Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-10-07

j Arthur Knapp and Florence
Lathrop were at Boscobel Monday.
DIR. Gault and son Harry and
Theo. Wenzel spent Sunday at Nc
Cartney.
Prof. Sanford, of the Platteville
Normal, spoke at the Congregational
church last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Tiedeman
and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Brandemuel
autoed to CassviIle Sunday
The Shakespeare Club will meet
next Tuesday afternoon, Oct. ID, at
2 o'clock, with Mrs. Delos Abrams.
Frank Burback, of Smelser,
was arraigned before Justice of the
Peace, c. w. Burrows, and charged
with having sold liquor without a
license. He was fined fifty dollars
and costs, which he paid.
DIR. Carl M. Walker was married
last Thursday, to Miss Edna Keyes,
at the brides home in Milwaukee.
They returned to Lancaster Sunday
and will engage in housekeeping in a
part of the house jointly occupied by
Mrs. M. E. Calvert, near the south
school.
Hon. Emanuel Philip, Repub-
lican candidate for governor of Wis
consin will address a meeting at
Hatch's opera house in this city, upon
the political issues of the campaign,
on Thursday evening of this week,
Oct. s, commencing at 8 o'clock.
Everybody invited to come and hear
him.
Further developments have arisen
over the republican nomination for
register of deeds for this county.
Thos. A. Thompson, of Fennimore,
who found an error of 20 votes in
the Hazel Green returns, which, if
counted, will make the result tie,
now finds another error of 20 votes
in Platteville which if counted will
place him that much in the lead and
give. him the nomination. He has
mandamused the three who constituted
the county can 7assing board and an
answer is to BE made before Judge
Clementson today.
Last Wednesday morning Mrs.
c.. H. Basford accompanied her daugh-
ter, Mrs. r. C.. Chase, who has been
making an extended visit in Lancas-
ter, to her home in Oshkosh. On
Monday of this week Mrs. Basford
went to Wales, where she met a
number of ladies from Lancaster and
Bloomington who were there to attend
a meeting of ''The Mysterious Club,
a social organization formed some
years ago by the ladies of these two
places, and which holds a meeting at
the hc.ne of one of its members an
nually. This year they assemble in
Wales at Seven Gables, the home of
Mrs. Lizzie McGonlgal, former resi-
dent of Lancaster. Yesterday Mrs.
Basford went to Chicago where Mr..
Basford went to meet her, and to-
gether they will visit his sons, Harry
and L. P, returning home Thursday
or Friday.
The Herald's big subscription
voting contest is now approaching an
end, the closing date having been
fixed for Saturday evening, October
"a, at 80. The final votes then
counted by some local citizens select
ed for the purpose, will decide who
have won the automobile, diamond
ring, business college scholarship,
gold watches, etc., which we are
offering to the persons receiving the
highest number of votes, based upon
the number of subscribers they get
for this paper. The Herald has long
known that there was large num-
Der of people in this county ready to
become subscribers to this paper at
any time they were personally solicit
ed, and the army of new ones now
being enrolled through the active
efforts of our energetic contestants is
very gratifying to US. This week
our greatest offer of the contest is
being made and the votes won during
the next six days will have much to
do in deciding who the winners will
be 1t is the psychological time for
supreme effort. ~