News: Granton Locals #1 (21 Nov 1913)

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Surnames: Wage, Bergeman, Goebel, Hiles, Meyer, McClaflin, Lubke, Wallace, Lowery, Mortimer, Gluch, Garbush, Grap, Baker, Kuechenmeister, Prindle, Montgomery, Arndt, Thiede, Drescher, Gerzemehle, Lautenbach, Potter, Marsh, Drake, Ayers, Reiff, Lavine, Huntley, Wegner, Krause, Dankemyer, Braatz, Zwick, Campbell, Bisby, Davis, Laux, Ziegler, Garbush, Poole, Selves, Phillips, Wildish, Hoseley, Toptine, Thayer, Dietrich, Peterson, Gerber, Finnegan, Berg, Hubing, Ginch, Joern, Amidon, Rausch, Brooks, Kimball, Schroeder, Ross, Wonser, Norman, Broker, Knorr, Baer, Fischer, Rounseville, Reichert, Dorst, Erwin, Wallace, Palmer, Christman, Anderson, Scholtz, Machel, Frechette, Schoengarth, Shafer, Hahm, Williams, Wright, Baker, Lawson, Dudei, Pischer, Wood, Barber, Ross, Rinehart, Cole,

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 11/21/1913

Tom Wage and Mr. and Mrs. G. Bergeman went to Marshfield Wednesday.

Paul Goebel was at Marshfield last Saturday and again on Monday.

Jon Hiles went to Brentwood, Price Co. on a hunting trip on Wednesday.

Albert and Geo. Meyer of the town of York are visiting at Jefferson since Saturday.

Arbie McClaflin of Arpin joined his brother Merrill here at the Rice Davis home on Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lubke and baby Emma of the town of York spent Friday at Marshfield.

Miss Pearl Wallace of Augusta is visiting at the Chas. Lowery home since Monday.

Geo. Mortimer of Chilton, after a ten days visit among relatives in the town of York, went home Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gluch Jr. and Miss Lillie Garbush made a business trip to Marshfield Saturday.

Edgar Grap of Neillsville was in town on Monday.

Paul Goebel transacted business at the county seat on Tuesday.

Joe Baker of Leavenworth, Kan. was a welcome guest in the Clemens Kuechenmeister home last week Friday.

Mrs. Emily Prindle of Eden is here visiting her sister Mrs. Orren Montgomery since Thursday of last week.

Mrs. Amelia Montgomery is home from Fond du Lac and expects to spend the winter here by her own fireside.

Price Arndt of Beloit is a guest at the Herman Thiede home since Tuesday.

Alfred, Arnold, Arthur and Oscar Drescher and Ed Kuechenmeister, after a week’s hunt, are home again and reports no luck,

Mrs. Gerzemehle came home yesterday from a week’s stay at the Aug. C. Lautenbach home where she was engaged with assisting in the wedding preparations.

Will Lowery, who is engaged with section work at Millston, spent Sunday here with home folks.

The Misses Lela Potter and Ora Marsh spent Sunday afternoon with friends at Marshfield.

Miss Viva Drake spent Sunday with friends at Neillsville.

Miss Laura Gerzemehle spent last week with Mrs. Alfred Drescher.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ayers went to Alma Center Tuesday.

Rev. Reiff went to Wausau last Friday on Mission work and remained over Sunday.

Frank Lavine of the town of Hewett spent the first of the week at the Geo. Huntley home.

Wm. Wegner was over from Neillsville Tuesday for a visit here between trains with his brother Herman.

Miss Louise Krause is assisting her sister Mrs. Freeman Dankemyer at Chili during Freeman’s absence at the Eau Claire hospital.

Mrs. Richard Braatz arrived home Sunday morning after a several month visit at the Henry Fischer home at Sioux City, Iowa.

Mrs. Fred Zwick went to Marshfield Saturday and made an over Sunday visit at the Geo. Campbell home.  She called on Mrs. Rounseville at the Marshfield hospital and reports her as slowly recovering.

Mrs. Gardner McClaflin and Grace Bisby drove over from Arpin last week Thursday and remained until Sunday, guests in the Rice Davis home.

