Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-08-01


They are reliable and wide awake and
merit a liberal patronage.
Miss Thvrza Mitchell of Lancas-
ter. Wis. is visiting Miss Lobina Per-
ry and Maune Perry at West Super
ior. n Dakota Globe.
The number OF base ball teams in
southwestern Wisconsin ''that have
not lost a game this season is sur
prisingly large and constantly i~nereas-
ing.
Fighting Tom, the Boxing Kanga-
roo, will spar four rounds, afternoon
and night. with Lemen Brothers
Big Show, here on Thursday, August,
10th.
A party of campers and fishers from
Lancaster are on Green riverthis week.
They are Judge Carter. Aug Mich
aelis. ". f. orion. f. j. Cole. Fred
Orion.
Flint and Edwards will be the bat
terry Friday, Aug. 2nd in the game
with Richland Center. Flint will do
the pitching for the locals the rest of
the season.
The examination for the county
superintendent certificate will be
held in Madison at the capitol Aug.
6, Z and 8th,, the time for holding the
regular examinations for state eertifi-
Gates.
Mr.. Oscar Belscamper has more
than his share of good things. The
hail storm did not visit him at all
and last Sunday night a bouncing
baby boy came to live with him. No
wonder he smiles.
VIM. Ward, living three miles
west OF this city. leaves this week for
Dakota where he will run a steam
thresher. The HERALD goes with
him to keep him posted on Grant
County happenings.
The hail stones last week were so
numerous and the floods piled them in
such quantities that they remained for
days without melting. Four days after
the storm the writer found hail stones
in considerable quantities and brought
samples for town on exhibition.
Mrs. Walter I. Newberry of Chica-
90, Mrs. A.. S. Newberry of Campbell,
Mo. who are spending the summer at
the General Newberrv farm near Cass-
vile. together with Mrs, Frank Wat
erman OF Cassville. drove over to our
city Wednesday for a pleasure trip.
They had a driver.
A quilt made by Mrs. Pritchett Of
Beetown was rallied off last week 10
obtain money to help in sending a
daughter to school. The rattle was an
der the management of Mrs. r. B..
Showalter. Ticket number Sc held
by Mrs. Wm.K iley was the lucky one
and drew the quilt.
A jolly camping party left last
Thursday evening for a point oppo-
site the Mississippi river for a two
weeks outing. The pasty consists of
Walter Webb, Chas. Mccoy. Dick Nye,
Will Webb. Alex Ivev, Art Jones.
Frank Webb. V. l.. Showalter and
Frank Green are with this week.
Mrs. Jheo. Calvin received a tele-
gram Tuesday announcing the death of
her sister Mrs. Mary Singer, Monaco,
Wis. The telegram came to late for
Mrs. Calvin to attend the funeral.
Mrs. Singer. whose maiden name
was Pritchett, was reared in the
vicinity of Lancaster.
DIR. NARROW is in town today in the
interest of the telephone plant he is
establishing in the western part of
the county. He contemplates run
ming the line from Bloomington to
Lancaster and having connections
with Patch Grove. Glen Haven, North
Andover, Bagley and other points. 1t
IS an enterprise that should receive
encouragement.
An interesting letter from Ii. S.
Keene who is now living in Seattle
states that he is much improved in
health and was just ready to take his
annual outing in the mountains for
a few weeks. Mr.. Keene is now
a practicing attorney in Seattle. He
says - II feel like congratulating
vou on your success as an editor as
there is now something of the old
time ring to the HERALD"
A startling proof of the severity of
the recent drouth was brought to
light on Friday when Attorneys Lowry
& Clementson returned from a fishing
iaunt andwith pardonablepride exhibit
ted two dried herring. We were war
NJ anyof the streams inthe countywere
dry as well as many of the fishermen
but it had never occurred to Us that
there was any danger of the fish dry
ing up too.
As Geo. Gray was going home from
the city n day last week he met
with a serious accident. He was
driving a spirited young horse at a
rapid rate. A sudden turn Of the rig
caused him to lose his balance and
fall on his head and shoulders and