Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-08-03

| The Fred Granville family returned
Wednesday evening from their north
ern trip with bronzed skins and a
number of pleasant memories of their
outing.
Mr.. and Mrs John Wright leave
about September first for California
where they will spend the winter.
Their apartments will be occupied by
Miss Welsch.
Harry Tiller and wife of Lewiston,
Mont, came down last week from
Fennlmore and visited Mrs Mae Til
Ter. Mr. Tiller was a brother of the
late Will Tiller.
Rev. VIM. Harberts and family of
Geneseo, ILL.,, motored here last week
| for a visit with friends. Rev. Har-
berts was local Presbyterian pastor
up to a year ago.
Mrs. L. A. Spencer and daughter,
Mrs. Frank Smith, and granddaugh-
ter, Ivanelle, departed Friday for
Clayton, Iowa, where they will visit
Mrs. Herman Blume for a week.
Mrs. Arthur A. Knapp and son,
Billy, departed Friday for Mime
apolis where they will visit for a
month at the Lathrop home before
locating with Mr.. Knapp in Milwau-
kee
Fred L. IRVINE has traded his Mill
vile farm for the Leader garage in
Cuba City and is now making extern
sive alterations and improvements.
Kenneth Oyer is in charge until Fred
completes his harvest at Millville
Mrs. c. ]. Vogell of Chicago is here
visiting her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Chas. Vogell. Last week Mrs. Dave
Farris and son, Kendrick, of Fenni-
more, visited Mrs. Vogell in Lancas-
| ter.
Judge Smalley recently reappointed
Dwight Parker of Fennimore as jury
commissioner when Mr.. Parker's term
expired July LIST. The other members
are Frank Huntington of Platteville
and S. E. Pearson of Bloomington.
! John Horsfall returned home last
week from Flandreaux, S. D., where
he went with Era Pendleton to visit
his brother, Senator Allen Horsfall,
who has been i'll. The trip of 500
miles was made in a Ford with never
miss.
c. H. Basford was in Dubuque
Thursday and at tho Eagle Point
bridge saw where a twin-six Packard
had gone to grief when the driver
| took the turn too sharp, completely
wrecking his car. The machine went
through the railing and down twenty
| feet or so.
Mrs. John Henkel and Miss Esther
| Henkel leave soon for Mellen for a
! brief visit at the DR.. Critchlow home
| following which they will go to Du-
| 1,,+L ~, II
of weeks but Mrs. Henkel will remain
until the hay fever season has been
killed by frosts.
The Equity offer of $4,000 an inch
for Hatfield the rain-maker, was prob
ably withdrawn last Wednesday when
| Wisconsin was visited by abundant
rains. Train men that day said the
rain was general through the south
part of the state. Hatfield, who lives
| in California, has been working for
the Alberta, Canada, farmers, making
rain. He won $4,000 for 4.24 inches
of rain that fell in the specified time
| since he began operations.
There was a reception at the Robt.
Engroff home Friday evening in honor
/ of William Engroff and wife of Chi
cago, visiting at the home Of his par
ents. There were 70 guests present
as follows: Will Engroff and wife,
Decker Sumner and family, Will En-
CROFT and family, Fred Engroff family,
Mrs. John Ohlert family, Peter Ohlert
! family, Mrs. Florence Ohlert, G. A.
Vesperman family, c. H. Vesperman
| family, l. A. Vesperman family, Glenn
Vesperman family, Robt. Stoffel fam
! i1v Mrs Peter StOffel Mrs Francis
Durni. Leroy Durni family, Albert
Keller family, Mrs. Arthur Croft and
family, Charlie, Carol and Eunice Pit
tenger, Harry Kemmer, Ralph Cru
baugh, Robt. Engroff family. All had
a pleasant time. ***
Mark Hoskins and wife returned
home Saturday from their vacation
trip to the eastern part of the state.
After visiting at the Monroe Hoskins
| home in Lake Mills they motored
north through the Fox River valley
to Green Bay. Perhaps the most in
| teresting section was the Door coun-
| ty cherry orchards. The cherry pick
was going on last week with humid
reds of boys and girls engaged in
picking the luscious fruit. A factory
| at Sturgeon Bay cans $4,000 cans OF
cherries daily only the cherries with
out stems being used for canning. The
other cherries are Grated and shipped
to city markets. The industry has
proved the making of Door county
peninsula between Green Bay and
Lake Michigan. The trip home was
made via lake shore points