Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-05-12
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north Madison street is picking up
every little while.
&C. F. Ropes, of Onawa, Iowa,
a veteran Of the civil war, Co. H.
58th Iowa. il visiting at the home
of Mrs. Reuben Ward.
Mrs. Il. {. Mcdonald, of Min
Ieapolis, Mimi. arrived Saturday
noon, for a months visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ". F. Phil
brick.
Miss Nellie Cavanaugh, who has
been in Lancaster for a few weeks
trying TO get a representative f. a
line of toilet %specialties, spent Sun
day in Dubuque.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank c Meyer
are home from their honeymoon. For
the present they are staying at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Meyer,
Jr., until their own home, on south
Monroe street, is completed.
Last Friday was Arbor day, but
it seems as if few trees were planted.
The trouble this year is that foliage
was 60 far advanced that trees might
not be t~ran-planted without risk of
loss. If we had the making of Arbor
day we would put it ahead on the
calendar about three weeks.
Fred Swallow has lived out east
of Lancaster A years, Dry Hollow is
the name he has given to his home
section. He raised six acres of
wheat last year, and threshed $50
bushels from the piece. He brought
IN a erist, last Friday, and had it
ground into flour for nome use. And
he has another crop of six acres com
ing on. FRED Is a reader of The
Herald of old standing.
Miss Leonora Damuth has decid-
ed that she will not return to Lancas-
ter for the next school year; instead
she will enter the University at
Madison and finish her college course.
Two more years and Miss Damuth will
get her bachelor degree, which she
very much desires TO have. For two
years Miss Damuth has taught the
sixth grade in the south school and
her work mas been of real excellence.
Charles L. Day. who lives on
the town line between North Lancas-
ter and South Lancaster, his house
Is in one town, his barr in the other,
says he turned out his cattle the
first of last week. He saws the
pastures came on this spring the
fastest he ever saw, and that his hay
gave out at the right time. He
keeps about IS head of cattle, one
sort and another, but all good grades.
Charles G.. Wieland and bride,
formerly Ruth LucIlla Hodoval. are
home from their honeymoon, which
carried them to Chicago and other
points in Illinois, as we'll as into
Iowa. They have settled down on a
farm they rented in the northeast
corner of the town of Waterloo. 1t
is SAID that Charles has a notion to
buy the place, but that his father
advised him to rent it for a time.
For the benefit of those who do net
know it already, we state that
Charles G.. Wieland is the son of
George Wieland, Hurricane section.
Stanley Rinehart who works on the
u. @. Churchill place about z miles
north of the city. suffered a painful
and what might have been a serious
accident Sunday noon. 1t seems that
wolves have been causing consider
able damage among the sheep in the
neighborhood. and the farmers are
all on the lockout for them. Stanley
thought he saw signs of wolves on
the Churchill place, and Sunday morn
ing he took 2 % oalibre rifle and
started for the timber. On the way
down he noticed a squirrel 8 nest ina
tree, and leaned the gun against the
tree with the idea of climbing up.
The gun must have been cooked,
for as he started to climb the rifle
went off and shot him through the
feshy part OF the left forearm. The
bullet passed through making a clean
wound although it bled heavily. Mr..
Churchill brought Stanley to Lancas-
ter, and Dr.. J. Godfrey dressed the
wound.
james Petty is another old-timer
who got his start in life at British
Hollow. He was born near there
about II years ago. and takes great
pleasure IN r~ecounting the delights
and troubles Of half a century back.
He says that soon after the war times
were gooo down there; that he has
seen the commercial status of British
Hollow in the jolly condition of one
general store and five speciality stores.
The speciality stores sold several kinds