Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-22

Fair meeting next Saturday evening
in COVERS Hall.
Subscribe for shares in the Fennimore
fair. Ii is a good investment.
Arthur Roethe left last Thursday for
Whitewater, Wis.
+. g. Thompson is back from short
trip TO Sioux Falls, Dakota.
Ed Gravenbrock is nicely established
in a haEness shop in ledicords building
The family of Rev. j. H. Witherby is
recreating nj Georgetown and Cuba
City.
Mrs Bellows, of Lancaster, is con-
Quoting painting class in town this
week.
J. M. Gelvin went 10 Chicago with
stock this week.
Geo. II. Baxter is in Chicago this
week on short trip.
Miss Porta Showalter has gone To
Bloomington for a short stay with rela-
tiyes.
John BrechIer left this week for Bat
tie Creek, Neb TO spend month or
two with his brother Fred at that
place.
Prof Il. +. McDermotte is visitor
at his brothers., DIR. +. e., during his
vacation.
Mrs Geo. M. Finicle arrived home
from Hanover, H., on Wednesday after
pleasant visit with relatives.
A number Of the Fennimore people
went to the harvest picnic at Montfort
on Friday. The second base ball nine
went also, only TO lose game TO the
Highland club.
Mrs. Fremont Smith and little son,
spent Thursday at the home of G, ID.
Smith.
Farmers sale day at Boscobel the last
Saturday Of this month X. p. Greene
of Fennimore, is president of the asso-
ciaton.
Rev. S. A. Wheelwright breaches in
the IT, b. Church to-day A full atten
dance is requested.
The Fennimore's played the Bosco-
bel nine match game of ball for $50
at this place on Tuesday.
/ For the past two weeks, Albert Weber
has had silycrplated knives in his show
window that he is selling at Sl.35 per
set These remarkably low prices eau
be guaranteed for n short time only
Examine them.
Ill. u. Lewis has moved his hotel TO
new quarters two doors south of the
p. O., in the building owned by IL. IL.
Earl. II makes an attractive appear
ance and is great improvement over
his old, location. Bert takes greai
pride in new bus, also.
An immense crowd witnessed the
game of ball between the Fennimore's
and the Stitzer's, played at Boscobel.
We are sorry 10 say that the home clul
lost the game by score of Is TO IL
thus losing the hitherto indisputeC
championship. Sitter takes great
pleasure in wearing the belt, besides
winning the fifty dollars. However
there is some dispute about the correct
ness Of the score, some claiming that il
stood 1G TO Is in favor of Fennimore
at the close of the ninth inning 1t is
to be hoped that the boys will do better
in the future and not he too overconf.
dent.
Mrs Elizabeth Woeping, wife Of
Henry Weeping, an esteemed fellow
citizen and whose death was chronicled
last week, was born in Schasen, Mein
gen, Germany, on the 30th day of Aug
ust, 1888, thus having nearly completed
her fifty-sixth year. She came TO this
country in lS47, and was married tC
her husband in 1850, living with him al
Highland for eighteen years, and al
Fennimore the past twenty one. Her
illness was Of protracted nature. con-
filming her toward the last exclusively TO
her bed. AT times she had to bear in
tense suffering. The husband and chill
dren deeply mourn her loss She was
buried near Sitter, the Rev Ringold,
Of Ian easter, officiating at the funeral,