News: Granton Locals #2 (21 Nov 1913)

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Surnames: Wolfe, Neitzel, Morris, Wentworth, Lee, Budge, Isham, Winn, Beeckler, Kuechenmeister, Anding, Breseman, Grasser, Schoengarth, Kintzele, Smith, Phipps, Kemmeter, Wonser, Trimberger, Davis,  Handke, Schultz, Wegener, Baer, Zorn, Rach, Krause, Dankemyer, Wells, Woods, Grave, Hopkinson, , Mabie, Huntley, Wentland, Petznick, Trimberger, Johnson, Pierce, Day, Washburn, Horak, Tykac, Marden, Gerlach, Schmoll, Albrecht, Eden, Phipps, Scholtz, Converse, Downer, Lindsey, Kelsey, O’Neill, Osgood, Breed, Eisentraut, Lazotte, Galbreath, Reichert, Wood, Stone

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

Rev. Wolfe of York is at Humbird since Wednesday.

Miss Laura Neitzel is on a several days visit at Marshfield.

Mrs. L.G. Morris spent yesterday with friends at Marshfield.

Rush Wentworth bought the W.P. Budge 200 acre farm on Tuesday.

Geo. Isham of Chadron, Neb, visited his sister Mrs. Webb Winn here last week.

Miss Pearl Beeckler will entertain the Priscillas tomorrow, Saturday afternoon.

The ground is prime for plowing now and farmers are getting in their best licks at it now.

Clemens Kuechenmeister has decidedly been on the sick list this week with la grippe.

Mrs. Richard Anding, accompanied by her mother Mrs. Phillip Breseman, went home to Altoona on Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Wentland and sons Edward and Robert are here from Sheboygan County visiting at Robert Petznick’s since Monday.

Miss Mary Grasser is home since Friday from Stillwater, Minn. where she has spent the last few months in millinery work.

Herman Schoengarth purchased 80 acres of timberland of John Kintzele in the town of York Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Smith of Greenbush, who has been visiting at Arthur Phipps, went home to Greenbush on Thursday.

Miss Augusta Schoengarth was home from Marshfield Tuesday night, but returned the next morning to continue with her sister Miss Huldah, who is still in the hospital there.

P.J. Kemmeter went to Menasha yesterday to spend the balance of the week between there, Neenah and Appleton.

Mrs. E.R. Wonser and Mrs. W.S. Davis went to Neillsville yesterday and took a lesson in china painting.

Mrs. Paul Handke and baby Milfred, after a week’s visit with Mrs. Ferdinand Schultz who lives south of Neillsville, came home Saturday afternoon.

Miss Mabel Wegener came up from La Crosse Saturday and visited home folks until Wednesday when she left for Chicago.

The Mesdames Frank Davis and F.J. Baer autoed up to Heathville Friday and took dinner and spent the afternoon with Mrs. Wm. Zorn.  They report having joined the luxury of roast venison that noon.  Mr. Zorn and Louis Rach, where were hunting at Mellen, returned home the evening previous, each with a deer.

Miss Amelia Krause joined her sister Mrs. Freeman Dankeyer and the latter’s children from Chili on Saturday’s noon train and went to Eau Claire and visited Freeman, who is in a hospital of that city recovering from an operation for the relief of appendicitis, from which disease he suffered acutely early last week.

Jos. Wells and S.S. Woods of Cairo, Mich., after a visit with the Ernest Grabe family in York, departed for home on Wednesday, leaving Mrs. Hopkinson of Choteau, Mont. and Mrs. Lottie Jacob and Mrs. C.S. Wood of Cairo, Mich., for a more extended visit.  Donald Grave accompanied the gentlemen as far as Madison, Wis., whither he went to visit his sister, Mrs. John Mabie.

Vernon Huntley, while visiting at his brother Harmon’s in the town of York one day last week, was taken suddenly and alarmingly ill with heart trouble.  Prompt action on the part of Harmon and their physician, who as hastily summoned, undoubtedly saved his life.  He is about okay since Saturday, apparently none the worse for the experience.

Mrs. John Trimberger and baby Victor came home Wednesday after a week’s visit among relatives at Greenwood.

Mrs. Floyd Winn went to Duluth Sunday for a several week visit and stay with her sister Mrs. Norman Pierce, who is just home from the hospital.

Mrs. A.M. Johnson came home from Green Bay Wednesday accompanied by Mr. Day , her father, who is quite enfeeble through his late illness.

Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Washburn and daughter Hazel autoed over from Lynn Monday evening and pleasantly while away the evening with town friends playing 500.

Jos. Horak of Columbia brought a load of goods for carrier B. Tykac and stayed over Sunday at the latter’s new home west of Granton.  They also enjoyed the company of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Marden.

W.J. Gerlach transacted business at the county seat on Wednesday.

Mrs. August Schmoll and daughter Norma accompanied Miss Irma Albrecht home to Chili on Sunday’s morning train and spent the day at the Albrecht home.  Henry autoed over with them that evening.

Guenther Eden, Geo. Phipps and Perry Thayer, after a week’s deer hunt near Redville, north of Withee, came home Monday well skunked.  They had secured five of the odorous fellows.

Louis Scholtz drove in from the town of Sherwood Monday and met Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scholtz and baby Vernon of St. Paul, who came down that day on a visit to his folks in Sherwood and hers in Nasonville.

Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Baer and daughter Helene autoed over to Neillsville Friday evening and enjoyed the birthday party and dinner given in honor of Mrs. Aug. Schoengarth’s birthday and where Mrs. Baer in a guessing contest captured the prize.

Mike Grasser, Homer and Noble Downer, and George Brooks came home Wednesday from their outing and hunting trip 14 miles above Withee.  Three of them were fortunate enough to bag a deer apiece, but ex-sheriff Geo. Brooks carried off the honors by bagging two fine rabbits.  Frank Converse, who is with Geo. Drake near there, hoofed it seven miles to spend a night in camp with the bunch.

Henry Lindsey of Neillsville, the well-known wrestler, was arrested last week by game wardens, W.A. Cole of Vesper and Jay Kelsey of Stevens Point for illegal shipment of game.  A box which was delivered by Lindsey at Chili and later seized by the game wardens contained 63 partridges and 3 grouse.  He pleaded guilty and Judge O’Neill fined him $75 and costs, amounting to $35.30.

Frant Osgood, who recently visited the Thode Davis home in Tacoma, Wash., reports Thode to be apparently unchanged since his departure from here.  He is holding his own and not showing his age or developing infirmities.  Mr. and Mrs. Romanzo Davis are with him at Walla Walla, Wash. He visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Breed.  Mrs. Breed was born Addie Davis.  He reports them as happy and prosperous.  They have a child, a boy.

Geo. Wilding, Henry H. and Chas. Braatz, Alvin Eisentraut, Joe Lazotte and Frank Albrecht, with Roscoe Galbreath and Chas. Feutz, report a successful deer hunt in the town of Sherwood.  They had the nine fine specimens hung up at Roscoe Galbreath’s where Albion Reichert of this place photographed them.  Now they have the pleasure of showing their friends pictures of the handsome creatures.

Two men, Wood and Stone, met a woman wearing one of those newfangled skirts and with a slit up the side.  After passing, Wood, with a wild look turned to Stone.  Stone turned to Wood and then they both turned to rubber.