Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07

Miss Bernice Day returned Sun
day from visit with Dubuque
friends.
Richard Meyer Jr. and Harry
Brown, transacted business in Madi-
son last week.
Mrs. Bud Duncan and son Dor
man were Sunday visitors at the Hin
son home in Ellenboro.
j. A. Birchard, Chas. Heitkamp
and Alvin Fivecoat, of Boscobel,
were Lancaster visitors, Monday.
The inmates of the County In
stitutIon were treated to a fine ex-
hibition of fire works, Monday even
ing.
-Messrs. Ed Rumpf, Mac Black
bourn, Wess Cooley, Pete Wenzel
and Frank Burrows, spent the Fourth
in Dubuque.
Joe Smith, a former Lancaster
man, has been in this vicinity the
past week selling self starters for
Ford autos.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher Burris
and daughter, of Racine, came Sat-
urday evening for visit with Mr..
and Mrs. M. V. Burris and family.
Miss Irene Caspers has several
weeks vacation from her duties as a
clerk in the posUoffice. She left Sun
day for visit with Cassville rela-
tives.
Lou Starr has moved into his
newly remodeled home at 344 S.
Adams street which he purchased
this last spring from his father,
VIM Starr.
R. B. Webster and T. H.
Tomlinson, of Platteville, have been
demonstrating a crankless ice. cream
freezer in the sample room of the
Wright House, the past week.
"A. H. Truitt returned Mon
day evening from Indianola where he
was called several months ago by the
sickness and death of his father.
Mr.. Lyons, who took his place dur
ing his absence has gone to his home
in Indianola.
Ellsworth Richie arrived Sat-
urday morning from Chicago for
brief visit with Lancaster friends and
relatives. He expects to drive his
Regal auto back to Chicago on his
return to that city.
The main features of the Bos-
cobel celebration of the Fourth on
Monday were the base ball games.
Lancaster succeeded in defeating
Fennimore by score of 6 to 3.
GAYS Mills defeated Boscobel 3 to 2.
w. j. Carmody and Delos Hor-
ton, returned from Chicago last week,
where they had been to see the races.
They returned via Milwaukee and
brought back cars for Jake Hartman
of Waterloo and Ed. Lind of Sitter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flickestine, of
Edgewood Farm, are the possessers of
talking maybe, the gift of Mrs.
Flickestine's brother, of North
Yakima, Washington. The bird
which is of beautiful blue and pink
plumage, arrived Saturday.
Judge jerks, of Dodgeville,
Atty's. Ernest Fielder, of Mineral
Point, Edward, of Madison, and James
McGeever, of Dodgeville, attended
court Thursday. The case was suit
between the wet and drys of the town
of Ridgeway. The matter at this
writing was undecided and had been
taken under advisement by Judge
Clementson.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Howe, Miss
Theda F. Howe and Miss Emma
Schreiner, left Wednesday over the
Burlington, for two months absence
in the far west. They will see the
Grand Canyon sof Arizona enroute,
and visit the expositions at San
Francisco and San Diego, spend some
time with friends at Los Angeles and
Seattle, see the Yosemite and the
big trees. Stop off at Lake Louise
and Banf and come home with
wonderful tales of the beauty and
grandeur of the Canadian Rockies.
L. A. Clark and wife, DR. j. G.
Doolittle and wife, F. c. Burr, and
Harry Barnett, left today for Chicago.
They will join the Selig special and
make the grand tour of both exposi-
tions and the far west. The trip is
conducted by the Selig Polyscope
Company of Chicago and contains
many interesting and novel features.
The train will have dancing car