News: Granton Locals #2 (22 Aug 1913)

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Surnames: Gluch, Garbush, Baer, Marg, Schwarz, Vincent, Warren, Brooks, Lowery, Goebel, Deutsch, Furgeson, Marsh, Pietenpol, Hemmick, Frazier, Finner, Winn, Waterman, Haltaufderheide, Palmer, Webster, Wilson, Gerzemehle,  Hudson, Trader, Osgood, Frazier, Knorr, Trimberger, Jones, Hornbeck, Agin, Marth, Quinnell, Kemmeter, Frank, , Garvin, Lee, Graves, Perkins, Kintzele, Crandall, Morris, Gereke, Morris, Downer, Thayer, Machel, Braatz, Williams, Porath, Gelmer, Deming, Alt, Krause, Steuerwald, Cronk, Edwards, Laramore, Dean, Kihn

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 08/22/1913

Dan Gluch Sr. is on the sick list since Tuesday.

Mrs. Otto Garbush is reported as being very ill.

Helene Baer is sick with the measles.

Mrs. Henry Marg has the whooping cough.

Mrs. Schwarz of Humbird spent several days of this week here with Mrs. Kemmeter.

A ball game between Loyal and Granton will be played at the local diamond next Sunday afternoon.

Prof. Vincent has been engaged to organize a band at Antigo and is spending several days of each week at that place.

Miss Helen Warren of Black River Falls, after a week’s visit at George Brooks’, left for Clay and Eau Claire Saturday.

Mrs. Phillip Lowry and children came from Fifield last Friday for an extended visit among relatives hereabouts.

Miss Clara Goebel went to Friendship Saturday, and after a short visit there at the Gust Deutsch home, will continue on to Milwaukee for an extended stay.

J.L. Furgeson, Sam Furgeson, Mrs. Mary Marsh and daughter Teha, the Misses Vera and Hattie Pietenpol were Neillsville visitors on Monday.

Miss Harriet Hemmick of Chicago, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Frazier, returned to the city on Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Finner and baby Frederick are here from Cassville visiting at Webb Winn’s since Friday.

Mrs. Clark Waterman of Chili will entertain the O.E.S. Birthday Club today, Friday.

Harold Haltaufderheide had dental work done at Neillsville on Saturday.

John Pietenpol added another stave silo to his farm this week.

Personal - Lois V. Palmer please write me at Belvidere, Ill. --  Jack

Mrs. Webster and daughter Ruth, after a several day visit at the Geo. Wilson home, went home to Ashland last week Thursday.

Miss Laura Gerzemehle has been visiting relatives at Owatonna, Minn. for the past two weeks.  She will continue on and visit at various points in the Dakotas before her return home.

Mrs. Vet Marsh and daughters Agnes and Luella are at Kimberley, Idaho since last week for a year’s stay with her parents Mrs. and Mrs. W.T. Hudson, former well known Granton people.  Vet is to join them there later.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Trader and son Gerald came from Fall Creek on Saturday and made an over Sunday visit at Gene Osgood’s.  Their daughter Velma, who had been here for 3 weeks, accompanied them home on Monday.

Mrs. B.F. Frazier of the town of Lynn left on Wednesday evening for Freeport, Ill., in response to the news of the serious illness of her mother.

Monte Cristo will be played by a good company at the Granton Opera House Saturday, Aug. 23^rd.

Mrs. A.J. Knorr will leave tomorrow for a trip through Yellowstone Park as the guest of her son Lynn tomorrow, Saturday.  She joins Lynn at Merrillan Junction.

The young people hereabouts, a house full strong, gave the Misses Gereke a delightful surprise party at the John Trimberger home one evening the first of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. D.V. Jones of Chilton, who were at Birnamwood to attend their son’s wedding, stopped off here Tuesday and remained until today, guests in the A.J. Knorr home.  Mrs. Jones is a sister of A.J.’s.

Mrs. Minnie Hornbeck of Sharon, and her daughter Mrs. Agin of Palmyra, after a ten day visit here with friends, left for their respective homes on Monday.

Miss Emma Martha nd Miss Lizzie Quinnell of Neillsville were guests at the C.E. Brooks home last week.

Miss Edna Kemmeter is at Milwaukee since Saturday for a two week engagement learning the late kinks of the millinery business.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Frank and their two children went to Waupaca Saturday and remained until Wednesday evening visiting relatives.

