News: Granton (27 Mar 1919)

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Email: ann@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Vine, Campman, Holmes, Downer, Gluch, Keller, Oischer, Mallig, Winn, Braatz, Lowe, Hart, Berg, Kemmeter, Willie, Neinas, Rath, Rausch, Birch, Amidon, Wonser, Baer, Dixon, Rose

----Source: Neillsville Times (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 3/27/1919

Granton (27 Mar 1919)

George and Fred Vine, with the latter’s son, Ernest, returned from their trip to Crandon last Friday. They report “Grandma” Vine to be somewhat improved in health.

Mrs. W.A. Campman and daughter, Jean, and Mrs. Carrie Holmes of Neillsville spent Tuesday here with relatives in the Homer Downer sugar bush.

The Misses Emma and Aleda Gluch of Neillsville called on Granton and Lynn friends Monday, when Miss Aleda accepted a clerkship at the J.L. Keller store in Lynn.

Oswald Pischer accompanied his brother-in-law, Willie Mallig, and the latter’s father, Gottlieb Mallig, to Marshfield last Friday, where at St. Joseph’s Hospital Willie has since been a patient and underwent a surgical operation next day.

Miss Ruby Winn, for the past nine months a Red Cross nurse in France, arrives here Monday morning, discharged from service. Miss Winn was one of the hundred nurses who left Milwaukee about a year ago with Base Hospital Unit No. 22, which was stationed at Bordeaux. This hospital unit was considered one of the finest and most efficient in France, having accommodations for 20,000 patients. Ruby holds the enviable record of not having lost a single patient while in service at that hospital. Her ward accommodated 90 patents at a time, and among the men she nursed back to health were many wounded German prisoners. She expects to stay here with her parents this summer and take a well-earned rest.

Carl Braatz’s horse hitched to a carriage and tied in the Wegner sheds here Saturday afternoon, took French leave, and alone and all unnoticed, set out for home. Herbert Lowe, in his new six-cylinder Buick, coming up behind him on the Ridge road near the animal’s last turn for home, couldn’t toot him into giving up any of the road, and ignorant of the horse being driverless, Herbert bumped into the carriage, and not only badly disfigured the carriage, but likewise damaged his own rig, twisting up a fender and breaking a lamp. Luckily though, there was no loss of life or even an abrasion of the skin of either man or beast.

The village caucus was held at the village hall Wednesday, March 12. F.G. Hart acted as chairman and H.L. Berg as secretary. The following officers were nominated:
P.J. Kemmeter, village president; H.L. Berg, village clerk; C.A. Willie, treasurer; Chas. Neinas, assessor; R.R. Rath, trustee for 2 years; Dan Rausch, trustee for 2 years; F.G., Hart, trustee for 2 years; Harry Birch, constable; G.E. Amidon, justice of the peace; E.R. Wonser, police justice. F.J. Baer, Ernest Dixon and W.D. Rose were appointed caucus committee.