Phil Drescher of Milwaukee and Milton Laux of Racine autoed up from Milwaukee and after spending a week as guests of Frank Drescher and family hunting, etc., depart for home again last Sunday.

Henry Ziegler came home from Wausau Monday and reports his daughter Mrs. Mary Garbush to have been adjudge insane and to have been committed to an asylum.  Mrs. Ziegler remained with the children and will pack up the household effects and bring the children here to live with her.

The Mesdames Chas. Poole, Elmer Selves, Geo. Phillips, John Wildish, Holcomb, Marcus Hoseley, Newton Toptine and Lapp came over from Neillsville Wednesday and gave Mrs. Thayer a delightful surprise party which was thoroughly enjoyed in an all-day session.

A mail carrier, according to a ruling from the Postmaster General, is not supposed to collect loose coins from the mail boxes.  All first class mail matter deposited in rural boxes should be stamped before being so deposited.  When this is not practical coins left in such boxes for the purchase of stamps should be deposited in coin holding receptacle and not enclosed in envelope, wrapped in paper, or left loose in boxes.

Christ Gerzemehle left her last week for Oklahoma.

Mrs. John Dietrich and baby daughter were guests of Neillsville friends Monday.

O.A. Peterson went to Marshfield Saturday and remained over until Sunday.

Fred Gerber, Mrs. Jas. Finnegan, Mrs. Hugh Berg and Mrs. Will Hubing spent Wednesday with Neillsville friends.

Mike Hubing came down from Athens Monday to attend the funeral of his friend, the late Dan Gluch Sr. and visit relatives.

Ben Joern has rented and fitted up several rooms in the G.E. Amidon flat above the drug store and with his bride took up his abode there Sunday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rausch, Mrs. Hale Davis, Mrs. G.E. Amidon, Miss Frances Brooks, Miss Emma Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schroeder, Mrs. P.M. Ross, Mrs. E.R. Wonser, Mrs. R.C. Norman of Lynn, Miss Nellie Broker of Lindsey, Mrs. A.J. Knorr and Mrs. F.J. Baer attended O.E.S. meeting at Neillsville Tuesday night.

Merchant Louis Reichert of Chili visited relatives here on Monday.

Mike Dorst, accompanied by his daughter Miss Nellie came home from Withee Monday.  Mike reports killing a deer.

Mrs. Howard Erwin, after a several weeks visit at T.F. Lee’s departed for her home in Milwaukee on Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wallace of Stevens Point, after a several weeks visit between relatives at Alma Center, Augusta and Neillsville, stopped off here Tuesday to visit at Robert Machel’s Chas. Lowery’s and others.

Andrew Palmer who lives near the Chas. Christman place over south suffered severely through a runaway accident he had last Saturday.  Mrs. Palmer came up from Sycamore, Ill. Monday to remain with him, indefinitely.

Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson of Nasonville were in town Monday to see her daughter Mrs. Frank Scholtz and her family of St. Paul, who passed through here enroute to the Frechette home in the town of Sherwood.

Mrs. Wesley Shafer, accompanied by her son Leslie and her daughter-in-law Mrs. Will Shafer, spent Monday with friends in Marshfield.

Miss Hulda Schoengarth was hurried to Marshfield last Friday and underwent a successful operation for the relief of chronic appendicitis.

Will Shafter is on a ten day visit and hunting trip with his uncle Jerome Rinehart to the town of Sherwood.

Mrs. Hahm and niece Miss Lena Cole went to Marshfield Saturday to visit relatives.

Mrs. H.E. Williams, Mrs. Roy Wright, Mrs. Jim Baker, Mrs. Henry Lawson and daughter Myrtle, Ben Dudei, Henry Pischer, Frank Wood, with the Misses Vivian Brooks, Amy and Thea Marsh, Maurice Davis were Neillsville visitors on Saturday.

C.E. Barber of Sherwood, Calumet County, arrived here last week and remained for a week’s visit with his sister Mr. P.M. Ross, leaving for home last Tuesday.  Mr. Barber, who is station agent for the Milwaukee road at the above place is taking a forced vacation through injuries which he received in an auto accident the fore part of the month.  The auto in which he and a a companion were riding was struck by a train, throwing the two men more than 40 feet.