Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-12-02
PoTOSI.


spAc'nl Correspondence TO the Herald.
w. c. Hymer shipped four cars of
hogs to Milwaukee last week.
James H. Jackson, of Dubuque,
spent last week with old friends in
Potosi.
Mr.. j. P. Pluemer and daughter
Leta spent Thanksgiving day and
Friday with their daughter and sister
Mrs. Mark Carmody and husband in
Lancaster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Grimm return
ed last Monday from a pleasant visit
with Mr.. Grimm's sister Mrs.
Robert Reitz at Clinton, Iowa. 1t
had been seven years since they had
met each other and this meeting was
joyful one to all of them.
Mrs. George Ford and son Kenneth
after a couple of weeks pleasant visit
with her daughter Mrs. Arthur B.
Snead, returned to her home at
Reedstown, Wis, Friday morning.
The Gross Music House, of Lancas-
ter, has established a branch agency
for Victrolas at the Seaton drug
store in this village. See their
advertisement on page three of this
paper.
Peter Rupp Jr. and sister Miss
Lizzie, returned Sunday afternoon
from pleasant visit with relatives
in Cassville.
Charles Slater wife and chill
dren, of Dubuque, came up Wednes-
day and spent Thanksgiving at the
William Powell home.
The S. A. Thomas Co. delivered a
car load of fine apples to patrons last
week. Glennon, Webb Key and T..
H. Runkel also disposed of car
load.
The Woodman dance last Wednes-
day evening was fairly we'll attended,
but not up to expections.
The shooting match in Dutch
Hollow last Thursday drew a large
crowd of sports and many others who
were not of the sporting order.
Many turkeys, geese and ducks were
carried away by the successful
nimrods.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. J. Hinson, of
Platteville, Miss Eva Wilmott, of
Dickeyville, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Will
mott and little son Harry of the viii
lage of Potosi, and Mrs. Gustave
Schaal, of Waterloo ate Thanksgiv-
ing dinner at the E. NJ. Wilmott
home in Tennyson.
Arthur B. Snead bade goodbye to
his many friends here and departed
Monday morning for Darlington
where he will assume the manage
ment of a large creamery for the
Platteville Creamery Co. He will
be succeeded here by a buttermaker
from Prairie du Chen who will take
charge of the Tennyson creamery this
week. Mrs. Snead and children will
remain here for about a week before
removing to Darlington.
ST. Andrews day was appropriate
ly observed Monday, Nov. 3Oth by
the members of the congregation of
that name. Almost every person of
the congregation received the sacra-
ment of holy communion. The ladies
of the Society of Altar Ladies had
a most sumptuous breakfast and
dinner prepared in the parochial hall
for all who desired to eat and
which most every one partook of.
Rev. Father Shelter was assisted in
the services by the Rev. Fathers
Pape of Potosi, Rumplehart, of
Dickeyville and Doyle of Seneca
Wis.
OBITUARY MRS, BODE
The death of Mrs. Gertrude Anna
Bode which occurred at her home in
DIckeyville Sunday morning, Nov.
9Th, 1914, has removed from earth
another highly respected old resident
of Grant county. Her funeral took
place Tuesday forenoon, Nov. 10th,
from the residence to the Catholic
church in Dickeyville and was very
largely attended by friends from all
parts of the southwest part of the
county, manifesting the high esteem
in which this good Christian woman
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