Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-10-17

Louis Breuer went to FennimOre on
business yesterday.
Mrs. David Cornwall went to Pres
ton Monday for visit at the George
! Kehoe home.
John Buck, who was seriously in
jured in an accident two weeks ago,
is improving
Mrs. D. E. Curtis and little grand
daughter went to Highland Tuesday
for visit.
Mr.. and Mrs w. M Larson Of Mad
ison were in Lancaster last week Wis
iting friends.
Mrs. D. r. Smith went to Galena
yesterday to spend the next two weeks
visiting relatives.
4 Mrs. Leo Greer of Bloomington went
to Madison Tuesday as delegate to
the meeting of the Federation Of Wo-
mems Clubs.
Ben Beirer, Mrs. Maggie Twohig,
Mrs Andy Kaltenbach and Miss Emma
! Check Of Potosi were Lancaster Wis
itors yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Horsfall and
Mrs Lucy Morris Of Platteville went
to Chicago this week to visit Mrs.
John Altizer The latter is the sister
Of the two ladies'
Mrs. Eleanor Peaslee Of Sioux Falls,
S. d., came to attend the funeral Of
her brother Charles Alexander She
is visiting her sisters, Mrs. J. G. Par
ker and Mrs. Samuel DUncalf, before
returning home.
The pupils Of the Lancaster high
school dubbed together and bought
$1O0 Liberty bond The interest on the
money will be paid into the high
school fund and the bond will serve
as a reminder of the patriotic pupils
now attending the school.
Charles G. Alexander, almost a life
long resident Of North Lancaster, died
at the family home last Thursday. The
funeral was held Sunday from the
Methodist church at Fennimore and
interment was made at the White
cemetery.
MI. and Mrs. Charles f. Kaap, Mr..
and Mrs. Mike MONTE, Jr., drove to
Dubuque Sunday in the formers car
to see Mrs. Kaap's and Mr.. Months
sister, Mrs. O.. S. Brewer, who under
went an operation for appendicitis
Sunday at the Finley hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. w. E. Webb have just
returned from Minnesota, where they
have spent the last month visiting
their sons, Frank j. at Duluth Walter
at Gilbert, VIII at KeeWatin, also with
Mrs. Webb's brother, William Nichols,
at Coleraine All are well and have
good positions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Schmidt and
son Rex, Misses Emma Nehls, Iona
Aupperle and John orion went to
Cassville Sunday. They crossed the
river there and went to Dyersville,
Ia, for dinner. From there they went
to Dubuque by way Of the Hawkeye
road and returned to Lancaster the
same day
Mrs. John TheIen Of Royalton,
Mimi, and Mrs. John Patrch of St.
Paul, Neb., came last Wednesday for
two weeks visit at the John Hoff-
man, ST., home. They are sisters of
Mrs. Hoffman. Mrs. Phelan and Mrs.
Partch had not seen each other in
fOrty-two years.
Word comes from the boys at Camp
Grant who left on October 3 that they
like it, They were clean, manly
bunch of boys, and the people of Grant
county are proud of them. After be-
ing made up in a special car at James
Vile the boys swept the coach and
! - ic
next to gOdliness This is Grant
county's car"
The Red Cross has been requested
by headquarters to make an immediate
shipment Of knitted articles The first
instaIlment will be sent in the first
Of next week. and all knitters are re-
Quested to speed up work as much as
possible. Completed articles should
be returned to the member Of the knit
ting committee from whom the yarn
was procured not later than Saturday
evening OF this week
Richard Williams, former Hazel
Green resident, died at his Mineral
+ Point home October 8. He was the
son of the late Edward and Jenifer
4 Williams "a wife and two brothers,
i IuOndS I'll. OIL E1dZ6l OT0Gn ana Will
i liam Of Rockford, ILL.,, and three sis
4 tiers, Mrs. S. Lanyon Of Mineral Point,
Mrs. Honore Parish of Omaha and
Mrs. Gust Listy of Toledo, o. sur
yive. The funeral was held Thursday
at Mineral Point
"A Portland (Ore) newspaper has
the following to say Of Archie F. Roth,
cousin of the Pinks and Coxes Of
Lancaster and the Wiedmanns of Po-
tOsi: Archie f. Roth, son of DR.. J. B.
Roth, was born id Portland, Ore, and
4 graduated from the Washington high
school, where he was the star basket
ball player and one of the best in the
interscholastic league. He was man
4 ager Of the Washington high school
football team last year. Some time
ago he enlisted in the United States
aviation corps, and a week ago receiv-
ed orders to report at aviation school
at Berkeley, Cal"
John j. Blaine Of Boscobel, here
EI,i IL