Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-12-23

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Maurice Ziegler is home from
business college in Quincy, H., for
a vacation of two weeks.
DIR. L. P. Basford is in the city
from Chicago, to spend the Christmas
vacation with his father, e. H. Bas-
ford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Bur-
CESS departed Wednesday for Oshkosh,
Wisconsin and Dixon, H., for a visit
with friends and relatives.
-Woman's club will meet We'd
nesday, Dec. 30, with Miss Schreiner.
Thisis guest day, and each mem
Der is entitled to bring a guest.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Orion and
little son, of Hibbing, Mimi, are ex-
pected to arrive Thursday to spend
the holidays here at their paternal
homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Vesperman
are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Lydia
Watkins, and family in st. Louis,
Mo-, and will remain until after
Christmas.
An audience of fair size witness
ed the production of the Trousdale
players last week. 1t was said that
the acting was good, but the play was
not quite up to standard for this COM
pany
At the stock yards next Saturday
there will be sale of cattle stock,
beginning at one O'Clock. Cows,
heifers and steers will be put up
to the highest bidder. George Jer-
rett makes the offering. So
On page nine of this issue of
The Herald appears a New Years
greeting from the Gross Music House
to its patrons, in which attention is
also called to its pianos, violins,
victrolas, monographs, etc. s%
That Grant county people are
somewhat prosperous is further ev
idenced by the fact that this year the
sale of property for taxes amounted
to no more than So, 500. That seems
to be a stock amount-last year it
was about the same.
-Galena got all worked up re-
Gently by thinking it saw balloon
go over the city. 1t is not yet given
out whether it was a Zeppelin, or
a plain circus balloon. Perhaps it
was no balloon at all !; it may have
been bladder blown up and turned
loose.
Those three new signs below the
plate glass windows attract lot of
ttention-but that is what signs are
for. Glenn. Hoffman, the H. G. Orion
Co. and Weber Brothers put them in
place but lately and they are beauties.
of such details and lots of them, is
the modern city made up.
That great sawhorse, with its
legend, "keep on the walk. looks a
bit homogeneous these days. 1t is
we'll to keep on the walks, if one may
but know where the walks are locat-
ed. With an inch, or several inches,
of snow on the walks we would most
respectfully ask how one is to know
Gust Laabs, living three miles
northeast of town, says. he tired of
driving his children to Lancaster to
school, so he built house here which
is nearly ready for occupancy and
rented his farm. On January 18th
he will have an auction, sell his
personal effects and then move to the
city to live.
There was scattering of teachers
in the local schools last Friday and
Saturday, as each sought the home
roof tree for the holiday season.
Principal and Mrs. Adams stay in the
city. Mrs. Servis goes to Lacrosse
Mr.. Kirk, to Kenosha; Mr.. Mathews,
to Burlington; Mr.. Gay, to Medford
Miss Peterson, to Soldiers Grove
Miss Bunker, to Montfort; Miss Lath-
rop, to Bridgeport; Miss Damuth, to
Fort Atkinson, and Miss Pengelly, to
Dodgeville.
Last Saturday evening two plays
were presented at the Whitcomh
school, North Lancaster, which were
followed by a social hour. During
this feature of the entertainment
more than 80 was Melted for the fund
that Is used for permanent improve
ments on the grounds and buildings.
One young man was made to pay
more than So for a basket of lunch,
in order that he might share it with
certain young lady. Miss Mabel
Holzinger is the teacher in this
school.
A pretty home wedding in which
the contracting parties are to be two
of Lancaster's best young people will
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