Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-06-21
Mr.. snoclode was up from cassvillo

on Tuesday.
Mrs. Reuben Black went to Platte
vile on Monday.
Miss Catin, of GAINESVILLE, is visiting
at Mr.. Zannigers, in this city.
Mr.. Fred Meyer is in Madison at
tending the University commencement.
Hon. E. /. Kidd will deliver the Fourth
Of July Grafton at Georgetown this
year
The Baptist festival last Friday eve
ming was quito successful. The amount
cleared was 81.
There is talk of a new Catholic church
in Cassville Five or six thousand dol
lars has been raised already for that
purpose.
Mrs Club returned to her home i'll
Dubuque on Friday after visit of two
weeks with her children at the old
homestead
Mr.. George Lewis and wife, with Mrs.
Simon E. Lewis and Mrs. Wolfork, of
Potosi, spent Faiday in a Lancaster
with friends
The Lancaster Literary Club will
meet at the residence of Mr.. John
Schreiner on the evening of Tuesday
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The Methodists will hold festival i'll
the court yard next Tuesday evening.
The ice cream will be furnished by
John Pendleton.
Mrs. Trowbridge and her daughter
Velma drove down to Platteville on
Tuesday to attend the Normal COM
mencement.
Mrs. w. Brown Of Rhinelander, who
is visiting in this city, went to Madison
last Saturday to attend the University
Commencement exercises.
DIED Mrs. Abner Dyer, Sunday
night at 8 o'clock, at her home in
North Lancaster. The funeral SER
vices were held on Tuesday.
DeaconIra Barr, forty years ago one
Of the business men Of Potosi, died
suddenly u few days since at his home
in Manchester, Massachusetts.
The newly made Emperor of Ger
many, Frederick III, died june 10th
after a painful illness. The funeral
services were hold az Berlin June 18th.
II. II. Upperman, went TO Iowa last
week and returned u few days later with
Mrs. Oppermar. The newly welded
pair are established for the present at
the Wagner House.
Mr.. Fred BRYAN, formerly our popu-
lar Druggist, and his brother, Mr.
Henry Bryan, came over from Chicago
one day last week to visit their Lam
easter friends and our famous trout
streams.
Mr.. ii. o. Wood, OF Milwaukee,
spent Sunday in Lancaster with his
family. Mrs. Wood returned with him
to the city 10 attend meeting of the
Milwaukee Female Seminary graduates
which was held on Tuesday at the
Athenaenum.
Last Sunday, rs j Lloyd Jones aud
another gentleman were attempting to
cross The Green q miles below Werley,
the horses were swept beyond their
depth, and carried quite distance
down the river 1t took lively work to
save them, and in spite of all tho men
could do the buggy was wreck.
Last week tho worst storm since the
centennial year. visited this part OF the
county. The rivers, that are usually
rather small affairs, showed people that
they are not so Insignificant after all.
At Ellenboro, the Platte was half mile
wide, and about every bridge crossing
it was taken away except the new one.
Chilson's bridge, the Wing bridge, near
Pettijohu mill, and Boyd's bridge above
Ellenhoro, were all taken, also the
Arthur and Jones bridges, on Wilson
creek There was good deal of dam
age done to crops. A whole cornfield
of John Fry's was swept away, and all
John b. Bradley's fences went too.
Only one bridge was left in the town of
Liberty.