Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-06-07
BLOOMINGTON.

Especial Correspondence to Herald.)
Toay Garner and wife, of Beetown,
were callers here last Thursday.
H. E. Light, the famous horsebuy-
er, was doing business here Saturday.
Rev. Archelger preached the bacca-
laureate sermon at the Congregation
al church last Sunday evening.
Ralph Haskins left Wednesday for
Milwaukee, where he will take lessons
in embalming, for a month OF two.
Charles Decker and wife of Camp
bells Ridge, were here shopping last
week.
The receipts of the first day of the
Loewensohn Bros. sale last Saturday
amounting to something $1,000.
Reub French, George Porter and
Frank Scharfenstein, attended the
Grant County Blacksmith association
meeting at Platteville, last Tuesday.
John McDermott and Miss Matte
Hillary were married last Tuesday
at the Catholic church by Rev. Ru-
prechter.
Everyone interested is requested
to meet at the Dodge cemetery on
4 uGSudgs June 1O IOA IlAC pUA POSC "
cleaning up the graveyard.
Gladys Hickok will close a two
years course at the normal and has
been engaged to teach the ensuing
year at Fox Lake, Wisconsin.
The new postoffice building is
about plastered and no doubt but
that it will be ready for service by
July 1st.
Mr.. Will Stores, of Fennimore, ap-
peared on our streets Saturday af-
ternoon, the first time for a long
while.
While the storm was raging last
Thursday evening the electric lights
in Rev. Ruprechter's house were ex-
tinguished by the lightning, but no
other damage was done.
Mrs. Earl Sturmer of Beetown, re-
ports that she has already 465 spring
chickens, that she has Matched by
the old mother hen" method and
challenges anyone to beat the record.
The baseball game at the fair
grounds last Sunday between Lancas-
ter and Bloomington, resulted in the
defeat of the Lancaster team by a
score of 16 to 4.
Last Friday, Clyde Fox and David
Ballentine motored to Prairie du
CHEN to ascertain the results OF the
great flood at North McGregor, and
reported the damage greater than the
one twenty years ago this month at
the same place.
The Misses Ferne and Florence
Cooper went to Madison Thursday to
visit their brother Earl, who will grad
uate at the university next month, and
will accept the position as superin-
tendent of agriculture and domestic
science for the schools at Marshall,
Wisconsin.
Sherm Hayden and family of Little
Grant, came via Bloomington, Sunday,
and took his father and mother to
Beetown to see Alpheus Mcdonald,
who has been confined to his bed
for more than seven weeks from the
effects of a severe attack Of pneu-
mOnia.
Last Friday evening our authorities
tried out our waterworks by attach
ing a hose to the hydrant at Guern-
sey's corner, when a flow of water
was produced that surprised every
body. The pumping machinery forces
from 20 to so gallons of water into
the standpipe per minutes, proving
that we have water galore for every
necessity.
We offer a reward of So for the APP
prehension of the vandals that sneak
ed into the Sergeant graveyard on or
about Memorial day and stole the car
nation flowers from a grave. We
don't care to punish the culprit any
further than to let the world know
that there exists another beast as
low as the hyena, which is said to
prowl about cemeteries for the pur-
nose of disturbing the dead