News: Granton Locals #2 (31 Aug 1917)

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Surnames: Amidon, Snyder, Wage, Paulson, Bladl, Crow, Davis, Potter, Downer, Brown, Blakely, Handt, Hickox, Boyce, Paulson, Beaver, Johnson, Welsh, Yordi, Fricke, Foreman, Dixon, McClaflin, Campbell, Davis, Storm, Dankemyer, Henchen, Schune, Hiles, Todd, Beauchaine, Currie, Bollom, Schmoll, Hart, Ebbe, Osborne, Deutsch, Goebel, Crosby, Churchill, Kemmeter, Wagner, Reiff, Read, Machel, Howarth, Bauman, Cross, Hayden, Thiede, Bublitz, Eden, Ketel, Webster, Zimmerlu, Snyder, Kinney, Vine, Oosterhaus, Jahr, Steuerwald, Moore, Cole, Martin, Smith, Hoover, Shafer, Paulson, Lockman, Moh, Guk, Valleau, Scoles, Marsh, Henze, Kihn, Prange, Shoenboom, Zimmer, Gerber, Williams, Hankey, Neitzel, Miller, Langrehr, Short, Meddaugh, Cook, Zeliff, Thayer, Pietenpol

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 08/31/1917

Elva Amidon came home from Stevens Point on Wednesday.

Miss Stella Snyder of Neillsville is visiting friends here since Wednesday.

Mrs. T.D. Wage entertained the Circle and a few friends Wednesday.

Ross Paulson arrived home from Dakota on Tuesday.

Mrs. John Bladl spent Tuesday afternoon with relatives at Chili.

Rev. Geo. Crow went to Madison on Tuesday.

Hale Davis went to Chicago Tuesday evening on a business trip. Harland Potter and Harold Downer were Marshfield visitors on Friday.

Miss Anita Brown, after a 10 day visit at Loyal, came home Sunday.

Edgar Hickox of Route 4 left for the harvest fields on Monday.

Paul Handt was at Wausau on Friday.

Mrs. Orren Hickox spent much of last week with her parents at Neillsville.

A.B. Boyce of Alma Center was here on a horse buying trip and visit at Ross Paulson’s Monday.

Leona and Rosetta Beaver went to Athens Saturday on a week’s visit to relatives.

Frank Johnson, a Corporal in Co. A. of the 3rd Infantry, came up from Camp Douglas for a weekend visit.

Rollo Welsh of Spokeville now has employment with Mr. Fischer at the Pleasant Ridge Cheese Factory.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Yordi and baby Norman spent Monday afternoon with friends at Marshfield.

The big state fair of 6 days and 5 nights commences at Milwaukee Sunday, Sept. 9th.

Mrs. Fricke and daughter Zura and Leland Forman autoed over from Neillsville Tuesday afternoon and visited Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dixon.

Miss Vivian McClaflin went to Neillsville Monday for an extended stay with Mrs. Ray Campbell.

Mrs. Harry Davis of Neillsville spent Tuesday afternoon here at the F.L. Davis home.

Miss Frieda Storm is home from a summer’s visit with relatives at Superior since Saturday evening.

Miss Lydia Krause went to Chili Tuesday on a week’s visit to relatives in the Truman Dankemyer home.

Miss Clara Henchen of Globe is visiting the Adolph Schune family since Tuesday.

John Hiles is home from Milwaukee since Saturday and is slowly recovering in health and strength.

Mrs. Bertie Todd, with Miss Bessie Beauchaine of Montana, went to Marshfield on Tuesday.

Ivan Currie of Osseo is here since Saturday visiting his uncle Chas. Bollom and family.

Mrs. Aug. Schmoll and daughter Norma are expected home from Milwaukee on Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hart, Mrs. Leland Davis and daughters, all of Humbird, autoed here Tuesday and visited at Fred Hart’s.

George Ebbe and Miss Pearl Osborne, two well-known Neillsville young people, were married there last week.

Mrs. Gus Deutsch and daughters Nancy and Beatrice of Neillsville visited at at Joe Goebel’s this week and went home yesterday.

Wm. Crosby has our thanks for a box of especially fine strawberries of the everbearing variety picked from his garden late last week.

Miss Dorothea Churchill of Milwaukee came over from Neillsville Tuesday for a visit with relatives in the P.J. Kemmeter family.

Mrs. Will Wagner and daughter Hilda of Neillsville came Sunday and remained over until the next day, guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. Reiff.

Mrs. Hattie Read and 3 children of Indianapolis, Ind., are visiting at Adolph Machel’s on Route 4 since Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Howarth and sons Albert and Arthur of Chicago are visiting at John Battersby’s on Route 4 since Saturday.

Chester Arndt, after a week’s visit with his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sternitzky at Lynn, went home Saturday evening.

Mrs. P.M. Hollenbach and daughter Clara, who came from Minneapolis Sunday, returned to the city on Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bauman and their two children of Marshfield spent yesterday here with the Chas. Neinas family.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hollenbach and Mr. and Mrs. John Hollenbach, all of Almond, came Saturday in response to the news of the death of Mrs. Geo. Hollenbach.

Mrs. Chas. Cross and her three children came from Chili Saturday evening and made an over Sunday visit at Chas. Hayden’s.

Miss Margarethe Thiede, after a several months visit here with home folk, left for Mars, Penn., and her school teaching duties there, last Saturday.

Mrs. Wm. Bublitz and daughter Miss Amanda came up from Milwaukee Monday and are since visiting relatives in the Will and Richard Kurth homes.

School will begin Monday, Sep. 3rd at 9 o’clock at the Mapleworks parochial school.

Miss Erna Eden went to Neillsville Saturday evening on a visit with friends.

