Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-03-06
INCORPORATORS
FOR new RAILROAD
Chosen at Meeting Held IN Ian.
caster Monday Afternoon.
About Two Hundred People, Mostly
Stockholders, Present from Var
ious Parts of Grant County.

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The deep interest felt in increa sed
facilities in railroad transporta tion
for this county was we'll manifested
Monday afternoon when about two
hundred men from various portions,
Of Grant county assembled at the
meeting of stockholders. held in
Knapp's rink, called for the purpose
of setting forth the advantages to be.
reaped from the proposed Chicago
Short Line electric railway being
promoted by Thomas Mcdonald and
the election of a set of incorporators.
for the company.
The meeting was called for Z
o'clock and at that hour large crowd.
had assembled at the rink. 1t in,
cluded many prominent farmers from
the various towns of West Grant.
E. NJ. Lowry acting as temporary,
chairman of the meeting explained.
that the funerals of two prominent
citizens-Wm. Lewis formerly Of
Patch Grove, and Mrs. Emma Nc
Gonigal, former resident of Lam
caster, whose remains had been.
brought here from Platteville on the,
noon train for burial-were to take
place at CLOCK and took an express
sion upon the proposition of adjourn
ing the meeting until after the
funerals. It was voted unanimously
to do so.
The meeting reassem bled at 3
o'clock and was called to order by E.
Al. Lowry. On motion Edward Pol
lock. Of The Teller, was elected chair
man of the meeting and 3 J. Lowreys
of The Herald, secretary.
] r. 1. Dugdale, of Plattevilles
presented a list of the names of pros
pective incorporators for the company
which had been prepared in advance
as guide for the action of the meet
| lug In making it's selections, but ex-
! planned that in case the stockholders.
from any of the towns preferred other
men than those named to serve as
their representatives, they were to
feel free to suggest such changes.
A motion was made by Fred Wet
more, of Patch Grove, that each town
be permitted to suggest it's own
representatives on the board and this
sentiment met the approval Of the
meeting. A recess Of ten minutes was
taken in which the stockholders of the
several towns got together and dis
cussed the situation among them
selves, with the result that the selec-
tions as finally made differed very
slightly from the original list. it be-
ing conceded that little or no i'm
provement could be made therein.
A motion made by Abe Patch of
Bloomington, and unanimously car
ried, provided that as the names of
the several towns were called by the
chairman, the choice for members of
the board of incorporates should be
announced by the stockholders present.
from those towns and that the secre-
tary be authorized to cast the vote of
the meeting for the men thus
elected.
10 accord with such action the fol-
lowing seventeen men were chosen to-
serve as the incorporators of the COM
pany:
For the city of Lancaster and the
townships of North and South Lam
caster Joseph T. Bennett. Frank G.
Meyer, L. H. Stevens, Benjamin
Petty.
For Liberty and Fennimore town
ships and Fennimore village-A. E.
Storrs and f. W. Kern.
For Mt. Ida and Mt Hope-Andrew
Cairns.
For Patch Grove-Alex Robertson
and Fred Wetmore.
For Bloomington township and vii
lage-Abe Patch.
For Glen Haven-G. J. Seipp.
For Beetown-Wm. Gates.
For Ellenboro-W. F. Mccormick.
For the city and township of Platte
Vile and Lima township-James
Dolan, Geo. W. Shepherd, Fred Krog
and W. N. Smith.
Following the adjournment of the
stockholders meeting such members of
the Incorporating board as were
present got together at the rink and
organized for business by electing
Joseph T. Bennett chairman, Frank
c. Meyer secretary and L. H. Stevens,
! treasurer.
The functions of this board will be,
to carry out the preliminary work of
incorporation, and to call the first
regular Meeting of the stockholders.