Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-09-17
AROUND The COUNTY
BAGLEY.

Mrs Alta Wiblert, from Gordon,
Nebraska, came Friday to visit her
mother and father. Alvin Cooks and
be here at their golden wedding an
niversary later.
The R. R. Co are putting in pass
over at the depot for the double track
which they expect to have running
from here in the near future, and they
have also torn away part of the stock
yards and are grading and fixing to
put them further back, to make room
for more side track. There are about
100 men working in the yards here
they are also putting in the founda
tion for the pump and pump house at
the river.
Mrs. Grover Glass, from Lacrosse,
came Friday from visit at here old
home in Dubuque to visit her mother
in-law, old Mrs Glass and other
relatives here.
Enos Clifton went to the Blooming
ton fair Saturday and from there to
make his sister. Mrs. John Wilson,
a visit and go to the Lancaster fair
with his sister.
Mrs. Ruttenb burg had rag bee Fri
day. She got fine lot of carpet rags
sewed.
Henry Clifton made a trip to
Prairie du Chen on the four O'Clock
train and back on the midnight train
Friday.
Paul Glass, son of Henry Glass,
came from Williston, N. D. Friday,
to visit his grandmother and uncles
here.
Ira Willard, telegraph operator, is
laid up with an abscess on his foot.
It made a double shift for the other
operators Friday night.
Mrs. Sophia Day came home from a
visit at Charley Miller's and other
friends in Prairie du Chen, Saturday.
What poet or who was it that so
aptly described the tears of a great
and noble father that like a fiawless
gam, were shed in love and pride
upon the head of daughter Could
there be anything more sacred to the
shrine of love; more self sacrificing
or free of greed or lust than any
fathers tears so given2 Yet there
are persons who after many years of
neglect demand the rating of father
and hard working son -inlaw.
Mrs. DR.. Mecom and son Jesse
spent last Saturday in Lacrosse.
DR.. Mecum, of this village, and
DR.. Harris from Prairie du Chen,
held a council over Mrs. Jacob Beer
one day last week; they decided she
had enlarged spleen and bad condi-
tion of the blood. Her only daughter,
Mrs. Fred Handy. from Valley juno
tion, has come to care for her mother
Mrs. Handy looks tired and sad; she
left in her home her husbands mother
an invalid in bed, helpless with
rheumatism. At this writing Mrs.
Beers is much worse. Eva Pelping
ton, who has been caring for her the
past two weeks, has gone home to
help Ler aged mother get ready for
trip to the west.
Mrs. Jennie Patch, in company
with her brother, D. @. Polly, will
leave Bagley next Tuesday for trip
to Hurley s. D. A. F. Polly. from
Sibley, Iowa, will meet them there.
D. 9. Polly had not seen his brother
for q years. Their many friends of
this place, where they used to live.
can just imagine what jolly, jovial
time they will have when they all
meet in Dakota. These four are all
that remain of family of eight chill
dren. Ira Polly, their father, moved
here a long time ago from Penn
sylvania. He only lived few
months; the change did not agree
with him and in few months more
his Is year old son, Lovette Polly,
died with appendicitis. They did
not know in those days what it was.
After the angel of death had taken
the dear boy from his heart broken
mother an operation was performed
and the DR.. found water melon seed
in his appendix. It had gathered and
broken, killing him almost instantly.
John Polly, the eldest son, was killed
in the war in 1861. Mrs. Rhoda
Jones. who spent her last few years in
California, died during an operation
at a hospital there. Her kindness
and affection for her husband had been
so great that in about four months
he, too, died of grief. Her numerous
friends around here. where she used
to live, knew that to know her was to
love her. A brother, Yelling Polly,
IS years Of age, had such a love for
lis country that he ran away and
went tn the war in t61 He pOt the