Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-07-12
We have just received news OF the
death of Jared Spencer.

hiChus HAOnuay CscuinS.
Mrs. Lowry gave whist party Mon
day evening for Mr.. Schuyler Pulford.
Don't miss the raspberries and ice
cream at the Methodist festival tonight. |
The elder Mrs. Lowry expects to
start next Monday for her former home |
in the east.
Miss Watts is in Chicago attending
the convention of the Society of Chris !
tian Endeavor.
Messrs. RYland and Phelps have sold
their fine black carriage team to Mr..
Fuller, of Fuller & johnson, Madison.
Messrs. James MoBrien, town clerk,
and T. g. Stephens, treasurer of Hazel
Green. visited the county seat last Mon
day.
Miss Maggie Rose, daughter of VIM.
Rose, Of Boscobel, is pending a week
with her sister. Mrs. Chas. Oleson. of
this city.
The probationers OF the M. &. church
will be received into full membership
next Sunday morning Immediately after
the sermon.
Grand festival in the court yard
square tonight. II the weather is bad it
win be held the first pleasant evening
following. Let everybody come.
DIR. A. 81. Barber left town last Mon
day morning for vacation. He will
be in Dakota part of the time while he
is away, looking after some property he
has there.
MIR. C. j: Hyde who has been cir
culating the subscription paper to aid in
replacing Mr.. Reds horse killed by
lightning, has succeeded in raising be-
tween $45 and. $50.
Mr.. Edmunds, OF Yankton, Dakota,
joined Mrs. Edmunds, who has been
for several weeks at the Wright House.
After few days visit, they will 60
east, for the remainder of his vacation.
The Methodist society will hold
festival in the court yard tonight. They
furnish raspberrieS, cake, and ice cream
that is to be made by John Pendleton,
everyone knows what his ice cream is.
Stewart 4 Reid wishes to express
through the columns of the HERALD his
thanks to the friends who have so kind
ly aided him in time of need. He will
return the favor by aiding others in bad
luck when oppor tunity offers.
Mrs. Aaron Kraut, of Potosi, died this
wednesday, morning after lingering
illness. She will be buried on Friday
the 18th inst. A more extended
notice of her sickness and death will be
given next week.
A dozen or two whose names we did
not learn were in to see the spur wire
yesterday while the agent was absent
at dinner. They remarked to the boy,
though, that tons OF it would be used in
Grant county within year.
DIR. Hassell and family returned last
night from their visit to st. Paul. They
came down the river, on the boat with
DIR. Benham and MIR. Murphy. The
party drove up from Crssville. reaching
home about one o'clock this morning.
Madam De Staal said the more she
saw Of men, the better opinion she had
of dogs. The crowd of people who at
tended Beach & Bowers show last
night can fully coincide with that
opinion. when applied to the perform.
ance.
A gentleman who was present at the
Lancaster school meeting has sent in a
communication in which he expresses
his views very plainly upon the reports
of it in the local papers. The commune
cation was voluntary, and we have no
editorial responsibility for it. The name
of the writer will be given if demanded.
Mr.. Bartle, of Marysville, California,
is visiting relatives in Mount Ida and
various places in Illinois and Iowa. He
and his nephew w. A. Lance, of Mt.
Ida were in town Thursday to examine
spur wire and take samples. Mr..
Bartle has been in California 50 years
and thinks he is spoiled for a cold eli
mate.
In the Free Lance column will be
found communication relative to the
candidacy for the Office of sheriff of Geo.
w. Parker. As there is sometimes a
suspicion that communications of this
kind are inspired by the party most
interested, we win state that this COM
munication was spontaneous and ex-
presses the candid opinion Of disinter.
ested party.
Last week the HERALD editor had
another horse cut on barb wire. That
makes three this season, and will be the
last There's no use talking, gentle
men, barb wire wont do. We shall
never turn another horse into pasture
fenced with it. The HARMLESS SPUR
WIRE is the only cheap fence that is fit
to use where horses or stock that one
cares anything for is to be pastured.
The last number of the Mineral Point
Tribune contains the following: Word
was received by telegram this. morning
that Eugene Boynton, son of John Boyn-
ton, of this city, had died at Joliet, H."
We have as yet received no further
particulars. Eugene was most estim-
able young man. He has for sometime