Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-11-25

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elevator.
Mrs. Crane and Miss Lucy Burrill, OF
Dodgeville, are visiting the family OF
r. Meyer.
Chas. Harper and r. A. Watkins are
terrifying against wintry storms by
building woodsheds.
Miss Matte jackson and Henry
Coons, Jr.. of Potosi, were up to our
Thanksgiving ball.
Miss Kate Morse is visiting the family
of her uncle, S. w. Rogers. at the Fen
nimore House this week.
Misses Mertie Pepper and Nettie
Clark were down from Boscobel and
attended the ball last night.
David Wilson, of Sioux Falls, Dakato,
who has been visiting his former home
in Platteyille, returned last Tuesday.
Amos Morse, son of E. S. Morse, of
North Lancaster, started Monday morn
ing for Eau Claire, to work in the
pineries this winter.
At the elegant Thanksgiving dinner
given at the Hubbard House to-day
many invited guests were present be-
sides regular boarders and transient
customers.
The large number of orders for but
ter tubs at BROKER Bros. shops is un-
usual for this season of the year, and
indicate that considerable butter is be-
ing made.
j. F. Burgess, formerly well known
teacher in this county, who has for
some years been principal of the school
at Wauzeka, was elected county super
intendent of schools for Crawford
County at the last election.
The Wright House mahogany was
Respondent with good things to-day,
and the appreciative company that
gathered about it returned thanks that
an all-wise providence had cast their
lines in such pleasant places.
Mr.. Joseph Horsfall, of Millville,
took the train at Woodman last Tues
day morning for visit to Chicago.
Mr.. Horsfall, by the way, is one of the
HERALD's oldest friends, having paid
his thirty-seventh annual subscription
last week.
Mr.. James Beadle, of St. Thomas,
Upper Canada, arrived last evening for
q visit to his cousins George and VIM.
Boyes, of this city, and his nncle Thos.
Boyes, of Mt Ida. Mrs. Robt. Carr,
of Avoca. Iowa, Is visiting her brothers,
Messrs. Boyes.
Mrs. A. E. Chandler, who has been
occupying Mrs. Dillon's house, will
start Friday morning for the Kenosha
Water Cure, where she will spend the
winter. The institution is hygienic
and homeopathic. Mrs. Chandler is to
be treated for rheumatism.
The Lancaster hotels are good place
to stop at on Thanksgiving day. De-
lightful dinners were spread at the
Wagner, Lancaster and Mansion
Houses. Verify, to look upon their
tables caused the eye to brighten and
the stomach to laugh.
Mrs. James A. Ferris has returned
from Dakota and taken possession of
the American House at Woodman,
which he has rented while he has been
attending to his farming interests in the
Northwest He will run the hotel for
the present, but will probably sell or
rent before spring.
Win Reiner, the gentlemanly and eff
ficient telegraph operator at the depot,
left Tuesday for visit to his home in
Madison, he having been granted leave
of absence for four weeks. viii has
worked steadily at his desk for two
years and stood much in need of recrea-
ton. He will visit Baraboo and other
points of interest in the state before his
return. His place is filled by A. l..
Crump, young gentleman from Lake
Mills, Wisconsin.
The Reuben Kinney, whom the HER
AID spoke of last Monday as visiting
Mr. George Kinney, of Potosi, is his
nephew, not his brother. His sister,
Mrs. j. NJ Corliss, of Fergus Falls,
Mimi, is with him. They also visited
their cousin, Mrs. Herman Buchner, of
this city. While here Mr.. Kinney paid
us pleasant call He is extensively
engaged in farming near Pendleton,
Umatilla County, Oregon.
The HERALD ''local' evidently mis-
took Mr.. Eugene Lewis for his brother
I. G. in referring to him in our last
issue as law student Mr. Eugene
Lewis has for several years enjoyed q
very extensive and lucrative law prac-
tice in New York City His duties in
connection with suits against the Amer
lean Opera Company have recently
taken him a good deal away from
home, and travel and over-work brought
on severe illness from which he is
happily recovering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Borah, of Mt.
Ida. with their two sons, started last
Monday for Bowling Green, Ky, for a
visit of two or three months. Kentucky
is Mr. Borah's native state, whence he
came to Grant County early in the for
ties. He is the oldest settler of Mt. Ida.
They are accompanied as far rs Camp
bellville by MIR. and Mrs. Charles Tandy
and their children. Mr.. Tandy has
closed his blacksmith shop and will
make a two months visit at his parents
in Taylor County, Ky.