Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-04-22
LOCAL ITEMS

Phil Roesch and wife are back from
Eau Gallie, Fla, their winter home.
Arthur Bailie and wife of Daven-
port, Iowa, visited here last week at
the James Bailie home.
Mrs. Jack Thorn and daughter, FL
eanOr, visited last mid-week with Mr..
Thorn's mother at GAINESVILLE
Miss Flora Harker of Dr.. Moore's
office left Thursday on I vacation in
her home town of Cuba City
Judge E. B. Goodsell was able to be
Kiwanis Wednesday for the first time
in several weeks, due to Illness
Miss Lillian Stephens went to Mil
waukee Tuesday to visit her sister,
Mrs. |. II. Tarrant, who has been ILL.,
Mrs. Henry Ressmeyer returned to
her home in Belville, Wednesday, fol-
lowing a visit with Lancaster rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Beale and Mrs.
Joe Wacek and children of Madison
were last week guests of A. v Ward
and wife.
Mrs. Homer Keane and sons, John
and Keith, departed Friday for Sulli
van Wis, where they are visiting Mr..
Keane's mother
Mr.. and Mrs. e. L. Mccoy left Sat
urday on a motor trip to Huntley, Ill,
where they are visiting their son-in-
law and daughter, Clyde Clanton and
wife
Prof. nd Mrs. Joe Fronk of Spring
Green announce the arrival of son at
their home, Tuesday, April IA. Grand
mother Kaspers went to the Fronk
home Tuesday for a visit there.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Retallick were
the happy recipients of a beautiful
blue and white pieced quilt made for
them by Mrs. Thompson Stoney as Il
birthday gift. Mrs. Stoney also made
One cannot help being impressed by
the appalling number of people who
go through this life in a constant
state of terror lest at some time they
might unwittingly do a good turn to
somebody.
Chief of Police Kerr, his wife and
daughter, Leona, motOred to Dubuque
Thursday to visit at the home of Earl
Gerth The Misses Veva Gelbach and
Maude Hosegood accompanied them.
They report that our much needed
rain visited Dubuque that day.
Sheriff Harry Livingston went to
Green Bay last Tuesday with Frank
Mundon, the Platteville young man
convicted in circuit court for COM
pIicity in the theft of 5000 cigars
from the Knebel shop at Platteville,
prior to the holidays, and sentenced
to serve two years.
The Omimi Owakope Camp Fire
Girls met on Wednesday eevning at
the home of Margaret Thier. The girls
hiked out for a picnic supper and had
a very enjoyable time. The next meet
ing will be a monthly ceremonial held
at the home of Miss Ivanelle Kinney.
T.. A. Ridele of C1yman Jet, is the
new operator at the depot, supplantng
Homer Keane, who goes to Leslie. Mr..
Rideel has been forced to bump Mr..
Keane a couple of times recently, the
seniority sytem prevailing among all
trainmen when it comes to holding a
position. Mr. Keane's family remain
here for the present at least.
Grant county authorities will not
nress the case against Lawrence Rel
necke. independence, Iowa, lumber
man. who raised rough-house at the
BLOOMINGTON home of his wife's par
ents a couple of weeks ago. Reinecke
has solemnly promised not to inter-
fere with his wife further or to pre-
vent her from getting a divorce
w. Fl. Momsen, Milwaukee county
clerk, has notified the Grant and Dane
county clerks that future board for
prisoners sent to the Milwaukee
House of Correction will be at the
rate of SIS week instead of S4.5O, as
heretofore. Grant county has several
men boarding terms out there but
will have no more to send until fall at
least as present defendants are held to
the fall term of court.
or1yc
man of the Manchester Store at Mad
ison. talked to the Kiwanis club We'd
nesday on better window displays IN
fine stores, how to show goods and
other sales helps. With Miss Isabel
Fletcher as model, Mr.. Marks showed
how remnants of goods of different
kinds and common pins can be used
effectively to drape an attractive party
dress. Mr.. Marks advised better and
brighter store windows and interiors,
attractive displays of goods, etc., as
means of riveting attention on the
town as a good place to trade IN
Old Man Winter showed his teeth IN
the county Tuesday night by sending
the thermometer down to treezlng'
A white frost was visible to the early
risers about $50 Wednesday morning.
The cold wave followed temperature
of 80 above on the Sunday preceding
But compared to last spring the
weather remains advanced and warm.
High temperatures of so above and
lows of 40 prevailed through April and
into May, making cold spring Tor
1924. 1t was dry as well as cold all
through the spring and farmers pre-
dicted a light hay crop but late rains
gave the county the heaviest hay crop
in years.
The regular mother and babe health
center for the county will be held at
Platteville on April "a at the Mining
school. Child Health Day will be OBJ
served on May 1. The keynote OF the
celebration is the ideal so we'll ex-
messed by Herbert Hoover, that:
seThere should be no child in America
that has not been born under proper
conditions, that does not live IN ny
gienic surroundings, that ever suffers
from undernutrition. that does not
have prompt and efficient medical at
tention and inspection, that not re-