldwin, of Lancaster Mrs. George
Mills and Mrs Wilton Morse, of
Mancos Colorado: Mrs. Cnas. Weber,
of FennimOre, and three sons Harry,