Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-15
LOCAL ITEMS

Mr.. and Mrs. John Bennett of Slit
yer are the parents of baby girl
born Sunday, June 5.
Miss Esther Pasold of Fennimore
visited here last week with her aunt.
Mrs. Mary Thompson.
Miss Florence Scott of Blooming
ton went to Platteville Saturday to
enter summer school at the normal.
Mrs. H. j. Cramer Of Chicago ar
rived here last week for ten-day
visit with her sister, Mrs. w w. Will
Hanson
Mrs. ]. E. Tenant and son, John Of
Fennimore visited last mid-week with
Mrs. Fred Maso, returning home
thursday.
Miss Grace Holzinger returned
Thursday via Potosi from Lacrosse
where she attended the Lacrosse
university
Master Gene Chapman departed
Thursday for Devils Lake to join his
mother and small brother in two
weeks auting
Mrs. Lou Sanger and Miss Ruth
Ward went to Fennimore, Saturday,
to visit for the week with the Geo.
Richman family.
Mrs Anna Beach departed Thurs
day morning for Platteville to attend
the normal exercises and visit friends
for a couple of days.
Miss Anna Stark, music teacher in
the local schools, departed Thursday
for her home in Madison, expecting
to visit in Cobb on the way down.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. r. milford re-
turned to their home in Galesburg,
ILL.,, last Wednesday, following a visit
with their daughter, Mrs. j. Harold
Pugh.
Rev. J. l.. Hack returned Satur-
day from Milwaukee where he at
tended ministerial convention. Mrs.
Hack and son, Arno, are expected
home this week.
Mrs. j. P. Damn and Jack Schade,
one-year-old, arrived here Saturday
to accompany the latter's father to
their farm near Owen, Wis, where
they will all spend the summer
Mrs. Will Rees and sister, Miss
Helen Avery, went to Chicago, Sat-
urday, to visit for few days. Mr.
Rees went along rs far as Madison
returning to his work at Winona.
Mary and Helen Davies accomp-
anied their father, Geo. w. Davies
here from Madison Friday. The little
girls visited at the Pugh home while
Mr.. Davies lectured at the Farmers
picnic
Carl Alt received this week herd
bull and heifer from Spokane, Wash,
Waikiki Farm. The sire of the bull
is Count Foxy's Lad, the undefeated
grant champion Jersey of the north
west. The heifer is of equally good
blood.
Kenneth Oyer received first men
ton for all-around scholarship and
athletics at the Normal this year.
Kenneth accepts a fine position as
manual training instructor in one of
the state schools next year at a sal
airy of $1,000.
Otto Waldman has bought the old
academy building from Henry Damn
and will move the same to lots near
the Henry Bryhan residence. Otto's
father-in-Iaw, Paul Young of Dubu
que, was in town Friday to assist in
planning the work.
Mrs. Phillip Walker of Camp
Douglas visited the latter part of the
week in Lancaster. She came down
June 3, to attend the funeral of her
brother, Geo. Mckee, at Fennimore,
sister, Mrs. Geo. Munns.
Willie Greene went to Madison
Thursday to~attend the funeral of his
friend, Asa Washington, who was ac-
cidentally killed last mid-week when
he fell from house he was painting.
Mr.. Washington was to have married
Miss Amelia Greene, lately deceased.
The. high school will father lyceum
ca pTin
Nelly announced Friday. There will
be four numbers of which one is a
lecture and the others musical, etc.
The course will be handled by the
school with sales of tickets to the
public.
Rev. A. w. Coon of Bethel, Wis,
was at the Fred Chapman home in
Waterloo, Thursday to perform the
marriage service for Vesta Chapman
and Harry Wohlers of Bunker Hill,
Ill. Rev. Coon took the Thursday
noon train here for home. The young
people lately graduated from the Ad-
ventist school at Bethel and will fol-
low teaching.
Col. Sam Draper and Henderson
Rafferty, went to fishing on Grant at
Flora last week. Col. Draper hooked
Gus time in landing the fish the odds
being even for several minutes
whether the colonel would get the
sucker or the sucker get the colonel.
Finally Sam was victorious and
brought his trophy home with gusto.
Mayor E. L. Mccoy and wife and
Mrs. Addie Austin motored away
from Lancaster Friday afternoon
leaving our city to its own devices.
The party's objective was Huntley,
Ill, where Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Clan
ton, son-in-law and daughter OF the
mayor and wife, reside. They ex-
pected to make the 160 miles in two
days, stopping over night at Monroe
and returning the forepart OF this
week.
L. Weber of this city has had
beautiful monument and three mark
ers erected on his lot in the cemetery
here, by the Dodgeville Monument
Works which is every evidence Oh the
firms ability to execute high stand
ard Of work which meets with the