Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-09-01

The Lancaster schools will open Mon
day morning, Sept. p Miss Criuk-
shank. from Grinnell. Iowa. Miss Minnie
Jacobs. from Linden, Wis. Misses
Flora ROthschild. Fanny johnson. Carrie
Muesse and Villa Trowbrige, from Lam
caster. and Miss Lydia Harrison. fIom
Hazel Green, will have charge of de-
partments.
Chas. Wooduan of Casville. who
brings fresh fish to our market yearly
every Saturday. had with MIN last week
a fine specimen of carp caught in the
Mississippi This is fish new to our
waters. which seems to be excellent for
food, and well adapted for living in
many streams from which other fish
have almost entirely disappeared. 1t
promises to be a bonanza as future
food supply.
What might be considered a good
exemplification of "Womans eccentric
ity, and Cupids inconsistency, hap
pened here Sunday. A couple OF
young men from Buffalo, N. Y
arrived in this city last Friday ana
registered at the Wright House rs j.
w. DeI.and and Leonard Fox. They
were well dressed and very progresses
ing inst such chaps as silly, flirting
girls become infatuated with, and from
what took place later, it is very appar-
ent that they are not altogether
incognizant of their powers in this
line. Before coming to this city they
were at Platteville and while there
formed the acquaintance of a Miss
Daisy Frazier. Saturday a rig was
hired by them to go out a short dis
lance into the country. so they said;
but instead they went to Platteville,
where Miss Frazier, with whom pre-
liminaries had been settled, was in
waiting, and she and the gentleman
calling himself Fox, drove to minis
tiers and were married The trio arriv-
ed at the hotel in this city at o'clock
Sunday morning and early the same
morning the mother of the girl with a
deputy sheriff put in appearance, but
the young people produced their certi-
tlcate and defied all efforts of officer
and mother to secure the girl. But
matters did not end with the defeat of
the mother to reclaim her daughter.
1t was discovered that MIR Fox had
sworn to falsehoods when questioned by
the minister who performed the cere-
mony and he was arrested on the
charge of perjury and taken back to
Platteville. The young man became
painfully aware that it was either
surrender his wife or be subjected to
the action of the law and he choose the
former and sensible way of settling the
difficulty. The bride elect was taken
to her parental home Tuesday morn
ing
The 81 Annual Fair OF the Grant
County Agricultural Society will be held
at the Fair Ground in tins city. Sept. 81.
p e %. The premium list is unusually
large and includes every variety of pro
duce that can be raised in the county.
The liberal prizes offered on live stock
are sure TO induce an exhibit unpar-
alelled in Southern Wisconsin. Espec-
tally will this be true in the cattle and
horse exhibit and glance at the preln-
UNI list is all that is required to substan-
tiate this statement. A few words
regaI ling the extensive improvement of
track, stables and general appearance
of the ground over last year, will m.
doubtedly be of interest to all, however,
nothing can be here said that will bring
the readers of this article to full
appreciation of the improvements that
have been made, as would an inspec-
ton of the grounds. The track, for
merly very uneven, has been made COM
palatively level and has been lengthen-
ed to full half mile. 1t has also been
widenned considerably, making it pos
sible to start, IN better shape. larger
number of horses than before OF course
the races, as usual, will be the chief
attraction and in view of this fact, lber
al purses are offered with the intention
of inducing the best horsesinfhe county
to compete Special attention will be
given to the domestic fancy work and
art exhibits The Floral Hall promises
to be q wonder in itself, every detail
leading 10 magnificent display of fancy
work and art having been carefully
attended to. For years the Fairs held
here have been considered of the best;
but this year will witress a decisive
change for the better. The managers
of all the various departments have been
unusually active in securing new and