Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
POTOS| EVENTS
General Items of Interest
Gathered by Our Special
Correspondent.


mas to all and many of them. LII L
were to write down all the good WISH
es that would like to at this t1me'
I should have to fill this column.
Mrs. Vincent Mclaughlin and chill
dren, after few days WISH WIN nel
sister, Mrs. Peter Rethwisch ana ram
lily in Lansing, Ia, returned 10 heF
home in Potosi Monday.
CLYDE Roesch and wife attended the
funeral of their brother-1n-laW, VIII
liam Gelbach, at Lancaster, FRIDAY
william Gelbach was well known IN
these parts as a quiet and inotfenslVe
man and was liked by everyone VINO
knew him, and his untimely death mas
created much sorrow throughout the
community.
Henry Specht, who recently op-
served his 8Oth birthday, lies Ill at
bis home in Potosi. Mr.. Specht in his
earlier years was Wen hho"n
steamboat engineer and is son OF
John Specht, long ago deceased Tor
whom Specht's Ferry was named.
Clarence Roser and Eugene Ragatz,
students at the Wisconsin state UNI
yersity at Madison, came nome Satur-
day to spend the holiday acatlon Win
their respective parents IN POtosl.
Mrs. Ed Wiedman is in ioscoDel, as
sisting her brother, Jess { orphan, and
family to pack their hous hold goods
preparatory to removing to Oshkosh,
Wis -,
The ST. Thomas congregation with
the usual services attending the Feast,
observed their Patron Saints day on
Monday, Dec 81. Ten priests assisted
FIR. Lea with the services.
The Potosi high school in the diff
ferent departments, closed Friday for
a two weeks vacation with Christmas
programs that were followed by the
distribution of presents by Santa
Claus.
Samuel Hoffman, student at the Du-
buuue University, is at his home IN
Potosi to spend two weeks vacation
with his parents.
Mrs. S. M. Pearce, after two
weeks visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. r. Campbell, returned to her
home in Richmond, Va.
The Potosi Independent basket ball
team have been very successful thus
far this season. They have met and
defeated teams from Platteville, Cuba
City, Bagley, East Dubuque, Scales
Mound and Patch Grove which speaks
well for the Potosi boys.
Teachers in the POtosi high school
from abroad all departed Saturday for
their homes to spend the holiday va
cation: Miss Mary Linn to Carroll
ton. Ill, Miss Leila Shea to Warren,
Ill, Miss Clara Helstern to Galena,
Ill, and James Lockwood to Platte
vile.
Mrs. Gus Groom nee Anna Gibson,
after several weeks visit with rela-
tives in Potosi, has returned to her
home at Fulda, Mimi. Mrs. Groom is
a sister of DR.. Gibson of Lancaster,
Mrs. Ella barrow and Joseph and
John Gibson of Potosi. She graduated
from the Potosi high school with the
class of 1892 and shortly thereafter
was assistant principal of the school
for a term or two.
Carl Kress of Lancaster is engaged
in moving the household goods of Jos.
Stelpf1ug from Potosi to Lancaster
where Mr.. Stelpflug will hereafter re-
side.
The members of the Congregation
al church enjoyed a six o'clock sup
per Tor dinner as you might term it,
at the Woodman hall Saturday even
ing that was followed by a program
and Christmas tree exercises. The
church new dining room not being
fully completed, the good people had
to resort to the hall.
The Cassville high school team met
the Potosi high school team at Null
lers pavilion in Potosi Friday even
ing and went down with a bad defeat.
The score stood 81 to in favor of
the Potosi boys. An unusually large
crowd of PEOPLE witnessed the game.
Mrs Carl Kress and children of
Lancaster came to Potosi Saturday to
spend a few days with Grandpa and
Grandma Berge.
Judge Wilmott, willie in the act of
carrying chunk wood last Tuesday
evening, got a bad bump on the right
side of his head. Thinking that he was
much stronger than he really is, he
overloaded himself A chunk fell from
his load, and the old Judge fell with
it striking his head on the chunk and
sustaining a cut that required three
stitches to close Though the wound
caused much soreness and inconven-
fence we are still on deck.
Mrs Sam Wilmott is a holiday as
siStant clerk at the J. f. Walsh store
in Tennyson. Judging from the amount
of trading done at this store it re-
quires many clerks to wait on the
throngs of people According to the
adage cit pays to advertise
cially in the Herald.
Mrs John Campbell, for several
weeks past patient at the Finley hos
pital in Dubuque, receiving treatment
for diabetes, is getting along as we'll
as can be expected.
Art Knapp of Lancaster was in Po-
tosi Thursday shaking hands with old
time friends and acquaintance.
Amongst them was Judge Wilmott to
whom Art related many boyhood in
stances when his parents lived in the
north part of the town of Potosi. The
writer has known Art since he was a
little boy and can recall some of the
instances he related.
Jess Day, builder and contractor,
had a busy season He moved the
Congregational church from its for
mer location to its present one, and
did all the carpenter work that was
necessary to be done. He built the
annex to the primary school building
in Potosi and recently completed a
large barn for Delbert Day west of
Lancaster, besides doing much other
work for different parties 1t cannot
be said that Jess is ever out of work.
A letter from Miss Colette Lesser,
patient at the Muirda1e sanitarium
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