Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-08
LOCAL ITEMS

Lancaster last mid-week on busin ass.
Henry Mink transacted business in
Fennlmore Friday afternoon.
Miss Esther Schneider is visiting
sister, Mrs. Clyde Walker, at Liberty
vile, III.
Mrs. Earl Sangster of PlatteyilIe
visited from Thursday to Tuesday at
the parental Joe Mccoy home.
Mrs. Walter Bauer of Cuba City Wis
tied in Lancaster last week with her
friend, Mrs. H. M. Schermerhorn.
L. M. Dixon, Grant Co. Agt. for Will
son Bros, moved March 1st from the
Albert Krohn farm to the Burr Walk
er farm on the Hurricane road.
John Louthain was called to his
home in PlatteVille Thursday by i'll
ness in the family.
Former Sheriff j. w. Watson of
Livingston, spent Thursday and Fri
day in the county seat last week On
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Beran departed
Saturday for Muscoda where they
reside on the Mrs. Olive Heffner
farm this year.
Mrs. Chas. Wepking and Miss
Mayme Gull of Fennimore visited at
the Adolph Wepking hame here Mon
day and Tuesday.
Relatives here received word Fri
day from Fennimore that Mrs. Frank
Horton had fallen on an icy walk and
broken one hip bone.
Miss Pauline Rogers of Fennimore
spent the past week with her uncle,
Elmer Caller, of Little Grant. She re-
turned home Saturday
Parke Gelbach shipped IL head of
Black Angus cattle to Stanley Pierce,
an Illinois breeder, Monday. This
was Parke's third shipment to Mr..
Pierce.
Miss Alice Ward, teacher in the
Lancaster high school, fell on the icy
street one day last week and badly
hurt one knee. She is under the care
of DR.. Godfrey.
L. w. Hutchcroft of the state board
of health, a former Glen Haven resi-
dent, was here Tuesday settling up
the estate of his mother, Mary J.
Hutchcroft, deceased.
Henry and John Vogell and Mes
danes Henry North and Gotleib Weyk
all of Galena, were here to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Lenoard Haeffner
They returned home Thursday.
Ohio Doll has moved to Lancaster
from Liberty and Willie Craugh and
wife of Potosi route five have moved
on the place vacated by Mr.. Doll
known as the old Behling farm.
Eddie Knobel arrived in Lancaster
Tuesday from Philadelphia, to visit for
two weeks and attend the Knobei-
Belscamper wedding. He is still with
the Pollock Appraisal Company.
Peter Stoffel and wife have moved
into the Linton property they recent
ly bought in the first ward. Mr.. and
Mrs. Reilly and children have moved
into the Rockwell house in the End
ward.
E. l.. Mccoy went to Madison Fri
day to attend meeting of the dis
trict agents of the Northwestern Life
Insurance Co. Despite the hard
times Mr.. Mccoy wrote a very fine
lot Of insurance last year.
r. C. Letter and wife have moved
from the canning company farm to
Lancaster and are occupying the res
idence with Mrs. Finnegan. Mr..
Letter will work for Henry J. Funk &
Co., leading excavators, the coming
summer.
Following are new patients at Doc
little hospital: Alta Fields, Bloom
ington, operated on Monday; Mrs.
Harvey Reed, Lancaster, operated on
Saturday; Archibald Cooley, age IA,
Bloomington, appendicitis operation
Wednesday.
Court took an adjournment Friday
and the jurors went home with IN
structiOnS to come back Monday. But
one case has been to trial so far this
term-that a breach of promise ac-
ton. The other cases have been set
tied or decided upon question OF law
by the court.
County Treas Hounsell hands the
Herald a unique receipt he recently
made out to F. G. Burr, Clerk OF the
Court The receipt was made on the
22d day of the second month IN the
wear 1922, reading 2-22-22, in date.
The receipt is number two ana the
amount is 1920.
Mrs. L. A. Sykes of Monroe celebra-
ted her seth birthday Thursday. Mrs.
Sykes is the mother of Geo. @. Sykes
of Lancaster, and one of the Green
county pioneers. She came to Wis
consin from Alton, ILL.,, in the early
forties. She is very active for her age
and takes a keen interest in present
day events.
Ed. Rumpf of Milwaukee was here
last week to give Clyde Suttle civil
service test as postal clerk. Clyde
had an almost perfect score, missing
only one card Ed. returned home
Wednesday noon. He visited at the
Mankel home while in Lancaster. Ed
is now in the division postal offices at
Milwaukee.
Harvey Schermerhorn of Ontario,
Wis, employed the past few months.
on the Herald, leaves this week for
Viroqua where he becomes business
manager of the Independent, a Pro
gressive publication. Mr.. Schermer-
horn is a capable and obliging young
man and he leaves the Herald with
the best wishes of the force.