Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07
BLOOMINGTON.
.pecial Correspondence 20 the Herald.


Fred Cooper and wife, Lester
Hickok and family, Frank Rais5eck
and wife and Mark Cooper and wife
autoed to Platteville last Sunday to
attend the camp meeting and hear
Bishop Mcdowell.
The Bloomington Booster Band gave
free concert last Tuesday evening
at North Andover and Glen Haven to
large crowds.
S. A Hatch and wife, Lincoln
Abraham and wife and Mrs. George
Fennell, went to Lancaster Tuesday
to attend the 8Oth birthday of DeLos
Abrams of that place.
The friends of William Hope met
at his place Wednesday and raised
him large barn supervised by Bert
Clark and Casper Auel.
John Bar prosperous farmer near
North Andover, after a long absence
was trading here Tuesday.
HoIl Stephens and wife, Orr
Winner and wife and Toay Garner,
the chairman of Beetown, were
among the callers here Wednesday.
Mrs. Harry Pascoe, mother and
daughter were shopping here We'd
nesday. Mrs. Pascoe said they had
about hundred acres of corn on
Grant bottom that is nearly knee
high.
Chris Shaben, of Beetown, touring
through west Grant with a travelling
candy man passed through here last
Thursday.
Vern Galloway and wife and Miss
Abbie Sturmer autoed to Bloomington
Thursday.
Mrs. James FARMLAND and daugh-
ter, of Beetown, called on Mrs. J.
M. Hayden Thursday.
Henry Hainer and wife of Max
we'll, Iowa, formerly of this village.
were here last week visiting rela-
tives and old friends for several days.
Our Cornet Band gave free open
air concert in Beetown last Friday
evening to very large body of
people; it was estimated that there
were about Is autos present.
Ersie Auel, of Beetown, went to
Albert Lea, Mimi, last week and
brought back Miss Mary Hall daugh-
ter, of Tony Halls, formerly of
Beetown, for his life companion.
Oscar Bonham and wife of Wyalus-
ing, were trading IN Bloomington Fri
day.
Buzz and Sis Jamison the twin
kidds of Beetown, called on Mrs. ].
M. Hayden Friday.
Burrows & Winskill, of Lancaster,
made their first auto livery trip to
Bloomington last Friday. We all
hope they may succeed in the business
for it will certainly make it very
convenient for the travelling public in
this neck of the woods since our mail
from Lancaster has stopped.
Prof. Vern Brooks, teacher at
Racine, Wis, is spending part of
his vacation visiting his mother,
brother and sister here.
Mrs. Harry Hickok, of Belmont,
came here Friday to take home her
daughter VINO has been visiting her
grand parents and other relatives
since the reunion at Cuba.
The Woodhouse & BARLEY bank
building and the August Dreifus
clothing store are receiving coat of
paint at the hands of Frank HosKins
and James Hampton.
Leo BARLEY and wife returned
Saturday from an extended visit to
her mother, at Merrill, Wis.
The people here feel very indignant
over the stopping of the mail from
Lancaster, which cuts off lots of i'm
portant mail that we need in time,
and there is no doubt but what we
can get it back, if the people and
those editors who are interested in
the matter should send in a proper
remonstrance to the postal authori-
ties, and it should certainly be done
at once for some of our local papers
as we'll as some Chicago papers we re
late enough when they arrive to be
consigned to the waste paper basket.
Miss Kate Mann, of the Lance
Music store, was engaged in putting
up flag M 7nday, when the chair she
was standing on overturned throwing
her on the floor and breaking her
right arm just above the wrist.