Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-10

expositions. Saw the sights along two
great railways and travelled through
thirteen states.
The new Bloomington hotel opened
last Monday for business under its
new management, with Mr.. and Mrs.
A. E. Jones of Fort Atkinson as land
lord and landlady, respectively, who
have leased it from r. n. Hoskins,
and from their record as hotel people
their success seems to be assured.
Friday evening about o'clock
Agnes Woods received a dispatch from
Belmont, that her sister, Mrs. Harry
Hickok was seriously i'll and for her
to come at once. Martin Chapman,
her brOther-in-law, took his wife and
Agnes in his auto to Belmont that
night, and returned the next day. af-
tier finding the illness only temporary
and the patient passed all danger.
The ditching machine for our water
works arrived Thursday afternoon and
| Immediately started to work and at
| the present writing has finished the
ditch and laid the mains and about
| two blocks and they claim that with
good luck and good weather they can
dig from three to five hundred feet
per day So if the weather does not
get too cold we expect to get both
water and lights by the first of the
year.
! At 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
at the home of the brides mother, oc-
Cured the marriage of Miss Josephine
Hedemann and Frank HickOk, of this
village, Rev. Arhelger officiating, i'll
the presence of near relatives only,
and Immediately after the ceremony
they left for Dallas, S. D., for visit
at the home of Mr.. Hickok's sister,
Mrs. VIM. Miller, and after stay OF
two or three weeks will return and be
at home in Mrs. George Days resi-
dence in Bloomington, Wis.
The funeral of James H. Sprague
of Bloomington, was held at the Con-
gregational church Sunday morning
at 10 o'clock, Rev. Arhelger oft1ciat-
ing, when he was taken to Hillside
cemetery at Lancaster for burial by
the ritual ceremonies OF the &. A. r.,
where Comrade David Schreiner of
Lancaster, delivered a most beautiful
tribute to the deceased, as a soldier,
as a citizen. James H. Sprague was
born near the village of Beetown on
June II, 1910, and died at Bloomington,
Nov. 2, 1915 at o'clock a. M. A COM
plete copy of the obituary will appear
in the Herald next week.
James H. Sprague enlisted as a sol
der in company G of the 25th regiment
of Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers on
or about August II, 1862, at Lancas-
ter, Wis, and was honorably discharg-
ed June 7th, 1865, thereby serving
about two years and ten months III the
war of the rebellion. The complete
history of his services may be found
in the history of his regiment, for he
never missed a roll call, or never at
tended the sick call, while in the SER
vice of his country and was ever ready
for duty when called upon. His reg1-
ment was first sent into Minnesota in
the fall of go to help subdue the In
dian outbreak, thence to Vicksburg,
where lay under siege until General
Pemberton surrendered to General
Grant on the 4th day of July, 1858
Thence with General Sherman on his
famous march to the sea; thence back
to the rear of Richmond before Lee
surrendered to General Grant, and then
on to Washington, where it took part
in the grand review on Pennsylvania
avenue, after which he was discharged
at Washington, D. c.. on June It'll, 1865,
when his commanding officer made him
a present of his gun for taking better
care of it than any member OF his regi-
ment,