Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-18

Fennlmore Monday, on business.
ia Hebe-lein. of Fennimore.
was Sunday caller in this city.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Otto
Losch, on Saturday morning, baby
boy.
Mrs. H. +. Baxter goes this week
to Madison to spend Christmas with
her daughter, Mrs NJ. E. Goodrich.
Bert Shipley has been assisting
his brother, John. in his barber shop
at Bloomington, for the past two
weeks.
Mrs. Helen Budd has gone to
Minneapolis to spend the winter with
her son. DR.. q. E. Budd, and daugh.
ter, Clara.
Mrs. VIM. Morse and little
daughter Dorothy arrived Friday noon
for an extended visit at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A e. Morse.
There will be a Christmas tree
and entertainment in the Cement
school house. Ellen boro, on the even
ing of December 23td. Miss Nellie
Keitlinger teacher. Everyone cordial
~ invited.
Mrs. Geo. Thompson and children
who spent week here with her sister,
Mrs john Craemer. and other rela-
tives and friends left Saturday for her
home at Stratton. Colo.
On Tuesday of last week A. B.
Browning fell from a ladder and
severely injured his left foot. At first
it was thought that the foot was
broken; however it is badly sprained.
w. W. Ward had an especially
successful auction sale at the farm of
the late Geo. E Ward, vest of the
Hurricane, last Thursday. It was a
large sale and things brought good
prices.
w. ]. Kelly, aged fifty three
years, residing on farm about four
miles south of the Hurricane, passed
away Sunday morning at three o'clock
after an illness lasting FIVE or six
weeks.
The Herald has this week received
shipment of new tpye especially
adapted for the printing of wedding
invitations and announcements, visit
ing cards and otner dainty printing
of like character, including high class
stationery for business and profes
sional purposes.
We wish to again call the atten-
ton of our friends to the fact that we
take orders for all kinds of fine copper
plate engraving, Wedding invitations.
calling cards ETC., which we guarantee
to have executed in the best of style.
Call and see samples when you may
be wanting anything in this line.
Last Saturday was a splendid day
for trade in Lancaster. There were a
good many people in town from all
over the county doing their Christmas
shopping and in some of the stores
the clerks were unable to wait upon
all of the customers Holiday trade
promises to be larger than usual this
year.
S A. Hearn, of Dodgeville a former
publisher of the Chronicle, of that
city, was Herald visitor last Thurs
day. Mr.. Hearn now spends por
ton Of each year at Kissimmee,
Florida and is agent in Wisconsin
for the sale of lands owned by the
Land Company, of Kissimmee He
has arranged with W. B. Doll, of
Lancaster. to represent the company
in this vicinity.
At a recent election of the R. N
A. officers. Mrs E j. Austin was
elected oracle; Mrs. Jno. Mankel, vice
oracle; Mrs. "A. j. Wieden beck, post
oracle Mrs. G. f. Dickinson, chancel-
Tor; Mrs. Amelia Lisherness, receiver !;
Mrs G. G. Roberts recorder; Mrs. G.
NJ. Calvert, Marshal; Jessie Glider.
inner sentinel; Mrs. Burley Doll,
outer sentinel; Mrs Nettie Finney.
manager and r. Fl Kinney and JAS.
Fl. Fowler, Physicians
Henry C8spers had both Of his
hands end one arm severely burned
Monday at the blacksmith shop of his
father, Joseph Cdspers. He had been
using cloth that was heavily saturat-
ed with gasoline, and as he went to
throw it il the stove the blaze shot
out and ignited the cloth like a flash,
Theirs was more or less Of the infiam
mable substance upon his hands,
which caught fire at once and had it
not been for the prompt assistance of
others about the shop his burns
might easily have been much more
serious if not fatal.