News: Granton Locals (07 Sep 1917)

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Surnames: Welsh, Lezotte, Montgomery, Beaver, Crow, Reichert, Shaffer, Hayden, Robbins, Lloyd, Lee, Kemmeter, Lee, Gressler, Hempe, Beeckler, Waterman, Witte, Rhines, Davis, Winn, True, Hatch, Krause, Baber, Jacobi, Keller, Hagen, Alger, Prange, Schonboon, Reimer, Jaborek, McClaflin, Sloan, Schuler, Balfanz, Furgeson, Russell, Sternitzky, Viergutz, Williams, Soles, Negard, Pierce, Schmoll, Dixon, Schoengarth, Devos, Baland, Holmes, Bolton, Lavey, Kimball, Huntzicker, Schlinsog, Reiff, Hasz, Wonser, Baer, Knorr, Garbush, Lastofka, Schultz, Hollenbach, Gilson, Rausch, Bierhaer, Just, Webster, Burton, Hales, Page, Keffner, Hetzel, Trimberger, Wilson, Thomson, Krause, Amidon, Hart, Dufrane, Ross, Cole, Schmitz, Grassman, Lawson, Kissling, Winn, Krnoch, Eide, Hines, Selk, Jordan, Thayer, Zimmer, Gleason, Moore, Holway, Kidd, Rowe, Patno, Neinas

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 09/07/1917

Mrs. Mabel Welsh and daughter Arlene visited at Spencer, Sunday.

Will Lezotte visited old friends at Neillsville on Saturday.

Orren Montgomery and son Peter were Neillsville visitors on Friday.

Geo. Beaver was at Marshfield on business on business on Monday.

Rev. Geo. Crow came home from Madison on Monday.

Ferdinand Reichert was at Marshfield on business on Monday.

Chas. Shaffer of Chili was in town Monday enroute to Merrillan.

Charley Hayden was a Marshfield visitor on Monday.

Ira Robbins was at the county seat on business last week Thursday.

Miss Tina Lloyd of Columbia visited her sister Eunice here Saturday.

Mrs. Dale Lee visited her brother Vint Lee's in Neillsville on Saturday.

Mrs. P.J. Kemmeter is on a millinery buying trip at Chicago and Milwaukee since Tuesday.

Mrs. Joe Gressler and Mrs. Paul Hempe went home to Milwaukee last week Thursday.

Mrs. E.A. Beeckler and daughter Bessie spent Tuesday with the Clark Waterman family at Chili.

Miss Minnie Williams of Grand Rapids is visiting at W.F. Dahlke's since Monday.

Miss Renatta Witte returned to Wausau and her studies at the Business College there on Monday.

Miss Pearl Beeckler left for Crandon and her school teaching duties there on Saturday.

Miss Bessie Beeckler leaves for Oconto Falls, where she is supervisor of the grades, today.

Harvey Rhines is on a two week visit at Sheboygan, Plymouth and other state points since Saturday.

Miss Florence Davis went to Madison to take up her studies at the business college there on Saturday.

Mrs. Byrl Winn will entertain the Circle next Wednesday.

Miss Esther True of Hatfield is spending the week here at E.A. Beeckler's and attending the County Fair.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hatch enjoyed a visit from relatives in Detroit Lakes, Minn., who left on the home trip late last week.

Miss Amelia Krause joined friends at Neillsville Saturday evening and made an over Sunday visit at Camp Douglas.

Miss Segrid Barber of Appleton arrived her Saturday and resumed teaching in the Roder District on Monday.

Will Jacobi of Co. A. 3rd Wis. Came up from Camp Douglas Saturday on a couple days furlough and visit to home folk.

J.L. Keller of Lynn took the train here Tuesday for Minneapolis and St. Paul on a week's buyring and visiting trip.

Mrs. Gus Hagen and children Irene, Ernest and Vernon are visiting Neillsville relatives and seeing the fair since Tuesday.

Miss Maude Alger of Oshkosh, the supervising teacher for this section of Clark County, is here since Tuesday on official business in the nearby districts.

45 of Co. A. of the 3rd Wis. Boys came up from Camp Douglas Wednesday to attend the County Fair and visit home folk.

Miss Hildegard Prange accompanied her uncle Arthur Schonboon home to Sheboygan on Wednesday and expects to spend the winter among relatives there.

The Misses Nellie and Hattie Reimer and Nellie Betz, all of Beloit, are visiting Aug. Reimer and family since last Friday.

John Jaborek of route 4 is getting along very nicely since his return home from the Marshfield Hospital a week ago Sunday.

Mrs. Warren McClaflin and baby Retta Belle came home from Humbird accompanied by Willie Sloan, a nephew of Mrs. McClaflin's, who will visit her for the balance of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. Jake Schuler and son Mark were over from Marshfield and spent two weeks with A.B. Schuler and family, after which A.B. took them home by auto last Sunday.

Mrs. Frank Furgeson and baby Loren Russell of Cottonwood, S.D., are visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Furgeson on route 4 since last Tuesday.

Mrs. Walter Sternitzky and children went home to Janesville Wednesday, accompanied by Miss Anna Sternitzky, who will spend some time there.

Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Viergutz and baby Walter of Rochester, Minn., who were here on a visit, returned to their late home in Rochester last Friday, only to pack up and get ready to move here on their own farm, an 80-acre tract 9 miles this side of Marshfield, which Reinhold bought last week.

H.E. Williams of Fond du Lac came Monday and spent a couple days here, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Soles, then continued on to Camp Douglas.

