News: Granton Locals (14 Feb 1913)

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Surnames: Anthony, Davis, Grabe, Schoengarth, Shaw, Pierrelee, Dyer, Frei, Reese, Morris, Davis, Grasser, McHone, Lowery, Paulson, Carlson, Graves Hillert, Pigott, Downer, Poate, Hales, Zwick, Campbell, Hallock, Beecher, Holmes, Mabie, Bladl, Sholtz, Stockwell, Baer, Rausch, Williams, Bartz, Crandall, Weeks, Stapher, Peterson, Eschenberg,  Amidon, Hart, Winn, Knickle, Strey, Sanger Howard, Campman, Rath, Schoengarth, Kemmeter, Miller, Wonser, Perkins, McInnis, Gullick, Winslow, Nichols, Soles, Preston, Vincent, Klessig, Knorr, Hubing, O’Brien, Wentworth, Schlinsog, Riedel, Marsh, Anding, Wilcott, Lawson,Weeks

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., Wis.)  02/14/1913

Miss Mable Anthony of Washburn visited at Fairchild this week.

John Davis of York made a business trip to Marshfield Wednesday.

Miss Mabel Grabe went to Madison Wednesday for an extended stay.

Herman Schoengarth went to Marshfield Wednesday on business.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Shaw and children returned to Cornelian Junction yesterday.

Miss Victoria Pierrelee went to Marshfield yesterday.

Miss Anna Dyer returned from her Wausau visit Wednesday evening, suffering with a severe cold.

The young people in the Geo. Frei neighborhood enjoyed helping young Geo. Frei in celebrating his birthday last week.

Dan Reese, who had been visiting at L.G. Morris’ went home to Wales Tuesday.

Mrs. Hale Davis entertained the Priscillas and several invited friends, yesterday afternoon.

Miss Mary Grasser is engaged in the wholesale millinery house in Minneapolis since Monday.

Dave Williams spent last Friday and Saturday here with his daughter, Mrs. Eugene Crandall.

Mrs. Wm. Bartz and daughter Grace spent Saturday at Marshfield.

Mrs. Dan Rausch will entertain the Circle next Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs. Jennie Graves and Mrs. Alice hatch transacted business at the county seat Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hillert and daughter, Miss Bertha, spent Monday with friends in Marshfield.

Harley Pigott of Loyal took last Friday evening’s train for Mauston for an over Sunday visit among old friends at that place.

Mrs. Frank Downer, who came home from a Chicago hospital last week is getting along nicely and called on town friends on Thursday.

Wm. Poate installed a hot water heating system for A.W. Hales, and a hot air furnace for Ernest Grave, last week.

Mrs. Fred Zwick went to Marshfield Saturday and remained until Tuesday, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Campbell.

Mrs. Ben Hallock of Chili came over last Friday and visited the R.C. Beecher, H.B. homes and Al Mabie families, and returned home the next day.

Mrs. John Bladl and little son accompanied her mother home to Chili Saturday for an over Sunday visit.

Dr. Fred Weeks was in town Tuesday.

We were more than pleased while at Neillsville recently to note the splendid improvements made in the Merchants Hotel since the first of the year.  The new owner, Mrs. F. Stapher, is sparing neither time no money to make it one of the best hotels in this part of the state.  The Merchants has always enjoyed the reputation of serving a good meal, but in neatness and comfort for the guests, it beats anything Neillsville has ever had in the hotel line.

Mrs. E.A. Beeckler, although born in good old Germany and can’t be fooled in the make or taste of sauerkraut, was certainly deceived in the weight of a gallon of the good stuff last week when she, filling a pail of it set it upon a table and donning her wraps, by mistake pick up another pail of similar appearance and carried it up to her sister, Mrs. H.B. Holmes’, only to discover that she had carried up a gallon of cooking syrup instead of the delicious kraut.

This office is at present and has been for several weeks past taxed with work to its utmost capacity.  Changing from a two-page to a four-page home print would naturally mean double the amount of work, but the job printing department too is crowded with orders.  The White Printing Co. of Marshfield, publishers of the Marshfield Herald were kind enough to assist us in getting out some very urgent work last week.  These people have excellent equipment and are turning out mighty fine work.  The News however will install a linotype machine within the next few weeks and we will then be in a position to handle our work with more promptness, and at the same time can show our correspondents that they can’t swamp us anymore.  This machine will be the first one of its kind in Clark County.  We will tell you more about this wonderful machine when it is installed, which we hope will be writing the next two weeks.

Lee McHone of Fairchild, after an extended visit as his uncle Phillip Lowery’s went home on Monday.

Ross Paulson sold a fine matched team of horses to Jefferson parties last week.

