Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-18

| HAAS fAtf
subscriber, for one year. pay
able when Major w. H. Up
ham is elected Governor of
this State. Come right along
with your subscriptions. We
will be glad to get them right
away. Send your address
plainly written.
Fresh oysters in every style at John
Burns restaurant.
Miss Viola BiddIch is spending this
week with the Nicholson family.
When YOU are az court. smoke those
Invinclble cigars for five cents. at
Kern's. 90 -
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Beneke are the
happy parents of little daughter, who
was welcomed last week.
ItIooks as if George A. OVAL, of
the Lancaster House, will have the
biggest house in the city when he gets
it completed.
Now that Cuba City has a paper,
Benton is hankering after one. We
Judge from the last News thst Benton
needs a paper to champion the cause
of its Doctor and health officers.
Miss Laura Carter suffered severe
attack of appendicitis last week and
has been very seriously i'll ever since.
She has suffered intensely. A whole city
full of friends will be glad to know chat
she is easier and somewhat better at
present.
Emma JACOBS a seven year Did girl
discovered a railroad bridge on fire,
near Lamont, Iowa, and ran down the
track in time to stop fast freight train
by waving her apron. The railroad
company gave her $50
Abijah Bresee ard Jos. M. Conley,
who nave for eight months been the
editors end proprietors of the Belmont
Bee, have dissolved partnership, and
Mr.. Conley will hereafter do the ouz-
zing for the Bee We don't know
what "Bige" is going TO do.
The Catholics of Madison and other
parts of the state have secured the To-
cation of summer school at Madison.
1t is proposed to make it one of the
finest and best equipped institutions of
its kind in the United States. The
first session will be held in June and
July next year.
Mrs. j. NJ. Kilbourn, has rooms and
board for students and transients, vii
arrange to give rooms and supper and
breakfast if they care TO take their
dinner at the hotel or elsewhere.
House, new, large and convenient and
quietly located.
MRS j. NJ. KILBoURN
MIR. and Mrs. l.. A. Dodds of Lake
Mills will soon become residents of
Lancaster. Mrs. Doods spent week
in town this summer and was so well
pleased with our city anu lts people
thst the change was decided. Mr. Dodd
has been well known here as mail agent
on the train to Milwaukee.
TIE 500 barrel tank on the water
works tower will hold 13l Sol pounds
or 60 7S tons of water, and the top of
the windmill will be about rs feet from
the ground and about 232 feet from the
bottom of the well. The weight in the
tank when full is greater in the winter
than in the summer, and it is not so
liable to leak, but there is more danger
of the big IRON hoops bursting. Why?
wish the ladies of Lancaster and
vicinity to know that | will keep on
hand for sale special line Of Gobelin.
Mexican and Linen cloths of all colors
with suitable materials for all kinds of
embroidery, / will also do stamping
and will give instruction in embroidery
and lace work. Persons desiring any
thing in the above line will find me in
Mrs P E Blacks New Millinery Store
next the Herald Office.
If Mrs. G.. M. rockingham
MIR. Willis brought US a box of the
finest pansies any one could grow,
gathered Fridsy. Oct. 18th. and we
freely offer him and the flower-lov-
ing hands at his home. not only our
thanks, but the highest mead of praise
for skill in cultivating the shy beauties.
Pansies in thirteen varieties and i'm
mense size made a rare collection.
Bouquets of the satiny poppy of gold,
sweet alyssum and cosmos were gener-
ously added.
Our annual letter from Sparta, from
Miss Emily HOLSTER shows that she is
still interested in Lancaster and cannot
do without the Herald Miss Hollister
would enjoy seeing the growth and inn
provements of the town and specially
knowing that her old home is now in
one of the choicest parts of the city.
1t is somewhat remodeled by Mr..
Harshberger who has bought the place
which he finds large enough for two
houses. His fine new residence occu-
pies the old site and is nearly complete.
The water-work tower, tank and wind
mill are about completed and the next
thing in order is the laying of the
mains and placing the hYdrants. In
the meantime the move for city water
works is quite dormant and will likely
remain so until after election. They
could not be put in until next spring
anu how. hut IL 10 nronOsad thai the