Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-07-24
POTOSI WILL HOLD A
SOLDIERS REUNION
Tuesday, August Thirteenth, is
the Date Selected.
MontfOrt Girls Band to Furnish the
Music Address by Judge jerks,
of Dodgeville.
POTOSI.
special Correspondence 70 the Herald.

be held August 18th and not August
18th as reported last week. suffi-
cient amount of money has been con-
tributed and all necessary arrange
ments are being perfected to make the
day a gala one. The citizens of
Potosi have never yet undertaken a
celebration or a reunion but what
they made a success of it and this
occasion will be no exception to their
general rule. Committee have been
appointed as follows;
On General Arrangements-John j.
Tobin, P NJ. Mclaughlin, 7. H.
Runkel and Philip Roesch.
On Band Music-E. NJ. Wilmott
and ]. A. seaton.
On Vocal Music-Miss Mary Lawler,
Rev. W. F. Price and Miss Bessie
Darrow.
On Speaker-C.' j. Ragatz.
On Printing-E. A. Berge, A.
Kaltenbach, R. ". Glennon.
AmUsements-J. H. Schiffman, NJ
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A meeting was held at the bank
Saturday afternoon and the COMMITTEES
chose the following named gentlemen
as the officers Of the day.
President Of the day, Capt G. Fl
Baxter of Lancaster; vice presidents,
III G. Dorcher, of PlattevilIe, P.
BARLEY, of Bloomington, Alvin
Grimm, of Cassville, J. NJ. Hayden,
of Beetown. Chas. Bazinett, of Cuba
City. Capt. George Healey, of Du.
buque, Major N. R. Platt of East
Dubuque. Norman Clark of Harrison.
Chaplains- Rev. Father Pape and
Rev. W. F. Price.
Marshal of the day-John j. Tobin.
Aid to Marshal-John Campbell.
Judge Aldro jerks, of Dodgeville.
will deliver the Grafton at the reunion
in Potosi August 18th.
The Montfort Girls Band of twenty
two pieces will furnish the military
music at the reunion, August 18th.
Don t fail to hear them.
Elmer Crowther who met with an
accident July Goth 1911, by falling
head foremost from a stack of grain
and severely injured his spine, died
at the home Of his parents near Rock
Vile last Tuesday night.
Mrs. Nancy Rouse, for nearly sixty
years a resident of Grant county, died
at her home in the town of Harrison
last Tuesday, aged eighty three years.
Heury selpAug and sister Miss
Barbara Selapug, Of Milwaukee, are
visiting with her father and other
relatives,
Joe Vogelsberg was in Cassville.
Glen Haven and North Andover in
the interest of the Potosi Brewing
Co.. last Tuesday and Wednesday
Don't forget that the date of the
Soldiers reunion is August 18TH
Richard Morris and wife and child,
Of Pittsburg. Kansas, are guests of his
brother Frank and family. Dick s
many old Potosi friends are pleased
to greet him.
Pete Vogelsberg, of Dubuque, was
here Wednesday to see his brother
Fritz, who is lying dangerously i'll at
his home in British Hollow.
W. O. Livingston, of Livingston,
candidate before the republican
primary election for the office Of
county treasurer was in Potosi Friday.
Wintermute Bros with their
trained Pony, Dog and Wild Animal
show are billed to Exhibit in Potosi
July 29tn.
Stewart Galway after a month o
pleasure at the home of his uncle
Ben Beier, returned to his home at
Duluth, Mimi, last Tuesday.
Lee Whitcher Of the town Of Lima,
was in Potosi Saturday he was re-
turning to his home from Prairie du
Chen where he had been taking treat
ment at q sanitarium,
Miss Winnifred Stephens, of Cass-
Vile, is visiting friends in Potosi.
Frank Eckstein and John Haner-
man, Jr., of Cassville. we're in Potosi
Saturday.
Upwards of 80 people went to
Dubuque on the steamer Potosi Sun.
day to see the airship races.
Miss Fanny Foster, after success
full term of teaching at Cherokee,
lowe, is spending her vacation here
win her mother and other relatives.