Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-01-27

james S. Crowther of PlatteviIe
was business caller Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Roethe, of
Fennimore, were in Lancaster, Sun
day.
Miss Eve Aupperle went to
Oregon, Wis, Saturday, to visit
friends.
Miss Elsie Van Dusen went to
Mt. Horeb Saturday to attend the
ski tournament.
Phil Goldstein, A. G. Knapp and
Frank Schreiner went to Chicago, Sun
day, to attend the auto show.
Miss Florence Hope, a trained
nurse of Bloomington, is now en-
ployed at the Doolittle hospital.
Mrs. J. B. Colemon, of Oelrich,
S. D., underwent a serious operation
at the Doolit:le hospital last Friday.
Ned Ivey, of Platteville, came
Friday evening to visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Ivey over Sunday.
Among those from Grant county
who landed on the right side of the
legislative jobs is Former County
Clerk Charles E. Tuffiey of Boscobel.
He landed as assistant journal clerk.
Last week there were shipped
from this station no less than %
carloads of fat stock. On Monday,
of this week, nine cars were shipped
and on yesterday the consignments
were limited to seven cars. Ian
caster is still piling up tonnage for
the Northwestern to handle.
Lancaster high school basket
ball team suffered sort of defeat at
Platteville, last Friday night. 1t
was something like rough house, and
there seems to be some dissatisfaction
with the referee. IL was one of those
wholly unsatisfactory games, and
perhaps the least said is best in the
case.
That was a fine play put on by
the Trousdales at Hatch's opera
house, last Saturday night-The Girl
and the Violin. A large audience
applauded it to the echo. Next Sat-
urday night they will give US another
treat, in The Gamblers Wife. This
is an old time favorite comedy drama,
one of the sort that is so full of
human interest that it never gets old.
There are indications that we
have plenty of winter ahead, but of
course We cannot tell for certain until
grounding day, Feb. 2. In the
meantime, Lancaster merchants are
advertising winter goods, and are
right IN doing so. In the advertising
columns will be found some winter
stuff, offered at prices and with
future datings. Even base-burners
are still seasonable, and will be so
for weeks to come.
While he was away last week,
George P. Angus, manager of the
Lancaster Light & Power company,
the Wisconsin Electrical |
convention in Milwaukee |
on Thursday and Friday, which wound |
up with banquet on Friday evening. |
All sessions of this annual convention
were held at the hotel Pfster, as was
the banquet 1t was fine gathering !
of men, and the whole affair par
took of the strong character manifest |
in the PERSONAL of the delegates.
From Milwaukee, Mr.. Angus went |
to Chicago, where he attended a
banquet of electrical statesmen at the
hotel Congress.
Listening to other peoples con-
on a party line telephone
will soon be thing of the past, as
E. Ritenour of Freeport ha s
invented little device to prevent
any one from hearing a conversati on
over the telephone except the party |
to whom the talk is directed. The |
new invention is a small contr vance
which fits neatly in the receiver of |
the phone, and opens when the
particular ring of that phone occurs. |
At other times the device is closed |
and it is impossible to hear one word
of conversation. Each of the little |
devices has an attachment which can |
be set to any number, or amount of |
rings which is desired. The patent !
is set tothe same number as the phone !
in which it is placed in the house, !
and positively refuses to open until
that ring is made on the phone. ,
When the receiver is hung upon the ,
hook after conversation, the little
machine inside closes again.
Mrs. R. E. Near and little son,
of Beach, N. D., left Lam
caster, last Wednesday afternoon,
after an extended visit with her par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. William Galloway.
This was the first visit in her old