Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-05-19

Saturday at her home in Montfort.
Last Sunday the Rev. w. A.
Munday conducted religious services
in Prairie du Chen.
Miss Hazel Grimm, Cassville, is
in the city the guest of her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. George Barrows.
Walter Pollock, Cleveland, was
in the city last week the guest of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Pollock.
IT. j. Haley and Andrew Lewis
drove to Dubuque, on Monday, to see
the sights, including 101 Ranch, wild
west show.
Mrs. Annie Bennett and little
son, Charles, went to Dubuque, last
week, to visit her brothers, James
and John Graham.
Harry Gingrich has about COM
pleted the renovation and overhaul
ing of the Lancaster house and will
soon be ready TO take care of the
public in first class manner.
Rev. Fl. A. Studebaker, Miss
Dora Watkins and Miss Lorraine Will
son will be at Baraboo, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week, attending
the Madison district convention of
Congregational churches.
George E. Johnson, living on
the western rim of the city, says that
his father, the late George Spencer
johnson, was a subscriber to The
Herald for more than so years, and
the family still takes the paper. This
is just one of the many cases of real
fidelity to a publication, of which
The Herald has hundreds.
%. D. Wheeler, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of wife abandon
ment, and was sentenced to two
years in prison, with parole pcs
sibility, gave the bond required and
was released. His wife came to his
relief, and succeeded in getting six
Boscobel citizens to affiX their
signatures to the bond. And then
Wheeler went home, promising to be
good.
Il. j. Biba, town clerk of Castle
Rock, was in Lancaster on last Fri
day to get some advice regarding
road matters. He was very much in
terested in the article that was
printed on the front page of The
Herald last week, relative to the
amounts expended ~ the different
towns, during the past five months,
in making permanent roads. He is
one of the substantial farmers who
believes in reading a county paper
that prints county news, not neigh
borhood gossip. He came to town in
a Ford car
Louis Alt is getting himself into
shape to celebrate the golden jubilee
of his locating in Lancaster. He
came here 48 years ago, and says he
has been going ever since. He laid
off twice for trips to the old country,
but aside from that he has stood at
the cutting block pretty steadily. He
worked for Schreiner & Nathan a
long time, before he ventured into
business. And he says he did as
steady and loyal work for them as be
has since done for himself. When
Louie Alt gets ready to celebrate his
50th anniversary of residence in Lam
caster, the whole town will be there
to participate in the event.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph 7. Bennett
received message from their son,
keenan, A., last Sunday, giving them
the distressing news that he had been
stricken with illness at Pensacola,
Florida, and was on his way to Chi
cage, where he would submit to an
| operation. Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett
were driven to Potosi, where they
took the night train into Chicago
over the Burlington road, arriving
in advance of the sick son. 1t seems
that keenan, arrived in the big city
on Monday evening, was taken at
once to a hospital and DR.. A. j.
Ochsner, the noted surgeon called.
He pronounced it case for surgical
relief, although the condi tion of the
son was much better than Mr.. and
Mrs. Bennett had feared it would be.
1t is said that the complaint was
diagnosed as a stoppage of the in
festivals.
M. P. Rindlaub, the veteran
newspaper man of this section, was
in Lancaster last week Wednesday,
and was good enough to make a
fraternal call at the Office of The
Herald. He has a kindly interest
in The Herald, first because he
naturally likes a newspaper, and
second because he was assistant editor