News: Granton Locals (21 Mar 1913)

 

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Surnames: Schoengarth, Winn, Schlinsog, Ross, Albrecht, Bartz, Kuechenmeister, Garbush, Hales, Haas, Reichert, Fradenberg, Hart, Davis, Wegner, Kettler, Manning, Chapel, Osgood, Kemmeter, Fessenden, Furguson, Hunter, Martin, Marsh, Stelzer, Reiff, Rose, Fradette, Thayer, Page, Schaller, Roehl, Gerzemehle, Barden, Rasmussen, Johnson, Lokken, Fuller, Williams, Brown, Howard, Galbreath, Drescher, Hantke, Wilding, Wilger, Muhlhein, Pagenkopf, Ayers, Beeckler, Shaw, Kurth, Hort, Eisentraut, Beecher, Greunke, Becker, Lautenbach, Knorr, Knickle, Budge, Mallory, Lavey, Crandall, Reich, Dorst, Kelpin, Gerber, Harrian, Rush, Wentworth, Imig, Daughhetee, Neinas, Vincent, Stepler, Sholtz, Beaver, Converse, Finnegan, Morrissey, Foemmel, McClaflin, Hughes, Bird, Bender

 

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., Wis.)  03/21/1913

 

Mrs. Herman Schoengarth entertained the Priscillas last Saturday.

 

Floyd Winn came home from Park Falls, Saturday.

 

Aug. Schlinsog Jr. came home on Saturday from Rochester, Minn., where he had been to consult the Doctors Mayo.

 

Mrs. P.M. Ross was at Marshfield last Saturday.

 

Mrs. Henry Albrecht of Fremont was a guest at the Alfred Bartz home the first of the week.

 

Chas. Kuechenmeister, who spent the winter in Milwaukee, returned home from there on Saturday.

 

Robert Garbush is home from the Eau Claire Hospital since Monday.

 

Mrs. A.W. Hales went to Stanley Saturday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Page.

 

Mrs. Haas of Stanley, after a visit here at Ferdinand Reichert’s, went home on Saturday.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fradenberg of Humbird came over last Saturday and made a few days stay at the Fred Hart home.

 

Chas. Hart came home last week from a couple months stay at his son Norman’s in Humbird.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Sid Davis arrived home Monday evening from Wausau and Grand Rapids.

 

Herman Wegner took a trip to Ashland and other parts in the north last week.

 

Mrs. Emil Kettler of Milladore, after a week’s visit with the C.C. Manning family, departed for home Saturday.

 

Mrs. Wm. Schlinsog and Mrs. Gus Reichert were at Marshfield Monday that Mrs. Schlinsog might consult an eye specialist in regard to a foreign grown on her right eye lid.

 

Mrs. Chas. Chapel is at Marshfield since Wednesday.

 

Mrs. Rella Osgood entertained the "T" club on Wednesday.

 

Ferdinand Reichert transacted business at Chili on Wednesday.

 

Miss Edna Kemmeter was home from Loyal between trains on Wednesday.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fessenden came up from Alma Center Tuesday and with Herman Hunter spent several days at Frank Furguson’s.

 

Remember the East Ball given by the O.E.S. at Neillsville Tuesday, March 25th.  Dance tickets are $1.00, gallery tickets are $.25.  everybody is invited.

 

Bush Davis of Loyal has been here the past week, the guest of relatives.

 

Elliot Martin of Stevens Point, a piano tuner, came up Tuesday and was a guest at Mrs. Mary Marsh for a couple of days.

 

Student Stelzer of St. Paul is visiting at Rev. Reiff’s since Tuesday.

 

Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Rose went to Milwaukee last Friday to visit relatives.

 

The cheese market took a sudden drop last week and as a consequence a number of commission houses were forced to the wall.  Cheese for some time has been too high to be a safe proposition for both buyer and seller.

 

Herbert Fradette has about recovered the use of his right arm, which was badly injured by the kick of a vicious horse several weeks since.

 

The chimney which W.J. Thayer was building or trying to build in the house he recently purchased collapsed last Thursday when it was within 2 feet of being finished.

 

Geo. Schaller and family moved here from Boyd Saturday and are now settled in their new home on a 60 acre farm recently purchased from Richard Kurth.

 

Mrs. Carl Roehl and Mrs. E. Gerzemehle were at Neillsville on Saturday.

 

Miss Ida Kuechenmeister is home since last week from her visit with her sister Miss Selma in Stevens Point.

 

Almond Barden, who is a street car conductor at Rock Island, Ill., visited relatives and old friends here several days last week.

 

Mrs. Rasmussen of Newark, S.D. was a guest at the Rice Davis home on Thursday of last week, leaving the next day for Bethel where she is since visiting relatives.

 

Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson of the town of Washburn, who had been visiting relatives in Minnesota, are here since last Friday.

 

Mrs. Webb Winn was on the sick list last week and Mrs. Floyd Winn spent several days caring for her.

 

Elmer, John and Carl Lokken were over from Wausau and attended the funeral of their father Seiver Lokken, here last week.

 

John Fuller has been entertaining the grippe a good share of this month.

 

Mrs. Hale Davis joined her husband at Merrillan and spent Sunday with him there.

