Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-06-24
THE HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY:
-PIa.leyiIIe Is going % eeIebraLe 49,.

IN price.
Hon A. Il. Bushnell is in Cincinnati
helping the search for Garfell's victim.
Mrs Joel squires, Of Pla.teynle, is visit.
ing at the house Of Hon. J. Allen Barber.
It F. Baldwin went to Milwaukee last
week to attend the Masons' Grand Lodge
The Harmonic band gave It's first open
air concert Of this sea.on in the band stand
last Saturday evening
DIR J. Blown came home yesterday from
the Illinois Eye AMI Ear In6rmary Chicago.
He viii remain in his Office until July 9Th.
Thomas lockwood, prosperous farmer
in North Lancaster, has built him fee resi-
dence. Its architect and builder IS Mr.. Geo.
Benn.
The North Lancaster base ball club last
Saturday played game with picked up
nine in Lancaster, Resalt-44 to II in favor
Of North Lancaster
That handsome fence around the editors
premises is the work Of Geo. Benn. He is
energetic. good workman and docs great
deal Of work for a little pay
Mr.. }, W. Allen, Of HlIsboro this state,
Is here attending to Odd Fellows insurance
business. lie stops at the Horstman House
and Of course will be pleased 70 see all Odd
Fellows
j. Allen Barber, Jr., went to Gaena last
Thursday aud brought back with him Miss
Kitte Felt, who will visit with the family
for time. Miss Sue Eel, arrived also on
Monday
Again the first new potatoes Of the sea,
son were brought US BY Mr. D. Weaver. They
were brought last week, and must have been
large enough for use week or more before
that time.
Mr.. A. a aayes ST., contributes
graphic description OF the old san.e Fe Trail
o-faIi Of romantic adventures, with some
very stnkeg illustrations by Rogers in Har-
per for July
Don't fiji to attend the match game Of
base bali at the Fair grounds next Saturday,
between the North Lancaster Red Stockings
aud the Mound Cities, Of Platteville Ad.
mission, 10 cents.
-Messrs D Needham, H. j. Suite and
Art. sherman returned home fr,m attending
the Valparaiso Normal School last Saturday,
the latter bringing with him his cousin, Fred
Larkin, Of EIgin, Ills.
The meeting Of citizsns of Lancaster to
Il. I,st
celebrate, wasn't meeting at ALL Lancaster
doesn't care to celebrate oftener than once
in two or three years.
j 0. Bartlett keeps the only ice cream
saloon in town. lie keeps on hand tull |
stock Of candies, nuts, tobacco, cigars, and
summer drinks. He is the only dealer in town
WIN keeps Floating Cloud" smoking tobacco I
"A small steamer ewned by thu specht /
boys, with large patty on board made its /
way from spechts Ferry to point one mile
north Of the village Of Burton on Sunday
last--a trip accomplished but once before in
the history Of our county
Farmers are busy at work in their corn. |
Streets ars not crowded with teams and yet |
considerable business is doing. Our narrow
gauge has all it can do Strong & Berger
both he.v and at Monitor; appear to have as
much business as they can wen manage
Lancaster people have been on the ca
pire for Gen. Grant for a week or more. The
Generals visit hero at Hon. J. Allen Bar.
ber's was set for June but has been poets
ponel unit D August. In the mean time he
makes trip to Colorado and the mountains,
Last week On Thursday evening Monday
mornings train from Woolman arrived at
Lancaster, owing to wash outs on the road
It has made regular trips every day since,
but almost to no purpose, for the trains have
not yet resumed running over the Q. N. &
81. Paul road.
The familiar whistle OF the Lancaster |
wooden mill is once again heard four times
a day. The force now at work numbers nine
hands. When the complement is full, there
will be from thirty to thirty five hands at
work Mr., Street says he expects to begin
turning out cloth BY tile first week in July.
Another dentist has an Office in Lqucas
ter. DR., G. Stoddard Smith, as his card in I
this paper states, is established in the room
up stairs next south Of the HER4Lo door I
formerly occupied by Dr. Falley. Dr. Smith |
was dentist in Lancaster fourteen years I
ago. lie Is thorough in his profession has I
The full confidence Of those who know him
well and will have his share cf the public I
patronage.
-R~Psr's Ho9asae for July, apart from
it, splendid pictorial attractions, IS an ex-
cesdiagly popular Number. oao OF its
strongest features is the beginning Of new
serial noyol, by Henry James, Jr., entitled |
"N.shiugton square" THIS story ia entirely
Am-, San; aud, while it has all those char,
ac, .istic charms by witch thi. author has
Won his way to tho popular heart, it shows
sjgas ofgroaser strength than any Of his pre-,
vioa. sovsls
Geo. Gibhs's business block is going right /
up. Ishas 4 gsoi foundation and evidently I
Ike himself ia destined to b one of the
substantial Institutions Of Lancaster. George
has mada himself g,,l example tor other
yolnS men. Five or six years ag,, beginning /
vita rsz,r and casj, h's iadus.rv, p,u,
deuco ava strict Alteration 70 business hive
. made Tor him oa, Of ltua aad quarters. one
Of ths mates. homes ja Lancaster. and
soon d, viii also BE oeasr 4 valuable
bu,iness o ,psa in th, bet4.>s esuter Of the I
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