News: Granton, Wis. (3 Aug 1961)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Dageford, Lehmann, Schmidtke, Crandall, Witte, Williams, Beeckler, Calway, Williams, Billman, Wolkenhauer

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) August 3, 1961

Granton, Wisconsin (3 August 1961)

Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Dageford and two children of St. Paul, Minn., and Dr. and Mrs. Elroy Lehmann and children, Tripoli, Africa, were guests last week of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Lehmann and family.

Thursday evening a birthday party was held at the Lehmann home and Dr. Lehmann showed slides of his two months’ tour of Europe.  Mr. Lehmann is a geologist with an oil company in Tripoli. The visitors left Monday for a week’s vacation in Canada.  On their return they will spend a week at the Lehmann home. He will report September 1 for his work in Africa.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schmidtke, Neenah, were Monday supper guests at the William Schmidtke home.

The Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church will meet today (Thursday) at noon for a potluck luncheon in the church parlors.

Fourteen members of the Fidelity Camp, R. N. A., spent a day last week at King and enjoyed a picnic dinner with Mrs. Vera Crandall, who makes her home there.

Members of the Priscilla Circle will picnic Saturday in the Methodist Church.

The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Witte and sons, Eau Claire, called Monday at the E. L. Witte home.

Miss Mabel Williams, Pecatonica, Ill., is a guest at the Beeckler sisters’ home.  She also is spending several days at the Calway home in Neillsville.

Mrs. Vance Williams, Winnebago, Ill., is spending several days with her sister, Mrs. Ben Beeckler.

Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Billman, Chandler, Ariz., have left for home after spending last week with relatives in the Granton area.

The Rev. and Mrs. A. Wolkenhauer and family of Burnett recently visited relatives in Granton.  Mrs. Wolkenhauer is a sister (missing lines) .