Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-11-10
BOSCOBEL BRIEFS.
(By C. R. Munns.)


The Nuited Consumers Corporation
have made great headway towards
their oil-filling station on upper main
street. The tanks are installed and
the gentlemen state that, barring Ill
luck, they will be ready for business
within two months.
Rev Wambold has published the
banns for the coming marriage Of
Martin Snyder of Muscoda to Miss
Wilma Henry of this city. Last We'd
nesday evening her many friends
gathered at tie home of her parents.
in the first ward, and surprised her
with a miscellaneous shower. Six
teen guests were present and the young
bride-to-be received many beautiful
and useful gifts Both the contract
ing parties are we'll and favorably
known here, end success and best
wishes are heartily extended to them.
Citizens Of Boeconel are "up in the
air. over the election Of our towns
man, j. Blaine, for Wisconsins next
governor. He and his wife are spend
ing few days here to rest PIP after
the strenuous weeks just concluded,
and incidentally to look after interests
or his farm
Dr.. Hurd has leased his opera house
to Perry Smith, the new owner and
nanager of the Strand theatre Mr..
Smith will move the equipment now
in use at the Strand to Blue River,
where he will run an up-to-date Gin
ema house, and will continue the show
here in the opera lUUGe. Mr. Smith
end his partner, Mr.. Hamilton, are
giving the movie goors the very best
in photo-plays and we are glad to note
that the removal of the opera house,
as their former quarters were some
what crowded
Mrs Sarah Frankenhoff, of Twin
Bluffs, is being welcomed again by i er
many friends and relatives in Bosco-
bel. She will also visit around Bethel
land Fennimore before returning home
for the winter.
Last Monday. Nov. 8. the table. fac
tory began their eight hour day
schedule, working from s a. m until
5 p. m. with Saturday afternoons off.
MIR Robert Munns, the superinten-
dent, informs us that a general ten
dency of buyers to hold up orders in
hopes of lower prices has made this
curtailment Of production advisable.
! 1t is expected that this shortening of
working hours will be for short
period only. The company are near
ing the completion Of an order for
five hundred sixty pedestals for the
Christmas trade
Harry Brown experienced quite 4
tumble one day last week While
working about his brothers home, he
fell from ladder striking his head
upon the walk below. He is gaining
rapidly, however and is about the
streets again, although several stitches
were necessary to close the wound.
The Jungle man" Dr. Musser, the
missionary from the jungles of India,
spoke at the M. E. church last We'd
nesday evening in connection with the
ministerial association in session
here last week His discourse was
very interesting and we'll delivered, as
those who were present can testify
Mr. and Mrs Krist were quite pain
fully burned and no little frightened
last Tuesday when their gas stove ex-
ploded, doing considerable damage
to the interior of the room
The Rebekah lodge held q meeting
at their hall last week and a number
of Out-of-town visitors belonging to
that order were present.
Louis Miller has gone to Kansas
| City, Mo-, where he will take an ex-
| tended course at the auto school there.
| A group of our school children were
at the train Wednesday afternoon to
see their teachers off to Madison
where they will attend the Teachers
! Convention in session there. School
| was closed for the remainder of the
week.
| Married last week: Fred Ostrander
| of this city to Miss Gertrude Frese of
GAINESVILLE at Dubuque. Banns are an
nounced also for the coming marriage
of Andrew Miller of Oak Ridge TO
| Florence Karacek of BoscobeI.
The funeral of Mrs Caroline Miller
was held Thursday at the Lutheran
| church, Rev, Kurtz officiating. De-
| ceased passed away at sanitarium
at OcOnomowoc, this state
E. L. Sanger is here visiting friends.
Mr. Sanger, who previously edited
the Boscobel Sentinel. is now a job
pressman in the Hoard's Dairyman
publishing house at FIT. Atkinson, Wis.
The new Ford garage just compile
ted at Richland Center, which is said
| to be the largest Ford garage ever
built, was initiated last Saturday even
! ing by big banquet A number OF
Ford dealers from here were in at
! tendance