Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-08-05

Miss Grace Morse went to Chi
cago Saturday for brief visit with
friends.
Mrs. Fred Allen and daughter, of
Livingston, came Thursday for brief
visit here with relatives.
Miss Louise Club, of Edmund,
was the guest at the Y. H. Kinney
home several days last week.
R. A. King has gone to North
Dakota, where he will spend several
weeks with friends and relatives.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Wright, girl, Saturday morning.
Both mother and baby doing fine.
The pioneer Northwestern R. R.
engineer, C. w. rockingham went to
Madison Saturday to take an exam
ination in signal work.
The summer school at Platte
vile closed Friday and the many
students in attendance have returned
to their respective homes.
Clarence Rech and Chester
Croker went to Burnt Cabin Hollow
early Saturday morning for a brief
vacation to be spent fishing.
Miss Nell Moran returned home
from a visit at Dodgeville, Saturday
evening. Miss Margaret Reese re-
turned with her for a weeks visit.
Mrs. S. E. Davis, who has been
at the Clifton home for some time,
has gone to Cincinnati for a visit
with her daughter, Mrs. E. E. Barr
Fred Basford and daughter Ber-
nice returned Monday evening from a
a weeks business and pleasure trip
to Jefferson, GAINESVILLE and Madison.
The waters of the Mississippi are
falling rapidly and the fishing is
excellent. A number of parties from
here have made use of this fact dur
ing the past week.
-Vesperman Bros. are driving
about a fine new Buick auto, 1915
model, which they are agents for.
This car is dandy and attracts the
attention of many
Mrs. E. w. Shaw and son ST.
Clair, of Chicago, who have been
visiting here with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. G. Smith, has returned to
her home in Chicago.
Charles Benke and wife, of Mt.
Hope, were Lancaster callers Friday.
They drove here with three year old
horse which became frightened and
ran away, injuring Mrs. Benke.
Miss Dorothy Baldwin returned
Saturday from Fennimore where she
had been visiting relatives the past
couple of weeks. Miss Marie Weber
returned with her for brief visit.
Mrs. Isabel Servis, of Oshkosh,
has been secured to teach the
Domestic Science Course in the Ian
caster schools. Mrs. Servis is a
graduate of the State Normal school
at Winona, MINI.
"A party consisting of Edgar
Croft, C. NJ. Calvert, Henry Henkel
and Frank Tenant spent Wednesday
fishing at the river below Potosi.
They went in the formers auto and
succeeded in catcing a fine lot of fish.
Frank Sitter returned home
Thursday evening from a several
weeks vacation spent at Freeport,
Davenport and Rock Island. At
Freeport he visited his daughter,
Mrs. Grace Huberty, and other rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Belken
and family and Mr.. and Mrs.
Chris Aurit and three sons, Tony,
Henry and Casper, all of Elk Grove,
autoed here Sunday and spent the day
with the formers mother, Mrs. P.
Belken and sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 7. Spang, of
Friday in their new Hudson Six auto,
which attracted considerable admira
tion while here. They returned the
same evening. Mr.. Spang has bought
a lot and is preparing to build new
garage at Livingston.
The ball game played at Bos-
cobel Sunday between Boscobel and
Lancaster city teams was a victory
for the former team by score of
1913. The Lancaster boys kept the
Boscobel team shut out until the
seventh inning, when they ran in the
ten scores.
More than a dozen of the Boy
Scouts, Lancaster Troop Number One,
camped during the past week near
Porter's bridge, on Grant river. The
party was in charge of Scoutmaster
c. c. Cunningham. The members of
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