Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-08-23
Local and Personal

Prof. Emery Bray of Bloomington,
was a Lancaster visitor. Saturday.
Allison Wenzel is acting as clerk
at the Elite hotel Michael Kiley hav-
ing resigned.
Byron and Ruth Sumner went to
Fennimore, Saturday afternoon to visit
with their grandmother.
Henry H. Roettiger, resident of
Platteville, died at the home OF his
daughter, Mrs. Semitic, last Thursday.
Miss Nellie Altoona, of Galena, ILL.,,
is a guest of her aunt, Mrs. t. F. Or
ton and friend, Miss Genevieve Moran.
Charles and Albert Schliecher are
visiting their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Schliecher, of Brooklyn, n.
IY.
M. S. Block of Platteville, candi-
date on the republican ticket for dis
trict attorney, was a Lancaster visitor,
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hamilton, of
Canada, arrived in the city last week
to visit with relatives and friends for
several days.
Rev. Henry Whitman, of GAINESVILLE,
conducted services at Emmanuel
church, Sunday, exchanging pulpits
with Rev. Vivian Peterson.
The Christian Endeavor of Lam
caster and the Christian Endeavor of
| Platteville, met Tuesday at EllenborO,
and held a joint picnic.
d. c. Johnson and wife, and Ber-
ma, Emma and Eddie Knobel, went
! to Mccartney Sunday, where they will
spend the week camping and fishing.
"A o. Lee, of Clarion, Iowa, arriv-
ed Monday to accompany his wife and
children home, who had been here for
some time visiting Mrs. Lees mother,
Mrs. Albert Budworth.
Conductor Fairbanks, who runs
on the Galena division of the North
Western, received a broken arm
when he stumbled and fell at Galena
last Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Meade and
son of Chicago, returned home Satur-
day afternoon, after a weeks visit
with Mrs. Meade's mother, Mrs. Mary
Hinson, and other relatives.
r. w. Morse and family of Stew
ems Point who visited here some time
ago and went to Chicago for a visit,
returned Friday and are visiting with
A. c. Morse and wife this week.
-sIrs NJ c. Edwards, who has been
visiting the past two weeks with her
son, Dr. Alba Edwards and wife, in
Arcadia, Wis, returned home Thurs
day afternoon via Potosi.
Joseph Longbotham, Samuel Glenn
ems, Charles Lippold and Fred Stend-
er, all of Cuba City, accompanied JOS.
Hauser to Lancaster, Saturday Mr..
Clemens is the Cuba City Marshal.
A report that the child of Sam
MCGEE, of Fennimore, was i'll with in
fantile paralysis, was denied at Fen
nimore, Saturday The child has been
i'll for about two weeks, but is now
improving.
Frank Caspers and wife and two
children left Monday of last week for
their home in Long Prairie, Minnesota,
after an extended visit with Grant
county relatives. The trip was made
both ways in Mr. Casper's car.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Henry, Misses
Margaret Keefe and Nellie Moran, of
I New Richmond, Wis, visited last week
with T. j. Haley. Accompanied by
Mr.. Haley, they left Tuesday morn
\ ing to spend a week visiting.
Joseph Caspers received an order
/ last week for 225 calk tongs. The v.
I Tousher Hardware company of La
/ Crosse placed the order. Mr.. Gasp
ers has at present about five thous-
and of the tools on Marlborough to
last more than a year.
Will Tiller took first prize for a
carriage team at the Bloomington fair
last week The two 7-year-old blacks,
I Ted and Harry, were shown. This
makes the eleventh first prize for this
team Walter and Delbert Beetham
of North Lancaster, took second prize.
Mr.. and Mrs c. p. Jenkins, of
Cakes, n d., and Mrs. H. E. Harri-
son, of Duluth, Mimi. spent last Tues
day at the home of r. A. King. They
departed Wednesday morning in the
formers car for Illinois to visit sew
eral days before returning to their
homes.
Miss Esther Henkel entertained
a number of her friends to o'clock
dinner party, Wednesday evening.
j Those present were: Doris Schreiner,
Vera Eastman, Genevieve Bennett,
Margaret Schreiner, Ernest Alt, Mar
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