Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-12-24
Personal MENTION.

Miss Ada Leyan, Of Dubuque, is
visiting Miss Carrie Nathan.
George Howe and Walter w. Pol
lock left Tuesday morning for Chicago.
Editor Stephen Taylor, OF the Mont
fort Monitor. was in me city last week
Geo. H. Baxter is home from Beloit
and Fred Meyer and Ed Schreiner from
Madison.
DR.. / Z. Crane has painted and put
the finishing touches on his already
attractive office.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Birch of Bee
town. were in town last Friday pre-
pairing for Christmas.
G. r. Sandlebach, one of the SUBJ
stantial citizens of Mt Ida, was in the
city on business last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs K. Meyer, Jr., have
gone TO Rhinelander to spend the holi-
days with Mr.. and Mrs. Webb Brown.
Mr.. Thomas Pendleton, connected with
the Bloomington mutual insurance
company, was in the city on Moniay.
Miss Emma Schreiner, who has been
studying the kindergarten system of
teaching in Milwaukee. is at home for
the holidays.
Philip Allen, Jr., postmaster at Min.
eral Point, has resigned his commission
and will soon leave for Kansas City,
Mo-, where he goes into business.
w. M. Rothschild started last Thurs
day morning for st. Paul, where he will
make two months visit with his son,
Henry, who is in the banking business
there.
Miss Abbie and Hattie White came
home from Milwaukee where they are
engaged in teaching in the public
schools. to spend a two weeks vacation
with their parents.
The irrepressible. interchangeable and
never-to be beaten Cap. Ferg was in the
city day or so last week. on his way
from Dubuque to Boscobel. The rail-
road company has not yet settled with
him for German Boy.
Mr. John II. Reed is home from the
Chicago Dental College for the holt
days. He has learned to pull tooth
with all the fonrishes, and to put in
filings with all the delicate standings
learned from Reeds charts.
Mr. Geo. T. Walker. formerly of this
place, and well-known in connection
with the Lancaster wooden mills. has
been making an extended tour in the
East. He stopped here one night last
week on his way to bis home near Oak
land, Cal
Mr. j. easier one of Grant county's
oldest settler, who left about year ago
and settled at Lerton. Nebraska.
is this week paying return visit. He
expresses his satisfaction with his new
location, aud speaks highly of it as
farming country.
Mr.. Will Orion, who has been engaged
in merchantile business at Livingston,
has accepted position with G. II.
Baxter & Co. and has moved back to
Lancaster with his family. They will
for the present board with his father
in law. Mir A. Michaelis.
II l. Dousmau, of Prairie du Chen,
has sold his famous Artesian farm near
Waukesha to Frank S. Waters, of
Chicago, together with all his highly
bred trotting stock 1t is the largest
single transfer of stock ever made from
one farm in the northwest.
Saturday. Dec. 18th. was the birth
day of Messrs Murphey. Ryland. j.
Hnugh, John S. Wright, Glider aud
Chesooro. We will not give their ages
away. but the first named is double the
age of the fourth, and the second three
years younger and seven years older
than the third.
John +. Lewis, secretary of the Grant
County Agricultural society has received
a limited number of the transactions
of the State Agricultural, Horticultural,
DairYmen's association and depart
ments of agricultural of the University
of Wisconsin" which will be distributed
among farmers who are interested in
these subjects.
G. Lamson. formerly of this county,
has moved from Rocks Center, Kas.,
where he first located, to Solomon City,
in the same state; but says he intends
remaining there only about three
months when he will move west. He
says they had snow there last week,
and the great need of that county is
wood 1--WE use coal for hre, !" he says,
"and some use coal oil and whisky to
kindle."
Miss Sadie Burr, who at one time
kept the accounts, and the secrets. of
the HERALD office, is spending the
holidays at home. Her position at the
state Normal school at River Falls is
in some respects more desirable than
that OF cashier and proof reader on
the HERALD. If we had as much
money as the state of Wisconsin we
could afford to offer large salaries for
first class talent.
Glen Haven.
On Wednesday Mr.. Mangan, the con
tractor. started down the river on the