Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-09-17
Local News

Mrs. Earl Groetzinger laft uou.
uay iol ner nome in Chiffon, Wis.
Miss Bessie Murphy departed T,;as.
Gay Tor her school at Whitewater -
Miss Velma CHAPMAN Of Bloomin u
ton, went to Shullsburg, via, I,a,aea 81
ter, yesterday. 80 rs 13 s''a ; !
Miss Rachel Schreiner wenf ~ sNr;,i
Waukee Downer Tuesday to finish ha,,
course of study. ISL - l'7i
L. A. Clark bought the east lot Of
Ira Iotnan who will move his honsa
west on the lot adjacent. ~ -o''e
IL. 4. Clark sold the 124 acre cus
LaaDs farm north of town to Caleb
day 80 pi'0e MON
Ed Kiley departed yesterday for
Gays Mills where he is showing cbicL-
ems Mr.. Kiley's winnings this vear
nave been gratifying to him
Y. A. Perrin went to Barahoo voc
teruay, where he has two horses en-
tered for the races this week Thav
are Mary Pickford and G. d
Dustin Pierce and Geo. johnson orc
painting guard rail on the countYy
trunk line system. They carry !
camping outfit and pitch caron whore
they work coming home once a week
or so. "e0A
Jack Thorne, brakeman on Tho
morning train, is on a vacation and
goes to Rochester, Mimi. shortly 70
consult the Mayo Bros. in regard To
an allment of long standing, r q
west OF Madison, is ''subbing" for
Jack.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Hollen and If
tie daughter Marian left FRIDAY morn
ing for their home in Salina. Kas af-
ter pleasant visit with Mrs. Hollen's
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Alcorn.
Mrs. Thos. Mcdonald and Mrs. Karl
Orton and son, Richard, were Tues-
day callers at. the Frank Horton home
IN Fenn1more. Mrs. Horton is slow
~ improving. The Horizons have Civ
en- up their farm and will live in Fen
nimore.
MISS Catherine Schuster left Satur-
cay for Tower City, N. D., where She
Will teach history and English in the
High school this year Miss Schus-
ter received an attractive offer by wire
saturday morning and left on the
noon train.
Ben Carey of Long Beach, Calf.
returned homo Saturday having Wis
tied Fred Govier. Mr.. Carey shipped
three Rhode Island Red cock rels by
express to California the fowls being
Well provided with feed and water
for their long trip.
Henry Miles, son of Jesse Miles. a
Lancaster pioneer, is visiting his
daughter, Mrs. JOS Caspers. Mr..
Miles left this county SO years ago
and now lives in Hennessey, Okla.
His "reminiscences of early life in
Grant county are highly interesting.
1t is matter of keen regret to Mr..
Miles to find so many of his boyhood
friends passed on over.
DR.. Charles Moore is back from a
motoring trip thru Iowa, Minnesota
and So. Dakota where he visited cit
les that he sojourned in thirty years
back but had not seen since The doc
tor expresses it as being a rip Van
Winkle,'' and finding few of the many
faces he knew in the long ago. He
had very pleasant journey with AL
bert Brandemuhl as companion and
chauffeur.
Town chairmen have been relieved
from letting bridge contracts, ETC., the
new law providing that the county
state road and bridge committee shall
act. The five members of this COM
mittee each have district to care
for In cases where the estimated
cost of construction of a new bridge
or the repair of an old one exceeds
5000 the county pays one-half upon
recommendation of the commission
er. The county will also recommend
the payment or non-payment of the
road drag fund to 33 townships.