John Pietenpol and daughter Ruth spent Saturday at Marshfield and Ruth underwent an operation for the removal of foreign growths in the nasal passages.

Mrs. Sid Garvin and daughter Callie os Spokane, Wash. were guests of Mrs. Frank Davis last week Thursday.

Beulah Lee is visiting her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. N.E. Lee since Wednesday.

Last week Wednesday Glyde Graves’ relatives helped her celebrate her 12^th birthday in a manner quite becoming the occasion and made it an enjoyable affair for all concerned.

Mr. and Mrs. Mert Perkins and daughter Midge of Neillsville came Wednesday for a visit at John Kintzele’s.

Mrs. Gottfried Schmidt of Loyal came down Tuesday and remained over until Wednesday afternoon, a guest of her brother Chas. Krause.

Little Theodore Crandall is sick with the whooping cough and measles this week.

Mrs. Jessie Morris was summoned home to Hayward very unexpectedly yesterday, presumably due to the serious illness of her stepmother Mrs. I.W. Morris, who continues ill at a St. Paul hospital.

The Misses Lissette, Gertrude and Elnora Gereke, after a ten day visit at the John Trimberger home, left for Augusta Wednesday to spend some time with relatives there before continuing on to their home at Lebanon.

Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Morris, former residents here and he the depot agent, were enroute to the Pacific coast last week and were compelled to abandon the trip at St. Paul owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Morris, who since that time ahs been confined to a hospital in that city.

Neil Downer purchased a ten hourse power Stickney gasoline engine of W.J. Thayer early this week, which Neil will use with his silo filling machine.  Neil is anticipating plenty of work in that line this fall and he should have no trouble in fulfilling his contracts with his powerful outfit.

Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Machel left on Monday for Jackson, Miss., where they will spend some time with her mother.  Mr. Machel will teach at Thorp Springs, Texas this year and it is probable that they will remain in the south indefinitely.

We are indebted to Richard Braatz for a donation of a choice lot of eating apples, to Mrs. Eli Williams for a donation of good cooling apples and to Albert Porath for a basket of delicious ripe tomatoes.  The tomatoes were of the variety known as the early June and were the first home grown ripes once we had seen.

School will not open here on Sept. 2^nd as previously announced, but will open a week later, or on Sept. 8, owing to the epidemic of measles and whooping cough now prevailing.  The corps of teachers will be Max Gelmer, Principal, Miss Helen Deming of Neillsville, Assistant, Miss Effie Alt of Neillsville, the 6^th and 7^th grades, Miss Frances Brooks of Lynn, intermediate, and Miss Lela Potter of Grand Rapids, primary.

Albert Jahr of Neillsville, accompanied by his sister Mrs. Charles Steuerwald of Loyal, spent last Friday here between the homes of their brothers Oscar and Frank in York.

Mrs. Davis Be. Davis of York is visiting relatives at Dousman since Saturday.  She expects to be absent two months between Waukesha, Dousman and other points in that vicinity.

Miss Geneva Cronk of Eldorado, and Miss Idris Edwards of Dousman, after a several days visit with the John D. Davis family in York, left for their homes on Saturday.

N.E. Crandall of Neillsville and his brother Chet Crandall of Fort Atkinson spent Monday here with the former’s son Gene and family.

Mr. and Mrs. T.D. Wage spent Sunday with friends at Loyal, and were accompanied home by their niece, Birdine Kihn, who had been at that place on a visit.

Mrs. Floyd Winn has been on the sick list the past two weeks, suffering with an abscess in her head.  She underwent an operation for relief from same last week and is at this writing, considerably improved.

An automobile campaign as the initial stpe to a great movement to unite all reform forces for the destruction of the liquor traffic and kindred evils is being undertaken by the State Committee of the Prohibition Party, of which attorney J. Burrit Smith of Madison is chairman.  The committee has secured the services of Mr. M.S. Laramore of Kokomo, Ind., who has a nationwide reputation as a whirlwind campaigner, and Mr. Wm. C. Dean of Beloit, Wis., widely known as a forceful and eloquent speaker for the "dry" cause and a dramatic reader of more than ordinary ability.  Other speakers of ability and general reputation will appear from time to time, and two of many of these speakers and entertainers will be with the automobile continually.  The auto party will reach Granton Monday evening, Aug. 25, and a meeting will be held on the street, the addresses being given from the auto.  Should the weather be stormy, the meeting will be held in the opera house.  (Advertisement)