Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-02-23


A good many are wanting to go to
Platteville, but don't dare to start be-
cause they think the road impossible,
Jap is authority on roads, and he
says it is mighty good all the way,
and advises people to go now if they
want to.
John S, Wright says that Esquire
Baldwin has become so used to saving
$500 and costs, that when bashful
bridegroom enquired what the damage
was? he gruffly told him $500 & costs,
or thirty days. The Squire says that
John is ''another" and that there is
not word of truth in it,
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillips of Rockville
are very i'll. Mr. Phillips with erysipe-
las and Mrs. Phillips with disease of
cancerous nature. These people are
the parents of David Phillips Esq. and
are quite aged, each being 80 years old.
They have been married over 81 years.
DIR. Suttle and wife. of Viroqua, were
in Lancaster on Monday. They came
this way, on their journey home from
Chicago where they had been to at
tend the commencement exercises and
banquet of Hahnnemann Colege-to
visit the DOCTORS parents near Beetown.
Mr.. August Kohlenburg came in to
see US last Friday The seven
teenth day of February is marked
day for him, for just year ago, on that
day he was married, and on that day
he began taking the HERALD. 1t is
singular to note, how important events
sometimes follow one another
Mr.. George Goldsmith will take his
family to Boscobel next Thursday.
Lancaster has been their home for so
many years that they no doubt make
the change with good deal of regret,
and their friends here certainly regret
their departure and wish them pleas
ant life in their new home.
A few years ago eleven to twelve
hundred, was perhaps the average
weight of work horses in this county,
but now it is quite common to see horses
weighing from fourteen to seventeen
hundred pounds. William Walker has
! just sold to Sam Oates mare, weighing
about seventeen hundred pounds, for
$155.
Monday afternoon Mrs. q. d. Street
er, with Nora and Bertha, said the final
goodbye to Lancaster, as a home, and
started for Omaha. If blizzard does
not overtake them on the way they will
I soon reach their destination. and the
reunited family will be settled IN their
new home. We extend to them our
sincere good wishes,
/ Frank Lyster, Esq of jamestown,
the coroner of this county, has been
confined TO his bed for the past two
weeks with inflammation caused by a
surgical operation performed on his left
foot some time ago. At last accounts
he was improving somewhat. The first
cause of his present condition was a
frozen toe-joint.
Rev. Father Cleary, brother of I. l..
Cleary of Plattevile, has resigned his
pastorate at Kenosha, and will devote
himself solely to temperance work in
which he has long been deeply inter-
ested lie is one of the most powerful
as well as pleasing orators that it has
ever been our pleasure to listen to, and
we predict that he will become one of
the most effective temperance workers
in this country.
Mr.. and Mrs Abel Roberts returned
home from Dickson, Tennessee last
week. For some months past Mrs
Roberts has been in Tennessee, trying
toregain her health in warmer climate
Mr.. Roberts went South to bring her
home, and after spending some time
there himself, they returned together
on Thursday.
George Stewart has sold his farm,
known as the Farnsworth place, to
Joseph Alcorn, who lives three or four
'....os east of Lancaster in the town of
Ellenboro. The consideration was 81, |
900. Mr.. Stewart, in turn, has bought
Thode Sherman's place for S2500 and |
will move there soon. Mr.. Sherman !
will probably go west, but has not de-
cided upon location.
1t is commonly reported on the sire cts
here, that Book and Schreiner have |
sold their abstract office to Mr. John |
Carthew of Rockville. Mr.. Carthew is
trying to rent house here preparatory |
to moving his family to our town, so It /
is fairly inferred that the report is cor
rect. We are always glad to welcome
new corners and Mr.. Carthew, who is
we'll known to our business men, and
his wife, whom many will remember as
Miss Francis Jones who lived here for
some time with her sister Mrs. Nc
CARNEY, will be doubly welcome, as
new residents and old friends.
This week we have devoted a good
deal of time and space to the consider
alton of the sensation that has been in
teresting the people for some time past.
Previous to our last issue we did not
say much, but knowing our attitude in
regard to the matter, Mr.. Wolfe and
his disciples were constantly on the
defensive The inoffensive doggerel
we published. that really contained not
the smallest illusion to the spiritual
instructor, was considered an insulting