News: Granton Locals (26 Dec 1913)

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Surnames: Geimer, Schoengarth, Anding, Books, Altenburg, Hunter, Furgeson, Albrecht, Kempin, Thiedeman, Schier, Gerlach, Strey, Williams, Schwanebeck, Neinas, Dyer, Sherrett, Huntley, Converse, Mundt, Keller, King, Dahl, Riedel, Joern, Walter, Bashford, Thiede, Jones, McCarl, Peterson, Schroeder, Eschenberg, Creigo, Knorr, Tremelling, Gibson, Paulson, Roehl, Waterman, Beeckler, Phipps, Delano, Hart, Ayers, Brillion, Sherlock, Owens, Lapp, Vine, Major, Slocomb, Hales, Root, Snow, Alton, Berg, Smith, Garbush, Osgood, Garbisch, Rondorf, Miller, Foote, Yorkston, Davis, Nitschke, Graves, Montag, Mentzel, Sternitzky, Hale, Verkellen

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 12/26/1913

Max Geimer went to Marshfield Sunday.

Herman Schoengarth transacted business at Marshfield Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Anding came home from Altoona Monday.

Raymond Brooks is home from Madison until after the holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. Altenburg of Platteville were guests at the James Tremelling home several days last week.

John Hunter and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Furgeson went to Alma Center last Saturday and returned Wednesday.

The Misses Irma Albrecht and Martha Kempin spent Sunday at their repective homes near Chili.

Miss Thiedeman went home to Thorp Saturday.

Miss Lida Schier went to Marshfield Saturday for an over Sunday visit with friends in that city.

Helen Anding came home from Neillsville Saturday for the Christmas holiday vacation.

W.J. Gerlach, Robert Strey, Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schwanebeck were at Neillsville Saturday.

Arthur Neinas is home from Appleton where he is attending the business college, since Saturday.  His parents autoed over to Marshfield and met him with their car.

Mr. Dyer and youngest daughter are here from Fond du Lac visiting at the Ezra Sherrett home in Sherwood since last week.

Mr. and Mrs. Stillman Huntley visited relatives at Stevens Point last week.

Frank Converse came down from Withee Friday.

Mrs. Chas. Mundt of Chili was in town on Tuesday.

Christ Keller went to Chicago on Tuesday.

Mrs. H.A. King visited Neillsville friends Tuesday.

John Dahl came home Saturday evening from Wheeler.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman G. Riedel spent last Friday with friends at Marshfield.

Geo. Dahl left for Dorchester Friday and after a couple days visit there continued on to Withee where he is now visiting a brother.

Mrs. Ben Joern went to Fall Creek Tuesday to spend Christmas with relatives.  Ben joined here there Thursday.

John Walter of Heintown took the train here on Friday for Marshfield.

Miss Hester Bashford of Loyal took the train here Tuesday for Whitehall.  She has a good position in the county asylum there.

Miss Margareth Thiede arrived home Saturday morning from Woodville, Ohio where she is attending school, for the holiday vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. S.A. Jones of Washburn sold their farm last week to the Phillips Land Co. of Neillsville and they have moved to Necedah.

Mrs. McCarl of South Grant was taken to the Eau Claire hospital Saturday for an operation.

Mrs. Peterson of Superior is here visiting her sister Mrs. Otto Schroeder and her parents Mr. and Mrs. Eschenberg of Washburn since Tuesday.

Helen Creigo came enroute home to Minneapolis from Stevens Point Saturday night and stopped off here and spent the night with her friends Shirley Knorr, continuing on her journey at 4 a.m. Sunday morning.

Wm. Gibson of Minneapolis, after a several days visit at Walter Graves’, went home Monday.

Ross Paulson returned on Tuesday from Dakota with another carload of fine horses.

Frank Roehl spent Sunday at his brother Herman’s in Chili.

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Waterman of Chili spent Sunday at the E.A. Beeckler home.

Mrs. Arthur Phipps, who was so alarmingly ill at this time last week, is considerable improved at this writing.

Mrs. S. Delano, who had been visiting the Fred Hart family, returned to Humbird Saturday accompanied by the four Hart children.  They will remain with her until after the holidays.

