Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-26

IN Lancaster Wednesday.
Ralph Place left Friday afternoon
for Madison and Bellevue.
&C. w. Finch, of GAINESVILLE. had
business here Wednesday.
E. P. Reynold, Of Platteville.
had business here Thursday.
Miss Julia Trainer is clerking in
the Allen Bargain Store at Bocsobei.
The sentry Of the court house park
has laid aside his winter overcoat.
S. E. Livingston. of Chicago,
visited in Lancaster over Sunday.
H. L. Van Dusen, of Madison is
visiting at the home Of his mother
and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Wetter went
to Montfort for short visit Friday
afternoon.
The farmers have been too busy
the past week to do their usual amount
of town shopping.
Several of the merchants and
clerks took a hand at cleaning the
streets last Thursday.
Miss Linda Rhodes is visiting
in Milwaukee at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Frank Buchner.
Mrs. E, BoIzell left Friday for
her home in Montfort after a pleasant
visit at the home of her daughter Mrs.
E. j. Morse.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carthew and
daughter Miss Maude Carthew arrived
home Wednesday evening from their
winter visit in California.
W. B. Dyer will have his breed
ing horses for service at the old stand,
Smiths livery barn, during the sea
son. He has some good ones.
Mrs. H Liesweld left for her
home at Orleans. Neb., yesterday
after an extended visit with
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Mackey and other relatives.
Erwin Oaklief arrived home Fri
lay morning from ST. Louis where be
a course in plum bling at the
st. Louis Trade School. He expects
to accept employment in Bloomington.
The bicycle craze seems to have
again struck the young people of this
city. There have been numerous new
wheels shipped here this spring and
second hand bicycles have found a
ready sale.
-Neighboring towns report the
usual spring influx Of grating agents
aud beggars Of various sorts. Several
have worked in and about Lancaster
the past few weeks but met with
limited patronage
Marriage licenses were granted
last week to the following: Joseph
Him, Of Fennimore and Edna Louise
Anschuetz. Of Boscobel; Frederick FL
Schroeder and Annetta Johann, both
of Platteville; Jonn Hilby, of
Vinegar Hill, Illinois and Barabar
Helm, of Cuba City.
Frank Orion started Monday for
Wolf Lake. Adams county, where he
will put in a. few days trout fishing.
His father, 7. F. Orion, is now part
owner in the cottage at this lake,
where himself, Richard Meyer and the
editor Of the Herald were guests at
fishing fest several days last sum.
mer.
If we are to have stage service to
Lancaster after July 1st it is about
time to get busy with the proper
If the postal department
sticks to its order that the Lancaster
stage will be discontinued July list. It
will cause lot of Inconvenience to
people all over West Grant, and the
sooner protest is made the better the
chance for thu order to be rescinded.
Bloomington Record.
1t is said that the West Grant
railroad project is not dead but sleep
ing. The promoters ale still at work
very quietly and the chances are good
that Bloomington will in the near
future hear the toot of a locomotive
for the first time There is no reason
why the rich farming district of West
Grant should not be provided with
facilities. In this day and
age the fact that village the size of
should be situated inland
is ridiculous.
General orders have been received
by the local post from the state depart
ment commander, q. A. R. announc-
ing slight change in the date of
holding the coming state encamp-
ment, at Green Bay, Wis. In order