Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-10-28

Miss Dorothy Vesperman is visit
ing relatives in Dubuque.
The Virginian" at the opera
house, Monday night, Nov. 2.
Clarence Ball and H. M. Roberts,
of Bloomington, were here Friday.
David Eastman took an auto
load of ladies to Dubuque last Thurs
day.
Miss Lizetta Ait expects to
leave Saturday for Chicago to attend
a school for nurses.
DR.. Fowler, Elgie Hickok and
Lou Fischer were down to Mccartney
last Thursday and Friday.
Henry Fischer, Henry Bausch
and Henry Pagenkopf spent couple
days last week at the river.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mort Allen left
yesterday for lola, Idaho, where Mr..
Allen will engage in farming.
Mrs. Frances Knox, of Mt. Ida
is here for a few days visiting with
her grand daughter, Mrs. Will Ward.
Walter Damn is home from
Camp Douglas and Verona, where he
has been experimenting some bridge
work.
v. S. Kidd, of San Francisco,
accompanied NARROW Kidd here last
week when he returned for short
visit.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. j. C.
Webster, of Harold, South Dakota,
ten pound boy. Mrs. Webster is
known by her Lancaster friends as
Florence Judd.
Sheriff w. B. Dyer has purchas-
ed from Harry Palmer, of Lacrosse
the fast pacing mare Cletta, with
record of 2:O6a and expects to do
some good race work next year.
The safeguarding and macadamiz-
ing that was being done on east Elm
street for the past month is now
completed This now makes one of
the best pieces of road in the city.
Several contributions of county
news and other matters intended for
publication in The Herald this week,
are unavoidably crowded out for want
of room TO print it. Such as is not
too old will be printed next week.
Special meeting of Lancaster
Lodge F. & A. NJ. Thursday evening
of this week at z 80, with work in
the 1st degree. On Friday evening
of next week, Nov 6, there will be
work in the Sd degree with two
candidates, followed with refresh
ments.
Let it be remembered in future
years that the first real killing frost
this fall was on the night of Mon
day, October 20. On the Saturday
night previous there was a slight
one, but it did not do much execu-
ton. Crops had all matured and
ripened and the leaves were nearly
all off the trees before the frost
came. 1t has been a remarkably fine
autumn.
Col. J. G. Clark has been
dangerously i'll during the past week
with an attack of bronchitis, but is
much better now. His condition was
considered so serious last week that
his children were sent for, his son
Will, of Oklahoma City, and his
daughter Alice, Mrs. Jos. McBrien,
of Minneapolis, arriving by way of
Potosi, Saturday night. Mr.. and
Mrs. E. R. Tiel, of Sacramento,
Calf, arrived yesterday afternoon.
&C. D. Stone, who has been
managing The Herald's subscription
voting contest during the past ten
weeks, left on Sunday afternoon,
accompanied by his wife, for Kearney,
Nebraska, where he will at once en-
gage upon a similar contest for a
daily paper, the Kearney Morning
Times. Mr.. and Mrs. Stone have
made many friends during their stay
here, who Will be glad 20 know that
they meet with as good success in
their new field as they have had in
this.
Mrs. Jennie r. Pauley, of Bur
ton, the estimable young woman who
made such gallant race for the
prize auto given in The Herald's vot-
ing contest and came so very near
winning it, requests us to thank the
friends and all concerned who SO
generously and Loyalty gave their
support to her cause. She made a
grand showing in the race and had
she started a week earlier would
have certainly won it. AS it is
she gets the diamond ring and a
record as hustler that she may be
proud of.