Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-07-15
Late Bits of Local News.

Special program at the Orpheum
Theatre, Thursday night, July %.
Clarence Calvert has had his
residence in the fourth ward reprinted.
Hon. j. w. Murphy, of Platte
willie, was here on legal business
Monday.
james Pigg went to Madison
yesterday on several day business
and pleasure trip.
Il Mrs. VIM. Barrows has been
sick for the past few days but is some
better at this writing.
David Gardner, Jr., of Platte
vile, was a county seat caller on
| legal business Monday.
On account of Chautauqua the
usual band concert on the court house
square will be omitted this week !.
Since the death of w. Hicks,
the firm of Hicks Bros, painters,
will be carried on by c. d. Hicks.
Rev. H. A. Studebaker preached
the sermon at the funeral of L..
E. Chandler, of Glen Haven, yester-
day.
H. E. Carthew has returned
from several strenuous days on his
farm. He says he has been pitching
hay.
-Myrle and Manola Budd, children
of DR.. Ed Budd, of Minneapolis, are
visiting here with their grandmother,
Mrs. Helen Budd.
&C. L. Carr, an elderly gentle
man we'll experienced in piano tunn-
| ing. is moving to this city. Ask H.
E. Gross about him.
| w. C. Suttle and H. F. Alt
autoed to Platteville and neighboring
cities Monday on combination pleas
ure and business trip.
| Joe Greer's Wild West show will
show here Saturday afternoon. It is
reported that Joe has just as good a
show as any ever appearing in this
vicinity.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Horsfall left
on Monday for an extended visit with
their son Clarence, at Thayer, Ne
braska. They expect to be gone
several weeks.
George Angus was in Boscobel
the first of the week on business con-
nected with the Lancaster Light and
Power Co. which will supply light for
that city in the near future.
Charles Smith, of Plainfeld,
Wis, spent several days the past
wsAel here visiting with his small
daughter who resides at the home of
her aunts', Misses Julia and Kate
Sweeney.
Mrs. H. ]. Schmidt and son Rex
visited several days last week with
friends and relatives at Fennimore.
Miss Jennie Brice, of that city, re-
turned with them, spending the week
end here.
Stella Moore, of Bloomington,
was operated upon by Drs. Doolittle
and DR.. F. H. Baldwin, of Blooming
ton, at the Doolittle Bros. Hospital
in this city on Sunday morning. The
patient is doing nicely.
! Union services were held at the
Congregational church Sunday morn
: ing. The sermon delivered was by
James Sloan Corkey, an Irish orator.
Mr.. Corkey is connected with the
Travers-Wick Chautauqua system.
The Herald has a couple of in
teresting communications pertaining
/ to the new courses of Domestic
science and Manual Training, which
will be introduced in the Lancaster
schools the coming year, but is I'M
able to publish them until next week.
| This is a subject that has come I'M
expectedly to the local public but
judging from the extent in which it
is being adopted by schools all over
the country there is little reason to
doubt that it will be a successful and
satisfactory addition to our schools.
John Street Jr., known to his
friends as 'Jack," died at his Chi
cago home last week at the age of
% years. He was a son of Judge
John Street, of Chicago, his mother
having been a Lancaster girl, who
before her marriage was Miss Della
Phelps, daughter of one of the
prominent families. The deceased
was nephew of Miss Abbie Phelps
and was related to a number of Ian
caster people. The body was brought
here Friday evening, accompanied by
his father, stepmother, and sisters
Helen and Florence. Burial took
place at Hillside cemetery on Satur-
day morning.
L. E. Chandler, one of the we'll
known and we'll respected citizens of
the town of Glen Haven, died on Sat-
urday last after only weeks i'll
ness, from an attack of typhoid fever.
/ He had been township clerk there for