Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-08-30

or trade EDw' D. Tinker. 19tf
WANTED "A house keeper for fam
lily of four A good place. Apply al
the HERALD Office. 27-2S
Thos. Carmody. Esq. of Lancaster.
thresed 5271 bushels of oats from 20
acres. John Decker did the work.
Keer your eye on the dates of the
Grant Co. Fair. II you want prem
ium list, address L. A. Burr, Lancas-
ter.
Cut up your corn this year you will
get the full benefit of the nubbin then.
You will need the fodder anyway. Get
ready for hard winter with lots of
snow.
Don't forget the Fair dates-Lancss
ter, September 10. 20 and 81; Bloom
ington, September 5. and z; and Bos-
cobel September u. Is and IA. Oil
your buggy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Selling of Avoca have
had four deaths in their family in eleven
months. The last was their son Leon
ard, aged II years, who drank too
much cold water after becoming heated
in a ball game
We are glad to greet our old friend
Thos Grattan. Esq, From Cassville,
Tuesday. He came over to see how
the populists run a convention and
how Lancaster is growing. We would
like to have him move here.
The Inter Ocean can be had BY Her.
aid subscribers six months for 80 cts.
The price for year is now 20 cts. but
we are able to make special rates for
six months. There is no better paper
in the west for old and young than the
Inter Ocean is.
For SALE.-80 acres, 100 acres, 240
acres of very fine farming land. First
class buildings, well water, spring
water and cistern. All under cultiva-
ton. A first class bargain. Call at
HERALD Office. 24tf.
John Rewvell, of East Dubuque, the
father of Postmaster Rewvell, was
killed last Thursday morning by falling
down stairs and breaking his neck. He
came to East Dubuque over 40 years
ago and was over so years Of age at the
time of his death.
VIM. BENEFITS, Sr., an old and high.
ly respected citizen of Bloomington,
died last Monday evening at the age of
"A years. He has been very sick for
the past three weeks and at times has
suffered intensely. He was leading
member of the NJ. f. Church at Bloom
ington.
''Jane" was a success. The high
order of the comedy, the evolutionary
powers of the chief male actor and the
skill of Jane were all worthy of praise.
All the parts were we'll executed and it
was deserving of a better patronage
than it received.
John E. Day lost COW and fat
steer last week in the following man.
ner. They were going down steep
declivity to the water when each slipp-
ed little 70 one side. catching a hind
leg in root that had grown out so as
to make a loop. A leg of each was
broken and they had to be killed. Such
an accident won't likely happen again
in two life times.
The drouth has told savagely on the
amount of milk received at the Lancas-
ter creamery. Those farmers who are
cutting corn and feeding it to their
cows are, however, bringing in fair
supply OF excellent milk.s When corn,
as poor as a good deal of it now is, can
be turned into good milk and butter it
pays well to do so.
"Jane'' was by all odds the best
entertainment of the kind ever given in
Lancaster. People who 60 to Madison,
Milwaukee or Chicago OF business, or
for a visit, do not hesitate to pay
dollar or dollar and half to see the
the same play by the same company
and when they come home they enjoy
telling their friends how good it is. A
small house greeted the company here,
but nevertheless, it was highly enjoyed
by those who did attend.
Less Webb who was sentenced to a
term of imprisonment by Judge Glenn
entson last spring, but whose sentence
was suspended on condition of good
behavIor,is again in Jail here. His ''bad
luhNS AtSPOoitAOh SOb ullH III bIOuUl6
again, and he and pal have been fugi-
tives from justice for some time, skip
ping about in Illinois Iowa and other
states. Sheriff Miller and McGonigal
located them in Omaha and succeeded
in bringing them both to Lancaster.
Schram is out on bail but Webb will be
taken to Platteville Friday for prelimi-
nary trial.
Hiram Pennock. Esq, was quite seri-
ously hurt last Friday afternoon while
moving his steam thresher from one
stackyard TO another. When he tried
to run the engine back to hitch on to
the separator, the reverse lever caught
and would not work so as to stop the
engine. Consequently the engine ran
into the separator. catching MIR. PEN
mock against the foot board anu pin
ming him down on Up of the boiler.
He was badly bruised IN the side, and
badly burt across the side and aldo.
men, the bruise being more serious
than the burn. Had not the separator
moved back when the engine struck IL