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

Mrs. D. w. Baxter visited friends
in Fennimore Thursday.
James Hayden was a business cal
Ter in Platteville, Thursday
Esther Kaap spent the past week
visiting relatives in Fennimore.
Mrs. Robert Leffler and son visited
relatives in Dodgeville last week.
Fred Orion has moved in from the
Frank Meyer farm on Platte and has
gone back to work in town at his
trade
Mrs. Mark Hoskins spent last week
with her mother, Mrs. Lucy Louns-
bury, in Lake Mills.
Mrs Martha George and daughter
of Ellenboro, visited friends in Fen
nimore, the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Better moved
over from Bloomington last week and
are now settled in their home in the
fourth ward
Cond. Waite of the noon train re-
turned last week from his six weeks
vacation in California where he Wis
tied his son.
Prof McNair returned Thursday TO
his duties in Houghton, Mich. He was
here during the last illness and death
of his mother
May Peacock of Fennimore, accom-
panied her mother Mrs. John Pea
cock, to this city last Wednesday
where the latter will take treatment
at the sanitarium.
Louis George, Park Superintendent
of the Northwestern road, has placed
four beds OF tulips in the depot green
spot. These tulips cost $14 but Mr..
George says when they bloom the
sight will be worth the money
Cutler Borah writes the Herald
from San Francisco saying that he
as been moving around considerably
i'll the golden state since last fall.
The coast metropolis is all built up
without a vestige of the big fire and
quake remaining. Cutler is return
ing to 1888 n. Alexander Ave, Los
Angeles.
Oates Bros. have bought six horses
replacing those lost in the fire week
ago Friday. One team are matched
grays and another matched blacks.
The other two are bay and black. Tho
horses are all good ones. The boys
first act was to fully insure their new
horses
r. J. Cohen Of Fennimore, was in
this city last Wednesday as a dele
gate to the county Woodmen conven-
ton. Mr.. Cohen has read the Herald
for forty years and thinks the paper
is the best today it ever was. Despite
his name Mr.. Cohen is of full Irish
ancestry but an American to the back
bone and all the way I'D and down.
Mrs d. " Walker, formerly Miss
Ellen Stewart came last Wednesday
from her home in Strathcona, Alberta,
Canada, to visit her sisters. Mrs. H.
r. King, Mrs. John Stephens and Mrs.
Dan Price. The Walkers went to
Canada a number of years ago and
have prospered in their new home.
They have large family of sons and
daughters, all grown or nearly so.
Burr Walker and family returned
Tuesday from Spokane, Wash, where
they made their final visit in the west.
They motOred out of Lancaster last
September 9Th as a part of a Grant
county caravan bound for California.
The Walkers motored the entire dis
lance west and then turned north
through California, Oregon and Wash
ington They left their car at Spo-
kane for sale Andrew Zenz and
family will drive back later but await
the opening of Yellowstone Park in
June before returning home.
G. w Long of Madison, engineer
on the evening train, was almost I'M
nerved Friday morning when he
pulled out of Lancaster. On the
Sunday previous Mr.. Long and wife
with Dr. l.. F. Rundell and wife of
Livingston participated in a motor
accident on the road between Fenni-
more and Lancaster. The steering
knuckle on the car broke and the
vehicle overturned. The passengers
were covered with flying glass but all
escaped injury excepting Mrs. Rundell
who received severe bruises and cut
on the head and black eye. The
car was nearly wrecked. On Thurs
day evening following the evening
train driven by Mr.. Long, ran over
and killed Miss Elizabeth Gutweiler,
of Fennimore