Miss Pearl Beeckler leaves for Crandon and her school teaching duties there, tomorrow.

Miss Bessie Beeckler, who taught at Durand last year, goes to Oconto as superior of the grades, this year.

Mrs. Bollom of Osseo is visiting her son Chas. and his family here since late last week.

Herman Ketel of Chili was engaged with plastering at Truman Davis’ early this week.

Miss Alice Wilson and Ruth Webster of Ashland are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wilson since Tuesday.

Mrs. Zimmerlu of Richland Co., after a several days visit at Grant Snyder’s, went home Saturday.

Miss Anita Beaver has spent the past two weeks with relatives at Loyal.

Miss Emma Kinney of River Falls is visiting at W.S. Davis’ since Monday.

Fred Vine is having a hot water heating system put in his house. A professional is here from Milwaukee doing the work since Wednesday.

Mrs. Fred Hart was very ill with an attack of appendicitis last Saturday, although at this writing is quite comfortable again.

Miss Reanatta Witte expects to return to Wausau next Monday and resume her studies at the Business college there.

Frank Davis has been quite ill the past two weeks. Although able to leave his bed, last Friday, he is as yet, not well.

Trester Oosterhaus of Royalton came Monday and spent a couple days with relatives in the H.T. Lawson home.

Miss Clara Jahr, accompanied by her sister Mrs. Chas. Steuerwald of Loyal, spent Wednesday with friends at Marshfield.

Miss Leora Moore of Ogdensburg, Wis., is here visiting her sister Mrs. Leonard Cole since last week Wednesday.

Mrs. Fred Grassman came home from Wausau Tuesday. She autoed up with Rev. Reiff and family last Saturday.

Mrs. Robert Sternitzky and daughter Marie Helen, after a 4 day visit at Henry Sternitzky’s in Lynn, went home to Rothschild on Tuesday.

Mrs. Warren McClaflin and baby Retta Belle went to Humbird Monday evening to spend the balance of the week among relatives.

Mrs. Emmett Martin of Milwaukee, an aunt of Mrs. Frank X. Smith, is here since Monday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank X. Smith on Route 3.

Mrs. Joe Hoover and daughters Sadie and Dorothea, after a 10 day visit at John Shafer’s on Route 2, went home to Wausau Tuesday.

Clifton Paulson is home from a summer’s sojourn in the Dakotas since Saturday when he arrived here with a car load of horses.

Mr. and Mrs. Ward Lockman and baby Harold from the L.E. Moh farm, went to Columbia Saturday evening and made an over Sunday visit.

Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Guk of the town of Lynn, with Mrs. Chas. Neinas and daughter Lydia, autoed to Marshfield and spent Tuesday with relatives.

W.E. Valleau of Ashland, who is here on a visit at the F.J. Riedel home had erected on Wednesday in the Fischer Cemetery, a handsome stone marker at the grave of his wife, the late Margaret E. Riedel Valleau.

James Scoles is home from Chicago since last week Monday and his daughter Miss Jessie is home from Ironton and Duluth since last week Thursday.

Miss Thea Marsh went to Neillsville Monday as a milliner’s apprentice in the Dwyer millinery parlors, where she will spend the next several months.

Frederick Crosby, after a couple weeks visit at Grandpa Crosby’s and with his aunt Mrs. Henze, went home to Neillsville last week Thursday.

The Misses Birdine and Gwendolyn Kihn are here from Park Falls, guests in the T.D. Wage home since last Thursday.

Miss Hildegard Prange will go to Sheboygan with her uncle Arthur Schoenboom this week and will spent eh winter there among relatives, while Miss Edna, who recently returned home from Plymouth, will remain under the parental roof now, until spring.

Anita Hollenbach went to Almond with relatives Tuesday for a short stay and visit, and will return home when her Aunt Mrs. L.G. Zimmer and cousin Ruth of Eau Claire, who accompanied her, come back.

Mrs. Wm. Schune, in celebration of her 76th birthday alst Friday, entertained Mrs. Fred Gerber, Miss Cornelius, Mrs. Henry Sternitzky, Mrs. Aug. Riedel, Mrs. Annie Williams, Mrs. Anna Hankey and Mrs. Susan Neitzel at a tea party.

Mrs. J.A. Miller and nephew Kenneth Langrehr, Miss Clark Jahr, Miss Ora Davis and Mrs. Charles Steuerwald were Neillsville visitors on Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Steuerwald and children autoed down from Loyal Sunday for a visit at Mrs. Augusta Jahr’s. Mrs. Steuerwald and daughter Eileen only, remaining over on a several days visit.

Mrs. Andrew Short was called to Marshfield Tuesday by the serious illness of her nice Mrs. Will Meddaugh of Dorchester, who is very ill at the hospital there, where she has been a patient the past 3 weeks, suffering with heart trouble.

Mrs. Romanzo Davis of Tacoma, Wash., leaving on the home trip Tuesday, is spending a few days in Minneapolis where it is expected her father-in-law Thode Davis enroute home to Tacoma, will join her yet this week.

Geo. W. and Paul J. Thompson, with Miss Ruth Thompson, all of Minneapolis, spent several days here with the Nic Wiernzinski family on Route 1 and left for home early this week.

Mr. J.H. Cook of Minneapolis, after a visit at Geo. Zeliff’s, went home Monday night. Mrs. Cook though remained for a more extended visit.

Miss Alva Thayer resigns her position in the telephone office today and leaves Monday for La Cross where she will enter the Wis. Business College as a student for the ensuing year. Miss Amy Marsh takes her place at the central board.

Mrs. John Pietenpol and daughter Ruth, and the latter’s cousin Miss Lucile Davis, arrived home Wednesday morning after a several weeks pleasure trip and visit with the former’s brother Louis Davis at Babb, Montana.