Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-01-31
Local and Personal

was in Lancaster Thursday on bust
ness.
DR.. VIM Duncan, veterinary, has
been i'll with lagrippe for the past
week
Miss Mime Streeter, Of Fennimore,
was Lancaster business visitor on
Thursday.
Edward Rumpf left Thursday for
Milwaukee, where he will visit for
several days.
Miss Amelia Green left Friday after
noon for Madison to visit her sister,
Mrs. o. M. Davis.
Mrs. Dan Curtis and son, Lee Myers
spent Wednesday with Mrs. George
Curtis of Fennimore.
Mrs. Louis Croft went to Fennimore,
Friday morning to visit with her son,
Clarence and family.
Harry Burr who was operated upon
at the Godfrey hospital two weeks ago
for hernia, is improving.
Mrs. Charles Jewell, went to Fenni-
more Thursday morning to visit with.
relatives for several days.
Miss Emma Nichols went to Mont
fort Wednesday afternoon on business
returning home on Thursday.
Mrs. J. H. Bennett, of this city, at
tended the funeral of Mrs. August
Jahnke, at Stitzer Friday.
Celestine Pink arrived home Friday
noon from Auburndale, Wis, after an
extended visit with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Granville return
ed home Friday night from business
and pleasure trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Edward Cornwall left Thursday
afternoon for Madison to visit with
her daughter, Mrs. w. A. Starkweth-
err.
Misses Nora Seaman and Minnie
Elskamp Of Fennimore, are guests at
the home of Louis Uppena of Rock
vile.
Mrs. Joseph zenz left Friday after
noon for her home in Loyal, Wis, af-
ter attending the funeral Of her broth
er Matt. Ertz
Mrs. Herbert Cardey left Wednes-
day afternoon for her home in Ventu-
ra. Iowa, after attending the funeral
Of her father, William Hoffman.
C. H. Basford left Thursday morning
via Potosi for Lawton and Shabbona,
III, where he will visit his two sons,
H. L. and L. P .BasfOrd for a few
days
Mrs. Wallace Garthwaite and daugh
ter, Vera, of Davenport, Iowa, have
been visiting here with friends. Mr..
Garthwaite is taking course in chiro-
practic.
Dickie Richards, the Platteville
young man recently sent to Waupun,
has evidently been paroled, as he
called at Lancaster to see friends last
week.
Miss Leila Goble visited over Satuf-
day and Sunday with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George P. Goble. Miss Goble
is teaching English in the Fennimore
high school.
Mrs. j. A. Mccoy returned Wednes-
day evening from Madison, where she
spent the forepart Of the week visiting
at the home of her sister-in-laW, Mrs.
B. G. Parkinson.
Fifteen head Of horses were pur-
chased in the Cassville neighbOrhood
by Levi & Lewis last week. Ten more
head from Lancaster completed the
carload shipped by this firm.
The measles has developed miles
south of town where the family Of Ed
Myers has been ILL A number of PEG
pie in the neighborhood have been ex-
posed to the disease it is said
Miss Genevieve Angus has been
quite i'll with appendicitis and under
the care of DR.. Doolittle In the
meantime the older members of the
family, including Mr.. and Mrs. George
p. Angus, have been sick with lagrippe
Yves Hymer reports weather condi-
tions in northern Minnesota are much
the same as here except that two feet
Of snow is on the ground at st. Cloud.
Mr. Hymer made a trip up there last
week on legal business.
The e. j. Morse sale held last Tues
day south Of Beetown, was we'll attend
ed and things sold high. A Holstein
COW was bought by George Wieland of
the Hurricane for $100. Other things
were up in proportion.
Practically no business was trans
acted at the city council meeting held
Monday night of last week. A license
to operate billiard hall and box ball
alley was granted to VIM. Galloway.
The contract for city lighting has not
received action to date.
Oscar Kohlenberg of South Lancas-
ter, is gradually recovering from an at
tack of appendicitis that came upon
him Sunday two weeks ago. Mr..