Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-01-28

visit.
VIM. Schuster of Montfort was here
thursday for medical consultation
with Drs. Godfrey.
| John Webb was passenger to Chi.
cago Wednesday, consulting DR.. Mel
son Percy while there.
John Harshberger, an aged Civil
war veteran of this city, is again hay.
ing a spell of poor health.
Chas. Hubanks has rented the Mrs
David Johnson property Mr.. and Mrs
Johnson move into the Miss Fannie
Johnson home.
Mrs. Anna Arnold of Lewiston
Mont, has been visiting her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs..Ge Henry. This
is Mrs. Arnold's first visit here i'm IL
years.
Earl Henry of So. Lancaster has
rented the Mrs. Walter Allen farm
north of Beetown.. The place consists
OF 213 acres. Frank Champion, present
tenant, is moving off.
The school board has voted to in
stall marble wainscoting in the new
high school, zdispesing of a moot point
that has bothered the board for
months. The alternative was plaster
walls and paint and the board con-
cluded to do the job right as long as
it could be done within the appropri-
alton.
e. l.. Mccoy was in Racine last
week attending an agents conference
of the Northwestern Life Insurance
Co. Mrs. Mccoy accompanied him for
visit with Milwaukee relatives.
Mrs. VIM. Lee left Wednesday for
New Haven, Conn, where she is Wis
iting her sonin-law and daughter,
Prof. and Mrs. Irwin Cross. Prof.
Gross is attached to the teaching
staff at Yale college.
Sheriff Livingston and Officer Ed.
Oleson went to Dubuque Thursday for
one Robert Engle, young man
wanted for bastardy on complaint of a
Cassville girl. Engle4 was lodged in
the county jail to await trial.
Mrs. John Buster of Fennimore was
here last mid-week, accompanying
Chas. Kaap and daughter, Media, and
Mrs. Mary MONTE on a motor trip to
Rock Island where they visited at the
Oscar MONTE and Piper homes. The
elder Mrs. MONTE remained, for more
extended visit.
Six cars of stock left the local yards
this Tuesday. There were four cars
of hogs, "a car of mixed and car of
cattle. Three cars went to Madison,
two to Cudahy and one to Ute, Iowa.
VIM. H Gregerson of the latter place
shipped 81 Holsteins to his farm near
Ute, to begin dairy business.
John Mcdonald writes his parents
how he suffered a broken leg. With
three other young men students at
Iowa City, John was lifting four tons
of paper, using pinch bars, ETC., for
the purpose. A bar John was using
took too much of the load and was
forced against his leg, breaking it be-
tween the knee and the ankle. He will
be laid up for some time.
A very pleasant evening was en-
loved Friday at the James Bradbury
home when 10 of his friends called
to spend the eevning. Those present
were: Harry Orion and wife and Mrs.
Dolphin, Mrs. Simpson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Al. Wenzel and Miss Tanner, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Rose, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Kraut, Mr.. and Mrs. John Brelthaupt
and ALI. Duncalf.
The Rev. A. H. -Schoenfeldt OF MIN
eral Point, addressed a meeting OF
men and boys at the Congregational
church here Friday evening, follow
ing a $3.50 banquet. His talk was
along the line of inspirational advice
and community activity toward bet
terment. = Others participated IN the
program and pleasant and instruc-
tive evening was had by all present.
The solar eclipse as witnessed IN
Lancaster Saturday morning proved
a disappointment to those who eX-
pected to see the various phenomena
as heralded in the daily press Inc
sky was overcast all through the
ec1ipsa and the only difference from
a normal morning was a graouaI
darkening of the sky between ana
8 a. M, approaching a maximum OF
twilight about 1850 a. m. At no time
was the sun visible due to the over
hanging clouds
An interesting feature of tonlght'S
lecture at the Grantland is the ser
les of colored lantern slides, 1lO IN
all depicting the customs and life IN
general of the primitive people OF the
South Sea Islands. FIR. Al. Schmeetz'
the lecturer spent ten years as a
Catholic missionary among these prlm-
tive people. While Christianity is be,
ing embraced by the savages they still
retain their age-old customs and SUI
nerstitions and their marriages, war
dances and other interesting ooseTv-
ances will be described py TT
Schmeetz in detail. A good CROWD Is
looked for as the admission is pflced
moderately.