Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-29


Sarah Cooper, former resident of
this county. Mrs. Cooper made her
home in Lawrence for a number of
years.
James Bradbury is home from Chi
cago where he visited his borther,
Nathan, aged So, former Grant coun-
ty resident. Nathan is in good health
except for injuries he sustained in
fall recently.
Theo. C. Decker of Beloit visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Briggs last week.
/ Other recent guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Schnell, and Misses Anna
Carrigan and Thelma Wetherall also
of Beloit.
| High school sophomores entertained
Freshmen at party at the high
school Friday evening. The enter
tainment consisted of fables, tableaux
and pantomine. Delicious refresh
ments were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evans Nye, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Dieson and DR.. Chase, all
of Viroqua, Spent Sunday at the Mrs.
Martha Showalter home. While here
the party celebrated the birthdays Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w B. Carter
| Louis Vesperman hands the Herald
a beautiful bouquet of flowers picked
in his garden on Monday, Oct. 81. Fall
flowers are still blooming despite the
lateness of the season and the occa-
sional frosts has not injured them.
The public affairs committee of the
Platteville and Lancaster Kiwanis
clubs conferred here Wednesday in re-
gard to highway program of general
county interest. They met the county
road committee, going over the mat
! ter.
Mesdames Martha Wright and Fran
ces Carthew left Saturday for San
Diego, Calf, where they will spend
| the winter Mrs Wright will visit her
| daughter, Mrs. Harcleroad, and Mrs
! Carthew will visit her daughter, Mrs.
Simison
| Oct. 80 at 9 p. m. Chancellor VIM
Ocschger will broadcast from station
W. G. A. L. an explanation of the
Dawes reparation plan and what it
means to the Fatherland. A 20-min
ute speech in English and 10 minute
speech in German.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Weber and
children motored to Dubuque with
J DR.. Schade, Sunday, and visited their
son, Paul, a student at Columbia col
lege. They found the young man in
good health and spirits and much in
terested in his school work.
w. B. Dyer writes ]. G. Whitmore
! from Frankfort Ind, that his horse
! The Tempter, won the PIP pace there
! last Thursday in straight heats, MAX
/ ing better than 2:10 in all heats. On
Friday The Tempter was second in
the 2:15 pace with eight starters.
! Twenty juniors surprised Billie
| Sch1oesser, L. III. S. student, at his
home in No Lancaster Friday night
! in honor of Billie's 18th birthday. An
unusually good time was had by all
| present. Billie was presented with a
Wahl pencil in remembrance of the
occasion.
| c. H. Basford left Monday for Mo-
mence, Ill, to attend the funeral of
his daughter-in-iaw, Mrs. L. P. Bas-
! ford who died Monday afternoon at
! 2:25 o'clock, after a short illness with
| typhoid fever. Deceased visited in
Lancaster at the time of the Humph-
rey-Stokes wedding.
Mrs. Anna Klaus of Milwaukee,
! Dept Press Correspondent for the w.
R. c., was in Lancaster Saturday con-
Quoting annual inspection of the coun-
ty w. r. C. About 1913 from various
corps in the county were present for
the review and other exercises held
at teh post hall here.
| Winners in the Heart Day" con-
! test were Martha Schwartz, first, Sill
| 06; Genevieve Fawcett, second, $8.43;
Genevieve Damn, third, $7.20; Don
aid Budworth, 4th, Walter Webb, 5th
Jessie Walker, 9Th A total of $122.47
was donated to the Volunteers of
America through the tag day.
Mrs. Julia O'Hearn of Minneapolis
returned home yesterday following a
visit here with Thomas and Mary
| Spaith, relatives. Mrs. O'Hearn had
not been here for a number of years
! She was amazed at the Improvement
! in the city. She will be remembered
here as Miss Julia Spaith.
Mrs. Mary Hoffman and daughter,
Mrs. Thomas Nagle, left Wednesday
| for Sunnyside, Wash, where they will
spend the winter. Mrs. Jennie Jami-
son accompanied them as far as her
home in Bozeman, Mont. Mesdames
Nagle and Jamison, former residents,
spent the latter part of the summer
visiting relatives in this vicinity.
Twelve persons wrote the rural
carrier examination held here last
week to fill a vacancy at the Potosi
postoffice. A vacancy exists and an
other will occur in the spring when
John Campbell, veteran carrier, goes
on pension The route to be filled is
&c miles in length with annual COM
pensation of $1,860 for "a miles and
an additional $50 for each extra mile.
Mrs. Clyde Hauser celebrated her
daughter Dorothy's 9th birthday ami
versary by entertaining nine little girl
friends and their teacher at party
Thursday, Oct. 23d from four to five
thirty D. M AS the event occurred so
near Halloween the color scheme used
was black and orange, and the rooms
were decorated with the usual Hal
lowe'en novelties. Games were played
and supper served. Those present were
Dorothy, Robert and Monroe Hauser.
Alta and Marion Burns, Dorothy and
Florence Yarwood, Margaret and Hell
en- Hoffman, Marguerite Kinney, Ruth
Lewis and Eleanor Thorne and Miss
Hanzlik The young hostess received
many nice gifts and good time was
enjoyed by all.
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