Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-13

Miss Jennie Edge and Mrs. Martha
Billings left the city this week for
Storm Lake, Iowa, where they have
secured positions.
Mr.. A. S. Russell, of Ellenville, N. Y,
visited friends in Lancaster last week.
He left for Dubuque, Ia, Monday morn
ing, via Specht's Ferry.
Mr.. Joe Nathan boarded the train
Monday for weeks trip to Chicago
to look after the sale of lot of live
stock shipped this week.
Miss Laura Woodhouse has accepted
the position as principal of the Liberty
public school, and left last Monday
morning to enter upon her duties there.
Fred Fisher son of James Fisher, a
bright lad about ten years of age, acct
dentally cut his foot with an axe very
severely on Friday last while driving a
stake.
Mrs. Lille Woodward left the city
Tuesday for short vacation which she
will spend with friends at Livingston.
She was accompanied by Miss Allie
Wright.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Quintard, and
Miss Hattie Quintard left Monday
morning by rail for pleasure trip to
st. Paul. Mimi. expecting to be absent
about ten days.
Mr.. VIM. Powers, of Denver, Col,
arrived in the city Tuesday evening.
He came to accompany his wife home,
who has been spending the summer
with Mrs. DIR. Hyde.
Mr.. Ellsworth Mckinney, and his
sister Miss Nellie Mckinney departed
Monday morning for Appleton to enter
Lawrence University. the fall term OF
which commences this week.
Miss Meta Rowden, Register Bough-
toms efficient assistant, left the city
Friday afternoon by rail, to spend her
vacation of week or more with rela-
tives and friends in Platteville.
Mr.. Henry Utt, lawyer of Dubuque,
Iowa, graduate of the State Normal
School, and well known in this part OF
the county is visiting friends and re-
latives in this locality this week.
Mrs. Geo. p. Mathes left the city
Wednesday morning for Watertown,
where she will spend few weeks visit
ing relatives and friends, after which
she will join her husband in Milwaukee.
Mr.. Nick Shilling, proprietor of the
Globe Hotel at Mineral Point, Iowa
Co., is the right man in the right place,
and keeps first class hotel. 1t is a
good place to stop when you are in that
city.
Mr.. Jacob Drew left the city Monday
morning for weeks sojourn in La
Cross, Wis, the occasion being a
soldiers reunion held in that city this
week, in which his old regiment will
participate.
Mrs. Charles Shrader, former resi-
dent of Glen Haven, accompanied by
her son and daughter, arrived in this
city Saturday evening, from Nebraska,
and will spend few weeks visiting her
old home and friends in Grant county
Rev. Father Replin, of Milwaukee,
one of the ablest Catholic clergymen in
the state, and who officiates as Chaplain
of the Convent of Notre Dame, was in
the city few days last week, the guest
of Rev. Father Schwaiger.
County Treasurer Mcmahon, board
ed the train Thursday for Mineral
Point, to attend the races under the
auspices Of the Southwestern Wiscon-
sin Industrial Assn. Several other
Lancaster gentlemen were also in at
tendance.
Mrs. Banfield, mother of Mrs. j. Al
len Barber, of Lancaster, Wis, is re-
ported to be very dangerously ill, says
the Galena Gazette. Mrs. Bantield was
very ill two or three weeks ago, but we
learn that she is at present enjoying her
usual health.
Mr.. C. H. Baxter started Monday
morning Tor two weeks trip to Chi
cago and the west, but on receiving a
telegram which was forwarded to him
of the death of his uncle, Mr.. Farms
worth, returned home the same even
ing and temporarily postponed the
trip.
Mr.. c. Shuttleworth, OF Fennimore,
was in the city Friday. He is pushing
things considerably this fall at his store
there and announces that he has "a, 600
worth of goods which he will dispose
of at auction and private sale, COM
mencing Saturday September Is. offer
ing them at discount of ten to twenty
per cent. below cost. MIR. Shuttleworth
is live man and means business, and
his Fennimore bazaar is becoming a
more popular trading place than ever
before. So mote it be.
Mr.. r. E. MURPHEY has rented his
house furnished, to Mr.. James Kill
bourn, of Glen Haven, who at present
is residing with his family at the resi-
dence of his mother-in-law Mrs. Emma
Sprague who will take possession about
October LIST. Mrs. Murphey will leave
in a few weeks for the East where she
expects to spend the winter with rela-
tiyes and friends in New York city and
Hudson, N. Y. Her son Lintner, who
will accompany her, expects to engage
in business in the former city. Mr..
Murphey expects to board with Mr..
Kilbourn during Mrs. Murphey's ABB
sence.
MEssRs Henry Horstman and j. Z.