Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-06-11

hugh Orion was Galena passenger
Monday afternoon.
MIS-. H. l.. Upton is at Union. Iowa.
let's. WI
Rev. Thos. Beavin was Platteville
passenger Monday, attending a dis
trlct conference there.
.; II. irwin went to Milwaukee yes
terday as local delegate to the Ma
sonic Grand Lodge meeting.
MIS-. Mary Mason and son went to
onlcago Monday, called there on ac-
count of the illness of a relative.
! Carl Wunderlin, 6, son of John
Wunderlin of Harrison, had tonsils
/ removed by DR.. Doolittle Monday.
Five Kern of Ipswich, S. D., is Wis
lung friends in Lancaster and vicin-
ly EIy1e came back to get his car
MISS Ellen Govier has returned to
Lancaster from Fennimore, being at
the JOS. Benoy home for tae present
Mrs. Albert Sherman and brother,
y. f. Johnson, were called to Chicago
monday by the serious illness with
pneumonia of their father, Captain
Chas. J. Johnson.
| ID. w. McKircher and family of
wisconsin Rapids are visiting Cond
Mills and wife. Mr. Mills finds he
cannot get away on his western trip
for couple of weeks.
| Carl KaSper, commerce student at
the university, was home Sunday to
attend the funeral of his grandmother,
Mrs. Oschman. He went to Lake
Geneva Monday as Y. M. c. A dele
gate and will return home again this
week
! VIM, MeinertZ, a farmland located
| near Fennimore, had two ribs
broken and was badly bruised up in
an encounter with bull Saturday
He came to Lancaster and DR.. Doc
| little gave him the necessary medical
attention
Irwin Nicholson, British Hollow, en-
ployed on the Potosi road improve
ment took very i'll while at work last
Saturday. He was taken home and
DR.. Doolittle diagnosed his trouble as
gladstone infection. Mr.. Nicholson is
still very ill, requiring constant care.
The White-Brown Chautauqua Co.
of Kansas City opens engagements in
the county this week, beginning Fri
day at Platteville under Legion aus
pices and at Bloomington Saturday
under control of citizens. The pro-
gram is six days in length and of the
usual excellence.
Henry Belscamper sheared 40 head
of sheep Thursday, taking an average
of ten pounds of wool. Prevailing
price of wool is 331sc a pound. He
also has 25 lambs which should bring
$40 apiece. School children have a
practical example here-what should
Henry's gross return be?
| Mr.. and Mrs Harry j. Gerhard and
children of Petersburg, Ill, departed
yesterday for home following visit
of ten days with Mr.. and Mrs. D. c..
! Johnson They expected to make the
drive of 270 miles in one day. Edwin
Knoble came home from Chicago Sun
urday and visited until Sunday noon
A Cadillac sedan with No. Dakota
! license tipped over on its side near
the Stoffel place in the Liberty road
Saturday about noon. The owner
came to Lancaster and had Funk
Bros. make temporary repairs so he
| could proceed to La Crosse. The car
/ suffered broken glass, a bent axle
and broken windshield.
G. e. Briggs, local manager OF the
Wisconsin Tel. Co., is making an edu-
cational drive against the use OF de-
vices in telephones. Mr.. Briggs says
thousands of dollars are wasted each
wear on devices of various kinds, ali
| of which are worthless. The point IS
that a telephone is complete in itself
and needs no additional apparatus to
make it operate properly The cam
paign refers particularly to mouth
piece and receiver attachments, dis
infectants, etc.
! Sixteen harmonious voices in jolly,
| iazzy Jubilee That's what is promised
/ bv Music Director Mark H. Hosklns'
who has taken over the important task
of providing music for the big Fourth
of July celebration which is to be
staged in Lancaster this year. Mr.
Hoskins has already lined up three
bands to provide music ON that day
and is now working on program OF
snappy numbers which will be sung
bv a male chorus of sixteen OF the
citv's best vocalists. The numbers Will
all be snappy and full of pep, ne
promises, all late popular hits belng
nsed and the chorus will in reality De
4 regular minstrel show minus the
| cnd men