Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-16

Association will meet in GAINESVILLE,
March so and April I Several humid
red teachers have signified their inten-
tons of attending the sessions.
A. e. Smith, the DIR. Ward Medicine
man, has been snow bound IN this city
for the last two weeks. He expects 10
canvass the north west part of the
county as soon as the roads become
passable.
Miss Mamie Stone of this city
"Dopfed' her name Valentine Day and
if she is as happy in her new Missouri
home as her Lancaster friends wish
she may be. there will always be sun
shine there.
The Masquerade Ball under the man
agement OF the Lancaster Hook and
Ladder Co. No. /. viii take place after
Lent. Keep yourselves in readiness for
a FIRST class good time then. Due notice
will be given.
Boys don't have happy time play
ing cards at Iowa College in Grinell,
Iowa. Eight or nine boys have been
suspended for the rest of the year or
lohger for breaking the antl-card play
ing rule of the college.
A friend of Mr.. and Mrs. James
HoYle of Mt. Hope, tells us that a
bouncing girl recently put in appear
ance at the home of that happy couple.
Mother and child are doing splendidly,
and James is an emlnently happy man
The announcement that school will
open up again next Moudav is joyfully
received by parents as Well rs pupils.
From three to half dozen children
cooped up in the house have kept the
parents, especially the mothers some
what interested the past week.
Gus Posey, our new liveryman, is very
dangerously i'll from slight wound
made by accidentally scratching his
hand with fork. He has suffered
great deal and his recovery has been
considered doubtful, but the latest re-
ports are more encouraging and it is
hoped that he will be able to be out
again in few days.
Attention is called to the notice of the
Republican County Convention which
will be held in this city Tuesday, Feb.
2Sth inst. Republicans should look to
it that the primaries arc well attended
and that complete delegations are
present from each town. Keep the
convention in mind.
Bill Nye says that if the genius used
in Maine, Kansas and Iowa alone for
the purpose of evading the prohibitory
law could have been turned in the d.
rectlon of useful science and invention,
we could have had this year at least
$4,000 people per day visiting the
Worlds Fair on wings.
Don't forget the sale at John Dun
cans Friday, Feb. 18th. There are 20
head of first class horses to be sold as
well as hundreds of other things. such
as are to be found on a we'll stocked,
and cared for farm. The place is two
miles southwest of Hurricane Corners,
Jehiel Hyde will open up the fun at 10
a. m. and if you are not there to take a
hand, you may regret it.
On the 9Th page will be found letter
from the reliable and we'll known ma
chine firm of c. W. Knapp & Son, 10
the public and their patrons. Every
farmer who contemplates buying any
kind of implement this summer should
read this letter, which is of interest to
him from the fact that it was compiled
by men who know what they are about,
and whose business ability and integrity
merits the confidence of all.
Mrs. Eva Anderson, daughter of
Judge j. T. Mills is at her fathers SUI
perintending the work incident to the
changes brought about by the
death of Mrs. Mills. The Judge
will accompany Mrs. Anderson
to her home in Manitowoc next week.
This really means that Lancaster is
to bid goodbye to one of our Oldest
and most esteemed citizens, one who
is known by almost everybody in
Southwest Wisconsin.
The British section at the Worlds
Fair will be decorated in part by some
seventy banners bearing respectively
the arms of different municipal corpor-
atoms in the kingdom, such as London,
Edinburgh. Dublin. Ayr, Canterbury,
etc. The British Royal Commission in
vited the corporations to furnish the
banners, and some loaned those they
possessed, while others had their Of