Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-27
BLOOMINGTON.
Special Correspondence to the Herald.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
The joyous holiday season brings
the friends and relatives home t.
rest, recuperate and enjoy good
visit Those we have seen are as
fellows. Jay Abraham and Wits,
Guernsey Abraham and wife, James.
Vile; Lucille Woodhouse and Lewis
BETTER. Appleton; Daisy Roberts,
Hazel Austin and Nell Phillips,
Milwaukee: Linn Woodhouse, Mark
Hoskins and Edith Pennock Madison
Emma Glasier, Manitowoc; Olive
Hope, Salem; Beulah Hickok, La
Crosse; M. n McIver and wife,
Oshkosh Clyde Scharfenstein,
Rockford, ILL.,; Clara toshay,
Windon, Mimi. Harry Witcom b,
Green Bay; Charlotte and Louise
Witcoub, Racine; Vera Hickok,
Rib Lake; Alta Lewis, Prairie du
CHEN; Neil and Hilda Heiner, Madi.
son; Chas. Bohringer and wife, Mil-
waukee, Nellie Wilkinson, Platte
willie; Ed Selle and wife, Chicago
Bernard Woffenden. Chicago; Viii!
Miller, Dallas, S. D., and others
enumerated in separate items.
A large party of the friends of Mr..
and Mrs. Dan Oakleaf gave them .
surprise on Tuesday evening Of last
week. The principal excuse for this
invasion was Mrs Oakleaf S
birthday A very merry time is
reported by ALL Our new townsmen
appreciated this introduction to their
neighbors.
Another change in business in our
town took place last week. Fred
WEIGH, lately returned from Missouri.
bought Frank TayIor's barber shop
building and residence at the west
end of Canal street. and after Jan.
20. will proceed to install first class
feed mill This is something that
the TOWN has needed for some time
and We hope that all boosters will
give the project a good lift MIR
Taylor has purchased the Nash farm,
lying at the top of the Bagley hill
directly north Of w. G. Taylor S
farm It is a good farm 240 acres.
and Frank, wife and four boys are
going cut to live there and develop
the resources of the place. We wish
ali concerned good luck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Orr returned
from their honeymoon trip the last of
the week, and now are living at their
farm home west of this city.
Miss Pearl Wilkinson went to
Madison last week to visit friends
Harry Light and A. E. Lewis
bought some horses here Saturday.
The merchants report some counter
felt money in circulation in this
community. Keep an eye open fol-
lead dollars.
Lester Cooper Of Bruqhie, s. u
and Burnell Cooper of Grand Rapids,
Mich. visiting at the Henry Cooper
home west Of town, were in town
Saturday.
The Methodist, Baptist and Con.
gregational churches bad Christmas
trees Saturday evening, and the
programs accompanying each were
very interesting Large audiences
witnessed and enjoyed the exercises Of
the children.
Christmas week is Holy Weel
with the Catholic church, and epecia
services, conducted by Father
Rupprechter. we're held. On Christ
mas Eve there was midnight mass
and the Nativity of Christ was pre-
scented.
Our merchants report big holiday
sale last week, particularly Oh
Saturday, when the streets were
crowded with buyers moving about il
all directions. This good trade wa
due to two facts-they had the goods
at right prices. and they were no
afraid to advertise them. These two
conditions will make business any
where.
Miss Mate McIver and mother have
moved to their new home, the Suttoi
house, recently purchased and i'm
proved by them.
About dozen Masons Of this city
attended the funeral of Wallace Good
man at Patch Grove last Friday, ant
conducted the ritualistIc buria
service. Mr. Goodman. who died a
his home at Lakeview, Iowa, was
native of Patch Grove, and liveC
there all his life up to few year
ago. After the funeral, Mrs Good
man, accompanied by her sons
Wilbur Of Houston, Texas. ant