Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
LOCAL ITEMS

Fifteen elderly members of the w
R. c. No. At, with baskets on their
arms and smiling faces, surprised
Mrs. Lottie Ward Ropes, a wheel
chair Shut-in, Oct. Is. Mesdames len
ME Baxter, Ella Reed, J. Blackburn
FANNIE Croft, Maria Baxter, Jennie
Place, j. Fine, Louisa Oswald. Theresa
Doll, Irene Ward, Margaret Baxter.
K. Place, Mary Croft, Mary Morse and
l.. Totman made up the party. THE
time was spent pleasantly in talkine
or the happy years gone by and the
present. Lulu and Carrie Benn peened
into the baskets and with Abby Phe1ns'
nice cakes, ice cream, candy and COT
fee, served nice lunch. This CON
cluded a perfect October day long To
be remembered by all present and the
wheel chair victim wants them all to
come again. *ww
Mrs. Clara Macarthur, who spent a
few days with the John Nickles fam
lily on the farm, came home Friday.
Mrs. Macarthur has word that her sis
ter, Effie, Mrs. o. G. Shaw. of Flee
iron, Washington, who suffered a
stroke of paralysis about two months
ago, is able to be up and to use her
hand to write The stroke affected
her right side, and she was in bed
six weeks, attended by nurse
Cassyille Index.
William Breuer and son, Lawrence.
and G. w. Breuer, all of Cassyille vi
entity, were Lancaster callers Fri
day. They came up to get a grist of
wheat ground into flour at the Kas-
per Bros. mill. William says he raised
40 bushels of wheat on two acres. He
has no trouble in raising good crops
of wheat on Grant county soil. While
here they paid the Herald a pleasant
visit.
The last issue of the Wisconsin Bell
Telephone News carries a descriptive
account of Horizon, Wis, exchange
and its young manager, Claude D.
Showalter. Mr.. Showalter is the only
son of Mrs. Anime Showalter of this
city The city, one of the most pic
turesque in the state, has an exchange
with 465 phones.
1t pays to advertise. Gay Landon
lost coat and advertised it in last
weeks Herald. Before he received his
cops of the Herald young man who
had found the coat saw the ad and ap-
peared at the Landon home. Ben Kern
advertised a cement mixer for sale
and got results with one ad in the Her
AID
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Kamish of Ma
son City announce the arrival of an
infant at their home recently Mrs.
Kamish is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Spaith of Lancaster. Mrs.
Spaith has been at the Kamish home
helping with the care of mother and
babe.
A Monroe paper carries an item
stating that S. A. Cousley, former ed
itor of the Teller here, has accepted
a news writing position with the Tel
egraph-Herald of Dubuque. Since
leaving the Teller Mr. Cousley ran a
magazine called The Figleaf"
Thos. Zakczeski, returning from
Kentucky where he attended the big
race meet, visited his mother and sis
ters in Lancaster several days before
returning to Dubuque where he is en-
ployed by an Express company.
Mrs. Kate Muench went to Boscobel
Thursday to attend the funeral Fri
day of an old friend, Mrs. Tillie Col
den. While away from Lancaster Mrs
Muench visited relatives at Fenni-
more.
Miss Leona Kerr celebrated her
birthday Monday of last week and in
honor of the event her mother invited
about 20 friends in for the evening,
A pleasant time was had by all pres
emit
Harvey Schmidt has just completed
the installation of new and large
50-fOot chimney in his bakery build
ing. The new chimney affords better
draft for the heating plant
Ray Burr of Beetown is employed
by the Hickok estate, plumbers, IN
Lancaster. He has rented the DR.. Eek
ert house.
Mr.. and Mrs Howard Rhodes are
home from Milwaukee where they Wis
tied the Frank Buchner family.
Miss Hazel Rice went to Milwaukee
Thursday to reside she having bus
mess opening there.
Mrs. VIM. Tiller is home from Mad
ison where she underwent an opera
ton.