The Misses Pearl and Haidee Beeckler went to Marshfield Saturday and met their sister Miss Bessie, who came home from Sheboygan for the holiday vacation.

Mrs. L.L. Ayers came home Monday from a visit with Mrs. Sherlock and the Lou Brillion family at Crandon.

Mrs. Jane Owens was called to Milwaukee Monday to assist her daughter Mrs. Hank Lapp in the care of her children through the whooping cough.

Mrs. Harmon Huntley underwent an operation at Marshfield for the relief of some throat trouble last week and returned from there Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vine, their granddaughter Mable Major and Mrs. Arthur Vine and son Wm. Came down from Crandon Saturday on a several weeks visit at the Fred Vine home.

Ira Slocomb, Guy Hales and Ross Root are three of the boys from Grant and York who arrived home from Madison Sunday morning for the holiday recess.

Mr. and Mrs. Al Snow of Chili left for Pacific coast points on a several months pleasure trip last Saturday.

Alvin Alton of Tomah, after a 10 day visit with Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Root in the town of York, departed for his home on Friday.

Carl Berg, W.W. Smith, Robert Garbush and Mrs. Rella Osgood were among the Granton folks at the Co. seat Friday.

Mary Slocomb, who is attending school at Neillsville, remained with friends until Sunday morning that she might surprise her brother Ira by meeting him there and continuing on home with him.

Mrs. Annie Garbisch came over from Neillsville Sunday morning to visit her aged mother Mrs. Annie Riedel, who is very ill at her home 3 miles east of here.  Mrs. Riedel is 80 years old.

Henry Rondorf of Thief River Falls, Minn., after a 6 day visit here with his brother joseph of the town of York, in company with said Joseph Rondorf, left for Cashton on Sunday for a 10 day visit with other relatives.

Miss Elda Schwanebeck went to Mondovi last Friday for a week’s visit wmong friends and to attend her brother Max’s wedding which took place there last Wednesday.  Miss Schwanebeck, with her brother and his bride, are expected home here tomorrow.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller of Neillsville, who are moving to Madison, spent Sunday with her brother Herman Roehl at Chili and with her parents here on Monday, leaving for the new home at Madison Tuesday.

Mrs. Wm. H. Foote of Longford, S.D, with her little niece and nephews Alice and Ellis Foote, aged 6 and 4 years, motherless children whom she is caring for, arrived here Monday morning for an extended visit at the Wm. Yorkston home in the town of Lynn.

The Misses Myrtle and Shirley Knorr, Gertrude Davis, with Mrs. Hale Davis, Ferd Nitschke, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Graves, Mrs. Elsie Montag were Neillsville visitors Monday.

Theodore Mentzel of Grafton, who was returning from a several months stay in Dakota, stopped off here and made a 2 weeks visit at F. Nitschke’s, leaving for home on Monday.

Mrs. Dorn Garbush, while visiting her daughter Mrs. Albert Sternitzky a week ago Sunday, was made the pleased victim of a birthday surprise party which was a most successful affair.

Mrs. Fred Hart joined her children at the Silas Delano home in Humbird Sunday to remain until after Christmas.  Fred went over for Christmas.

Mrs. Lucas hale of the town of Lynn had a pleasant surprise party Sunday by some 36 of her neighbors and friends giving her a birthday party.  They took refreshments and had supper and spent the early evening with this genial and worthy surprised one.

For some time past farmers who left their teams standing in sheds and barns found when starting for home, that they were shy robes and parts of harnesses.  Last week a young man by the name of Verkellen, who home is near Heathville, was caught in the act of stealing a robe from a buggy and was promptly arrested.  At Neillsville last Friday he was given 60 days in jail.  This no doubt solves the mystery of the strange disappearance of things.

Everywhere railroads are laying off workers in great numbers.  This is by some considered a sign that we will again experience tough old Cleveland times, but in reality it is largely due to the fact that the railroads are putting on big new engines of late that have a capacity of hauling three times the cars the old engines hauled and as a result fewer train men are needed.  For example. a freight train that used to require three train crews is no handled by one.