Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17

A1Cl uIoNe ~ IldltSNlllSs IIlhdy I.
Mrs. John Phillips went to
Madison, Saturday, to visit relatives.
Frank Burrows and Guy Horsfall
were in Cassville on business, last
Thursday.
American History club will meet
on Saturday with Mrs. Bud Taylor.
Covered dish.
congregational Ladies Aid will
meet with Mrs. H. A. Studebaker,
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. F. C. Basford, who has
been on the sick list for the past
week, is improving slowly.
Wesley Thompson left for Madi-
son and Minneapolis, Wednesday. to
visit relatives and friends.
Social aid meeting, ladies of the
e. A. R., will meet with Mrs. Lena
Dyer, Thursday afternoon of this
week.
See the big basket ball in the
show window of the H. Z. Orion Co.
Then remember that the local team
needs your support Friday night, at
Hatch's opera house.
Mrs. b. j. Lowrey started Sun
day afternoon for Charlotte, Mich,
where she will visit for two or three
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. J..
M. Allen, and family.
Somebody was unfortunate
enough to lose linen handbag, with
two initials on it, worked in pink
silk. 1t contained a purse in which
were few pennies and a nickel.
1t is at this office.
In the Iowa Legislature, the
senate has passed by the overwhelm-
ing vote of 80 to 10, to submit to a
vote of the people the question of a
constitutional amendment relative to
the sale of liquor. There seems to
be strong movement in the Hawk
eye state to put booze on the
water wagon.
John Frowley, an unfortunate
boy of 16, was brought over from
Crawford county on Monday, in order
that he might plead guilty to the
charge of burglary. 1t seems that he
broke into a store in the village of
Seneca the other night and absorbed
a rain coat, So. so in money and
quantity of cigars. He was given
year at Green Bay.
Louis Weber, one of the Lancas
ter shoe men, has in one Of his show
windows an unusual display of goods
real home made shoes. In all pro-
liability one may get made pair OF
boots, but of that we are not inform
ed. There was a time when almost
everybody wore home made boots,
and that time was not so blooming
long ago. But in this time it is un-
usual to see home made boots or shoes.
Mrs. E. Shurtleff, formerly of
Upton, Iowa, has bought out the mil
linery stock. business and good will
of Mrs. F. c. Burr, and will con-
tinue to conduct the same on the
second floor of the Henkel store, as
has been done in the past. Mrs.
Shurtleff has had a wide experience
in this line of business, and says she
will give of her experience and skill
to deserve the patronage of the women
of Lancaster.
"A salesman from The Herald
shop was recently in Elkader, Iowa,
the town that licenses one saloon for
ST, 100 year, and out of curiosity
the Lancaster man dropped into this
high priced dispensary to see how
things ran. He says. that there was
a horseshoe shaped bar, and behind
this a small army of barkeeps to
hand out the stuff asked for. Eat
times as many as seven men are
employed in drawing the amber
fluid into glasses and taking in the
coin therefor.
Erwin Hunter was over from his
home at Livingston, the early part OF
last week, to attend the sale of stock
held by the firm of Dobson & East
man. Mr.. Hunter is a brother in law
of Lee D. Eastman. Mr.. Hunter is
of the firm of Hunter Brothers, farm
ers, and it is said they are good farm
ers. He and his two brothers operate
half section near the village of Liv-
ingston, and while they sell cream,
they do not make a practice of milk
ing any of those pure bred dairy
cows. On the contrary, they milk
Short Horn cows, of what is called q
"milking strain. These three
brothers, William, John and Erwin,
are single each and all, and they live
with their widowed mother. In the
same family is an unmarried sister.