Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-06-09
|. STRICTLY PERSONAL
Being an interesting collection Of Wholesome Gossip
Regarding Many Desirable qualities of our own People


Editor John Foley and wife were
up from Cassville, Saturday.
Mrs. LaVina Hirsch has been
visiting in Livingston for week.
Miss Edna Becker, Mt. Horeb.
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Green.
Miss Mae Boyle is helping Miss
Mile Thompson in the office of the
register of deeds.
George B. CIementson is out
with new Studebaker touring car,
and it is handsome machine
Mrs. Henry Burnham came up
from Watseka, ILL.,, her home, last
week for a visit with her grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William P. Row
don, north Madison street.
DIR. Alba g. Edwards and bride
came to Lancaster, last Thursday,
and were the guests of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. M. C. Edwards, until
yesterday, when they went to Cass-
vile for few days.
Rev. William Harberts and Mrs.
Harberts, Mrs. Val Flitsch and Mrs.
Louis Vesperman, drove over to Du-
buque the latter part of last week
to attend the commencement exercises
at Dubuque Presbyterian college.
Miss Jane Pengelly, teacher of
botany and mathematics in the local
high schools, left for her home in
DodgevIlle, last Saturday morning.
As Tor the summer, Miss Pengelly
expects to take up work in mathe-
MATES in Chicago University.
John Flesch, Hurricane section,
in last Monday and said that his
er is doing pretty we'll. AS a
rule clover seeding came through the
winter we'll, the gloomy predictions
Notwithstanding. Mr.. Flesch is one
of the most successful growers of
clover seed in this section, and he is
a god general farmer az we'll.
Register of Deeds Thomas A.
Thompson is still confined to his bed
a part of the day, by orders of bis
Chicago physician. He is taking
little medicine, but must not indulge
in physical exertion, and is required
to forget his worries. He is satisfied
that his condition is improving slow
ly.
james 6. Bailie was in town for
the meeting of Holstein breeders, of
whom he is one, ana when The Herald
man met him he scarcely knew his
former friend. James has had much
pain, and can scarcely get around.
But he still has his courage, COM
monty called grit That quality
will pull him through. Rheumatism
did it.
Miss Esther Belken, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank .Belken, Iowa
Falls, Ia, came to Lancaster, last
Saturday, for an extended visit with
her grandmother Mrs, Pauline
Belken. Frank Belken is well re-
membered in Lancaster, although he
has been in the Iowa city about a
dozen years. Miss Esther is a junior
in the high schools.
The Rev. H. A. Studebaker
goes into camp on. Thursday morning,
if weather is favorable, with dozen
young men at Mccartney, near the
big lagoon. The boys are: Howard
Jordan, Bryan Richardson, BurnelIe
Suttle. John Watkins, Irving Kraemer,
Horace Hymer, Raymond Poland,
John Prideaux, Ernest Neumann,
Vivian Edwards and few others are
expecting to join the company. The
boys intended to stay in camp for a
week, and are we'll equipped for the
enterprise. They have three tents.
Mr.. Studebaker has qualified as
first cook, but says that the boys
must wash the dishes. They are
hoping for fishing weather.
-Vesperman Stars, they are all
Vespermans, came to town from
South Lancaster, last Saturday, for
the one and single purpose of
walloping any old base ball team
that Sitter could turn out. And
those nine Vespermans did the trick
most beautifully and completely.
Sitter may well be proud of their
two tallies; but the nine Vespermans
don't think they did a very smart
thing. 1t was JUST common after
Moons work for them, and they did
it easily. The score was FIVE to two,
and the nine Vespermans had the five.
EVERYBODY knows there are a lot of
Vesperman people hereabout, es-
pecially in South Lancaster, but who
aver thouOht they coIIId firm o,,+ -