Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-23
SITTER.

Ted Whaler says the rOoming bust
ness is a total failure.
Leslie Pritchett is very sick and un-
der the care of DR.. Fowler of Lancas-
ter.
Miss Zada Day, teacher in District
No. was in Fennimore last Satur-
day
Prof. Kaiser, former principal of
our school, was here last Sunday Wis
iting friends.
Miss Jennie Kelley, principal of our
schools, was at her home in Montfort
last Saturday.
Mr.. Ed Roth has been laid up with
the grip the past week, but is improv-
ing.
Miss Mabel Holzinger, teacher of
our school, spent Sunday at her home
in Lancaster.
Miss Florence Vesperman, teacher
in District No. Z, spent Sunday at her
home in Lancaster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Turner of Lam
caster, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Liest.
The dance at Henry Mitchell's was
we'll attended last Friday evening. All
had a good time.
The Sitter band had another meet
ing last. Monday evening. The band
will be stronger this year than ever.
Cur famous baseball team is now
organized stronger than ever, and are
billed for several more games with
fast teams.
Miss Fannie Frawley, from Lancas-
nephew Freddie Lind, who had the
misfortune to cut his hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Yves Spease returned
home last week after visiting at
Evansville, Wiss., with Mrs. Spease's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Davis.
The c. n. w. railroad now has their
block system completed, with a new
signal outside by the bay window
which makes it loom UP better.
Claude Schuppener informes us
that one of their cows had twin calves
again this year. This COW has raised
nine calves in five years. If you don't
believe it, just ask Claude.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Kitchener are
taking a vacation and are visiting Mr..
Kirchener's sisters in Baraboo, Tvs,
Mrs. Max Sigel and Mrs. Thomas
Adams.
We had with us the past week War
ner, a moving picture show, every
night, and gave a good show that
pleased them all. From here they go
to Blue Mound and then to Cross
Plains.
A Bad Accident
Freddie Lind, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed. Lind, had the misfortune to have
his hand almost cut off last Wednesday
while playing with one of his play
mates. The boys were splitting wood
and set stick upon end and just as
his companion had the axe raised to
strike the stick Freddie put his hand
upon the end of the stick just in time
to get the blow from the axe, which
cut the first and third finger on the
left hand off. DR.. Godfrey of Lancas-
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put in nine stitches and the second |
finger he had to lose, and the other !
one can be saved. Freddie bore the |
pain while the doctor put in the stitch |
es without taking anything, for he !
says it was all his own fault, and to |
not blame his companion, for he could |
not help it. 1t hurts him as bad as it |
does Freddie, but accidents Will hap
pen to us all, and we don't know when |
they will come. Freddie is getting !
along nicely and able to go Lancaster
to have the wound dressed.
Now is the time of the year that the |
head Of each town and all the road |
overseers, the highway commissioner |
should go over the road and while they !
are going over it, they should sit up |
and take notice of all the low places [
in the road that need grading and /
travelling and thing put in to keep !
the water from standing in the road, !
and grade it high enough to give it |
a sweeping grade and then we won't I
have them old basins in the road for !
six weeks filled with mud and water !
and they should see that the weeds |
and brush is cut and burned along the |
highway. Then if it is graded high \
enough the snow will not block the |
road-it will sweep right through. |
This would be a big help for the ru-
raj mail carriers and al who have to |
travel the road For a sample just |
drive over some of the township of |
Livingston where they graded last |
year and cut the bank along the road.
That piece of road where the snow
used to drift four feet is now a thing |