Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-05
persons and particulars.

d. t. Parker, of Fennimore, was in
town Tuesday.
Mr.. Geo. Cox returned to Richland
Center this morning.
Mrs. Geo Carter and her daughter,
Lollie, are visiting in Madison.
Mrs Ed. Streeter returned to her
home in Madison this morning.
Mrs. j. Allen Barber and her children
returned to Chicago this morning.
Miss Flo. Hill entertained a large
party of friends Tuesday evening
Hon. John Carthew, of Rockville, was
caller at the HERALD office Tuesday.
Mrs. S. S. Huntley. of Helena, Mon
tana, is visiting Mrs. w. G. Chandler.
Chas. Bennett says he threshed 706
bushels of oats from ten acres on Oscar
Bidwell's farm.
Mrs. w. B. Van de Wall and her lit
tie son left Tuesday for a visit with
friends in Dubuque.
Mrs. Leroy Kilbourne started Wednes-
day morning for her home in Nebraska,
after visit with friends here.
Miss Mamie Campbell, of Platteville,
and Miss May Strong, of Livingston,
are visiting friends in this city.
Capt A. r. Bushnell went to Milwau-
kee Tuesday morning to attend meet
ing of the Democratic State Committee.
Mrs. DR.. Eaton went to Madison
Wednesday to spend few days in at
tendance upon the Lake Monona AS
sembly
Miss Flo. Hill went to Milwaukee
yesterday to take the examination for
certificate to teach in the city schools
there.
Mr.. Chas. Watson, of Livingston,
was at the county seat last Monday to
probate the will of the late Hugh Liv-
ingston.
Tuesday morning Charles Ostiff, Ed.
Bennett, viii Garner and Philip Ben
nett left for Iowa. where they will work
on railroad.
Miss Nettie Woolstenholme and Ida
Buchner are attending the teachers in
stituse at Potosi. Both of them are in
tending to teach this fall.
Mrs. Hewitt Fisher, who in former
years as Miss Ray, used to help ''set
up" the HERALD, paid the Office a
pleasant call last Tuesday.
Conrad Messmer, alias Weisman, who
was confined in the Galena Jail fol-
whipping his son to death July "a, died
in his cell Saturday morning, July 81.
Mr.. Charles Cox, of the firm of Boyn.
ton & Cox, liverymen at Platteville,
was in this city Tuesday morning.
Charley left in the afternoon for Fenni.
more, on important business.
There was another shower in Platte.
vile last night. This is more than hel
share. The central part of the county
will have to call an extra session of the
county board and demand an equal dis
tribution.
Mrs. Durand, accompanied by hel
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Jay j
Barber, went to Usage, Ia, last Tues
day. They will visit Mrs. Tomlinsor
for week Mrs. Durand will then re.
turn to her home in Crookston, MINI
Prof. Z. M. Wood has accepted the
chair of Mathematics in the State
Normal School at California, Pa. He
was offered the principalship of the
Wasau, Wis. schools, at a salary Of
81 200, but he declined it.
Much to the disappointment of q
large number who were anxious to join
the sketching class of Mrs. Spaulding,
that lady was obliged to give up hei
plan of forming class, and this morn.
ing took the train for Appleton. After
short visit with friends there she will
return to her home in San Francisco
The Milwaukee Sunday TelegropI
very justly says, 1.-The Record, of Bloom
ington, this state, has entered upon it,
seventh year Bloomington is hand
some little village surrounded by as rict
a farming country as can be found il
the West. The Record is edited anC
published by L. G. Mckinney. an indus
trious, palnstaking newspaper man, anC
he won success where many another
would have failedn
At Baraboo, last Tuesday, Mr.. Byron
| Beach Carter, son of Hon. VIM. E
Carter, of Platteville, and Miss Cor;
Belle Walbridge, the only living chile
of Mr.. E. Walbridge, an honored ano
prosperous resident of Baraboo, wer,
quietly married. Mr.. Carter graduated
from the mechanical engineering COURSE
of the State University in 1888, and il
now located in business in Chicago
Miss Walbridge was a student in tn,
University for two years at the SANE
time with her husband, but did no
complete her course.
PREACHING.-Rey G. w. Nelson, o
Beloit, will preach in the Potosi Con
! rreontinnal church next Sunday morn