Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-08-16

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j. H. Treloar Of Nora Springs, Ia,
spent the past week here as the guest
CT Oscar Damn and wife.
Mrs. Alma Borah of this city went
to Boaz, Richland county, Saturday,
to visit relatives for a week.
Miss Wilma Maso of FennimOre
visited here last week at the Sam
Welsh and Nelson Scott homes.
Mrs. Geo. Stauss and son, Ernest,
visited at the CHM home, Galena, and
took in the 10 Daviess county fair.
Miss Anna Crawford of Galena,
visited the past week with Mrs. Geo.
Stauss, returning home Thursday.
Mrs. c. V. Baumler and babe of PO-
tOsi, went to Milwaukee Thursday to
join Mr.. Baumler who is now located
there.
Miss Margaret Jordan went to Du-
buQue Saturday to visit her brother,
James She will be joined there by
the Elmer SaIzman family Of High
land.
David Spaith, Ellenboro farmer,
was taken suddenly i'll with pneu-
monia Sunday Of last week. By
Thursday he was reported as resting
easy and better.
j. w McKelvey departed Saturday
for Blunt, S. D., where he will super
wise the harvest on his 240 acre place.
He has an abundant yield of diversi-
fed crops in prospect.
Geo. Gibbs, veteran north side bar
Der, is taking his vacation. Last week
he fshed at Mccartney with S. W.
! Doolittle and Saturday went to Cobb
to visit his daughter, Mrs. Ed. Lange.
Miss Nellie Howell Of Lodi is visit
ing in Lancaster with her sister,
Alice. Miss Howell has accepted a
position as instructor in the Richland
! county training school for teachers
the coming season.
| Supt. S. S. McNelly and family re
! turned Wednesday from their yaca-
| ton trip at Neillsville and vicinity
! School opens Monday, Sept. II, fol
lowing Lancaster fair week. All
teachers are now engaged.
Mrs NJ c. Edwards and son, Stan
| ley, departed Friday for Reedsburg
to visit the Dr. Alba Edwards family
| and accompany them on a camping
I trip in the lake region. Stanley was
! in high spirits over the expected good
! time
! Misses Eva Anderson, Dubuque, and
| Alta Watson, New Diggings, departed
| Saturday for their respective homes
! after a weeks attendance at the
! teachers institute. Miss Anderson
will teach at Bagley and Miss Watson
| at Big Patch, near Platteville. The
| young ladies are capable teachers.
Walter 8rechler, a Boscobel young
man, was in Lancaster Saturday in
| i,,4 Of r, ooY7Ji1oo FOR rncrict al
/ of deeds, republican ticket. Nj
Brechler is confident Of election, re-
/ lying upon his business training and
the friendly interest Of numerous
/ friends to carry him through the
! primary with flying colors.
Chas. Schneider, an active Civil Wal
veteran of this city has bought the
Mrs. Richie lots east Of the Mrs. King
residence on Lincoln Ave, and will
soon begin the erection of a modern
home. Mr.. Schneider has long been
| identified with Lancaster affairs. He
attended the old academy here, went
in the Civil war as a member of Cap
tain Bakers company and for many
| years was prominent farmer near
the city
Mrs. Martin Mcdonald leaves Ian
caster tomorrow for Duluth. From
the Minnesota port Mrs. Mcdonald
will sail with her brother-inlaw and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Williams
for trip down the lakes as the
| Northen Navigation Co., on the S. S
Caronic. The vessel will touch al
various Lake Superior ports, passing
through the 500 locks and down the
! Mackinac straits to Detroit. The
trip will consume eight days and is
one that Mrs. Mac" looks forward
to with pleasurable anticipation. She
will be gone three weeks.
Chas. Cox, a former resident OF So
Lancaster who moved to town several
years ago, came into the office the
! other day and placed his name on the
Herald roster. Mr.. Cox is rs years
old and a native of this region being
4 born on a farm east of Lancaster. He
is nearly four score, but except FOL
poor eyesight is very robust ole
! gentleman His father, James Pit
man Cox, came to Lancaster when
| this pretty city was all woods and
deep woods at that. In those days
what consisted of town clustered
along the banks of upper Pigeon
| Creek near what is now the old light
plant. Gradually the town spread
/ westward but up to q generation age
the northwest section of the city was
dense timber and called "Clark's
! Woods, after Col. Clark, the then
owner. James Pitman Cox, native
of Pennsylvania, bodght the land now
| known as the Bidwell and Moore
farms from Uncle Sam at $1.25 an
acre. Today this land would bring
200 times that sum and maybe a good
deal more But, as George Washing
ton said when he threw dollar
! across the Potomac river and heard
! it Jingle in the shale of the far bank
/ 50 dollar went farther in those days
| than it does now"
CnNCpESSEyAN IN LANCASTER