Miss Bertha Carlson of Washburn came home from Marshfield last Friday and left on Wednesday for Rhinelander to make an extended visit with an aunt.

Mrs. Peterson of Superior, who came down last week to visit the Eschenberg family in Washburn, returned home on Monday.

No school today on account of the teachers Institute at Neillsville.

G.E. Amidon has men and teams at work hauling sand and gravel ready for building between the Geo. Hart and Kearney Davis business stands.

Mrs. Clifford Winn, Mrs. E.H. Knickle and Miss Mathilda Strey spent Monday with friends at Neillsville.

Mr. and Mrs. Webb Winn went to Humbird Saturday afternoon for an over Sunday visit at the Vet Marsh home.

Ernest Sanger, after a 6 week visit with relatives and friends hereabouts, will return to Rockham, S.D. today.

Walter Sholtz and Miss Ethel Stockwell drove over from Neillsville and visited the Baers on Sunday.

Mrs. Hattie Beeckler, Clyde Shaw and son Donald, Mrs. Frances Burdick, Mable Williams, G.E. Amidon and E.R. Wonser were Neillsville visitors on Saturday.

Miss Edna Kemmeter joined the Misses Minnie and Ella Miller and Sadie Campbell at Neillsville Saturday, and with them went to Milwaukee where they are mastering the latest wrinkles in millinery ready for the Easter opening.

Mrs. Willis Williams spent Saturday at Chili.  Her little niece, Pearl McInnis, came home with her that evening and made an over Sunday visit.

The Cosmopolitan Four, the fifth and last number of the Granton lecture course, will be her Monday, Feb. 24^th.  This will be the best of the entire course.  Don’t miss it.

Mr. and Mrs. Rice Davis visited at Bush Davis’ in Loyal, Sunday.  Mrs. Bush Davis is in very poor health and expected to go to Madison and enter the Sanitarium there this week for treatment.

The Mesdames L.H. Howard and W.A. Campman of Neillsville spent Tuesday here between the Dr. Rath, Homer Downer and Herman Schoengarth home.

Elmer Perkins and Mr. Gullick, after a visit here with the latter’s brother Bert, left for Dodgeville on Tuesday.

John Winslow, after an extended visit here with his sister, Mrs. Langdon Nichols, left for Dodge City, Kan., late last week.

Mrs. Langdon Nichols and Miss Lulu Beecher went to Spencer Tuesday for a couple of days visit at the Dr. Soles home.

Mrs. Henry Preston of Cascade arrived here Tuesday for an extended visit with her daughter Mrs. G.D. Vincent.

Miss Klessig of Milwaukee is here visiting her cousin Mrs. Knorr since last week Wednesday.

T.F. Lee and Ross Paulson shipped three handsome driving horses to Clintonville last week.  A gentleman from there was up and bought them.

W.S. Davis bought a steam heating plant from Geo. Hart and will have same installed at the bank next week.  Mr. Hart expects to put a hot air furnace in his home next fall.

Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Amidon entertained several families at a six o’clock dinner Sunday evening, when Prof. Vincent demonstrated to those present the art of cooking spaghetti, a favorite dish of his.

Ed O’Brien, Phillip Lowery, Fred Wright, Rush Wentworth, Mrs. Aug. Schlinsog Jr., the Misses Emma Riedel and Ora Marsh were Neillsville visitors on Wednesday.

Mrs. Mike Hubing went to Athens Saturday to decide upon a home to move into when they leave the farm the first of next month.  The majority of their children living at Athens, they have decided to locate there and will buy before moving it the right opportunity presents itself.

W.W. Smith, in preparation for his next Christmas dinner, is going into the poultry business and received by express last week from the Mankato, Minn. poultry farm, a fine large Toulouse gander.  He wants a fine bird of large size.

Mrs. Henry Garbush, accompanied by Dr. Rath, took her little son to Marshfield Saturday for medical treatment at the hospital there.  Mr. Garbush went over and brought the little fellow home all O.K. on Monday.

Walter Foemmel went to Chicago Monday and visited relatives there until today, when he left for Kansas City, Mo., where he will enter an automobile training school to complete a course of instruction in same.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Breseman were called to Eau Claire Sunday to be with their daughter Lena, Mrs. Richard Anding, who was at the hospital there and underwent a surgical operation upon her head, last Monday.

Bad luck is still camping on Frank Davis’ trail.  Sunday one of his horses, pawing at the barbed wire fence, became fastened there and severely cut before it was freed by Elmer Knickle, Joe Wilcott and Fred Wright, who in passing saw the animal and released him.  Myrtle Lawson had first discovered the animal’s predicament, but was unable to free him, though she was working at it when the men drove up.