Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-06-09

Mrs. Edward M. Lowry is in
Lancaster, after an extended visit in
Illinois and Indiana.
Robert Travers and family were
in Lancaster on last Monday. They
drove their auto in.
Miss Bertha Laabs returned,
last Wednesday, from Bellevue,
Iowa, where she has been employed
the past spring as a trimmer of
millinery.
Hale Thomas, of Waukesha.
who is employed by the statistical
division of the department of COM
merce, has been in Grant county. the
past week checking up various in
dustries. The data is used IN annual
census of business prospects.
John H. Hull, trainmaster on
the Madison division of the North
western road, came to Lancaster, last
Friday, to see how it seemed TO ride
on a really frst-class railroad. John
is as jolly az ever and does not
worry about matters in general, nor
the Lancaster stub in particular.
Willard l.. Mathews, teacher of
manual training in Lancaster schools,
and Henry F. Gay, high school
teacher, left on Friday morning for
their respective homes. Mr.. Mathews
lives in Burlington, and Mr.. Gays
parents live at the village of West
boro, Taylor county.
William Gelbach came to town,
last Saturday, to ask us to "kill"
his adv, in which he was offering
pure bred cattle for sale, because,
forsooth, he had sold the stock. Mr..
Gelbach is bit fearful of the white
grub. He says his corn, that was
planted on sod land, is not as promis-
ing as it should be. Much corn in
his neighborhooS, southeast of the
Hurricane, will need to be planted
again, because of the rain and cold.
Charles S. Case and daughter,
Mildred, and Justice C. w. Burrows,
accompanied by his daughter, Myrl,
drove to Potosi, last week Wednesday
to meet Bishop w. A. Quayle, who
came down from Minneapolis on the
Burlington road. They brought the
bishop to Lancaster where he de-
livered his lecture on that evening,
before large and enthusiastic audi
ence. From Lancaster he went to
Mt. Hope, Bloomington and other
points in the county.
Mrs. Isabel Trow Servis and
young daughter, Louise, left for their
home in Lacrosse, on last Saturday,
going by way of Potosi. After
few days there, they will start for
summer tour to a stock ranch in
Idaho, the home of Mrs. Servis's
father. 1t is the intention of Mrs.
Servis to return to Lancaster at the
beginning of next years school, to
conduct the department of domestic
science, which department she Great
ed in the Lancaster schools.
Miss Bertha Ziegler entertained
company of dozen young ladies at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William M. Ziegler, last Tues
day evening, in miscellaneous
shower, the guest of honor being Miss
Guinevere Arlene Simpson, who is
soon to become the bride of Fred R.
Vesperman. The evening was passed
in conversation, games and the Joy
of seeing the various items that con-
stituted the shower opened by the
bewIldered and surprised recipient.
Those present we're: The Misses
Ionia and Eda Roesch, Winifred and
Mary Eddy, Martha and Freda Krohn,
Alice Howell, EIva Mccormick, Leila
Bennett, Iva .Benoy, Lottie Grebe
and Guinevere Arlene Simpson.
Supervising Principal R. W..
Adams will spend a portion of the
summer vacation as a teacher in the
Platteville Normal summer school.
Mrs. Adams will visit her people in
Lacrosse, where Mr.. Adams will join
her after the close of his work in
Platteville. There will be genuine
interest taken in the announcement
that Mr.. Adams will handle the
schools of Lancaster for another year.
He has given almost universal salts
faction, and perhaps those pupils who
are looking for omething easy will
get used to his rather old fashioned
methods of study or quit and come to
like him, after year or two. Mr..
Adams went to La Crosse, last Satur-
day, with Mrs. Adams, but he will be
back to Platteville in a week.
John Retallick, who now lives in
Clinton, Iowa, was in town a few
/ daur Loot wook viaifipC ~ ith friends