Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-02-21


Horace aymer went to Boscobel
Tuesday.
There will be no meeting of the
Congregational Ladies' Aid this week.
W B. Dyer is reported to be a
candidate for sheriff on the Republi-
can ticket.
Miss Jennie Chase of Chase, S.
OAK. is guest at the Everett UtU
home this week.
John Miles left this morning for
his homestead in North Dakota after
a short visit with friends here.
Ben Silver is here from Chicago
buying horses. He has about dozen
head purchased and is going to Platte
vile the latter part of the week to
buy there.
A pound baby son was left at
the Walter Weber home by the stork
Monday, Feb. 18th. James McBrien
is grandpa again.
John @. Haeffner's auction sale
will take place next Friday, Feb 90,
and Jim Smith on Thursday, Feb.
20 Both will be big sales. See
advertisements on another page Of to-
days Herald.
Last Friday hight the members
of Eva Camp presented the Past
Oracle, Alice Galloway, with solid
silver salad spoon which shows their
high appreciation Of her untiring
efforts as presiding officer.
Fred and Rolla Day have purchas-
ed fine corn pepper and pea
nut rooster which they will place on
the street in the near future. The
people will be we'll supplied this
summer with these articles
Notice has been sent to The Her
aid announcing the birth of a little
daughter in the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Kadlec. at DodgevilIe, on Feb.
Mrs Kadlec was formerly Miss
Judge Goodsell did not hold
county court at Platteville yesterday.
The Platteville attorneys were all
here for circuit court business and the
county court calendar was very light
and was attended to in connection
with the other business
Miss Elizabeth Lowry, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Lowry of this
city, is now employed as nurse IN the
Presbyterian hospital at New Orleans.
She has recently been promoted to the
position of surgical nurse in the
operating room of that institution.
Walter Griswold and Ed Stevens
drove in to town Monday evening to
attend a lodge meeting. At about
midnight when they were ready to so
hume they found the tongue broken on
their buggy and some other damage
done We do not know how they got
home. However, walking was good
and the road was wide.
"A very sad death occurred at
farm home near Platteville last
week. A prosperous young farmer
John Brugger was repairing his tele-
phone Thursday and in doing SO he
received a slight scratch on his hand.
He thought nothing of it at the time
but blood poisoning set in and death
resulted Saturday evening We can
never tell when our turn will come
or when we shall be called home
Notice has been received from
the postal authorities at Washington
that several changes will appear in
the new allotments of stamps which
will be sent out within a short time.
Ia the one-cent stamp the profile of
Washington will appear instead of
that of Franklin and except for the
color which Will remain green the
one cent stamp will be almost an
exact duplicate of the present two,
cent stamp. The two.cent stamps
will remain almost the same except
for change in the manner of
expressing the denomination. In the
future, Franklin's profile will appear
on the face of the higher denomination
OF stamps. Exchange.
Word has been received directly
from Lee Wright in Chicago that he
was able to be taken to his home
Tuesday the 18th from the Hahneman
hospital where he had undergone an
operation. Lee was taken SICK Jan.
2nd and was in the Doolittle Bros
hospital for nearly three weeks. He
was then removed to his home in
Chicago and later to the hospital
where his case was diagnosed by
Doctor Chas. A Kahike who is classed
among the greatest surgeons of the
world. X-ray pictures we're taken and
the results fOund were of y very