Miss Esther Welsh is wrestling with her first school teaching since Monday, when she began teaching in District No. 3, town of Sherman. That Esther will make a success, is a foregone conclusion with all who know her.

Dr. O.E. Negard of Merrillan and Miss Dorothea Pierce of Madison, autoing from Grand Rapids to Merrillan last Saturday, called on friends here.

Mrs. Aug. Schmoll and daughter Norma arrived here from their ten day visit at Milwaukee and other state points, Tuesday morning. They visited our old neighbors, the Morris' at Nashotah, one day last week and found them all well and happy in their new home there.

Mrs. Ernest Dixon and son Donald went to Neillsville Saturday and made an over Sunday visit among relatives and friends. Judge and Mrs. O.W. Schoengarth, with Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Devos autoing over and bring them home Sunday night.

Mrs. T.C. Baland and daughter Lucille of Spooner spent last week here with the H.B. Holmes family.

Mrs. Sam Bolton came from Humbird Monday on a visit to relatives in the Frank Lavey family.

Miss Gertrude Kimball of Marshfield spent Sunday here with the W.S. Davis family.

Miss Ruth Huntzicker, one of our new teachers, came down from Greenwood on Saturday.

Mrs. Ole Johnson of Eau Claire is visiting her sister Mrs. Wm. Schlinsog since Saturday.

Mrs. J. Reiff and baby Gerhardt returned home from a week's visit at Wausau, Saturday.

The Misses Lulu Downer and Florence Converse spent Tuesday evening with friends at Neillsville.

Gerhard Hasz returned to Milwaukee and his studies at Concordia College on Tuesday.

The E.R. Wonser and F.J. Baer families, and Miss Myrtle Knorr were Owen and Loyal visitors on Sunday.

Paul Garbush is a victim of appendicitis and a patient in the Eau Claire hospital since last week Thursday.

Frank Lavey sold Mart Lastofka two hogs Monday and received in payment $164.36.

Miss Edna Schultz, after a several weeks visit with Miss Violet Hollenbach, went home to Milwaukee last week.

Mrs. Pete Gilson and daughter Elsie of Ontonagon, Mich., are here since Monday, guests in the D.S. Rausch home.

Mrs. Bierhaer and her five small children left their farm home on R. 3 and moved back to Johnston, Ill. last Saturday

Mrs. Just of Neillsville came Saturday and made an over Sunday visit at her brother Fernando Johnson's in the town of York.

Mrs. Lee Webster of Ashland came Saturday evening and joined her daughter Ruth in her visit at the Geo. Wilson home.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomson, their two children and Harold Lavey autoed to Humbird Sunday with Walter Krause and with visiting friends and attending camp meeting, has a most pleasurable trip.

Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Amidon and daughter Lola and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Neinas autoed to Humbird and spent Sunday with Geo. Hart and family.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Dufrane and baby Alice of Route 4 returned from a several days visit at Neillsville, Monday.

Dr. P.M. Ross shipped his household goods to Milwaukee by freight last week, and with his family left for that city by auto last Friday.

Harry Cole and Wm. Schmitz, member of Co. A. of 3rd Wis. Came up from Camp Douglas Monday on a 48 hour furlough.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grassman and baby Evelyn of Auburndale were over Sunday guests of the H.T. Lawson family.

Mrs. Theo Kissling and daughter Mollie spent Monday at Marshfield where, at the hospital that day, underwent a surgical operation and had her tonsils removed.

Miss Ruby Winn of Milwaukee is here on a week's visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Webb Winn.

Miss Ora Davis went to Merrillan Saturday with her sister Miss Florence, who was leaving for Madison.

Dan Rausch and Ernest Dixon went to La Crosse Saturday a dn drove home with a Ford truck the next day.

Margaret Krnoch of Route 3 went to Milwaukee Saturday to spend the winter with her grandparents there, and attend school.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eide came over from Chili Saturday and drove new Ford cars home for Fred Selk and Fred Hines.

Mrs. Martha Jordan of Eagle River, after a several weeks visit here with her son Loyal and family, departed on the home trip accompanied by her son Loyal on Saturday.

Miss Alva Thayer left for La Crosse and her studies at the Business College there, Monday. Her father accompanied her as far as Merrillan, that morning.

Mrs. L. Zimmer of Eau Claire and Anita Hollenbach came up from Almond Saturday and after an over Sunday visit at the Geo. Hollenbach house, Mrs. Zimmer continued on to Eau Claire accompanied by her niece Miss Agnes Hollenbach, who is spending the week there.

Mrs. Gleason of Stevens Point accompanied her daughter Miss Nellie here Saturday a nd made an over Sunday stay at the H. Schoengarth home.

O.J. Dufrane of Chicago, after a ten day visit with his parents and other rleatives on Rout 4, left on the return trip to the windy city on Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Norris and son Norman of Stevens Point, after a week's visit between George Mortimer's in the town of York and rleatives in Greenwood, went home on Saturday.

Miss Leora Moore, after a ten day visit with Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cole, went home to Ogdensburg last Saturday, accompanied by her sister Mrs. Cole.

Wm. Holway of Madison and Miss Ethel Stockwell of Neillsville, enroute to Neillsville by auto from Grand Rapids, stopped here and dined with the Baers, Saturday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Kidd and baby Wilbur of Madison came Saturday for a visit at John Patno's and Norman Rowe's. Mr. Kidd returned to the city alone the first of the week, leaving his family for a more extended visit here.

 

 


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