Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-03-04

! MFs' hlcnaTu WllklnsOn was
here from Sitter, Wednesday.
Miss Edith Hirsch was a between
train caller from Sitter, Friday.
Mrs ". E. Lathrop sp9nt Friday
afternoon visiting friends at Fenni-
more.
Mrs. Frad NehIs spent Saturday
and Sunday with her mother at
Centerville.
Mrs. Turner came here Sunday
noon and will make her home with
her son, Frank.
Ernest Wagner. of Eau Claire.
IS here conducting the shoe sale at
o. Heberleins this week.
Mrs Cushman and daughter.
Miss BERTHE Cushman, were callers
from Fennimore. Thursday.
Albert BROKER has returned from
visit with his sister, Mrs. Jas.
Cornelius, at Lincoln. Nebraska.
Miss Leone Ulbrich of Potosi
took the train here, Friday for Fen
nimore. to visit her grand father,
Chas. Patzner.
The ice houses are all filled now.
The cutting and packing was finished
last Friday and the general thickness
was about - to IA inches.
Miss Barbara Schloesser was
unable to be at her millinery store the
latter part Of the week by reason of
a severe attack of lumbago
---Chas. Vesperman has sold one of
his big ga Cartercars to Louis Damn
and what Lou won't do to the speed
record next summer isn't much.
Misses Edith Whaler and Edna
ellington returned home to Sitter,
Friday afternoon Miss Whaler has
been visiting relatives here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. J. Campbell
returned home to Bridgeport, Monday
of last week, after visit here with
Mrs. Campbell's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Tony Howell.
Mrs. Hugh Harper left here
Thursday afternoon for Madison,
where she will visit for while be-
fore going to their new home at Red
Cedar, near Eau Claire.
-Messrs. Reuben Garner, Ben
Seur. Jno. Reiliger, Ralph Erwin
and Charles Wannamaker attended the
Mail Carriers Convention at Mont
fort, last week. MIR. Irwin was elect
ed president of the Association.
Chester Croker, the merchant in
the Farwell Hotel block, spent part
of last week in Chicago. He was
there strictly on business, at least he
SO gave out the report. Incidentally
he stopped off for day in Madison
on his way home.
Jacob Hartman has taken posses
sion of the farm he recently bought
from his father, Thomas hartman in
the town of Waterloo. Thomas
Hartman wants to move to town, but
to date has failed to find a suitable
house in which to live.
William Wolf, the LaCro sse
attorney who helped TO make the
defense for H. E. French on tbs
murder charge. is mentioned quite
frequently as the coming candidate
for governor Of Wisconsin on the
democratic ticket. While here Mr..
Wolf made favorable Impression.
He is strong lawyer aud an unusual
ly good public speaker.
"A report comes in from Bagley
that the body of a dead man was
found beside the Burlington tracks
last Thursday morning AS stories
60, this is the first fatality on the
Burlington tracks in Grant County
since Fl. r. French was arrested, last
October, on the charge of causing the
death of the man, Murphy BY a
strange coincidence the day the jury
took the case of French under advise
ment, the slaughter by the Burling-
ton began anew.
"A tragedy overlook the Potosi
stage on last Saturday morning. down
on Boice's prairie. A wheel went
'dished" and some of the passengers
were precpitated into the soft and
soluble soil, soil that is worth at
least $3.50 per acre. But land of that
quality, when it is loosened with
moisture, is not quite the right
thing to light into. However, no
bones we're broken. and after a demu-
crat wagon had been borrowed from
George Baltic the train proceeded to
destination. Anyway, the historic
ground of Boice's prairie was enrich