News: Granton Locals #1 (7 Nov 1913)

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Surnames: Frei, Osgood, Rogers, Cole, Hubing, Wischuelke, Finnegan, Hart, Wilson, Deming, Holtz, Todd, McInnis, Wentworth, Thayer, Foemmel, Lautenbach, Knorr, Lang, Raymond, Fradette, Gerzemehle, Storm, Garbush, Scholtz, Ackerman, Roehl, Pietenpol, Furgeson, Davis, Gluch, Fisher, Braatz, Rush, Krumrey, Nelson, Baer, Welsh, Huff, Windover, Tharp, Loskowski, Wright, Steinfeld, Vick, Hyck, Van Fleet, Snow, Housley, Koser, Morey, King, Williams, Schoenfeld, Edens, Lloyd, Deming, Ganger, Shapiro, Marsh, Potter, Churchill, Kemmeter, Just, Johnson, Rahn, Winn, Haltaufderheide, Wage, Worchel, Henze, Olto, Dahlke, Wallace, Lawrence, Machel, Fraser, Schroeder, Shaw, Scoles, Dudei, Falkner, Converse, Plauel, Brandstedter, Eackhausen, Drake, Petznick

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 11/07/1913

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Frei visited friends at Neillsville on Saturday.

Mrs. Mot Osgood had dental work done at Neillsville Tuesday.

Wm. Rogers of York Center visited friends at Marshfield on Saturday.

Mrs. Will Hubing had dental work done in Neillsville Saturday.

Leonard Cole Spent Saturday at Marshfield.

Chester Finnegan purchased Ford touring car of Geo. Hart on Monday.

Miss Anna Loskowski went to Hancock Monday for a several weeks visit among friends.

Geo. Wilson is away in Iowa on a business trip since the first of the week.

Miss Helen Deming went to Madison last Friday for a couple of days visit among old friends.

Aug. Holtz finished the carpenter work on the Will Hubing barn and went home to Marshfield on Friday.

Ernest Todd went to Chili Tuesday to visit his sister Mrs. Alex McInnis.

W.B. Wentworth of Edgerton is visiting his son Rush here since Tuesday.

Miss Elva Thayer went to Neillsville Tuesday for her weekly music lesson on the violin.

Fred Foemmel, Miss Margareth Lautenbach and Miss Myrtle Knorr went to Chili Saturday.

Louis Lang of Humbird arrived here by auto Saturday for a several days visit at the Fred Wright home.

Free Raymond and son Faye were guests at the Delos Raymond home here on Monday.

Louis and Amanda Gerzemehle and Frank and Freda Storm enjoyed Sunday at the Henry Garbush home in North Grant, assisting Clara Garbush celebrate one of her birthday anniversaries.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scholtz of Neillsville, with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foemmel and the Mesdames Edw. Ackerman, Carl Roehl, Wm. Storm and Ernest Gerzemehle, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Frei.

The Misses Ethel Osgood, Vera and Harriet Pietenpol, Mrs. Roehl, Frank Furgeson and W.S. Davis were Neillsville visitors Tuesday.

Dan Gluch Jr., who recently came home from a hospital in Eau Claire, returned to that city Tuesday to again consult a physician.

Will Fisher, a station agent for the Great Northern Railroad Co., arrived here from Panton, Iowa late last week and made a several days visit between the Richard Braatz, E. Garbush and other families among his old friends.

Fred Davis was taken suddenly and alarmingly ill last Friday, and for several days was necessarily compelled to keep to his room though he is out and about on business since Tuesday.

District Attorney W.J. Rush autoed over from Neillsville on business Saturday.  Mrs. Rush and son Robert, with Mrs. C. Krumrey and Master Nelson, who accompanied him over, spent the afternoon with Mrs. Baer.

W.J. Davis, who spent much of last week with his wife and daughter at the Eau Claire hospital when Miss Jean was so seriously ill, returned home on Saturday and reported a slight improvement in Miss Jean’s condition.

Arlein Welsh has the measles since early this week.

Mrs. Mary Huff is in receipt of an interesting letter from relatives in Portland, Oregon, relatives to the marriage of her nephew Arthur Windover’s daughter Miss Agnes to Mr. H. Zopha Tharp of that city on Oct. 7, 1913.  Mr. Tharp is a medical student and a college graduate who taught in one of the normal schools 4 years.  Among the wedding guests that were mentioned were Mr. and Mrs. John Steinveld, Mrs. Geo. Vick and daughter, Mr. Jim Huck.  The letter goes on to state that Mrs. Hiram Windover, the bride’s grandmother, is in very poor health, but that granddad Hi Windover was holding his own well.  Windovers and many of the others mentioned are well known hereabouts and this piece of news will be interesting to many of our readers.

