Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-04
LOCAL ITEMS

Johnson Johns of Fennimore spent
Saturday here with his daughter, Mrs.
Mike Trainor.
Frank Tebo and J. A. Jamison of
BeetoWn were Lancaster business
callers Monday.
Miss Josephine Haag of Mt Horeb
returned home Saturday following
visit with her brother, William Haag.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Frost are home
from trip to Mather, Wis, where
they visited Walter Frost Sr. and fam
lily.
Mrs. Wallace Helms and son, Fred
erlck, of Milwaukee have been visit
ing at the parental Day home in Lam
caster the past week
| Mrs. G. J. Johnson and daughter,
Minnie, returned home to Chicago on
Saturday following an extended visit
with Lancaster relatives They were
accompanied by Miss Evelyn Sherman
who will spend the week visiting rel
atives in Chicago.
The Oscar Drew family leave here
next week for st. Joseph, Mich, where
their son, Norman, and daughter, Eth
| ell, have already located and are en-
ployed. The Drews will have a clos
ing out sale next Saturday, their ad
appearing in this weeks Herald.
Miss Leone Showalter went to Bos-
cobel Monday to visit the week at the
VIM. Swenson and Herman Miller
homes. Mesdames Swenson and Mil
Ter were Frances and Mildred John
son before their marriage. They are
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan j.
| Johnson.
Miss Alice Brown of Valomre, N
| M, left Saturday for home following
a weeks visit with her grandfather,
DR.. S. NJ. Hassell. Miss Brown was
met in Chicago by her father, DR.. Will
Brown, and the two visited Miss Mar
garet Brown, in school there, for a
few days.
The Catholic Daughters entertained
with a masquerade ball AMI Hal
lowe'en party at the Woodman hall on
Friday night. Sixty couples and about
140 spectators were present. Refresh
ments were served and all present re-
port pleasant evening. Music was
furnished by the Calls orchestra.
Members of the Izaak Walton league
had a supper at Grantland club room
Monday evening with a program. Geo.
Q. Sykes, Eugene Wodhouse and Parke
Knapp gave a report on what trans
pired at the state convention at Green
Bay last month and related what the
Wisconsin division of the league is
doing
A pleasing feature of the Kiwanis
program last Wednesday was brass
instrument concert given by pupils of
the high school music classes under
direction of Prof. Fascinato. Miss
Dorothy Foster, French horn, Richard
Orion, cornet, Billy Schloesser, bari
tone, Prof. Fortunate, cornet, with
Miss Mary Morse at the piano were
the performers. Several selections
were rendered in a finished manner
and Kiwanis listeners responded with
hearty applause. 1t was evident that
good work is being done along musical
lines in the schools.
The Joseph Wacek family returned
home to Madison Monday following
few days visit at the A. V. Ward
| home. Mr.. Wacek is convalescing
from injuries received in a train
wreck near Desplaines, ILL.,, a couple
of weeks ago when he suffered Sc
| we're cut on his head and other hurts.
! Joe says a maintenance crew left a
"de-rail" on the track by mistake. The
| device is designed to throw trains
which run by the railroad block, from
the track. AS result of the negli-
gence, nearly the whole freight on
which Joe was running was derailed.
He jumped on the clear side and was
! knocked unconscious, coming to life
! at a hospital later. The engineer was
unable to jump, being pinioned be-
! tween the tender and the locomotive
as they landed on one side. Half an
| inch more pressure would have meant
death to the engineer by crushing
him but he was barely scratched No
one else was hurt but much damage
was done to the train. The offending
crew were removed from the service.
DR. S. W. Doolittle is laid up in the
hospital with a badly sprained left
knee due to a motoring accident last
| Wednesday morning. While driving to
! Dubuque the steering gear broke on
| his car this side of Keller and the
machine went over into a ditch on its
side The doctor and his passenger,
Miss Alice Flanagan, r. ~, who he
was taking to her home in Dubuque,
were piled in a heap in the car and
unabel to eXtricate themselves. They
were assisted out by bus driver and
taken on to Dubuque. An examination
at Finley hospital there showed no
! bone breaks but the doctor has been
confined to his bed since the accident
and must remain there for several
| days longer. Miss Flana gan was
shaken up but not injured
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