 

The rain which started in last Thursday afternoon and lasted for nearly 24 hours was the cause of many cellars about town being flooded and the O’Neill Creek to reach alarming dimensions.  The Black River too went on a rampage and again did considerable damage to the new dam at Black River Falls.  Friday night it turned cold and we have had a little touch of winter again since.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Howard and daughter Gertie and son Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. R. Galbreath, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Drescher and son Carl were guests at Otto Hantke’s Sunday.

 

Alva Howard, Marion Hort, Geo. Wilding and family, Nick Wilger and family, Alvin Eisentraut and family were guests at Clemens Kuechenmeister’s Sunday.

 

Henry Muhlhein of Madison, a young man of most pleasing address and reported business qualification arrive here Tuesday to marry and take home with him, Miss Adelaide Pagenkopf of Southwest Grant, a pretty and accomplished young woman well qualified for the position she is henceforth to fill.

 

Mrs. M.V. Ayers, who has spent the past several months at her son Jays in Shortville, has quite lost her heart to her little seven week old grandson who took up his residence in that family during her stay there.  Mrs. Ayers was in town on business Monday and took the evening train home to Neillsville.

 

Mrs. Hattie Beeckler was advised last week of the death of her first husband Jack Shaw (Clyde’s father) at Green Bay on Wednesday and the burial at Black Creek on Saturday.  His death resulted from hookworm disease or miner’s anemia, now a terrible scourge, especially of the south sates, though known to other countries for years.  The hookworm, a parasite about 1 ½ inches long, and the thinness of a pin, thrives in moist and sandy soil, and gains access to the human body through the soles of the feet, causing a "ground itch" and passes into the intestines where they produce anemia.  Mr. Shaw became a victim while in Texas a few years since.

 

Mrs. H.E. Williams visited her mother Mrs. Laura Brown, at Neillsville a couple days the first of the week.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Wella Beecher and their two children returned on Monday from an extended stay at Stevens Point.  Mr. Beecher will reenter Otto Becker’s employ and reside at Lynn this summer.

 

O.F. Greunke late last week bought half interest in the Aug. Lautenbach hardware store and has since taken an active interest in the business.  Mr. Greunke is a man of good business ability and is well liked by all who have met him since coming here from Clintonville last summer.  The firm will be known as Lautenbach & Greunke.

 

Miss Myrtle Knorr came home from Madison Tuesday to spend Easter vacation

 

Elmer Knickle installed a new boiler in his cheese factory on Tuesday.

 

W.P. Budge and W.S. Davis transacted business at the county seat Tuesday.

 

Wilson Mallory came up from Stevens Point Tuesday.  He will remain and hold service in the Union Church Sunday evening.

 

Mrs. Frank Lavey and Mrs. Eugene Crandall visited Neillsville friends Tuesday.

 

Sarah Mae Davis, Emma and Clara Reich, Nellie Dorst and Amanda Gerzemehle were among the school girls who spent Saturday with friends in Neillsville.

 

Mrs. Dave Williams went home to Neillsville Saturday and remained until Monday.

 

Arnold Kelpin, Fred Gerber and W.J. Davis were at the county seat on Saturday.

 

Miss Minnie Harrian of Neillsville spent Tuesday here at the Mike Grasser home.

 

The Mesdames Rush, Wentworth and Hugh Berg spent Tuesday morning at Marshfield.

 

Geo. Wilson, Mr. Imig and J. B. Daughhetee went to Sheboygan Monday on a pure bred stock buying trip.

 

Chas. Neinas and Prof. Vincent made a business trip to Merrillan Monday.

 

P.J. Kemmeter was looking after his business interests at Neillsville and Marshfield on Monday.

 

Arthur Garbush was taken to an Eau Claire hospital last Saturday, and on Monday underwent another critical operation.

 

Earl Stepler of Richland Center, a nephew of Mrs. J. B. Daughhetee’s, has been here visiting her family for the past 2 weeks.

 

Mrs. Hattie Beeckler went to Milwaukee Tuesday for a visit with relatives and friends in that city

 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sholtz and baby daughter have been ill for the past several weeks.

 

Nic Wilger moved to Neillsville and into his home there on Monday.

 

Mrs. Geo. Beaver spent Wednesday at Neillsville.

 

Mrs. Frank converse and 14 years old granddaughter Lola Stratton came up from Melrose Wednesday.

 

Chester Finnegan is the owner of a motorcycle purchased from Hugh Berg.

 

Don’t forget the band concert and dance at the opera house Easter Monday, March 24.

 

Mr. Morrissey came up from Edgerton Thursday morning to spen Easter with his daughter, Mrs. Rush Wentworth.

 

Walter Foemmel writes from Kansas City that he likes the work in the automobile shops there, but the sight of old Granton would do his eyes good.

 

One of Warren McClafflin’s boys suffered a broken leg through falling out of a barn window while wrestling with another little fellow Tuesday evening.

 

Ferdinand Johnson, who broke his collar bone through being thrown off a horse last week, is recovering nicely.

 

Dan Hughes, accompanied by a cousin of his, a Miss Margareth Hughes, came up from Waldo last Tuesday to spend the Easter vacation.

 

H.E. Williams, Kearney Davis, Joe Bird, Gib Bender, Justin Johnson and Geo. Hales transacted business at the county seat on Wednesday.

 

 


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