Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-15
LOCAL ITEMS

Fennimore callers Friday afternoon.
Irving Frye has moved to Arthur to
conduct a smithy he has rented there.
Mrs. c. H. Nye of Viroqua has been
visiting her, old friend, Mrs. Martha
Showalter.
Miss Ethel Bisback of Plateville re-
turned home Friday following a
months visit with various Lancaster
| friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Len Bradley have re-
| turned from a pleasant visit with rel
atives at Sioux City and Storm Lake.
Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs Arch Parkins and Mr..
and Mrs Elmer Schmidt motored to
Minneapolis last week for pleasant
outing.
Andrew Foster and wife departed
Saturday for Aberdeen, S. D., where
they will visit until April with a son,
| livingthere.
| Mrs. Joe Young of Sparta, visited
here briefly last mid-week with Mrs.
John Cupps, who moved to Lancaster
| from Boscobel year ago.
Dana Leacock and wife of Racine
returned home Thursday via the
Northwestern following four-day
visit with Jack Powell at Potosi.
Alex Kennedy, car cleaner on the
Galena train, went back to Baraboo
| Thursday. The run here being aban-
| doned, Alex will have to seek employ
ment elsewhere.
W. J. Bailie and wife left Sunday
for Chicago, motoring down in their
sedan. They stopped at Beloit and
| attended a Christian Science lecture
on the way down.
Mrs. w. B. Dyer, visiting at Ell Paso,
| Texas, for some months, expects to re-
turn north in a month or so. She
will visit her son, Donald, at Kenosha,
until Mr.. Dyer gets located.
j. L. Gardiner, former Lancaster
resident, was a caller here Friday.
! Mr. Gardiner has been employed for
the summer on the VIM. G. Lewis
farm three and one-half miles west
of Bloomington.
Mrs. M. v. Kellar and son, Fred,
of Albert Lea, Mimi, and Mrs.
Gunlach of Livingston visited at the
Leo Kemper home in Lancaster last
week. They left Friday afternoon
for their respective homes.
Potatoes seem to be an excellent
crop in Grant county, proving the
adage, "we always raise something"
Local spuds of excellent quality are
priced at soc a bushel and people are
engaged in laying in their winter
supply.
William Cox and wife of De Kalb,
| Ill, spent their vacation with Chas.
Cox and wife, returning home last
week. The elder Mr.. Cox has been in
poor health for some time. His son,
| William, is a railway mail clerk out
of Chicago.
Little Media Kaap underwent an OPP
Grafton for the removal of numerous
| growth on one ankle at Doolittle hos
pital last Wednesday. Little Media
l stood the painful operation with for
titude and hopes to soon to be her
active and cherry self again.
Five passengers boarded the $50
Accommodation out of Lancaster Thurs
day morning, the first day of the new
train schedule. Montfort was reached
three hours later in time to connect
| with the Madison train east A long
delay is occasioned at Fennimore due
to loading and unloading freight there.
| C. W. Goldman of Milwaukee, travel
| ing representative of the Wisconsin
Anti-tuberculosis Association, was
here Thursday arranging the Red
Cross Christmas Seal Campaign con-
Quoted before the holidays for the
| benefit of consumption sufferers. He
appointed F. E. Ralph as county rep
reSentative.
| Dan Rooney, engineer on the Galena
run, blew his engine whistle at re-
QUEEN pitch Wednesday evening as
he approached Lancaster. AS far as
he knew this was the last goodby
time for the Galena train and Dan
made the best of it between Liberty
and Lancaster. The effect was a
weird and doleful.
Rev. John DeVries and several of
the Baptist congregation were in
Darlington the weekend week ago
attending a meeting of the Baptist
Lafayette association. Good delega-
lions were present from various
churches in southwestern Wisconsin.
| Those attending report an interesting
session and royal entertainment.
Jas Boyle and wife of So. Lancaster
were called to Mt. Hope Friday to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Boyle's
brother, John Rosen. Mr.. Rosen, aged
about so, died Thursday after an ill
ness of an hour. Funeral services
were held at Mt. Hope Saturday morn
ing at 10. Deceased leaves widow
and five children, three boys and two
| girls.
Sam Groenier and family, Mrs. New
port and Miss Alice Groenier motored
up from Chicago last week and visited
Lambert Groenier and family and
Ora Sitter and family. A goodby
family party was held at the Lambert
Grenier home Wednesday evening in
honor of Ray Groenier and Virgil
/ Scott who left the next day for Cal
| ifornia.
! Will Tracy, Platteville movie show
man, adopted novel method to adver-
| tise "The Covered Wagon" shown
there last week. Will altered wagon
to the old covered wagon style and
hired man and his wife to drive