Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-09

Zimmerman. President; 7. J. Better,
Vice President; Mary Cooley, Secretary;
and Elsie Barnum, Treasurer.
Albert E, HYDE, a travelling msn from
Chicago, gave a free lecture at the
Grand Central. last Thurspay night
MIR. Hyde is a graduate of the Kelley
Institute of Dwight, and is firm believer
in the merits of the cue. and considers
his cure practical illustration of the
good Keeleyism is doing through the
entire country. He is a very entertain
ing and fluent speaker, and held the
closest attention of his hearers, while
relating incidents connected with life
before and since taking treatment at
Dwight. Mr. Hyde has written many
able and scholarly articles TO papers and
magazines, since having been cured, in
answer TO those rejecting on the merits
of DR.. Keeley's cure. The lecture was
entirely impromptu, Mr.. Hyde having
run up to the city Thursday morning,
from Platteville, to visit the Institute
here. and finding he could not make
connections by leaving on the 400 P N.
train. concluded to stay over, and was
induced by the patients to deliver the
lecture Quite q number of citizens
attended the lecture, which was given
10 the sample room of the hotel.
Lancaster has dwelling within her
precincts a trio of gentlemen who,
whenever an opportunity to play joke
on some unsuspecting mortal presents
itself, are not slow in taking
advantage of. 1t so happened that
the worthy gentlemen referred to above
casually met in the vicinity of the
circus encampment. Sunday evening.
and instantaneonsly conceived the idea
of playing a practical joke on Tony
Howell, our estimable baber. They
proposed to steal his chickens (the idols
of Tony's heart,) and with this purpose
in view, laid bare their scheme to a
fourth party, desiring him to locate the
coop for them as they were not ac-
quainted with the domestic arrange
ments of Tony's domicile. They had
no intention whatever. of approaching
Tony's coop themselves, but intended
that the fourth party should do so,
while they hunted up Tony to inform
him of a design to relieve him of his
chicks. This they did, advancing as a
convincing argument, the idea of the
blame being put upon the circus men,
and intimated that the party who was
to hook the chicks took this view of it.
But Tony ''tumbled" as did the other
man who was to have done the scouting
and it terminated in practical jokers'
being "joked."
Despite tn inclement weather Satur
day, the expectant people aocked to
the city from every quarter intent on
taking in Gollmar Bros circus, which
was to have been here that day. They
began coming early in the morning and
by noon the streets were crowded and
there was hardly room for another team
to have been hitched to the court house
railing. Small crowds went out in the
direction of the Poor Farm and gazed
anxiously and longingly out upon the
through-fare that leads into the city
from Platteyille, expecting at any mo-
ment to see the Band wagon loom up
on the horizon, but were doomed to
Disappointment. No circus had arrived
by three o'clock, not even word of a
definite nature as TO whether it was
coming or not, had been received, and
most of the people who had come in eX-
pressly to attend the show, either re.
turned home or started in to do the
usual Saturdays trading. Had they
waited until about noon Sunday, they
might have seen two carriages come in
from the south and draw up at the
Wagner House. This was the van guard
and was followed by other carriages
and wagons, which continued coming
in until p. m. The main part of the
circus camped on the grounds they were
to have given their exhibit on, leaving
for Bloomington at 4 o'clock Monday
morning.
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