Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-06-09

| Will Rlgdon has come back to
Lancaster to work at his trade, a
barber, and is employed in Archie
Parkins' shop.
B. D. S. is improving from her
recent illness. Although gaining
slowly she is able to receive calls
from her friends.
will Carmody was busy last
week. He sold II No. SO Overlands,
and covered the county pretty well
in performing the task.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. Bendorf and
daughters, Misses Leona and
Genevieve, of New Hampton, Iowa,
leave June 9, for California to visit
Mrs. Bendorf's sister at Los Angeles.
And also to attend the fairs at San
Diego and San Francisco.
A. L. Thompson and Harvey
Williams, two daring aeronauts of
watertanks, are in Lancaster for the
purpose of putting some pretty colors
on the surface of the railway tub.
They will probably paint 'er red,
which is the color most in vogue in
tanking circles.
Miss Leonora Damuth left for
her home in Fort Atkinson, last
Monday morning. She will not be
In the south school next year,
having decided to finish her course in
the University. Miss Damuth is a
junior, and expects to stick to the big
school two years, until she has her
degree.
Mrs. Adam Mink came up from
their home in Potosi to spend few
days with her husband, who is fore
man on the road job up in North Lam
caster, and was to do some visiting
in Lancaster. But she had little
more than got here, when she was
called back home because of the sud-
den death of her grandfather, George
Stoll ST., who has been in bad health
several years. Mr.. and Mrs. Adam
Mink went home to Petosi at once,
on receipt of this sad intelligence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Houston Kreul,
Fennimore, passed through Lancaster,
last Thursday, stopping long enough
to see Register of Deeds T. A.
Thompson for a few minutes. The
Kreuls are neighbors of the Thomp-
sons, when the latter family is at
home on the farm, north. of Fenni-
more. Some time ago Mrs. Kreul
was afflicted with ptomaine poisoning,
and for several months has been
taking treatments at Platteville.
When the wheeling is good, Mr..
Kreul drives her to Platteville in
their car. They had come from one
of these trips, when they were here
! last Thursday.
r. Doris Jerrett has quit farming
and moved to Darlington, were he is
engaged in the business of running a
restaurant. He stole march on his
friends few weeks ago, when he
met Miss Fern George, Gays Mills,
at Dubuque and they hunted out a
minister of the gospel and had the
matrimonial knot tied good and tigth.
This was no runaway match, for they
had it under consideration for long
time. Miss George, now Mrs. Jer-
rett, is the daughter of an excellent
family in Gays Mills, and if it is
] bit late, congratulations are in
order. The newspaper man is not to
be blamed if the news is late-Dor-
ris Jerrett is the guilty person.
Marvin Cooley, Hurricane Sec
ton, was in the other day and after
he had transacted little business in
the ''front office" sat down and had
a bit of, a visit with the man who
writes hot stuff to be read. Marvin
has snapped farms and later in the
season will pull up stakes and make
for Mt. Hope country. He got the
notion that he needed more land, be-
cause the lord has blessed him with
sons. There are three husky male
CooIeys in the family, besides
"Pa," and father thinks he can raise
lot of salable stuff, if he has but
the farm. Over at Mt. Hope, Mr..
Cooley has $50 acres, all well
watared and in good cropping condi-
ton. But he has no love for leav-
ing the Hurricane section, which is
about the finest. There are no flies
on Mt. Hope, so far as we have
ever heard.
j. T. Donaghey, chief highway
inspector for the state, was in town
last week to be present at the letting
of contracts for road work in the
towns of Paris and Jamestown. He
is Sank county man, and earned his
promotion in the cause of good roads
nv dining some of the best work OF