Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-01
BLOOMINGTON.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
(By j. M. Hayden)

with his brother Leslie.
Pheneas Wright and daughter of
Beetown, were among the many peO-
pie on our streets last Saturday.
The bandana given at the city hall
last Wednesday, on account Of the bad
weather, was not as successful as they
expected.
Dell Brown sold out his freight bus
mess last Thursday to Vern Brookens
and certainly will not envy him his
task from now on til spring.
The Bloomington orchestra, consist
ing of Miss Roxa Prideaux, Lester
Pritchett, Seward Garthwaite and Ora
Brodt, played for a dance at Mount
Hope last Thursday evening.
The Bloomington athletics will play
the Keewatin school team of Prairie
due Chen, basket ball game in the
city hall next Monday evening, Dec.
6. Don't fail to see it.
If you wish to learn how to tip the
light fantastic, consult Earl Field and
Lawrence Hickok, for they have been
to Chicago and know exactly how to
do it.
The dinner given Thanksgiving day
at the M. E. church as advertised,
proved a financial success. The net
proceeds, amounting to something
over $100.
The old soldiers and their wives are
invited to dinner on Wednesday, Dec.
1, at the home of Jacob Schreiner to
celebrate the 18th anniversary of his
birth.
Gladys Hickok, Eugenia Roberts,
Elva Field and Milton Frazier, stud
ents of the Platteville normal, came
home Wednesday to spend Thanksgiv-
ing, and returned via Lancaster Mon
day morning in Fred Welsh's auto.
Mrs. J. NJ Hayden left Thursday
morning for Dubuque where she went
! to spend Thanksgiving with the Claws.
Foultons and many other old friends,
and to add something more to her mil
inery stock.
DR.. Everett Brooks and wife of APP
pleton with their daughter Virginia,
arrived here last Saturday for few
days visit with relatives and friends.
Also Jesse Brooks, Jr, and wife of
Neilsville, came Monday and Jesse re-
turned Tuesday leaving his wife for
longer visit.
Among those who delivered poultry
from Beetown last Tuesday were,
Champion Bros, Allen Meyers and
wife, Earl Sturmer and wife and Joe
Birch. Poultry is being sold in great
quantities this fall on account of the
scarcity of feed, therefore, bringing
the price down to living rate once
more.
| The Bloomington gun club met for
the first time Thanksgiving day on the
Old fair ground and killed a great
quantity of powder, with rather poor
results. Lynn Woodhouse carried off
the first honors. They met the second
time last Sunday again on the present
fair ground, with better results, with
! Lynn Woodhouse again in the lead.
o. H. Winner, of Beetown, the ber-
ry man, and wife, are to start to-day
Sunday for Jacksonville, Florida, via
Chicago, Niagara Falls, Washington,
d. c., and possibly New York City on
pleasure trip, and expect to remain
in the South until March, when they
expect to return home by boat on the
Mississippi.
The Old Fossil club met with Com
rade Hayden last Thursday and Friday.
The judge said if Luce did not stop
stacking the cards he would either
jump him or the game, but Luce re
monstrated and claimed that. he had
often held prettier hands many time
when he was younger without any
complaint whatever, SO the game went
on just the same and both got eucher-
ed.
Is it not awful to see those little
children plodding their way through
the storms and wind, rain and sleet
and mud from three to eight miles in
the winter, or even in good weather to
obtain a practical education that they
should be permitted to obtain at home
as it was before the present school
| system was forced upon them. Can
any one say, and tell the truth, that to
obtain a diploma at the eighth grade
only, qualities a child for any business
| in life, when four years of high school
in addition that does not qualify them
for a third grade certificate, which
daresay that three-fourths of the
graduates cannot pass on after they
are out of school two years or less,
and nine-tenths Of the eighth grade
from the small villages and rural
school cannot go any farther for there
are no provisions by law for it, and
now if 1 am not right in this matter,
wish some of the wiser ones would
put me right. Take BeetOwn, for an
example, where they have a very fine
school house, with three rooms, but
they cannot use the third room for the
law will not allow them advance be-
yond the Sth grade; therefore, forcing
the children to go to work on the farm
or in the ditch or run the streets the
rest of what should be their school
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