News: Granton Locals #2 (16 May 1913)

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Surnames: Beeckler, Lynn, Kintzele, Finnegan, Collins, Furgeson, Garbisch, Pietenpol, Grobe, Riedel, Vincent, Wright, King, Kimball, Davis, Rausch, Raymond, Shafer, Mallory, Winn, Amidon, Stubbs, Coleman, Huff, Williams, Osgood, Pickett, Scoles, Jahr, Flint, Raymond, Brown, Paulson, Phillips, Knorr, Kennedy, Finner, Brooks, Kemmeter, Keys, Converse, Crevecouer, Morris, Montgomery, Cattanach, Heibel

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., Wis.)  05/16/1913

Mrs. Hattie Beeckler joined her mother and Blanche at Seymour on Monday.

John Lynn, who recently sold his pool room at Grand Rapids, is visiting at John Kintzele’s since Monday evening.

Jester Finnegan is helping Mr. Collins at the Brass Band Barber Shop every Saturday night.  A new up to date chair has been added to the shop recently.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Furgeson and little daughters, Mrs. Herman Garbisch and brother Edwin Grobe were Neillsville visitors on Monday.

Miss Harriet Pietenpol went to Marshfield Saturday and made an over Sunday visit with friends at that place.

The Misses Lena and Laura Riedel, who early this week left for Elkhart Lake where they have employment and will spend the summer, were given a farewell party by the R.N.A. of this place at the Jas. Finnegan home last Friday.

Tuesday evening Prof. Vincent signed a six month contract for an orchestra at Nasonville with fifteen members.  He also has seventeen private pupils at Nasonville.

Mrs. Melvina Wright, Mrs. H. King, Mrs. W.S. Davis and Miss Emma Kimball, with Mrs. H.E. Williams, were the Granton ladies who enjoyed the birthday surprise party on Mrs. Laura Brown at Neillsville on Saturday.

D.S. Rausch autoed to Neillsville last Saturday with a party of ladies which included his wife, his mother, Mrs. John Rausch, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Hans Paulson Sr., all on pleasure bent.

Faye Raymond is here on an extended visit to his grandparents.

Susie Shafer is very ill with pneumonia since early this week.

Wilson Mallory went home to Stevens Point on Wednesday.

Webb and Byrl Winn spent last Wednesday at Neillsville unloading a car of silos.

Mrs. G.E. Amidon and daughter Elva were at Neillsville last Saturday to have dental work done.

Ben Stubbs, his daughter Wilma, his sons Arthur and Ernest, together with his sister Mrs. Coleman, left for Sidney, Mont. this week.

Mrs. Mary J. Huff is having a steel roof put on to her town house here.

The Willie Williams family entertained Nasonville relatives Sunday.

Mrs. Mot Osgood and children made a weekend visit with relatives at Pittsville, whither they went last Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pickett of Spencer were over Sunday guests at the E.A. Beeckler home.

Calvert Scoles came home Tuesday from upper Michigan where he had been with a party of mining engineers from the state university.  He left for Madison again on Wednesday.

Miss Clara Jahr of Neillsville spent Tuesday here with her brothers, Frank and Oscar.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flint of Shiocton spent Wednesday morning here with Mr. and Mrs. Delos Raymond.

Mrs. Grant Keys, after a two week visit with her daughter, Mr. H.L. Bender, departed for her home at Yorktown, Indiana on Wednesday.

Jas. A. Phillips, a real estate dealer of Neillsville, sold his Reo automobile last week and on Monday last purchased a Ford touring car of Knorr & Rausch, here.

Co. Supt. Miss Bessie Kennedy took a rig here Tuesday morning and drove to Lindsey on official business.

Mrs. Webb Winn went to Cassville Monday for an extended visit at Paul Finner’s where she is caring for her daughter and making the acquaintance of her new grandson born to Mr. and Mrs. Finner last Monday morning.  Mother and baby are reported as doing nicely.

Geo. R. Brooks, with his daughter Beatrice and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Chas. Brooks, went to Neillsville Wednesday morning in response to a message that his mother, the widow of the late Alonzo Brooks residing on Court Street in that city, had suffered a partial stroke of paralysis the evening before.  Mr. Brooks and Miss Beatrice are still there and "Grandma Brooks" is little if any better.  She recognized them but is as yet unable to speak.

Miss Edna Kemmeter spent Sunday with the home folk.  She will have finished with her millinery work at Loyal next week Saturday and on and after May 26^th she will be here in her father’s store with millinery supplies to meet the demand and furnish the need of the buying public.  Edna is an artist in the millinery field and will fill a long felt want in locating here, but not until now that the Kemmeter store building offered suitable accommodation for the trade.

Mr. and Mrs. Free Converse, Mrs. Price Beeckler and son Allen went to Black River Falls Wednesday for a week’s visit with relatives.

Ernest Crevecouer broke one of the bones in his right leg near the foot some two weeks since, which is necessarily laying him up from actual manual labor.  Though he is about and superintending the work of the carpenters in his employ.

Master Lee Morris, returning a team to the livery bar after his father had finished plowing Monday evening, had the team take fright and throw him with the plow from the wagon.  The lad miraculously escaping with severe bruises.  The wagon was considerably damaged, but the team was unhurt.  Lee has been unable through his painful injuries to attend school since.

Mrs. Amelia Montgomery came home from Fond du Lac last Friday where she has been for several months past.  She is only here for ten days, as she expects to return to Fond du Lac early next week.

Harry Cattanach, getting his right hand too near the saw at the Kemmeter mill Thursday morning, suffered the trimming up of a couple of finger tips thereon.  Dr. Ross did them up professional and it is expected that they will soon mend.

Fred Heibel, who some months ago had the misfortune to hurt his spine in a fall, entered the hospital at Marshfield again last week for further treatment.  He writes us that he is not getting along as fast as he wishes to.