Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-09-16

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Madison on business Monday.
Miss Katherine Meyer went to
Milwaukee Monday for visit with
friends.
Thomas Bevins returned Mon
day to Preston, where he is emplo yed
on farm.
Yves Landon went to Belmont
Monday morning to purchase Shet-
land sta llion.
Considerable more local news
will be found on page five of The
Hera Id today.
Miss Elsie Taylor went to
PIatteville Monday, where she will
attend the Normal.
Read the advertisements. They
contain money-saving announcements
that are worth while.
Roy Fischer returned to Madi-
son Monday, where he will again take
up his studies in the University.
Mrs. Chas. Brick and little son
went to Platteville last Saturday for
a visit with friends and relatives.
Clarence Markert left Saturday
for Waterloo, Iowa, and other places.
He is employed in the appraisal
work.
Mrs. Geo. Philips returned
home to Madison Monday, after an
extended visit here with friends and
relatives.
The base ball game at the
Bloomington fair. between Mt. Hope
and Lancaster was won by Mt. Hope
by a%score of z to 5.
Christian Wieland went to Madi-
son Monday after his son who has
been in the asylum at Mendoza, but
who is much better again.
Misses Gene Roberts and Gladys
Hickok, of Bloomington, were here
Monday on their way to Plattevilla,
where they Will attend the Normal.
The fireworks displays at the
night fairs on the grounds of the
Grant County Fair Association this
week will be very attractive features.
The macadam paving on the city
streets has been partially resurfa ced
during the past week, but the work
was stopped by the wet weather.
DIR. E. H. Brooks and daughter
Virginia, of Appleton, Wis, return.
ed home Monday morning after
pleasant visit with friends and rela-
tIves.
E. H. Griffis, of Little Grant,
was in the city Monday bringing his
daughter Blanche here to take the
train for Platteville. where she will
attend the Normal.
"A Harold Truitt, D. c., CHR O.
practor,- has opened an office in
rooms over the Boston Store in the
opera house building. His advertise
ment appears on another page of
today's Herald.
The weather man seems to have
grudge at the Grant County fair,
judging by the heavy rains it has
had to encounter during its sessions
the past few years, but it stopped in
time to save the day this time.
Cecil Oates, the Ia year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Oates, fell
off the roof of a chicken house last
Thursday and broke both bones in his
right arm.
John ]. Wenzel an old and we'll
known citizen, died at his home in
the north part of the city yesterday
afternoon, after a lingering illne is.
Particulars as to the funeral are not
known at the hour The Herald goes
to press.
The Brooks Stock Company, we'll
known to Lancaster theatre goers, is
playing week s enga cement here this
week, at Hatch's opera house on
Monday evening with the play en-
titled "The Bigamist. Good bill
every night. "Fanchon, the Cricket"
Saturday night.
The rain during the past few
days has put check upon the work
on Vesperman Bros. fine new garage,
being built north of the Wright
House. 1t is of heavy construction,
concrete and steel, with cement
floors and will be a substantial and
roomy place when completed.
The Woman's Club held a meet
ing at the rooms used by the classes
in the domestic science course, of
the Lancaster schools, last Friday,
but no classes were engaged in the
work at the time. The club women
are taking an active interest in this
course and were largely instrum entail
in uettinO If installed here thiS wear