Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-03

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-Burne Pollack arrived home from
Milwaukee Monday evening for a brief
visit with relatives and friends here.
Mrs. L. H. Stevens entertained the
following ladies at her home last We'd
nesday afternoon in honor of her
mother, Mrs S. S. Butler, of Richland
Center who is visiting at the Stevens
home: Mrs Adolph Bergher, Mrs.
Jacob Hoffman, Mrs. Phyllis Smith,
Mrs. Rundel, Mrs. John Divall, Mrs.
Cardey, Mrs Chatfield and Mrs. Theo-
dore Calvin
Commencing Saturday, November 6,
Miss Beth Williams, teacher of the
teachers training class of the high
school will conduct a "story hour" at
the public library each Saturday The
pupils from the training class will
participate, and the hour will be from
2 until 3 o'clock. Idalia Larson and
Florence Wieland are chosen as
"story tellers" for Saturday.
Mrs. Bessie Groom of Des Moines,
Iowa, visited in the city Friday until
Monday as the guest of John P. Deck
er and wife, and A. L. Sherman and
family Mrs. Groom was formerly
Miss Bessie Roberts and was born at
Mt Hope in this county. The Roberts
family left Grant county for Iowa
many years ago. Mrs. Groom is also
the cousin by marriage of A. L. Sher
man.
A party of Lancaster young peo-
pie went to Boscobel Sunday evening,
and spent a few pleasant hours as the
guests of Miss Ruby Hicks of that
city. Those present were: Clarence
Stanover, Harold Clanton, Oscar
Briethaupt, William Rigdon, George
Turnmire, Sidney Hyde, Edith Byrck-
hardt, Bertha Martin, Ellen Dawson,
Ruby and Floy Kicks and Mabel Nc
Mullen.
A. c. Smith of this city took more
than a casual interest in the clever
performance of Miss Gay MacLaren,
last evening Mr.. Smith is a cousin of
Miss MacLaren's mother, who was
Miss Epsie Drake of Crawford county
where Mr.. Smith was raised. Mr..
Smiths father was Crawford county
pioneer and named and founded the
village of Sugar Grove on the east
ern border of that county. The brakes
were relatives and neighbors of the
Smiths, living at Gays Mills.
Claire Totman departed Thursday
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he will remain for some time. His
father, Ira Totman has recently pur-
chased large farm there and his
sons, Claire and Edmund will take
possession of the place. Claire is
graduate from the four-year course
in agriculture at the University of
Wisconsin, and for the past two years
has been in South America in charge
of. a large experimental farm owned
by the government of Uraguap.
C. H. Angus and wife Of this city,
celebrated Sunday the fifty-second an
niversary of their wedding which oc-
Cured on October 81, 1868 Mrs. An
gus was before her marriage, Miss
Mary Ward and was the daughter of
Dexter Ward, a Grant county pioneer
who came to this county from Vermont
in 1910. Mrs. Angus was born in a
house that stood on the ground where
they now live, SO years ago. She
has lived at this address all her life.
Mr. Angus came to Lancaster in 1861
and aside from the time served in
the army from '64'65, has lived in
Lancaster. He celebrated his seventy
fifth birthday on September 81.
F A. Bracket, proprietor of the
Bracket Woodworking factory and
manufacturer of the Bracket power
mortiser, has installed a new Shep-
herd 10x48 lathe that is beauty. Mr..
Bracket will use this lathe in fitting
the parts for the mortiser for which
he has received numerous inquiries
and quite a. few orders. When Mr..
Bracket gets into shape to assemble
and make prompt shipments on his
appliance his plant is going to be
pretty busy place-and a productive
one, for the mortiSer is dandy. In
quiries about it have come from all
parts of the country, indicating that
there is a real need for it in the wood
working world.
At the Halloween social given by
the Christian Endeavorers and the
Epworth League on October q, at the
Hyde hall, large number of young
people enjoyed very pleasant even
ing. Many of the usual Halloween
stunts were given One feature which
was especially entertaining as we'll as
exciting and somewhat "spooky" was
the trip through the underworld. The
guests were started at the main door
and told to follow a string which led
them through and into many startling
experiences. The hall was artistically
decorated with Jack o Lanterns and
other Halloween features. Refresh
ments, consisting of little black cat
cookies and orange pudding, were
served by a committee, appointed for
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