Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-07-19


Miss Katherine Martin left Su
day for weeks visit with her sis,e:,
Mrs Ed Oleson, at Dodgeville
Geo. Jackerlng. of Hurricane,
now in his Goth year. is the proud
father of a baby girl born July 2.
With a circus and W. G. 7. U.
convention in town today Lancaster
ought to be lively place.
Mrs. John Drinkwater and daUgh
ter Florence returned home Sunday.
from two weeks visit with relatives
at Winona, MINI.
Mrs. Geo. Finney has been re-
ceiving most enjoyable visit from
her daughters, Georgia and Nettie,
who are employed in Chicago.
David Crichton and his broher- in
law, J. G.. Lloyd, of Fairmount. Ind,
drove over to Potosi last week aud
spent the day among the pretty scenic
spots IN that vicinity.
H. ". Brown, Fl. E. Carthew,
]. H. Howe and Paul Howe comprised
a fishing party that went over near
Woodmau and fshed the waters of
Little Green river on Wednesday of
last week.
w. E. Lathrop, of this city.
with j. Fl. Marks and Geo. Moody, Of
Fennimore, ara agents for the sale of
a fine 100 acre farm in Crawford
county, valued at $4,000, which they
are putting on the market.
Rev. Louis Schmidt, local pastor
Of the German Evangelical church,
returned home last Wednesday from
Milwaukee where he had been in the
hospital recovering from an operation.
He is reported to be getting along
nicely.
Julian Bellows returned last
week from a four weeks delightful
vacation in the east. during which he
made trip down the st. Lawrence
river to Montreal, then down to Yer
mont, where he visited relatives.
short stop at Warren, Pa, and from
there to Boston from which place ne
returned home.
Because Of the law which demands
that all insurance lodges must show
an increase in mem bershIp and funds
every three years, and be examined by
a boardof manages, it is announced
that members of the Modern Wood
men Of America will hereafter be re-
quired to pay twelve monthly assess
ments per year. Heretofore it has
been possible to skip from one to
three assessments each year.
Lieut.. "Ted" Lowry started last
Friday for a brief visit with his
sister Elizabeth, in Chicago from
whence he went to Toronto, Canada,
to join an auto party for a tour
through eastern Canada, including a
visit to Montreal. On his return trip
he expects to make a visit at West
Point military academy, one at
WilkesbarTe, Pa, and lastly with his
brother in law and sister. Mr. and
Mrs Ralph Barney, at Cincinnati
He will be away about three weeks.
The B M & B. mine at Harker
in which Lancaster citizens are in
terested continues to produce six or
seven cars Of high grade ore each
munth. Recent developments at this
mine show that operations may be
carried indefinitely. About forty men
are employed. Joseph Book. of this
city has devoted the greater share of
| his time since his retirement as
cashier of the Union State Bank to
looking after this property. The o.
| P. David at Montfort, another mine
in which Lancaster people hold a
large interest is maintaining its old
time reputation as consistent pro-
Queer.
A gang Of dirty, begging Indians
made the rounds of Lancaster business
houses Monday afternoon but met
with cool receptions. Business was
Improbable here so they LOST little
time in moving on. Reports from
n9ighborlng towns say that these
transients are unusually numerous
this year. In most of the towns they
visit they do not rest content with
begging but steal everything they can
lay hands on, The authorities in
every city should give all gypsies,
Indians, horse traders and their iIk,
orders to move on just as soon as they
strike the place. A concerted move
ment by county and city authorities
everywhere would do much toward
diminishing the numbers of these
itinerant thieves.
The large barn recently built b.
John Heinrichs. on his farm nea1