Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-08
Personal MENTION.


city Monday.
District Attorney r. c. Orr is in Bos-
csbel to-day.
County Treasurer Mcmahon attended
the Galena fair.
Fred. W. Bryan made flying trip to
Chicago on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Basferd, of
Glen Haven, are in the city.
II. j. Lord, of Bloomington, was a
guest at the Grand on Monday.
Miss Saloma S. Watts paid hasty
business visit to Bloomington. Tuesday.
Joseph Schwerdt, of jamestown, was
caller at The HERALD office on Mon
day.
w. G. Beers, of Fennimore, has been
engaged as travelling agent for THE
HERALD.
VIII Draper, of Milwaukee, is home
on two weeks visit to his parents in
this city.
Mrs. Jane Sheffield, of jamestown,
is making visit to her daughter, Mrs.
John Lane.
Mrs. "Sut" Flagg and child, of Edg-
erton, Wis, are visiting her husbands
parents in Lancaster.
Henry Horstman, proprietor of the
Grand, has been absent the past week
IN Chicago. He returns tomorrow.
John p Stelpflug. John j. Stelpfug,
Anton Stelpflug and Herman Beckman,
of Potosi, were guests at the Grand,
Tuesday.
Mr.. Walter Orion has accepted po-
sition in the warehouse at Rewey, and
left this city for that place the latter
part of last week
Walter Lewis. for sometime account
ant in THE HERALD office, left on Mon
day morning last to take course in
short hand at Minneapolis.
L. a. Jackson and James Kilbourn
are expected home to-day from their
recent trip to Parker, Oak, where they
went to locate homestead
Miss Mollie Reynolds, of the firm of
Reynolds & Goble, returned this week
from her trip to Chicago, bringing
"lots" of new things in millinery.
DR.. w. f. Hicks, the well known
veterinary surgeon, will deliver free
lectures throughout the county during
the coming winter on the diseases of
stock and their cure.
Hon. j. w. Seaton, of Potosi, was ia
town Tuesday, and reports his city as
being in fiourishing condition and
fully up to the important position of
chief city Tin Grant county, on the new
East Shore road.
Jasper Shipton, of the Platteville
stage line, has our thanks for fine
bunch of celery. Jap keeps the mar
ket of w. L. MeCord supplied with this
excellent esculent, which is of as fine
quality as ever grew.
County Superintendent of Schools
Harper, who has been absent from the
city much of the time for the
past month or more, attending the fall
examinations of teachers, has finished
his work and is at home again.
Mr.. John Ryland, of Pittsburg, Pa,
brother of Hon. Geo. w. Ryland, is still
in this city. An amusing scene occurred
at the meeting of the brothers, when
John presented himself at the home of
George W., one evening last week.
They had not met for thirty years, and
after the visitor had invited the closest
scrutiny his brother failed to recognize
him. Such are the drifting currents of
life.
Rev R. Pengilly, the newly appointed
pastor of the M. +. church, will preach
his salutatory sermon on Sunday next.
For the pastt weeks the Episcopalian
church has been the only English Pro-
testant society holding service, and the
resumption of services by the Metho-
dists will be very gratifying to the large
number of church going people in Ian
caster. Mr.. Pengilly comes here from
Lodi, where he has been for the past
three years, the limit of time allowed
by his denomination.