Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-05-14

home in Chicago, yesterday.
Rev. G. T. Beers will hold Union
services at the Methodist church Sun
day morning, May %.
Mrs. c F. Geise, of Oak Park,
ILL.,, is visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs Geo. Gibbs.
The Congregational Ladies Aid
society will be enter tanned by Mrs.
j. T. Webb on Friday afternoon
Al Kies and Miss Inez Pickett.
of PIattevilIe spent Saturday and Sun
day with their friend Miss Maud
Finney.
Mrs. E. j. Lang and son, of
Ipswich visited at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Gibbs,
between trains yesterday.
Rev. G. T. Beers and Rev.
Wilfred Bassett. of Cassville, went
to Cobb Yesterday to attend the an
nual meeting of the Methodist minis
tiers of the Platteville district, which
was held there yesterday and today.
The Royal Neighbors will have
covered dish party at the hall. Fri
day afternoon. May 10th. Bring
your sewing; meeting will begin
prompt at o'clock on account of the
patriotic contest at M. E. church.
Those having articles to con-
tribute for the Congregational rum
mage sale are requested to leave or
send them to the city hall on Thurs.
day, May %, or notify either member
of the committee-Mrs S. r Green,
Mrs. Geo. P Goble, or Mrs. Geo.
Gibbs.
--Platteville News: The average
of zinc mine is five to eight years
The mines that are closing down now
on account of being worked out were
all discovered during the boom, Pros
pecting has not kept place with min
ing. If it had there would have been
a dozen of new producers coming on
now.
When you see man painfully
and slowly digging in a patch of land
back of the house, you can make up
your mind that he's digging garden
for "dear WHEY" But if he is right
up and hopping to it joyfully,
whistling while he works, you can
easily determine that he is digging
worms for bait.
A woman jumped from the north
bound local passenger train Monday
morning about three miles north of
Mccartney. She struck the back of
her head on the iron rail and was
seriously injured. Her husband was
taking her to the sanitarium at Prairie
du Chen. Their home is at Bruce,
Wisconsin. -Cassville Index.
Miss Emma Schreiner left here
on Wednesday afternoon for New York
City, where she was joined by a
party Of five. The six ladies left
New York Saturday, May 10. on
board the Carpathia for Naples, Italy,
where they will spend some time be-
fore continuing on their tour of
Europe. Miss Schreiner expects to be
gone until September.
The rains came last week just in
time to be of wonderful value to the
farmers, as the ground was very dry
and hard and everything was suffering
for the want of moisture. The soil
is now in shape for corn planting and
the pasturage has been given a much
needed help. Fruit prospects are
excellent, the frosts that occurred two
or three nights apparently failing to
do much damage
The remains of John Studebaker
who passed away at his home in Los
Angeles Calf, on April 80, reached
this city Friday noon and taken to
Hillside cemetery where interment
was made beside his wife's people. in
the Farnsworth lot. Mrs. Studebaker,
formerly Mary Farnsworth, with her
sister, Mrs Lillian Scribner, of
Cherokee, Iowa, and her brother
/ CHARLES Farnsworth, of Albert Lea,
Mimi, accompanied the remains here.
The Farnsworths formerly lived on
the farm, east of this city, now
owned by Sam Stephens.
AT special meeting of the city
council, held Monday evening. three
ordinances were adopted-one de-
termining the width of driveway in
the several streets in the city of Lam
caster; one condemning certain side
walks in the city and directing that
the same be removed and rebuilt and
directing the building of certain new
sidewalks within the city; and