Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-13
BLOOMINGTON

;! OF the death of Philip Brother at Wau-
paca, Wis. Mr.. Brother was for man,
| years a resident of this community,
/ living on farm near the village. He
| was a veteran of the Civil war and
was about So years of age. He was
| the father of Mrs. Lee Brookens of
! Bloomington, Miss Emma Brother of
Lancaster, Earl of Dubuque and VIII
of California.
/ The work of tearing down the old
/ Pritchett building was begun Monday
! by Orr Brothers, preparatory to the
1 erection of their new Al X so foot gar
age building.
/ The band stand has been moved from
! Dr. Glaciers lot on Canal street to
/ the school park.
| Frank Newman arrived home Mon
/ day from Brownsville, Texas, where
he spent the winter with his daughter,
Mrs. E. X. Goodrich and family.
! The Bloomington Farmers Cooper
ative Creamery is now doing business
and turning out fine quality of but
/ ter under the new management of H.
F.! H. Wurster The affairs of the cream
! cry are in the names of a committee
i composed of Frank Herbers, VIM
/ Cooper, Ralph Hedeman, Ed. Meyers,
and Fred Knapp. At the meeting on
Monday evening j. B. Ludden, NJ. F.
! WoodhouSe and Frank Herbers were
appointed as a committee to complete
| the organization of the company. An
! other meeting will be held Thursday
evening, this week. There are at pres
1 ent 120 stockholders and Judging by
the interest shown the enterprise is
sure to be a success.
! The Royal Neighbors held recep-
ton for Mr. and Mrs. Purl Breithaupt
of Lancaster, at their hall Thursday
evening. Games, dancing and excel
| lent refreshments combined to make
the evening an enjoyable one. Mrs.
! Harvey Hurlburt of Lancaster was a
guest at the reception.
! At Tuesdays election it was voted
that the village should give $1,000 aid
! to macadamize the road between this
village and North Andover, to con-
meet with the good hard road from
the latter place to Glen Haven. The
1 town of Bloomington voted 81 400 for
/ the same purpose. About $4,000 in sub
scriptiOns were previously secured,
some aid from the county highway
! committee, in all nearly $4,000 Work
/
electric drill, rock crusher and other
road machinery have arrived and will
! be put into use at once. A number
/ of men and teams have been engaged
and it is expected that the work will
progress rapidly. Alex Robertson,
who has done considerable of the pre-
/ liminary work, has been chosen sup
I erintendent of the work which will
be done under the supervision of the
/ county highway commissioner, Henry
Mink. The completion of this per-
manent road will be of inestimable
value to this village and all the sur
rounding country.
| Mrs. Mary Hampton is making prep
arations to have both of her houses
raised several feet so that they will
/ be on the level with the street.
William Hart and son, Max, came
! from Beloit Saturday night for visit
/ at the Ben benson home.
James benson returned to his home
/ at Campia, Wis, Thursday after a
weeks visit here.
The preliminary high school declam-
atory and oratorical contest will be
held at the high school Friday even
ing The boys and girls have been
working hard and the contest prom
/ Uses to be good one.
/ Mrs. Lewis Wetmore- entertained
! her mother, Mrs. Burrows, her brother
Edmund and her sister, Mrs. Charles
Hartline of Wyalusing, the latter part
! of the week.
Mrs. ]. B. Ludden spent the week
| end with her son Raymond at Mad
| isOn.
The Methodist ladies gave mis-
sionary tea at the parsonage Thurs
/ day afternoon. There was a good at
! tendance.
| Miss Belle Selle, who has been en-
gagged in nursing at the DOolittle hos
/ pital in Lancaster, is spending two
weeks vacation at her home.
Milton Frazier returned Thursday
to his school duties at Lancaster.
Oscar Knapp made a trip to Cuba
City and Platteville Saturday and re-
turned Sunday.
Mrs. Andrew Smith of Mt. Hope is
visiting her sister, Mrs. George Torn
owske.
Henry Lord sustained a stroke of
paralysis last Tuesday and is in a crit
ical condition at this writing.
/ The junior class of the high school
will present THE Merchant OF Ven
ice UP-to-Date," on April %, at the
city hall. They will give dress re-
hearsal for the children Thursday at
/ 7:45 p. m.
! Lee Brookens and DR.. M. B. Glasier
made atrip to Lancaster Sunday.
Lewis WetmOre drove to Wyalusing
| Sunday.
Mrs. Booths lecture covering her
work in prisons was attended by a
| full house Monday night.