News: Granton Locals #1 (9 Nov 1917)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Krnoch, Gates, Graves, Timerson, Woodworth, Adamsheck, Oxenrider

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 11/09/1917

A play entitled "Mr. Bob" will be given at the Woodmen Hall in Nasonville next Wednesday night, Nov. 14th, the proceeds to go to the Red Cross. Everybody is invited to attend the play and in this way enjoy an evening's entertainment and help the Red Cross.

Mrs. Chas. Krnoch and little daughter Hildegarde of Rout 2 left on Tuesday to join Mr. Krnoch at Homestead, Penn., whither he went several weeks ago. They will visit relatives in Milwaukee enroute, and especially visit little Hildegarde's sister, who is staying with her grandparents in Milwaukee, that she may have the advantage of attending a good school this year.

Mr. A.A. Gates, who came back here from Dakota after the accident in which he lost a few of his fingers on his left hand, has bought the F.S. Woodworth house in which Mrs. Adamsheck has been living since his marriage. Mr. Gates will make Pittsville hsi home in the furture. About three years ago he sold his farm in Clark County, since which time he has been living in Dakota with a son.

The Windfall Birthday Club had a particularly pleasant occasion last Friday with Mrs. Walter Graves as hostess. Blocks for a blue and white quilt were presented, set together and tied of in a nice finished comforter and left as a lasting useful and handsome remembrance of this happy day.

Nelson Timerson and daughter Lillie of Maryland, father and sister of Alvin Timerson, who was so seriously burned at his home near Spokeville a week ago Sunday, in response to news of the accident, arrived at the Marshfield Hospital last week Wednesday and but for Monday, which they spent here with the Dan Timerson family in York, are in constant attendance at the sufferer's bedside. Physicians now have hopes of his recovery.

Mrs. Chas. E. Oxenrider of Lewiston, Mont., in remitting for her paper, writes that her family is all well. Mr. Oxenrider is busy with his plowing outfit and their four oldest children are in school; the oldest daughter in her second year in high school. They haven't lived in Lewistown quite a year, but they are well pleased with prospects there; the climate suits, the drinking water is goo; scenery all that one could wish for and soil of the best. A great wheat country and hay and blue joint grass crops are abundant, making stock raising a great industry. They have a cow and a two year old heifer, and besides furnishing their own family with milk and cream, sol in August $75.00 worth, in September $70.00 worth, and in October $65.30 worth.