Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-01
BLOOMINGTON.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
(By ]. NJ. Hayden.)

Special correspondence TO the Herald.
(By ]. NJ. Hayden.)
Jacob Schreiner and wife returned
Tuesday after an extended visit with
his daughter and family at Edgely,
North Dakota.
The Rosary play was staged at the
opera house last Tuesday night to a
medium sized audience and gave good
satisfaction.
Landlord John Oswald and daugh-
ter, of Bagley, were here Wednesday
on a business trip.
Prof. Bray and son started Thurs
day on an auto trip to Waterloo, Iowa,
| via Cuba City, where his mother join
ed him for visit with relatives and
friends.
Ed Taylor, of the Hurricane, sold
horses on the streets of Bloomington
last Thursday.
John Zeigler, wife and son of Glen
Haven, came in their auto to Bloom
ingtOn, Thursday.
Will Merkin took Griff Hickok, An
drew Roberts, and Chas. Knapp to see
GOlmar Bros. show at Prairie Du
Chem last Thursday and for fear of
accidents, Hickok and Roberts walked
over the Wisconsin bridge on their
way home.
Among those from a distance who
attended the funeral of Matthew Bald
win, was his sOn-in-law, DR.. T M.
Savage and wife, of Platteville.
Frank Fivecoats took an auto load
Thursday night to Prairie Du Chen
to see the big show.
Lee Bailey and family took in the
circus at Prairie Du Chen, Thursday.
Mrs. Jay Donnelly and three child
rem, Started Thursday on an extended
visit to Dos Palos, CAL, with her sis
ter Alta Woodhouse, from there, who
has been here visiting her many rel
atives and friends for the past month
or more.
Mr.. Jacob Schreiner and son, Albert,
with Ed Cornell and Oscar Brady,
went Friday to the Mississippi river
for fishing outing, and returned with
a good quantity of the finny tribe.
Last Thursday evening about forty
lady friends of Mrs: George Hickok
gave her surprise party and present
ed her with a beautiful gold ring and
pin, as a token of the respect and es-
TEEN they hold for her. AS Mr.. and
Mrs. Hickok expects to move onto a
farm in Millville in few days, for
which they recently traded their no.
tel - :
Monday while Mike Mergen was
leading horse by the halter, the ami
NAL jerked back, and in some manner
the bones of Mr.. Mergen's arm were
broken above the wrist. DR.. Baldwin
set the injured member. A very pc
culiar accident.
Five auto loads of Iowa people, who
had been visiting at WauZeka, passed
through here Friday on their way
home.
Harry Peak, wife and mother, of
Beetown, autoed here Friday to do
some shopping.
The village is now building a new
cement sidewalk in Bloomington on the
Porter, Brady & Knapp streets, which
certainly is a much needed improve
ment.
William Jordan, merchant, of Glen
Haven autoed here on business Friday.
Jay Donnelly and John Kinsler are
camping and fishing at the Father of
Waters for week or so, and of course
we expect to hear of great results
when they return home.
George Peterson, of Flora, was up
Friday and we were sorry to hear that
his good wife, who had a stroke some
time ago, is no better, and is very
feeble at the present writing.
Last Friday, a young man by the
name of j. S. Dotson, working for
Mentor Rich on farm near here, haul
Cd oh hIrndlnC of re
all the way up hill on one road with
a team that weighed less than 1000, to
a machine that threshed out of it rs
bushels, machine measure. Can you
beat it. Let's us hear from the next.
Mrs James Gilligan and children,
went to Gays Mills, Thursday for
weeks visit with friends.
Jimmie Sunny, prosperous farmer
from near Patch Grove, drove his
Mitchell car to Bloomington to mix
with our Saturday crowd.
Roy Hudson, farmer of 'Muscalung,
bought player. piano of the Lance
Music Co., Saturday. Roy is one of
those farmers who believes in making
home the pleasantest place on earth.
Leo. BARLEY moved Monday into his
new bungalow which Sam Pennock and
crew, of Lancaster, has just complet-
ed.
Last week Connie Lewis chauffeur
ed Mr.. S. A. Hatch through the Kick
apoo Valley in Crawford county and
over some of the celebrated hunting
grounds where Bill Day in early days,
said he killed the "two-year-old yearl-
ing buck faun, which had hoof like
a cow" but instead Mr.. Hatch was
hunting up some insurance business.
Monroe Hoskins brought his fami-
ly over Saturday from Ossian, Iowa,
for a short visit with relatives and
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