Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-27
PERSONAL MENTION.

Ex-Governor Dewey was in the city
Monday.
Miss Cora Streeter took trip to
Dodgeville last Friday.
Mr.. Dwight S. York. of Hazel Green,
was in the city last week
E. j. Benedict is in Chicago, purchas-
ing new stock of goods.
Win Orion and wife of Livingston
paid Lancaster n visit, last Friday.
Mrs. Jennie Edwards and son spent
Sunday in Livingston with Mr. and Mrs.
Will Orton.
Mr.. X. w. Bunts, of Mt. Hope, was
in the city Monday, and made pleasant
call at this Office.
Mr.. John Cohen, and his son Will j.
Cohen, of Fennimore, were callers at
our office last week.
Mrs George X. Laughton, of Platte
vile, visited Lancaster last week. the
guest of Mrs. G. d. Streeter.
Capt. George B. Carter, of Madison,
was visiting relatives and shaking hands
with friends in this city last week.
We had a pleasant call Monday from
Geo. Munns. Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors, of the town of Marion.
DIR. T. +. Strong was last week called
to Milwaukee to attend patient, and
is still in attendance at his bedside.
Mrs. Edwin Children of East Dubuque,
who has been visiting her mother, Mrs.
VIM. Carter, in this city, returned home
Tuesday.
Mrs. elise, of Denver, Col, wife of
Mr.. W. II. elise, formerly Sheriff of this
county, is visiting relatives and friends
in this city.
Brooker Bros. have bnilt two build
ings in addition to their planning mill
They intend to use one for storage of
lumber and the other for grain and
ground feed.
Judge Clemenson and reporter Orion
returned from Praire Du Chen. week
ago Saturday, doing up the court calen-
der in four days. The Judge goes to
Lafayette county next week and finishes
up this term.
Prof John III, Reed left on the MORN
ing train today "wednesday for the
East, where he will travel for some
months in the interest of his patent
school writing charts.
Mrs. DIR. McDermott, formerly Miss
Veletta Miller, who has been visiting at
Mrs. j. L. Mills's. returned to her home
last Tuesday moning. Mrs. McDermott
has been living in Chicago, but will make
her residence in future in Kansas City,
Mo-, where her husband is practicing
medicine
Maj. ID. Gray Purman, formerly of this
city, and now of Washington, d. c., has
been visiting friends in Platteville, and
departed for home last week He now
holds the position of Second Examiner
in the Patent Office in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Carter and child
rem, of Kansas, arrived here on a visit
to relatives, last week The former
after brief visit, started on journey
to England to visit his father, and dur
ing his absence Mrs. c. and children
will remain with her mother, in this city.
Mr.. T, j. Brooks, Atty. at Law. of
Boscobel was in in the city to-day, and
called at the HERALD office, to pay some
cigars, which he was so unfortunate as
to loose on the election-in Maine. Be-
ing a Democrat, of course he is all
swelled up with pride. since he heard
that Cleveland is elected.
Our old friend, Jacob Fawcett, Esq,
s prominent Attorney of Galena, was in
the city Friday on business, and found
time to make friendly call at this Office
Mr.. Fawcett is an old Grant County
boy, and enlisted in 1861, when he was
only fourteen years old, from this county
His career in Galena has been an emil
nently successful one; and when it comes
10 DaviesS County's turn to furnish
Member of Congress for the Sixth Dis
trict, we predict that the first two letters
of his name will be Jacob Fawcett.
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