Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-09

Oo dlIleF was milwaukee bus
mess passenger Monday.
Mrs. VIM. Ilker of Mayville is visit
ing her husband, VIM. Ilker.
MRS. Frank Allen of Livingston was
a holiday visitor in Lancaster.
FRANK Sweeney and family of Mad
lson spent the 4th in Lcanaster.
MISS Florence Fry of Fennimore
visited Lancaster relatives over Sun
day.
Miss Edith Godfrey of Vermont Wis
past week. ***
Mrs. Gertrude Hol of Tennyson was
operated on for hernia at Doolittle
hospital last Tuesday. She is doing
we'll
War tax has been removed from tel
ephone and telegraph messages along
with removal of tax on theatre admis-
sion, etc.
Miss Myrtle Fink of Milwaukee is
visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry B. Godfrey. She expects
to remain month. ***
John Fields of Kilbourne, father of
the Fields Bros, owners of the car
nlVal company, is a medical patient
at DoOlittle hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Griswold went
to Waukegan, Ill, Saturday, being
called there by the serious illness of
their s1ster-in-laW, Mrs. Al. Griswold.
julius Christensen of Preston is a
patient at the Doolittle hospital where
an operation for removal of pus on
the lung was performed last Tuesday.
Miss Angela Williams of Quincy,
Ind, member of the high school facul-
ty here, lost her father by death last
week. Burial was made at Quincy,
Tuesday.
Boyd Shearer and r. Kinsinger of
Peoria, H., who have been visiting at
the Geo. Glider home, motored home
! Thursday ###
Miss Gladys Worley was a week
end visitor at her home in Fennimore.
Miss Laurinda Hampton, attending
summer school at the university, spent
the 4th at home.
w. F. Schroeder and a gang of men
were up from Platteville Thursday to
move the new water plant boiler from
the car to the pumping plant. The
work was accomplished between dawn
and dusk
Chas. Miller and wife of Racine mo-
tored to Lancaster Sunday and visit
ed the day with Mr.. and Mrs. P. R.
| Stoffel. Mr.. Miller and Mrs. Stoffel are
cousins.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Reuss and daugh-
ter, Helen, of Winona, spent from
Tuesday to Thursday as the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Drinkwater of this
city. Mr.. Reuss is a North Western
road employee.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clayton Han
mold and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry t. Fink
and Miss Myrtle Fink motored down
from Milwaukee July 4th and visited
at the Henry Godfrey home. They left
again on Sunday for home. ***
p r. Stoffel hands the Herald a
couple of quarts of Strawberries of
the Roma variety. These berries are
of mammoth size and exquisite flavor.
One berry measured 51a inches in di-
ameter and was perfect specimen.
Jack DeSomers, former proprietor
of the Gem theatre at Platteville and
well known in Lancaster, died at his
home in Milwaukee Monday of last
/ week. The demise was due to blood
poisoning Mr.. DeSomers leaves a
widow and two children.
The Herald acknowledges RECEIPT
of a handsome bouquet of mammoth
peonies, the gift of the Mckay Muir
sery Co. of Madison. j r. Place is
the local agent for the Mckay firm.
The flowers came special delivery last
Wednesday and graced the office
counter for several days.
The carnival company pulled stakes
Monday for Platteville where they
will show this week. J. c. Fields, head
of the company, said he was gratified
at the cordial and fair treatment &C
corded him in Lancaster. The carni-
val business has been very poor so
far this year due to stringent times
but the show did nice business here
the 4th.
Mrs Alice Galloway is still at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. John Tied
emann of Platteville, being in too del
icate state of health to move al
though her condition has improved
and she is getting along in satlstac-
tory way from a paralytic stroke she
had a few weeks ago. A son, Verne, OF
Oshkosh, was in Platteville last week
to see his mother.