Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-22


in Lancaster last week. visiting Mr..
Bushnell, Mrs. Rewey's brother.
Rev. ID. c. Talbot, of Elroy, will speak
at Mt. Hope on Tuesday evening, July
p, on the subject of Prohibition.
Messrs. Aldro jenkins and S. w.
Reese, two of the legal lights of Dodge
vile, were in this city Mondry.
David Schreiner started this morning
for San Francisco, to attend the Ma
tional Encampment of tie G. A. X.
Miss Nell Brown, of Bloomington,
passed through Lancaster Tuesday on
her way home from visit to Fenni-
more.
Geo. w. Dyer has succeeded A. j.
Farnham & Co. in business in Fenni-
more. Look out for bis advertisement
next week.
Mr.. Alex. Ivey left for Chicago yes
terday morning. From Chicago he will
go to San Francisco to attend the G. A.
K. reunion.
The ladies of the Episcopal Church
are preparing for Kate Greenaway
entertainment. The particulars will be
given next week.
This forenoon Frank Hooks. of the
town of Lima, was brought before
Judge Baldwin on charge of forcible
entry and detain'er.
Will elise, of Denver, Colo, will be
married in August to Miss Annie Herr.
of that city. They will visit Lancaster
on their wedding trip.
Miss Josephine Petty, of the town of
Cassville, will start this week for Par
ker, Dakota, where she will make few
weeks visit with relatives.
Mrs. Doane and Ter daughter, who
have been visiting relatives in Lancas-
ter this summer, st arted for their home
in San Francisco this morning
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Woodruff, Mr..
Ezra Abraham and Mr.. and Mrs. Lin
coin Abraham, of Bloomington, visited
the county capital yesterday.
Miss Dollie Starr and Mr.. Clarke
Chew. of Chicago, arrived in Lancaster
last evening for visit of a few days
with their aunt, Mrs. F. T. Whitcomb.
George Muesse, John Wenzel, Aug.
Michaelis, Harry Barnett and John
Jeide and his wife took the train yester-
day to attend the Singers Feast at
Milwaukee
The Faithful Workers Society, of the
NJ. E. church, will give an ice cream
festival in the court house park Friday
evening, July %. Everybody is invited
to attend, ...-s.,..s..
r. Mr.. D. F. Brown, of Bloomington,
was in town Tuesday as the represeu-
tatiye of the Bloomington school dis
trict in Miss Bartley's suit, which has
been postponed.
Mr.. VIM. Frawley and his three boys
have taken advantage of the present re-
duced rates to Milwaukee and started
yesterday for short visit with friends
at the metropolis.
Yesterday morning Judge Mills and
John Oswald were added to the throng
of pilgrims to the Milwaukee Saenger-
fest. The Judge will visit his daughter
at Manitowoc before his return.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Bantill arrived
in Potosi last Saturday night from De
Funiak, Florida. They came by way
of New Orleans and the river. They
will spend a few weeks in the North.
Mr.. James Woodhouse visited his sick
brother, Sine, in Bloomington yester-
day. We regret to chronicle the fact
that Mr.. Sine Woodhouse has gradu-
ally grown worse since his return from
California.
On Tuesday there were decided signs
of shower, but none came to super
sede the Lancaster street sprinkler
We hear there was heavy shower
around Mt. Hope and in the vicinity of
Glen Haven that day.
Tuesday morning Mrs. Robert Snow
den started for Saltwater, Mimi, where
her husband is employed. Her mother,
Mrs. John Wright, and her sisters, Mrs.
/ Chas. Orion and Mrs. James Wenzel,
accompanied her rs far rs Fennimore.
I The horsemen of Lancaster are ar
ranging for a two days of racing. to
come off the last week in August.
There will probably be live or six races,
including a free-for-all race, a three
minute race. green race, q stallion
race and running race. A general
good time may be expected.
4 Mr. and Mrs. George Nash, of Glen
Haven, and Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilson,
of Little Grant, were callers at the HER
AID office Monday afternoon. Mr.. Nash
says he subscribed for the HERALD on
the day when he declared his inten-
tons to become n citizen of the United
States, twenty years ago, and has been q
subscriber ever since. He says that the
paper is better to-day than ever before.
MIR. b. Haentzschel, the superinten-
dent OF the workmen on the Catholic
church in this city, says that the state
ment in local contemporary that y
workman dropped q mallet on Will
Alcorn's head is false. Alcern. while
climbing up the steeple. came in con-
tact with the mallet in the workman's
hand.