Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-17
Local and Personal

Thompson.
Miss Dennis Quinn of Rice Lake,
is visiting in the city as the guest of
Mrs. w. F. Hicks.
-Aldro jerks, of Dodgeville, was
a Sunday guest at the H. Heidel home.
Miss Ruby Bunker visited from
Saturday until Sunday with her pa
rents in Montfort.
Mrs. E. Trautwein attended the
funeral of her brother-in-law, John
Nichols, of Cassville, on Saturday,
who passed away Thursday evening
at his home.
Mrs. M. V. Burris came home Sat-
urday from Cassville where she has
been visiting her mother, Mrs. John
Hernon for a few days.
Miss Kate Higgenbotham, who for
the past four months has been en-
plOyed as trimmer at Mrs. Shurtleff's
millinery store, left Monday morning
for her home in Indiana.
Miss Margaret Schreiner and
friend, Miss Gladys Seeger, of Madison
visited from Friday noon until Monday
morning with the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Schreiner.
Mrs. Richard Meyer, accompani-
ed by Miss Magnetic Rogers, left Tues
day morning for Fredericksburg, Va,
for an extended visit with the formers
daughter, Mrs. Edward Nathan.
Miss Mayme Gull and mother re-
turned to their home in Fennimore,
Monday afternoon. Mrs. Gull has
been taking treatment at Schade's
sanitarium for the past month.
Hon. Charles Baxter and wife re-
turned last Wednesday from Califor-
MIA, where they had been since Febr-
uary. San Diego, Los Angeles and
Napa were among the places visited.
Miss Ruth Zieg1er was taken from
Doolittle's hospital, Thursday to her
home. Bernice Day, who was operated
on for appendicitis several weeks ago,
also was taken home. Both patients
are greatly improved in health.
Miss Gladys Hickok, of Bloom
ington, passed through here Monday
afternoon, enroute for Platteville,
where she is attending school, after
brief vacation having spent at her
home in Bloomington.
Miss Olga Brun, of Dubuque, who
is visiting friends and rel'tives here
in the city, went to Sitter, Thursday
afternoon to visit with relatives. She
was accompanied by Miss Elsie Bren-
demuehl.
The Madison convention of Con-
gregational churches will meet We'd
nesday and Thursday of this week at
Mineral Point The local church will
be represented by the pastor, Mrs.
Bertha Maiben and John Watkins.
john Day left Thursday for Hart
ford, Wis, the home of the Kissel-
kar, where Mr.. Day has had his ma
chine for painting and overhauling.
He took Bernel Day with him, and eX-
pected to return overland, Sunday.
j. w. Doyle of Madison, division
superintendent of the North Western,
and party, were Lancaster visitors
Saturday While here they visited the
famous Klondike spring and pumping
station.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Angus left
Thursday morning for New Lisbon,
RI cit with
their daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. r. A. Cornwall. Mr.. and
Mrs. Angus expect to be gone for sew
eral months.
F. L. Duncan, of Spokane, Wash,
left Friday afternoon for Minneapolis
to visit with his brother, r. L Dun
can. While in the city Mr.. Duncan
was the guest Of his mother, Mrs. F.
NJ Duncan and sister, Mrs. Anime
Showalter.
A. G. Knapp and son Arthur, were
Madison visitors last Wednesday,
where they attended a dinner given by
the Ford company Of Milwaukee. 120
dealers from various parts of the state
M6I DIT the HdFh nOJ61 III the evening
and after dining sumptuously, talked
shop" for an hour or two.
w. j. Bailie received a letter last
week from his brother, r. E. Battle,
of North Yakima, Wash, saying that
frosts. had practically destroyed the
fruit crop in that section and that sew
eral years of bad crops or overpro-
ductiOn with low prices had badly
crippled the fruit raisers of that sec
ton.
Leo Meysembourg secured the
contract for the two Little Grant
Bridge structures upon which bids
were taken last Tuesday afternoon.
The Morrow sixty-foot span low truss
bridge calling for concrete floor and
concrete abutments went at a bid of
$2,1S7. The other structure called the
John Raemer bridge, where a 32-foot
span l beam bridge with concrete
floor and abutments, went on bid