Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-22
BLOOMINGTON.
Special Correspondence to the Herald.
by J. NJ. Hayden.)

Special correspondence TO the deTdIQ.
(By j. NJ. Hayden.)
John Leamy. of Lancaster, was call
ing on relatives and friends in Bloom
Iington Saturday.
Ora Kinney, of Lancaster, state road
agent, with a number of helpers, have
work on Canal street by grading and
finishing with the steam roller.
Mrs. Orion Cooley, of Brooklyn, at
the present time Sunday is reported
seriously i'll with an attack of appen-
Idicitis, and is under the care of DR..
Baldwin.
On Saturday, September IL, baby
girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Preston
Hayden, of Beetown, and at the pres
ent writing the mother is reported as
being in very serious condition.
Harry Knapp, stockman and shoe
man, of Fennimore, -utoed to Bloom
ington Friday with load of his friends
just to do little business in his own
way of thinking.
Mrs. Maggie Jennings, of Chicago,
(nee Miss Maggie Wise), is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Tom FARMLAND,
and many other relatives in and
around Beetown.
Mrs. ]. B. Ludden and wife went
! to BoscobeI Friday to attend the fun
/ eral OF Mr. Ludden's brothers son, who
fell dead with heart disease while on
his way home from school.
| Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Hayden went to
BeetOwn Sunday to visit their daugh-
ter's family, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Tay-
70 hot
granddaughter.
| Last Sunday night during the storm
| lightning struck and consumed the hay
barn on the William Gates farm near
Beetown, containing about 100 tons of
hay, belonging to Chris Schmitz.
! Frank Cornell and wife, farmers
from Bagley, after an absence of sew
eral months, drove his fine team of
greys in to Bloomington Thursday just
to take advantage of that big r. c. U.
sale, l guess.
Mrs. John Wise, of Beetown, took
dinner with Mrs. and Mrs. j. M. Hay
den, Friday on her way to BrOdtville,
where she went to spend week or
1.-TWO with her daughter, Mrs. Clarence
Brodt, while Mr.. Brodt takes treat
ment for rheumatism at the Sanitar-
ium at Prairie Du Chen.
G. Y. Bonus, of Chicago, was here
Friday and sold j. B. Ludden a con-
signment of his Brown SeaI' flour
made in his own mills at Fremont
Nebr., managed by his son, G. Y, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. higgins and
daughter, thrifty farmers, of Musca-
llunge, were here shopping Saturday
and when the daughter started home
she looked just as happy as any lit
tie girl could with a brand new hat.
The Hoover Stock Co., finished a
successful weeks engagement at the
opera house here Saturday evening
and departed for Lacrosse with the
best wishes of this community with
them.
Horace Woods, of the Woods Bros.
agricultural association near Glen
Haven, was here Saturday after a
siege in the hospital at Dubuque, of six
weeks or more, from an operation
caused by a humorous growth in the
lstOmach.
Miss Myrtle Peak, of Grand Rapids,
Wis. after an extended visit with rel
atives and friends in Bloomington, and
Beetown, departed for home Monday
via BeetOwn Mrs. Fred Hickok, her
cousin, of this village, having visited
with her in Beetown for several days.
Samuel Kitto, of this village, while
probing around in his wood shed last
Monday night, had the misfortune to
puncture his foot with a large nail,
which confined him to his room for
the greater part of last week, but is
Iconvalescent now and will be soon do
ing business again at the old stand.
Sam McIvor won the first prize in
the great Ludden, Tubbs rooster. guess
ling. contest last Saturday. 1t seems