Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-02


L. D. Eastman returned Monday
from business trip to Montfort.
Mabel Ressmeyer went to Hazel
Green yesterday for few days visit
Mr. and Mrs. j. G. Anderson, of
Livingston, were Lancaster visitors
Monday.
R. F. Conlon, Will Udelhoven
and Glen Heitkamp. of Cuba City,
were in Lancaster Monday.
-Bernice Angus and Myrl Burrows
were guests of Mrs. e. 9. Searles, at
Madison, the past week.
Margaret Joeckel started Tuesday
for Lake Mills for few days visit
before returning to her home in
Chicago.
Oscar Lee, field agent of the Wis
consin Industrial School for Boys at
Waukesha, had business at Lancaster
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Felt, of
Spenser, Ia, and Miss Anna Felt, Of
Galena were visitors at the George
Clemenuson home Monday.
Dick Brown returned Saturday
from Pine Lodge, near Holland,
Mich. where he enjoyed few days
outing with Clarence Howe.
The Girl and the Stampede present.
ed by the Aulger Bros. with the same
high class cast as played the large
cities. The show with the reputa-
tion. Under canvas Saturday, Aug. 5.
Frank M. Stone arrived home
yesterday noon from Cleveland where
he has been employed by the Manu-
features Appraisal Company. He
says that in the ten and one-half
months he has been away he has seen
nothing that looks so good to him as
this old town of Lancaster Frank
and his brother Ralph will both enter
the University of Wisconsin at the
opening of the fall term, in Septem !;
Der.
Angler Bros. The Girl and the
Stampede Co played here last night
to large and appreciative audience.
The author of this play did not resort
to fire arms and ammunition to thrill
the audience as is often the case in
western dramas. But instead has
written play true to western life,
with a pretty love story. thrilling
situations. lots of good comedy and
free from blood and thunder. Bonnie
AuIger as Bess Crabtree won great
favor and John Harrison as Cal Blair
the heroic cow boy was very capable,
The English dude. Henry, the Swede
girl, Nike Flynn and the old Squire
furnished enough comedy to keep our
people laughing till Angler Bros come
again. Hutchinson, (Kans., J News
e. Norwood, of Winona. MINI :,
inventor of the new concrete railway
track for electric railway. who has
been promoting the interests of his
proposed air line road, the Chicago,
Lancaster and Lacrosse Ry to cross
Grant county from Bagley, via Patch
Grove, Bloomington, Beetown, Lam
caster, Ellenboro and Platteville,
thence to Elk Grove and Shullsburg,
in Lafayette county, and on to
! Warren, ILL.,, requests The Herald to
announce that business meeting will
be held in Lancaster on Tuesday,
August Is, at 2 p m which citizens
all along the line are invited to at
tend Mr.. Norwood states that he
expects to begin work this week upon
a sample piece of track, starting
south of the city, to the right of south
Madison street, and hopes to have a
sufficient amount of track built by the
time of the meeting to give practical
demonstration Of his system
Rev. A. L Tull. who was
minister of the M. E. church here
from 1888-to 1889-and who now lives
at Madison, attracted considerable at
tention recently by returning to State
Treasurer Dahl check for So paid for
delivering an invocation in the senate.
The check was accompanied by a
letter reading as follows: Il received
your check for So for delivering a
prayer in the senate. / thank you
and the senate for the courtesy, but
return it, as to keep it would be
purely ccmmercialism in accepting So
from the senate for just asking the
favor of the Lord for the moment for
them Really, it seems as if the $672
paid for prayer during this session
was lost money as the legislature did
such rotten business on all temperance
measures 1t indicates that not a
single prayer reached the Lord for the
promotion of temperance, but that He
favored the breweries and saloon
keepers. I have been sunk in debt
for sixteen weeks and needed money
worse thar any of them hut not such