Mrs. Herbert Fradette and children spent the first of the week here at the Delos Raymond home.

J.W. Van Fleet went to Marshfield Saturday to consult a physician.

Al Snow, Dr. Housley and Herman Koser were here from Chili on business on Saturday.

Lester Morey of Hancock was an over Sunday guests of the Anton Loskowski family.

Geo. King visited home folks here Sunday morning and left that noon for Omaha, Neb.

Mrs. Willis Williams will entertain the Circle next Wednesday afternoon.

Emil Schoenfeld of the York Center Cheese Factory made a business trip to Marshfield on Saturday.

Miss Erna Edens and her brother Guenther Edens went to Edgar Saturday and made an over Sunday visit.

Miss Irene Lloyd of Neillsville was the guest here last week Thursday and Friday of her cousin Miss Helen Deming.

Mrs. Ganger and two little ones, after a several days visit at the Hy. Braatz home, returned to Burlington late last week.

Miss Lillie Shapiro came down from Medford Tuesday since which time she has been a guests of the Misses Ora Marsh and Lela Potter.

Mr. and Mrs. John Garbush are home from their visit to Green Bay and other state points since last week Thursday.

Mr. B.P. Churchill and little daughter of Milwaukee came over from Neillsville and spent Thursday afternoon of last week with Mrs. P.J. Kemmeter.

Mrs. Henry Just came over from Neillsville Saturday and remained until Sunday noon, a guest at her brother, Fernando Johnson.

Rahn Bros. and Winn who recently purchased the Chas. Neinas warehouse, flour, feed, potato, coal and wood business are in possession and doing business since Saturday with Byrl Winn in active management and at the helm every minute since.

Mrs. Hale Davis, Mrs. Haltaufderheide and daughter Dorothea, Mrs. Floyd Winn, Mr. and Mrs. T.D. wage, Mrs. Albert Davis, Miss Lydia Worchel, Fred Wright, Louis Lang, Otto Henze and Alvin Cole were among the Granton people at the county seat on Saturday.

Mrs. Olto of Marathon City, returning home from a visit at Fall Creek, visited at Jerome Shaw’s in Neillsville and spent several days here at the W.F. Dahlke home in North Grant, continued on home to Marathon City on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wallace and son Master Lawrence, came up from Stevens Point Saturday for a visit at the Robert Machel home.  Mr. and Mrs. Wallace continued on to Alma Center Tuesday to visit at their son William’s.  Master Lawrence remained here with his sister, Mrs. Robert Machel.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fraser of Palonse, Wash., came over from Chili with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Fraser of that place, on Saturday and made an over Sunday visit at the Geo. Fraser home.  Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fraser left Monday morning for Atlantic, Iowa, while his parents returned to Chili that afternoon.

Edward Shcroeder and family autoed to Neillsville Sunday and visited at the Chas. Babcock home.  Mrs. Babcock had sufficiently recovered from her siege of pneumonia to have accompanied her husband home from Alma Center several days previous.  Grandma Babcock, who accompanied them over in the car, remained at her son’s.

James Scoles went to Madison last week Thursday and remained over Sunday, the guest of his son Calvert.

Mr. and Mrs. Willie Worchel are taking up their residence for the winter with Ben Dudei and are moving yet this week.

Mr. Falkner of Plymouth, after a several days visit at the Fred Petznick home in Heathville, left for Shawano County on Tuesday.

A large company of young people and the country side in general enjoyed a big husking bee at the Clay Converse home Monday evening.

Louis Plauel’s sister and his niece, after a several days visit here, returned home to Fond du Lac on Tuesday.

The Misses Alice Hart and Zella Brandstedter of Humbird came Monday and made a several days visit between the Geo. and Fred Hart and Leland Davis home.

Harry Enckhausen, a former druggist who conducted a drug store at Neillsville, now a commercial traveler, was in town calling on the trade Monday.  He reports his son Fred to be an agent for the Fargo Wells Express Co. at Ripon and his daughter Ruth as attending the normal school at La Crosse.  The balance of their children are attending school in their home city, Sparta.  Mr. Enckhausen is well and reports Mrs. E. to be likewise.

In the southern part of the state where husking bees have as here, been very numerous and the young people enjoyed delightful evenings in attending them, a young lady entering the bank was greeted by the young cashier with "well Lydia, why weren’t you out to last night’s husking bee?  Haven’t seen you at any of them and you sure are missing some enjoyable affairs."  Lydia answers: "Now Mr. Drake, do tell me how they have husk bees, anyway."