Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-12-27

nee visited at Judge Go0dSelIS Christ
mas
| Margaret Batty has been helping at
| Cottinghams through the holiday
. rush
| keenan, Bennett of Pittsburg was a
Christmas visitor at the J. T. Bennett
| home here
/ Helen Judd of Madison was holt
| Lancaster.
! Miss Minnie Mcdonald of Platteville
was a holiday visitor at the John Nc
Donald home
Miss Ruth Higginbotham OF Chicago
| spent Christmas with her sister, Mrs
| Lloyd = ooker
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Mrs. Milton Frazier Of
Norwalk, Wis, are visiting A. j. Fra
zier and wife.
Janice Eastman, Beloit senior, is
spending the holidays at the parental
! Lee Eastman home
! John Tiedeman and family of Platte
vile visited over Christmas with Mrs
Alice Galloway here.
Mrs. Arch Parkins has been assist
! ing at the Bennett Drug store during
the Christmas trade.
Miss Genevieve Ennor of Davenport,
spent Christmas in Lancaster with
relatives and old friends.
Lancaster merchants enjoyed a fine
! holiday trade this year, an indication
that the hard times are about over.
Croft& Stephens shipped seven cars
! of hogs and three of cattle Tuesday
A. E. Lewis shipped three cars of
/ hogs.
| DR.. Morris, mother and niece, who
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.
! Brennan, returned to Madison Tues
day noon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kellogg went to
Merr1mac, Wis, Saturday to spend the
! holidays with their daughter, Mrs
! Louis George.
Mrs Emily Fawcett and daughter,
Margaret, Of Marinette, are spending
! the holidays with the formers moth
! er, Mrs. Cronin.
Miss Leona Pagel, employed at the
/ Jackson Vinegar Co. in Dubuque, ar
/ rived here Friday for a holiday visit
! with her parents.
/ Miss Grace :Holzinger, teaching ply
/ steal training at Clinton, ILL.,, is here
/ for holiday visit Tuesday she went
/ to Highland for a visit with friends
Mrs. VIM. LorenZ Jr. went to Anna
! ton Tuesday to attend the funeral of
her grandfather, Jos. Burton, Civil
/ war veteran, who passed away Satur
| day night.
Away Down East" drew good OPP
! tiences each performance at the Or
pheum. A Griffith picture with lots
of punch in the last reel. 1t was al
/ SO Away too long"
!. The Lancaster pOstoffice was buster
! than ever this year but all work was
/ cleaned up every day and the decks
j swept for another days rush. The
/ force can now take it easy for another
! year.
Judge Smalley went to Milwaukee
Tuesday to attend the annual meeting
of the circuit judges of the state, and
his son, j. E., a holiday guest here,
returned to Racine, where he is an
assistant in the district attorneys
office
The Hurricane G. E. society realiz-
I'd about $50 from their two perform
ances Of 'An Old-fa shioned Mother"
Mrs. Fred Nehls is spending the
Christmas holidays with her daugh-
ters, Mrs Marguerite Wegener at
Turtle Lake, Wis.
OuSI Ill I1OIllCS dllu lCL1lIy dI6 PACK
ing up to move back to their home in
Platteville next Monday. The new
sheriff, Joe Edge, moves in Tuesday
Mr.. Holmes has had his Plattevilie
property thoroughly overhauled and
will probably reengage in the realty
business.
The city can replace the board walk
! around the square any time now. The
/ CT or.
! ly dangerous to walk on the slick
| sidewalks. The boards were not put
down last year but they should be put
/ down before bad accident occurs.
School closed Friday for two weeks
/ and most Of the Lancaster teachers
! left town Saturday for their respec-
| tive homes. J. R. Vernon and wife
/ go to Chicago January LIST, where they
will make their future home. Mr..
i Vernon, for two years past, has been
in the district highway office here.
/ The Baptist Ladies Aid cleared
| $3.50 at their annual bazaar.
! The large buffalo on exhibit and cut
| up and sold at Dobson's last week
/ drew large crowd of interested WISH
/ tors. The buffalo was one of "a
shipped from the Scotty Phillips herd
! ranch at FIT. Pierre, S. D., to various
cities in Wisconsin. Dobson obtained
| one of the best for his trade and many
! families enjoyed buffalo meat for
! their Christmas dinner.
! The entire highway force piled out
/ Saturday leaving Chief Thomas Reilly
; in sole possession of the office The
younger members of the force went
to Madison in car for the weekend
and holiday, Mr.. Germond and family
went to Madison and Mr. Vernon and
wife also visited relatives in the capt.
tai city.
DR.. ]. S. O'Connor the well know
optomotrist making Lancaster for
years, had an unpleasant experience
at Boscobel last week. An oil stove
was placed in the doctors quarters.
He went to the hotel office while the
stove was warming his room, and
when he returned, the stove had
gone up and smoke and SCOT covered
everything in the room. The doctor
said it was the worst mess he had
ever seen.
| Mrs. Mary Hames, widow of Jacob