Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-03
Persons and Particulars.


d. +. Brown was over from Bloom
ington, Tuesday.
Robert Woodward, of Livington, was
in the city Tuesday.
James Ballantine was over from
Bloomington Tuesday.
Hon. H. d. York. of Hazel Green, was
in the city Wednesday.
Fred Baxter has gone to Madison to
take position on the c. & N. w.
MIR. 0. j. Arnold and Mr.. Graham, of
Mt. Ida, were city visitors Tuesday.
Hon. j. w. Seaton. of Potosi, gave
the HERALD friendly call Tuesday.
Lancaster will probably celebrate on
a grand scale. Particulars in our next
issue.
Last evening Ed. Hyde returned
from Milwaukee, where he has been for
two months.
Rev. S. ID. Pulford will deliver the
Baccalaureate sermon next Sunday in
the Congregational church.
Mr.. John Clark is building new
house for John Hollenberger, about
three miles west of the city.
| Miss Abbie Phelps, of Lancaster, was
the guest of Mrs. j. P. Walker yester-
day, says the Boscobel Dial.
Miss Ellie Demarest, daughter of
Rev. DIR. Demarest, of Fort Plains, N.
T., is visiting at Rev. DIR. Laton's.
| Mr.. George Bartlett and his wife, of
Dubuque, are visiting at the home of his
father, Mr.. j. o. Bartlett, in this city.
Henry Pitts is receiving congratula-
tons to-day on account of a little SON
who appeared at his home this morning.
Mr.. Fred Durand, who is in the drug
business with Marsh Barber, at Crook
ston, Mimi, is visiting at Mr.. Jay Bar
| ber's.
Judge Carter has had printed list of
supplementary rules of practice num-
bering thirteen, which went into effect
June /.
Rev. j. A. Ringold returned last week
from Pulaski, where he was in attend.
ance upon the session Of the Presby-
terrain synod.
X. 5. Morse, of Beetown, was caller
at the HERALD office, Wednesday. He
says there is nothing Deakly about our
semi-weekly edition.
A large and beautiful bouquet of pam
sizes adorns our editorial desk. We de-
sire to express our thanks to the young
lady who so kindly remembered us.
E. B. Smith, the c., M. & ST. p. sta
ton agent, and A. r. Mills, the lumber
man of Platteville, were in the city
Wednesday and gave the HERALD
pleasant call.
A very pleasant note received from
Samuel Long, now OF Hastings, Ne
braska. states that he is pleasantly To-
Gated there. He is proprietor of the
Union House.
1t makes our ''model" feel unwell to
have the HERALD ''follow after other
gods" instead of being scared by what it
compares to 1.-THE voice of the Lord
walking in the garden
The spring of 1876 was much like the
present season, and it was the third of
June of that year when cold wave
with frost made sad havoc with crops
in many portions of the state.
Rev. Mr.. Grassie, of Milwaukee, Sec
rotary of Wisconsin Home Missionary
Society, will occupy DR.. Eaton's pulpit
in the Congregational church Sunday,
June ID, morning and evening.
Miss Carrie Harper, who has taught
the Grammar Department of the Hazel
Green school for the last year, is Wis
iting at the home of her brother, the
County Superintendent, in this city.
Rev. R. Pengilly, Mrs. w. Barlow,
and Miss Clara Rhodes, went to Dodge
vile Tuesday morning. to attend the
Sunday School Convention in session
there, Tuesday and Wednesday OF this
week.
Bishop Welles arrived in the city by
train Monday evening and administered
the rite of confirmation in Emanuel's
Episcopal Church to five candidates.
He left Tuesday morning for Mineral
Point.
The Boscobel Dial says: The HERALD
office now issues semi-weekly, the first
that has been issued in the county. 1t
came to our table, bright, newsy, full of
good will and charity to all men, an ever
welcome visitor.
+. Kuhn, a former resident of Hurri-
cane, now living near Iona, Iowa, called
on Wednesday at the office of the HER
AID, through which he has kept up his
acquaintance with Grant County since
ne moved away.
Miss Lydia Harrison, who has had
charge of the Primary Department of
the Hazel Green schools for the last
year, is visiting her sister, Miss E. Har-
rison, who occupies similar positio
| in the Lancaster schools.
j. Hough has obtained position as
| travelling salesman for the Brewster
Carriage Company, Milwaukee, and is
now travelling in this state. Mr.. Hough
has an experience Of twenty years in
the buggy business and is the right man
in the right place.
Florence Street, the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs j. A. Street, was attacked
by a neighbours pet coon one day last
week, while walking along the street
near their home in Chicago. The animal
bit and scratched the child quite serious
ly, besides giving her terrible fright
Mr.. E. A. Morse, son of r. S. Morse,
of Beetown, arrived in the city Saturday
evening, for a visit with friends. He
has just finished his term of school at
New Diggings, Lafayette County. On