Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-12-20
CORNSHOCKER FACTORY
NEW PLATTEVILLE PLAN

PLATTEVILLE, Wis-This city has
been selected by a group OF capital
lists for the site Of new FACTORY w14ch
may be built TO manufacture corn
shockeIs. The new machine weighs
less than 200 pounds. The promoters
Of the enterprise were in the city on
Monday comforting with local stock
holders and with officials OF one OF
the local banks. Plans are only ten
tative
Mrs. w. w. Pretts of this city has
been selected chairman of public
health department of the third district
of Wisconsin Federation of Women's
clubs. This district includes seven
counties.
n Banta, author of the Brownie
books" and associated with the A.
Flanagan Book company Of Chicago,
came here this week to interview Miss
Laura Roundtree Smith, writer OF
crildren's books. Miss Smith was I'M
able to go to Chicago and the publish
er was so eager to secure her services
that he came here. Miss Smith is tns
authoress of the Pixie boks for chill
dren, Bunnie Cotton Tail and others.
The agricultural department OF the
normal school sent eight of it's stu
dents to the livestock show in Chica'
go. Professor Hints accompanied
them. They visited also the board of
trade, the Federal Reserve bank, the
Coliseum and the poultry show.
Funeral services of Louis M. Esta-
brook were held from the home, North
Elm street, Tuesday afternoon The
Rev. William Ledwick of the Congre-
gationaI church ociciated. The death
of Mr.. Estabrook was shock to the
community. He had been i'll only a
few weeks. Deceased was born near
PIatteville and was a student of the
normal school. Later he was grad
uated from the law school of the Uni
versity of Michigan. Surviving him
are his widow and two sons, Craig, OF
San Francisco, Cal, and Ned, of Cas-
per, Wyo. Mrs. Estabrook has been
an invalid for some time, and Mr.. Es-
tabrook had given his entire time to
her care.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Hansen is dangerously i'll. She
was taken to the hospital Wednesday.
Two other children of the family are
recovering from sickness.
o. E. Gray accompanied Mrs. Chase
W Nd11SdS OlIy w COICOO "1CA y JIM
will Join her sister and niece and con-
tinue the trip to Arkansas, where they
will spend the winter
Miss McGregor of Waupaca, neice
of the late DR.. Duncan McGregOr, may
be afraid o. mouse, but she is credit
ed with having killed tiger that
started to attcak her. Miss McGrego"
| is giving talks throughout the seate on
her experience of going eight thous-
and miles by saddle back through UNI
| freuuented trails in South America.
Her lectures are on her trip from
Lima to Peru over the Andes and her
exploring trip on the Amazon. She
plans to return to South America
| Harker & Son presented Mr.. George
Reed with a pair of No. E. E. shoes.
The firm made the offer good to any
one that could wear this size and Mr..
Reed was the first to claim them.
The friends of Mr.. John Butt and
Mrs. Ethel McGranhan were surprised
to have them announce that their mar
riage took place last August in Ch'ca-
go. The announcement was made a
few days ago.
Albert Rapp, young man from
| Tennyson is recovering at the BUCK
hospital from an operation for ap-
pendicitis.