Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-08-26

The Ladies Aid society of the
Congregational church will meet
Friday afternoon with Mrs. Carrie
Knapp.
"A "California Party, composed
of about 25 Lancaster people who
have spent one or more winters on
the Pacific Coast, was held at Schrei-
ner Park on the afternoon of August
10. 1t was a very pleasant affair.
Mrs. Eva Mills Anderson, of
Manitowoc, Wis, daughter of the
late Judge Mills, visited here last
week with Mrs j. P. Lewis and
other friends, and went to Blooming
ton Monday to stay day or two.
Miss Kathleen Crichton. who
has been visiting at Marion, Ind,
for couple of weeks, will come to
Chicago the latter part of this week,
where she will be met by Mr.. Clarence
Sousley, who will accompany her
home to Lancaster.
Since Friday Platteville has ex-
perienced three barn fires. The first
one was Friday night belonging to
l Mrs. Carpenter on the Bentz place on
the Lancaster road The fire started
about four o clock in the morning.
No cause of its origin can be given
unless it was set. The auto which
was in it was saved. On Saturday
night the barn of j. Laufenberg was
completely destroyed. The family was
out of town at the time. On Mon
day, night a barn on the Homer
Perry place was destroyed and COW
killed. The evidence shows in the
last case that it was struck by
| lightning, as a wire from the fence
was fastened to the barn and a cow
in the shed was found dead. Platte
vile News. tc
In the current number of the
Ginning and Engineering World
appears an article relative to the
nineteenth annual meeting of the
Lake Superior Mining Institute, an
organization of 600 mining men of
the Lake Superior districts. The
article is accompanied by photographs
of the offices and we'll known mem
bers of the Institute, among which
are pictures of Frank j. Webb. and
F. w. McNair formerly of this city,.
Mr.. McNair, who has been active in
the affairs of the institute for num-
Der of years, is president of the
Michigan College of Mines, at
/ Houghton, Michigan. Mr.. Webb IS
general manager of the northern
mines of the Republic Iron & Steel
| Company and is vice president of the
Institute. i The institutes meeting
J this year will be held next week on
the Marquette Range in northern
"A wholesome, sensible, straight
forward play savoring of common
| sense and clean motives is "That
Printer of Udell's' the dramatfzation
of Harold Bell Wrigt's novel. by Mr..
Wright and Fishery w. Reynolds,
that comes to the opera house on
Sept. 2. Every person in Lancaster
should see and profit by it. Richard
Falkner,, an orphan of obscure parent
age and printer by trade, thrown
out of employment by strike, comes
starving and work-seeking into
thriving western city. In his quest
for employment, he meets the persons
who tFwear religion as cloak i'm
stead of an armor' but is befriend-
ed by a so-called unbeliever, George
Udell. Falkner proceeds to win the
esteem, and confidence of the best
people and falls in love with Amy
Goodrich, society belle, whose reli
gious inclinations are sadly thwarted
by home environment. AS Falkner
rises, Amy falls, but the manly
young fellow succeeds in raising her
out of the dust to the highest plane
of we'll being. A splendid philan-
thropic scheme forms the nucleus of.
the plot. The incidents and charac.
tiers are natural and seem to be taken.
from every day life andawhile the
nobler instincts of, young manhood
and womanhood are appealed to, there
is. nothing of the offensive t'goody
goodness which blunts the aim of
many an otherwise excellent play.
In producing this play, Messrs. Cas-.
kill and MacVitty have not alone Civ
en- it an excellent cast but have also
given il a, scenic equipment that full
fills every need in the last word of
stage settings.