Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-06-18
LOCAL ITEMS

L Tl0 net
week f''
Mrs. Josh Bradbury of Fennimore
was an over Wednesday visitor in
Lancaster.
Marvin Blake, recent L. H. S.
graduate, has returned to his home
in Baraboo
Mrs. Oscar Henning and babe of
PlatteV1lIe are guests at the Fred
Wenzel home.
Miss Mertice Hanks is home from
Stevens Point where she attended nor
NAL school the past year.
Mrs. Roy o. Wolfard went to Mad
1son Thursday to meet her sister, Miss
Elsie Taylor, who returned from a
Mrs Bartle and daughter returned
home to Montfort Wednesday follow
ing a visit with Lancaster friends.
Mrs. Matte Kinney has returned
from La Crosse where she attended
the Rebekah assembly as Lancaster
delegate.
II. l.. Mccoy has new set Of Fire
stone balloon cords on his Buick six
The oversize tires were installed by
the local dealers, Gault and Burns
Misses Jeanette and Elizabeth Nc
Coy, teaching at Milwaukee and Edg-
erton, are home for a summer visit
with their mother, Mrs. e. E. Mccoy.
Mrs. Russell Mulgrew and children
of Dubuque were guests at the par
entail Leo Meysembourg home here
last week, returning home Thursday.
Miss Lila Wendell, teacher in the
state Deaf and Dumb school near
Council Bluffs, Ia, is spending the
summer with her sister, Mrs. S. w.
DOolittle.
M. V. Butler of West Branch, Iowa,
the town where Secretary Herbert
Hoover was born, is here for sum-
mer visit with his daughter, Mrs. Lee
tina Orion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Godfrey of Dav-
export are here visiting Dr. Godfrey
and wife. The doctor motored to Po-
tosi Wednesday and met them on the
5:31 northbound.
Mrs. E. J. Austin and Mrs. Garth
Germond have been selected as dele
gates to represent the local legion
auxiliary at the state convention in
Chippewa Falls in August.
Miss Doris Cunningham of Los An
geles, Calf, was in Lancaster last
week visiting her friend, Miss Mary
Schuster. Miss Cunningham depart
ed Thursday for Indiana points.
Miss Hazel Robe of Henrietta, Okla,
was here the past week to visit her
cousin, Alice Howell. Miss Robe de-
parted Thursday morning for Wyo-
ming where she will visit before re-
turning south.
The marriage bans of Prof. Geo.
Schuster of Notre Dame, Ind, and
Miss Doris Cunningham of Los An
geles, Calf, were announced from
the altar of st. Clements church Sun
day a week ago.
Miss Alberta Hudson writes the
Herald from 729 Peterson ST., Fort
Collins, Colo, asking to have her
paper sent there for the summer.
After September 1 she will be located
at Meeker, Colo,
Prof. Jack Mcmahon has accepted
a summer engagement with the
Thompson tent show people playing
various towns in southwestern Wis.
Prof. Mcmahon is an expert on the
steel string guitar and at one time
travelled with the TOOts Paka Hawaii
an troupe in chautauqua work.
Harry Gault was in Minneapolis
last Monday to attend the funeral of
his uncle, Maurice Gault, who died on
Friday, June 6, at the age of 30. The
cause of death was arteriO schlerosls
terminating in a hemorrhage. Mr.
CAN'T. a brother of the late DR.. John
Gault of Lancaster, was chief pur-
chasing agent for the Minneapolis
Threshing Machine Co., for 30 years.
He leaves a wife and one son, Merritt.
Geo. Williams, engine driver on the
Galena run, was bumped" last week
by Daniel Rooney of Madison. Mr..
Williams takes a run in the northern
mart of the state Dumping" means
that short work causes the rail en-
ployes to move up on each other on
fhe more favored runs. AS work eX-
pands the process works the other
way. Union conditions COMPEL this
and the company has nothing to say
as seniority rules.
Local trainmen seem depressed over
business conditions. One tranman
said he saw trains going west on the
T. G. at Galena with only 4S cars
where in good times the trains would
,consist of 100 freight cars Many
Factories have closed and industry is
at a standstill in many manufacturing
centeres. Train service is now cur
tailed to an almost minimum and fur
ther restrictions are looked for be-
fore Improvement comes.
Mr. and Mrs. clare 1OIllAe'h VI
Brookings, s. D., have been here the
past week visiting at the Totman and
lee homes. They leave this week for
home and Mrs. R. NJ. Lee will ae-
company them for an extended WISH.
EVELYN Sherman plans to go along as
far as Tracy, Mimi, and visit her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. c. W.
Belyille for month or so if the i'll
ness of her grandfather, Capt. John-
son. does not prevent her leaving.
Years teaching at Chisholm, Mimi.
Mrs. Mary Thompson went to Hick-
orv Grove to spend few days at the
home of her brother. Abe Baumgart-
ner. Mr.. Baumgartner was recently IN
inred in a stump blast and is still in
q precarious state of health. 1t is
feared that the injured arm must be
amputated and the sight of one eye
Is gone entirely. Fortunately MI
paumgartner has four big sons to car
rv on the farm work while he is re-
covering health