News: Granton Locals #2 (17 Oct 1913)

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Surnames: Judkins, Amidon, Joern, Zahnzinger, Schuelke, Winn, Graves, Churchill, Kemmeter, Hillert, Tompkins, Fields, Ayers, Appleman, Shafer, Schroeder, Babcock, Schroeder, Grassman, Lowe, Cotella, Sultrecht, Yankee, Nonhof, Sacker, Kuechenmeister, King, Alt, Brooks, Deming, Potter, Rose, Ross, Baer, Hart, Finnegan, Rath, Wilding, Kurth, Wentworth, Schoengarth, Berg, Wallace, Lockman, Crandall, Manning, Armitage, Paulson, Doschodis, Roehl, Knorr, Holmes, Williams, Kimball, Wright, Beeckler, Schwarz

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 10/17/1913

Mr. and Mrs. Judkins of Alma Center were over Sunday guests at the G.E. Amidon home.

Mr. and Mrs. Joern of Fall Creek inside a weekend visit here with their son Ben of the Granton Baber Shop.

Mr. and Mrs. Zahnzinger of Waukesha, after a 10 day visit with the Carl Schuelke family, returned home Monday.

Mrs. S. Winn came home last Friday after a week’s stay at Marshfield where here daughter Mrs. Jennie Graves is ill and in the hospital.

Mrs. Will Churchill, after a week’s visit at the P.J. Kemmeter home, returned to Milwaukee yesterday.

Fred Hillert went to Ebbe Wednesday.  He is engaged in carpenter work there.

The improvement club met with Mrs. J.M. Tompkins last Friday.  An enjoyable social meeting was reported.

Mrs. Fred Fields and daughter May of Neillsville visited Mrs. Gust Ayers Wednesday.

Mrs. Appleman of Vernon County is visiting in the Wesley Shafer home since Wednesday.

Mrs. Edward Schroeder was called to Alma Center Saturday to see her mother Mrs. Chas. Babcock, who was very ill and suffering with pneumonia at the Will Wallace home at that place.  Mrs. Schroeder returned home on Monday and reports her mother to be slowly gaining.

Miss Irma Grassman, after a week’s visit here at her uncle Fred Grassman’s, went home to Hustler on Wednesday.

Miss Nellene Lowe of Duluth, who is here on a visit at her uncle Emil Lockman’s, spent last week in Chicago and returned here on Wednesday.

Mrs. Emil Costella of Dubuque, Ia., is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sultrecht in Washburn since Wednesday.

Miss Violet Yankee spent Wednesday at Neillsville.

Mrs. John Nonhof with her baby Mabel Clair and Mrs. Sacker, the former’s mother of Haynes, N.D. , are guests at the Al Nonhof home here since Tuesday.  They had visited relatives at Baldwin on the way and report Grandpa Nonhof to be in poor health.

Aug. Schuelke and family came up from Milwaukee last week for a visit at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Schuelke, and at the Reinhold Kuechenmeister home.  Aug. returned to the city early this week but the family will remain for a month yet.

Mrs. H.A. King and son timothy, the Misses Effie Alt, Frances and Beatrice Brooks, Helen Deming, Lela Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rose, Mrs. P.M. Ross and Mrs. F.J. Baer heard Zoda Gale at the Neillsville Opera House Tuesday evening.

Last Friday afternoon this part of the country was visited by the most severe storm of the season, lasting nearly an hour.  Rain fell in torrents, accompanied by considerable sharp lightning.  No damage of much consequence was reported in this vicinity but in other parts of the state where the storm took on the shape of a cyclone, the loss of property was great.

Roy Hart, Ben Joern, Chester Finnegan, Philmore Kemmeter, Dr. and Mrs. R. Rath, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wilding, Mr. and Mrs. Will Kurth, Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Rush Wentworth, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schoengarth, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Berg, Mr. and Mrs. Eug. Crandall and Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Baer and daughter Helen were among those from this end of the town who enjoyed "Life’s Shop Window" at the Neillsville Opera House Monday night.

To get the full benefit out of a newspaper you must read the advertisements as well as other things that may interest you.  A lady reader of this paper informed the Editor the other day that next to the local news, the ads interest her the most and is reading them carefully every week and takes advantage of the many bargains offered by the merchants in them.  This she claims saver her from 25 to 50 dollars during the course of a year.  Are you doing likewise?

Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Manning are entertaining a young lady friend from Watertown since Saturday.  She is the fiancée of Mrs. Manning’s brother.

Bruce Armitage and family moved over from Neillsville Wednesday and are now nicely located in the Doc Schwarz house.  Mr. Armitage is in the employ of Ross Paulson.

Mr. and Mrs. Doschodis and two children of Neillsville visited at the Carl Roehl home here the first of the week and spent Thursday at their brother Herman Roehl’s in Chili.

The Circle’s new officers since Wednesday are: Mrs. A.J. Knorr, president; Mrs. H.B. Holmes, vice president; Mrs. H.E. Williams, Secretary; Miss Emma Kimball, treasurer.  The church trustees are: Mrs. Melvina Wright, 3 years; Mrs. E.A. Beeckler, 2 years; Mrs. H.B. Holmes, 1 year.