Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-08

this week.
Phil Bennett has rented the Freeman
House and will move in next week.
Read the notice of special school
meeting to be held March 14th, and be
on hand to vote your sentiments.
Geo. A. Divall, the busy landlord of
the Lancaster House has been confined
to his room for few days by sickness
Don't buy common Turkish prunes
at any price, when you can get fancy
California prunes 1Slbs for 81 of
j. NATHAN & Son.
Walter Gummow, an Enghshman
sixty years of age, living near Scales
Mound, near Galena, killed himself
with rifle last Friday. Ill health was
the cause.
Paul Howe broke out with scarlet
fever Tuesday, and the chances are
that others in the family will have to
pass through the dread disease. We
sincerely hope not.
The Cooperative Creamery and Sep
arator at Sitter is now fixed fact.
The money has all been subscribed and
work on the building will be com
menced at once.
Morgan j. Smith, Esq the first grad
uate in Grant county from the state
university, was in the city Tuesday,
from jamestown. He holds teachers
life certificate.
Now is your time to send in your
orders for Evergreens and other nursery
stock. Anton Schmitt has some of the
finest and cheapest stock you ever heard
of. Write him or call upon him. Pa
The recent heavy SHOWS in the noun
tains about Salt Lake City, have driven
the mountain lions down into the set
tied portions of the valley. They are
ravenous. and recently killed horse in
the streets of the city itself.
The negroes in some parts of the
south have been swindled by men who
peddle an oil that they assert will take
the kinks out of the hair Not only do
the kinks remain but many of the ne
groes have discovered new wrinkle.
We are ready to do any kind of build
ing or repairing either in the city or
the country. by contract or by the day.
If you intend putting up any kind of
building this summer, give us chance
at your work.
HOLMES & SEYMOUR.
A. c. Smith, the DIR. Ward liniment
man, has been prevented from making
his usual calls for sometime. His
horses are afflicted with distemper,
but he expects to canvas the north
east part of the county as soon as the
roads get better.
Miss Lizzie Wepking, who has COM
pleted a course in the Wisconsin Col
lege of Midwifry and Lying-in Hos
pital, Milwaukee, Wis, will practice
her profession in this city Those in
need of competent nurse will find
her at the home of Fred Phelps. At
A Christian Science doctress out in
Council Bluffs, Iowa, had so much
faith in her belief. that she deliberately
put poison on piece of bread and ate
it with the idea that her faith could
overcome its effects. The poison got
down to business, however, and the
fool-killer found one of his victims gone
when he got round.
Niagara Falls and the whirlpool have
gotten down TO business at last. Here
tofore the whole thing has been consid-
cred only good to look at, but now
$4,000, 900 have been put into huge
water wheels and sluices for carrying
the water; it is conjectured that power
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hundred miles of the falls. This
sounds like fable but electricity en-
ables it to be solid fact
August Koblenberg's two children got
lost in a queer way for a short time, a
while ago. They were playing on
aw-pile, from which lot of rye
straw that had been used to cover it had
been thrown of one side, but was still
lying against the main stack. The chill
dren got between the two piles and slid
entirely to the ground, and as their
mother thought they were with the hired
man she did not feel uneasy at their abb
sence. They shouted as loud as they
could but no one heard them, and after
awhile the idea that they could pull the
straw under their feet and thus bring
themselves out of the difficulty struck
them They aofed ,rooO the idea and