Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-02-16
IEomn and County News.


Mrs. John Baldwin entertained
few friends on Monday evening.
Lincoln Abrahams. of Bloomington
attended the convention last Saturday.
I. J. LeVan is up from Dubuque
visiting his sister Mrs. Harry Nathan.
The lecture at the Methodist church
Tuesday nightwas .togentlemen only.
Cearlie Moore, of Mt. Hope visited
at John Chrisholm's in this city last
Saturday
We have received several excellent
communications too late for publication
this week
Mrs Jane Livingston Of Livingston,
is visiting at her daughter Mrs. W. a.
Johnson
Mrs. G. G. Craig and Miss Annie
Small from the Asylum were callers
Saturday.
Mrs Cramer fell and broke her wrist
Monday evening while going home
from the Il. ".
The meeting of the Lancaster Liter
ary Club has been postponed to Tues
day evening Feb 81
Geo Hake, Irwin Washburn, Jacob
Athouse and several other Cliftonites
were in town Monday
Jackson, the piano tuner will be here
March first He is we'll known, and |
bis work is always satisfactory aud re-
liable
young peoples meeting is going to
be organized and held in the Methodist
church, every Sunday evening before
church.
Mr.. Showalter's family are back in
town again, living in their own house
Mr. Showalter still superintends the
asylum.
Mr. Swayne has returned to his home
in N. Y He left Monday Morning Mr.
Wolfe will stay in Lancaster another
week for rest.
The low freight rates on the c. B. &
N are causing shippers on the Iowa
side to send the freight across the
river for transportation
Prof. W. A. Cundy and Albert Snider
Of Mt. Hope attended the convention
Saturday afternoon, and were callers at
the HERALD office.
Mr. H. G. Gleason wishes it known
that neither of his farms, advertised in
the HERALD, have been sold as reported
but must be before April 1, to give
possession this spring
On Ash Wed. at 1920 A. NJ On
Wednesday & Friday afternoons at 4;15.
Bible Glass at the Rectory at 7:45, on
Friday Evenings, to which all are cor
daily invited
MrJohn Waud who has sometime past
been acting as telegraph operator here
has gone home to rest and recruit, bis
place is supplied by b. I. montgomery
of Sullivan Wis.
A basket sociable will be held at the
new Cement school house Tuesday
evening February 21st for the benefit Of
the Rev G. w. L. Smith. Everybody
is cordially INITIATED to attend,
The Kate Bensberg English Opera
company will be in Patteville Saturday
evening Feb IS. They will present
Flotow's opera L'Ombra. Admission
fifty cents. Reserved seats without ex-
ira charge.
Rev Mr.. Halteman Will preach in
the Baptist church Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings February u aud p.
Rev. j. f. Mcintosh. Of Bloomington,
has been secured to preach commenc-
ing March 4.
Kansas has no doubt the advantage
in latitude over Wisconsin. Mr.. Eli
Fox says that letter received last week
from his father, reports potatoes all
plantedin his region, and the oats sow
We will hardly think of plowing ground
Just yet.
Fred Langridge, who left here few
months since for California. is at pres
ent located in stockton He is in the
employ of his brother Mr.. George
Langridge who has for some time been
engaged in the boot and shoe trade in
that city.
Chimney Rock or G. w Smith as
he is now called, was IN town last week
showing the last new thing in pre-
miums for subscribers to the Evening
Wisconsin. His pockets were foil of
knives aMd his grip was loaded with
books, but the thing that brought in the
names this winter was spirit Their
mometer that viii so down to sixty
below.
Mrs Fred McNair was chosen dele
gate from the Lancaster Union in the
3rd Dist, Convention of the w.C.T.U.
held at Mineral Point on wednesday 4
Thursday of last week. Mrs McNair /
secured copies of some of the papers
read which will be presente the Hear |
aid readers through the went.
column at an early date.
The Fennimore lodge A. +. & A. NJ |
meets on the second Saturday of each I
month. The officers for the ensuing
year are as follows: Omar j. Arnold. I
w. NJ; Geo. Andrews, S. W; A. J. /
Conrad. j. W; E. S. Morse, Sect'y; G I
j. Wannemaker, Treas c. L Mellow 7
ell, 5. d.; John Allen. J. d.; II. II. |
Streeter Tyler; F. f. Rector, NJ P.
Dillev Stewards