News: Granton Locals #2 (28 Nov 1913)

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Surnames: Drescher, Peterson, Potter, Gerlach, Hayden, Hatch, Canfield, Dubes, Huntley, Creigo, Knorr, Williams, Post, Stallman, Winn, Downer, Daughhetee, Glenzer, Rose, Hart, Grassman, Benedict, Huntley, Meyers, Hollenbach, Witte, Tompkins, Marx, Finnegan, Coulthard, Schreiber, Breseman, Reiff, Vick, Amidon, Degenhardt, Castello, Sultrecht, Felton, Alderman, Bender, Furgeson, Wiesner, Griswold, Brown, Wittcamp, Sparks, Clark, Winn, Johnson, Calkins, Hankey, Riedel, Kidd, Grassman, Gault, Lockas, Lloyd, Elwood, Drake, Williams, Crandall, mason, Fuller, Breed, Finner, Janes, Mellen, Shaw, Beeckler, Baer, Calway, O’Neill, Davis, Welsh, Rath, Stevens, Gerzemehle, Reed, Reichert, Marg, Riedel, Palmer

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 11/28/1913

Arnold Drescher spent the first of the week at Eau Claire.

O.A. Peterson went to Green Bay Wednesday.

Miss Potter went home to Grand Rapids Wednesday.

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

Louis Hayden and family are visiting her folks at Merrillan since Wednesday.

Mrs. Alice Hatch, Mrs. Eva Canfield, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dubes went to Neillsville Wednesday.

Milton Huntley went to Stevens Point Wednesday for a couple of days visit with relatives and friends.

Remember the apron sale and fair at the church Dec. 3^rd, next Wednesday.

Helen Creigo came Wednesday evening to spend the balance of the week with Shirley Knorr.

Miss Frieda Williams was a guest of Mrs. Wm. Post at Neillsville on Tuesday.

Arthur Stallman, being indisposed, is home for an indefinite vacation and visit.

Webb Winn carried off 1^st prize at Homer Downer’s birthday party Monday evening and Jerry Daughhetee was consoled with the booby prize.

Mrs. Glenzer and little daughter were here from Sheboygan County as guests at the Geo. Rose home the first of the week.

Bert Hart and Louis Grassman, after a week’s visit here at their uncle Fred Grassman’s, went home to La Ville Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Davis of Marshfield were Thanksgiving guests of the W.E. Benedict family in the town of York.

Mr. and Mrs. Stillman Huntley came up from Madison Wednesday for a visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huntley.

Chas. Meyers of Greenbush, who had been visiting at the Art Phipps home, departed on the return trip Wednesday.

Miss Agnes Hollenbach is the new clerk at Witte’s Cash Store.

Postmaster and Mrs. J.M. Tompkins entertained several friends at dinner Sunday.

Mat Marx and family of Neillsville were Thanksgiving guests at the James Finnegan home.

Mr. and Mrs. Hale Davis entertained relatives, some 30 strong, at dinner on Thanksgiving.

Mrs. John Coulthard and Mrs. R.C. Schreiber drove in from the town of Sherwood Wednesday.

Mrs. Phillip Breseman will entertain the Ladies Aid of Rev. Reiff’s parish next Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Vick of Salem Ore., who have been visiting hereabouts for weeks past, departed on the home trip Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Silas Amidon of Melrose are guests of his brother George and family since Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Degenhardt of Loyal drove down Wednesday and met Mr. and Mrs. Henry Degenhardt of Cashton, who on their wedding trip came up to visit them.

Mrs. Castello and Miss Kate Sultrecht of the town of Sherwood took the train here Wednesday for Milwaukee.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Felton, G. Smith and Mrs. Alderman are here from Richland County visiting the Bender and Furgeson families in the town of Washburn and Sherwood since Wednesday.

An item on the first page which reads Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wiesner came home last Friday from a several weeks visit with relatives at Marshfield, should read, Milwaukee instead of Marshfield.

John R. Coulthard and daughter Margie of the town of Sherwood took the train here Wednesday evening for Cuba City, Grant County, on a visit to his mother whom he has not seen for nearly 9 years.

Granton is to have a Farmers Institute with H.D. Griswold, conductor, Jan. 27^th and 28^th, 1914, with a cooking school conducted by Miss Susan Brown.  Thus, the ladies will be entertained as well as the gentlemen.

R. Wittcamp and son Will, Jesse Sparks and daughter Hattie, Miss Florence Sparks, and Mrs. John Clark, all of Sherwood, were Granton visitors on Monday.

Mrs. Webb Winn left for Cassville Wednesday where she is since visiting at the Paul Finner home.  Her daughter, Miss Ruby Winn of Milwaukee was also a Thanksgiving guests at the Finner home.

