Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-12-13

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Fine and useful holiday and wedding
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The Mining News is the name of q
new paper Just started at Benton by
H, A. Bresee, famiiiariy known as
''Bige.n
Eight-day Clocks. half hour strikers,
at 3 so each and upward at
4S44 j. II. Baldwin's.
Mrs. H. S. Rhodes gave delightful
tea to some twenty of her lady friends
Tuesday evening.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will hold their missionary meet
ing at the parsonage on Friday at three
o'clock.
Tickets for the X. p Ministries are
now on sale at Chas. w. Burr's new
book store. Admission Soc TO all parts
of the house.
There will be Masquerade ball at
Bishops hall, in North Andover, on the
evening of January 1st, 1895. Get
your partners for good time.
The M. E. Church Society of North
Lancaster will give ten cent dinner at
the home of VIM. Graham next We'd
nesday. Cordial invitation TO every
body, you will get good dinner.
Frank Eisenbeise, who is at present
on the Roberts farm east of town, has
purchased farm of T. Wilkinson near
Pettyjohn's mill. We hope Mr.. Wiki
inson will make his future home in
Lancaster.
There was Baptist Church dinner
at the home of S, Borah Esq. at Mt.
Ida last week, $50 persons ATE hearty
dinners, and every body had jolly good
time. They could not help having an
enjoyable time with MIR. and Mrs Dor
alb for hosts.
A boy near Fort Howard found a
tree with the outside scratched up by
some animal He cut it down hoping
to find wild cat. He found instead
some 500 pounds of fine honey in beau
tiful combs which he sold at good
figure.
We will have a Christmas tree on
Christmas eve for the inmates of the
asylum and poor house. Parties hav-
ing relatives or friends to whom they
desire to send presents will leave them
at the postoffice in Lancaster, not later
than noon of the oath.
1w JAMES ANDERSON, Supt.
The woman suffrage question was
debated at school by Frank Reed, Will
Webb, Geo. Bebnke and Chas. Mousse
on the negative and Edna Mason. Bes-
sic Stippich, Alma Hurlburt and Noilie
Goodrich on the affirmative. The neg
alive won. Mrs. Frank Schreiner, Mrs.
Walter Brennan, and Miss Emma
Scbreiner were the judges.
TIE details of the horrible murder of
Mrs. Cling in Minneapolis and of Alfred
Barnes, a Chicago janitor, have filled
the dailies of the respective cities for
the past few days. There seems to
have been no possession in either case,
simply matter of cold blooded gain.
The murderers in both cases have been
found out and there can be little doubt
but they will hang, and that their ac-
completes will serve long terms in state
penitentiaries. The temper of the peo-
pie will allow no tooling in the matter.
The Platteville Lecture Course, six
teenth season, opened November 21st,
with the Temple Quartette Concert
Company of Boston. The remaining
numbers will be December l4th. Rev.
Frank Bristol; subject, "Brains. I"
January 10Th. The Wilczek Grand Con-
cert Company. February 10th, Thos.
Dixon, jr., of New York city. February
2Stb, John Temple Grayes, of Georgia;
subject, "The Reign of the Dema-
gogue." March 18th, DIR. Robt Nc
lptyre; subject, Evolution of Abraham
Lincoln.
The skating season is ushered in
with the usual shocking fatalities.
Young folks are always to eager to en-
gage in the sports of the winter season
to profit by the lessons of thu past
Thin ice has claimed thousands of vic
TINS, but thin ice is ventured upon
every year, even over the most treach-
erons waters. Already this year large
numbers of instances of loss of life by
breaking through the ice are reported.
The victims are usually most excellent
Young people too. Beware of thin
Ice.
Edward LETTERS will sell on the Ben
LETTERS farm four and one half mile S
southwest of Hurricane, and three miles
north OF Burton, fourteen fine horses,
six head of cattle, ssventy-five hogs,
two wagons, buggy, cutter, bob sled,
seeder, disk harrow, Buckeye me wer,
Buckeye binder, two new cultivaiors,
two sets double harness, hay rack, hay
rake. three hundred bushels of corn,
eight tons timothy hay, and lot of
other things. The machinery is nearly
all new. The sale will commence at 10
a. M, Thursday, Dec. 9th. with that
prince of auctioneers j, o. Cushman,
as salesman. Remember the date.
Lancaster has had three really fine
Fol