Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-05-14
LOCAL ITEMS

Hewlett Barnett was a Fennimoro
business caller Saturday.
Baxter Judd, pneumonia patient
is reported as being better
w. P. RoWdon spent Monday in
Fennimore with his son, John
Miss Martha DiVall is improvino in
health following a siege with pnen-
monia.
Mrs. H J. Kraemer went to Madi-
son Saturday to visit for week with
Mr.. Kraemer.
Mrs. Geo. Burns and children snent
Saturday with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
steiner Of Fennimore
NIesdames Ralph Welsh and Geo
Graney underwent goitre operations
at Doolittle hospital Thursday.
Dr. DoOlittle reports the birth of
son at the Irving Nicholson home in
British Hollow, Friday, May 9.
Rudolph Hartman, second year, Let
ters and Science course, U. of w.
spent the weekend at his home in
Lancaster
The Woman's Club gave a farewell
marty in honor of Member Catherine
Nathan at Grantland club room Mon
day evening.
Mrs. Paul Schmidt returned home
to Milwaukee Friday following a Wis
it with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Schreiner.
Mrs. Florence Jones, aged % years.
of Platteville, wife of Ben Jones. has
been accepted for admittance to the
state tuberculosis hospital at Wales.
A. ". Ward was in Cassville Fri
dav to visit his aunt, Mrs. James Fin
lew The latter, now past 81 years
old is very sick with heart trouble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Friske of Kan
kakee III, returned home Saturday
having visited the past two months
with the latter's brother, Roy Luckey,
of Mt. Ida,
Mrs Bertha Williams went to Cobb
Yesterday TO visit her daughter, Mrs.
VIM. Gard The latter has been ill
since the birth af an infant son sew
eral weeks ago.
Mrs. Lizzie Orion, president of St.
Nartha's Guild of Emmanuel parish,
entertained guild members with a six
o'clock dinner Thursday evening.
Eleven guests were present.
Aid. Andrew Hebenstreit of Shulls-
burg is defendant in a $4,000 dam
age suit brought by w. H. Jones. The
case is an echo of an assault to which
HpDenSLr6lI plSdu6u guilty. ldSL 1dIl.
DR.. Fowler reports the birth of a
daughter at the Raymond Ertz home
in Liberty, May 8; a boy at the Ben
HartIine home in No. Lancaster Mon
dav May 70; a girl at the Sam Welsh
home in Little Grant, Monday, May II.
Floyd Dixon, U. of w student, spent
Sunday here with his father, L. M.
Dixon, and aunt, Mrs Ellie Duncan.
a 6Tn
fit in preparation for a trip to the
mountains this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Meierkort of
Freeport. motored to Lancaster last
mid-week and visited Miss Leone
Kraemer. Miss Kraemer made her
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Meierkort
when she attended school at Freeport
four years ago.
Miss Ethel UT was hostess to her
Sunday school class and their moth
ers as a mother-daughter banquet in
honor of Mothers day in the COngre-
gational church dining room Saturday
evening. 13 Misses and their moth
ers we're present. The banquet was
iDterspersed with tOasts and talks.
Lester Green of Chicago, a son OF
ThOs Green of Pleasant Ridge, re-
n
inc a weeks visit and recreation IN
the country here. Mr.. Green, broth
err of the late Willie Green, is the
youngest of the Green boys. He holds
a position as chef overseer on four
railroads and receives a salary OF
1925 a month and expenses.
DR. w. t. Brown and daughters,
Alice and Margaret, of Valmore, N:
NJ. arrived here Thursday for Drlet
visit Mr.. Brown and Miss Margaret
went to Chicago Saturday. MONDAY
Dr. Hassell and Miss Alice went 10
Chicago to meet DR.. Brown and MISS
Margaret and the party then started
for New Mexico. DR.. Hassell Will re-
main there for an extended v1slt.
Rev John Birrell and family leave
Lancaster next Tuesday on their sum
mer vacation They go first TO NO
Adams, Mass, to visit a sister, MIS-
Cornelius WyIde While in Massa-
ehusetts Rev. Birrell will attend the
Methodist general conference held at
Springfield, this month. They san Oh
May Is from Boston on the Scythla'
Cunard liner, for Liverpool The sum
mer will be spent in England, Scot
land and France. Rev. Birrells BOY
hood home was near Carlyle on Tue
Scottish border. Mrs. Birrell IS nd-
tive of Buxton, Derbyshire. Ihey eA-
pect to visit both places after sixteen
years continuous residence in Wlscon-
sin. They will reach America IN Aug
ust and Rev. Birrell will be back III
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