Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-04-30


e. M. Wilmott, of Potosi, was a
Lancaster visitor yesterday.
John Croker went to Milwaukee
yesterday afternoon to be gone few
days.
L N Patnaude was over from
Platteville on business Monday and
Tuesday.
Mothers Day will be celebrated
throughout the land on the second
Sunday in May-the 18th.
w. ]. Taggart, of Elkport, Iowa,
transacted business here with w. B.
Dyer, few days last week.
-Dante's Inferno was presented at
the Orpheum in 5000 feet of films last
Friday evening. 1t was a wonderful
production.
H. H. Streeter, of Fennimore
was in the city Monday. having been
visiting relatives in the vicinity for
a few days.
MIR. and Mrs. Otto Wisco and son
Ralph, of Platteville, visited at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Augusta
Wisco, Sunday.
Miss Elva Witzig. of Dubuque,
came yesterday morning by way Of
Potosi to see her grandfather and her
aunt, Mrs. Fred Cox.
Archie Breithaupt and wife Of
Delevan, Wis, are here on few days
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Breithaupt and other friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Mcdonald
went to Chicago Sunday afternoon
where the former had business to
transact. They returned home yes
terday morning.
C. W. Knapp & Son received this
week two more car loads of bUggies
80 complete jobs, which will be set
up and ready fer show at once, Their
buggy sales have been unusually large
this spring.
Mrs. Lisherness and sister, Miss
Elizabeth Schmitt, who accompanied
Mrs Olive Wood Barker to her home
in Lincoln, Nebraska, returned home
Saturday morning, after spending a
week there.
Il. d. Eastman and wife and
County Treasurer Livingston went to
Livingston yesterday in the former s
car to attend the funeral of his uncle,
John Allen. who was buried there in
the afternoon.
The Rev. 81. A. Studebaker will
preach in the Congregational church
On Sunday, morning and evening.
The topic for the morning service
will be, ''Joy of the Christian Life, +"
and for the evening the topic will be,
The "Great Invitation.
Miss Clarisa lockwood and little
sister Elizabeth, of Fennimore, spent
Tuesday night here with their grand
mother, Mrs. M. Mitchell, their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank lockwood
having gone to Platteville to attend
the dedication of the new Odd Fellow
building there.
"A "bee" is to be held within a
few days at the Grant Valley fam,
formerly owned by R B. Showalter.
at Porter's bridge, and now occupied
by Albert Philips and family. A
number of Lancaster men will take
part in the work proposed to be done
on that occasion.
Judge Geo. Clementson will
hold an adjourned term of circuit
court in this city next week, beginning
Wednesday, May Z. The decorators
have completed their work in the cir
cult court room. which will be occu
pied at that time if the calendar is
large enough to demand it's use.
Notices are now being sent out
by the secretary of the Cemetery AS
ISOLATION with information concern
ing the upkeep of Hillside cemetery
and asking for payments from lot
owners, so that the season S work may
begin promptly. Charges this year
will be one dollar per lot and SOC
for half lot, as usual, but at recent
meeting it was decided that the
charges next year will be advanced to
81. so and 75c. because of the increas-
ed cost of labor and materials of all
kinds.
County Superintendent Brockert
was in attendance last evening at
commencement exercises held Jointly
by three of the district schools OF the
town of Jamestown. at Fairplay.
There we're five graduates and the
faculty was the three teachers Of
| the three schools represented During