Oscar Johnson, while hunting, had a close call from death Monday.  An ax which he carried on his back in his belt received the bullet which by accident was fired in his direction.  The wooden handle of the ax was split in twain.  Oscar escaped unhurt except a bad scare.

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Calkins and two youngest children of Almond and Dave Janes and Geo. Sparks of Bancroft, after a week’s visit with relatives in the town of Sherwood took the train here Wednesday for their respective homes.  They took with them two deer which they had shot during the visit.

E.O. Hankey has decided to farm it and today is moving his household goods to Nasonville, where he has rented the farm of his father-in-law, Herman Riedel.  Ernst was brought up on a farm and spent the greater part of his years tilling the soil.  He knows farm work from a to z and then some.  Mrs. Hankey and children went down Thursday by train.  (Colby Phonograph)

An interesting letter from Norman Kidd, who writes from his home at Ocean Park, Calif., was received by us last week.  Norman laments that the "Crazy Dutchman" at Heathville has quit corresponding, for he say he greatly enjoyed hearing from him and his old neighbors.  Norman is well pleased with his California home and apparently spends the greater part of his time fishing.  His oldest son Frank holds the responsible position of train dispatcher.  His son-in-law, Roscoe Mellen, is a street car motor man in Los Angeles, and Lee, his youngest son, is working in the home telephone office and getting $60 per month.

Alvin Grassman went to Hustler Wednesday on a couple of weeks visit.

Miss Annie Gault and Miss Jennie Lockas of Dodge County, after a 10 day visit with the E.A. Gault family in the northwest corner of the town of Grant, departed for their home Friday.  Mr. Gault accompanied them as far as Marshfield.

Mrs. Lloyd and daughter Alice and Mrs. Elwood, her son Donald and daughter Evelyn of Fairchild, were with Mrs. Drake and her two children of Chester, S.D., and Mrs. Dave Williams of Neillsville, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Crandall, last Friday.

Mrs. Laura Mason and Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller received a letter from their brother A.J. Breed to the effect that he and his wife are again home at College Place, Wash., after a year’s absence in Washington, D.C.  That they, a few days after their return there, had been the pleased victims of a canned fruit shower given them by some 30 of their brothers and sisters and to whom his wife, a lady from Iowa, was almost a total stranger.

Phil Shaw of Green Bay, an uncle of Clyde Shaw’s, accompanied Mrs. Hattie Beeckler and Clyde’s children here from Jim Falls Friday, for a week’s stay and visit.  Clyde joined them here the next day and Mrs. Clyde Shaw and the new 2 week old baby came down from Stillwater on Monday.  A peculiar coincident is that this Phil Shaw suffered the loss of his lower limbs in St. Paul some 23 years since is much the same manner that Clyde lost his a few years ago.

Mrs. A.J. Knorr and Mrs. F.J. Baer attended a most enjoyable party given by Mrs. James O’Neill and her daughter Mrs. Forest Calway at Neillsville last Saturday afternoon.  The first hour of which was a delightful musicale from Russian composers, with Mrs. Forest Calway at the piano, following which delectable eats were enjoyed.  Many of the toothsome confections were decorated with delightfully edible artificial sweet peas and each guest presented with a spray of the natural blossoms.

Mrs. Leland Davis and daughter Minerva joined Leland at Edgar Saturday on a house hunting trip.  Leland having a good job in the mill there, it is altogether likely they will take up their residence in that city.

Mrs. Mable Welsh found it imperative to take her little daughter Arlene to Eau Claire Saturday that the child might undergo a successful operation for relief from an internal abscess below and back of the left ear, the after effects of a bad case of measles.  Her father Mrs. Lon Stevens of Loyal, together with Dr. and Mrs. Rath of this place, accompanied her.  At last report the little one was getting along nicely.

Miss Laura Gerzemehle was taken to Eau Claire last Saturday and operated on for appendicitis from which trouble she had suffered much.  Mrs. Gerzemehle, her mother, who accompanied her, returned Monday reporting her as having survived the operation and doing as well as her physicians could hope for.  Her ultimate recovery is expected.

Mrs. Chas. Reed and son Eric, who accompanied Mr. Reed to Plymouth several weeks since, where on the 10^th inst. They attended the wedding of his youngest sister, returned home from there only last Monday.  Mr. Reed, who had returned on the 13^th had begun through lonesomeness, to feel quite like a bachelor again.

The Reichert Bros. are having improvements made on their residence property, the Barker house.  Henry Marg and the Riedel boys are doing the work and putting it in shape for comfortable occupancy for a tenant with a family.  So that leaves both Ferdinand and Alvin out of the question.

Mrs. Andrew Palmer, after a week’s visit here with her husband and son, returned to Sycamore, Ill. and the balance of her family, who are there on Saturday.  Mr. Palmer is able to be up and about the house quite okay since late last week.