Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-05-31
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! Ahg AAOtO '""hs
Mayor Edward Scofield, of OcoDto, Is
| in the tie d for governor and his friends
ale active in his behalf
Miss Budworth came from Omaha
last Tuesday to visit her parents, MIR.
and Mrs. B. F. Budworth.
A special election will be held in East
Dubuque for the purpose of voting
Sl4, 600 to improve the present water
works system.
Mrs. d. Weaver came TO Lancaster
Tuesday evening from her DAKOTA
home. She will spend two or three
weeks here visiting friends.
The Galena Masons, two dozen strong
visited the lodge at Hazel Green last
Friday. A big banquet and jolly good
time all around was the result.
Little Ralph Muesse, son of Henry
Muesse, has the scarlet fever and IS
quite sick. The family of Nelson
Breithaupt is also afflicted again with
the same disease.
Norman l.. James of RIchland Gen.
ter says that the delegation from that
county will support Henry Casson for
secretary of stare and John ID. Wilson
for attorney general.
LosT-A little gold pin. on The street
in Lancaster. The PIN is of especial
value as keepsake 10 the owner and
the finder will be literally rewarded by
bringing it TO the HERALD office.
Chas. Elce, of the book binding firm
of Elce Bros, of Galeua, will be in Lam
caster The last of this week to deliver
work done and to solicit ful Their orders
for book binding.
The most difficult repairing of jew
cry and Watches neatly done, and
Chronometors and Racing Watches
accurately adjusted-by r. E. Muir
phey. 14-15
A big prospect has been struck on
the Peter Doyle farm near Fairplay.
A shaft II feet deep allows the miners
TO take out 5000 pounds. In early min
ing days this was nothing unusual, but
lately such strikes are not very common.
Richland Center has an electric light
plant in full operation and the little city
i'll the hills is now as brilliantly lighted
as those of much larger pretentions.
The machinery works we'll and the
people are happy over the results of the
new enterprise. Dwellings and stores
are giving generous support to the
new light.
TIE McKanlass Colored Company Is
headed by McKanlass, the greatest col
ored humorist, violinist. banjo king
and comic vocalist, assisted by the fol-
lowing wellknown artists: Miss Trixie.
the beautiful Creole, singer and child
impers onater; Mr.. Ed Anderson, the
famous wide mouthed, excentric coined
ian and basso profundo, Miss Fannie
Mack, the original shouting jubilee
songstress; Mr.. Chas Mills, Americas
greatest all-around acrobatlc buck
dancer. 14-15
Note-McKanlass was born a slave 10
the Cherokee Nation, !. t in 1858: is
self made, and the first colored gradu-
ate from the College of Music, Clncin-
natl, o., studies being violin, voice cul-
ture and composition of Music. The
first colored man appointed teacher of
music in the colored schools of Cincin-
natl, of which the School Annual Re-
port says: ''The singing under McKan-
lass is something superior" He is the
first and only co'ored man ever offered
the position of Chief Musician to the IT,
S. army, 9th Cavalry, under Gen. Hatch
and he has given concerts all over the
civilized wOrld-England, Europe, Aus
tralia and America 14-15
At City Opera Houce Monday, June
4. Admission 10, 25. and 50 cents.
Thomas Taylor, Esq. an industrious
| farmer, of Potosi was dangerously hurt
in runaway accident last week He
was driving dowa Massey hill on his
road home when a rain came up. He
raised his umbrella and this frightened
colt that he had driven to wagon
| but three or four times The other
/ horse was steady one but was pushed
! into ditch by the quick action of the
| colt, and in order TO keep the buggy
| from oyerturning he jumped out. His
| feet caught in a blanket ne had over
| him TO keep the rain off and Mr.. Tay :
/ Tor was thrown with terrific force
against rock by the road. side. causing
internal injuries that it is feared will
prove fatal. He is brother of our city
Marshall John Taylor.
The Herald wishes to call the atten-
ton of the friends of the S. S. of Grant
Co. 10 the proposition adopted at the
recent convention held in this city, for
sustaining a County S. S. Missionry
Tie fact thai under the old method
the cause has steadily lost
ground, S. S. after S. S. having been
entirely abandoned. makes it plain that
some other plan should be tried. This
plan of County S. S. work is not an
experiment, having been successfully
tried in nearly so counties in diffent
states Wherever tried, it has worked
SO successfully and resulted in such
large increase of S. S. and Church
attendance, that it has never in any
case been abandoned. Waukesha,
Rock, Sank, Eau Claire Counties of this
state have entered enthusiastically upon
their second wear of County S. S.work
A united effort of all the 5. s. is
| necessary to make the scheme sncoors