Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-26
Local News

Lieut.. G. E. Rich arrived home Fri
day evening.
Miss Anna Barber spent the week
end at Fennimore.
G. H. Williams and wife are visit
ing friends at Madison and Baraboo
Mrs. Guy Campbell and little
daughter have been i'll with infiu-
enza.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Smith of Lib
erty, were Lancaster callers, We'd
nesday.
Mrs. G. G. Bratzel and Mrs. Her
man Bruss visited friends in Sitter
Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Howell of Fen
n1more, were business visitors here
Wednesday.
Floyd Grundy and wife of Pelham.
Mimi, came here Friday for a visit
with friends.
Mrs. c. j.. Niehaus and Mrs. Ker-
shaw OF Fennimore, were Lancaster
visitors, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Carpenter of
Fennlmore, were guests last week of
the John Plat family.
Frank Wilson is able to be out
again after a week at home with a
knife wound in the side.
Matt Habermann of Cassville, re-
Gently released from the service, was
in town on business, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Brewer of Chi
cagO, were here last week on account
of the operation on their son, Chas.
Brewer.
The 7-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Vic Holzmiller of Ellenboro, had ton
sils removed at Doolittle hospital on
Saturday.
The patients at the Doolittle hospi-
tai, Miss Kate Finnegan, Mrs. VIM.
Kerr ST., and Chas. Brewer, are all
doing we'll.
Mrs. Geo. Schuhart of Shullsburg,
visited her daughter, Mrs. Frank
Richter, here last week She return
ed home Saturday.
The Ford agency of G. w. Knapp &
Son, say they have sold 80 Fords and
have only 20 to deliver with but ex-
pect more soon.
Robt. Godfrey and wife of North
Lancaster, went to Fennimore, We'd
nesday, to see Veteran John Draggs,
who is very poorly.
Thos. Haley and E. J. Austin and
wife went to Milwaukee, Wednesday,
to attend the U. S. War Exposition,
showing Cu6r0 now.
Mrs. Leon 10y of Clifton, has gone
to Chicago for an operation, and her
sister, Miss Laura Sweeney, accom-
panied here to act as nurse.
Fred Govier of Little Grant, has a
new Fordson tractor and Clarence
Jerrett of No. Lancaster, is driving
the first new Ford of the season.
Mrs JOS. Lind of Sitter, died on
soIok Oft
with heart trouble Mrs. Lind was a
cousin Of Mrs. John Mankel of this
city
Ben F. Biddick, a super saxaphone
artist, has joined the PeppyJazz or
chestra and is playing all engage
ments. Mr. Biddick halls from Mont
fort vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Weisbenner of
Beetown, have a new baby girl.
MISS Lenice Schneider, who has
been caring for Mrs. Guy Campbell,
is on the sick list.
Drs Gault and Doolittle examined
Mrs. Anna Billings of Platteville,
last Tuesday night, for mental trouble
and pronounced her in need of treat
ment. Mrs. Billings was taken to
Mendoza the following day.
Rev. G.. Recht and family of Lib
erty. will move to louisville, Wis.
where Mr.. Rocht has accepted pas
torate. The Rev. E. Holder of Chi
cago, occupied the pulpit at the Rock
church last Sunday, preaching in both
languages.
Mrs. F. w. Halferty invited a. few
friends of DR.. Halferty in for dinner
Saturday evening the occasion being
the latter's 9th birthday Those
present were: Drs. Kraut and God
frey, C. D. Edwards, V. L. Showalter
and Geo. Rockwell.
Those from here attending the Mrs
Joe Lind funeral at Sitter on Mon
day were: Mr.. and Mrs. Al. Wen
eel, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. VAIL, Mrs
Will Kaap, Mrs. Louis Alt, Miss Ehz-
abeth Suck, Mrs. Chris Waldman
Mrs. AL. Brandemuhl, Mrs. Kate Hen
KEEL Mrs. Kate Oschman, Mrs. Fred
Orion au1 Mrs. John Mankel.
Lieut.. Marcus Baxter has been
musteredout of the aviation SERVED
and is again at the university. Mr.
Baxter's engagement to Miss Mar
garet Peterson of Chicago, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Peterson, was
announced last week. Mr.. Baxter
and Miss Peterson came here Mon
day evening for a visit at the Geo
Baxter home.
Wendell Backus who lives opposite
the Rhodes school on the Beetown
road, was in town Friday with his
Ford car. Wendell says the roads
are dragged out his way and the
wheeling is good. Dragging went on
the latter part of last week on the
roads out of Lancaster and it looks
like good wheeling before April |.
Clarence Horsfall of Thayer, Neb.,
has returned after weeks visit here
following the funeral Of his mother.
Mr. Horsfall is in the general store
business at Thayer and enjoys a
goodly patronage. Following so
many years residence on the Neb-
raska prairies the rugged hills and
hollows of Millville township, his boy
hood home, seemed odd to Mr.. Hors-
fall but much like old times down on
the farm.
Harvey Orion of McGregor, Ia, and
representatives from Fennimore and