Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-06

kee, Monday.
DIR. j. C. Doolittle went to Chi
cago Monday.
Miss Nell Moran spent Sunday
with friends in Platteville.
The Congregational Ladies Aid
rummage sale will take place May %
and "a.
Mrs. Sam Nero, of Livingston,
spent Sunday here with her sister,
Miss Clara Willard.
Miss Hilda Gratz, of Sitter
visited her sister, Miss Henrietta
Gratz here over Sunday.
Miss Addie Keitlinger visited in
Potosi the latter part of last week, at
the Chris Keehner home.
Mrs. A. Wayne went. to Fenni-
more, Monday for brief visit with
her aunt, Mrs. M. Register.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Malmbourg,
of Delavan, Wis, are guests at the
home of Rev. and Mrs. Weyrauch.
Miss Media Green returned to
Madison Monday after an extended
visit with relatives west of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Vogt, of
Glen Haven, spent Sunday with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Keit-
linger.
Mrs. Henry Braves and daughter
Miss Tracy, Of Montfort, made a
brief visit in Lancaster the fore part
of the week.
DIR. R. M. Carter and family,
of Livingston, autoed to Lancaster
Sunday and spent the day at the c..
F. Dickinson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Holzmiller
and children, of Fennimore, were over
Sunday visitors at the Vic Holzmiller
home in South Lancaster.
Mrs. Frank Narrower and little
daughter Virginia, went Saturday to
Platteville for a visit at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
Schroeder.
Did you ever see so many autos
in Lancaster in one day as were here
last Friday? To move those country
school ma ans and the children called
a lot of motors into action.
From Platteville comes the re-
port that the animosities melted by
the religious war that was injected
into the spring elections are cooling
off to perceptible degree.
Miss Charlotte Burns returned to
Anderson, Ind, last Thursday, where
she is connected with a Missionary
Home, after an extended visit at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. M. Burns, west of town.
The Knox Auto Co. last week
received two carloads of the popular
Studebaker cars. This nifty car has
found favor with the autoists in this
section and Mr.. Knox has no trouble
in disposing of a goodly number each
year.
J. G. Newly, a representative
of the Rawleigh Medicine Co. of
Freeport, ILL.,, was here in the in
terests of the concern last week.
While here he appointed John Burns
as agent to look after the business
in southwest Wisconsin.
There are % names registered
in the Lancaster Cornet band, and the
boys are rehearsing three times a
week, under the direction of Harry
E. Gross. 1t now looks as if Lancas-
ter will have a plenty of public con-
certs from the band stand in court
house square before the summer s
passed and gone.
Prof. J. G. Sanders, from the
university, an entomologist of ma
tional repute, has been here twice of
late to arrange for the making of a
series of experiments in methods for
meeting the menace to agriculture
caused by the white grub. The work
will be done on the farm of w. A.
Johnson, north of this city.
Much complaint is heard regard
ing the house situation in Lancaster
1t is claimed that there is a dearth
of desirable residences for rent, es
pecially for the use of families with
children. A good number of resi-
dences are being built this spring,
but that the supply of desirable
houses for rent will keep step with
the demand is another matter.
While Charles Mclean and Gin.
ton F. Budworth were fishing in Grant
river, eight miles west of the city,
last Saturday evening, they landed a
mud turtle that weighed 20 pounds
They caught some suckers-black
suckers, of course-but when the
turtles began to come around the fish