Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-06-27

1t Will hereafter De puDiloutu uHueI
the name of Palmer and Muffiey, Al
bert Muffiey having purchased a half
interest.
A severe hail storm is reported at
running the corn and seriously dam
aging other crops. 1t is said the balls
of ice lay 2inches deep on the gro und
after the storm.
Attorneys BIZ. Huntington and D.J.
Gardner of Platteville attended court
Tuesday and were compelled to re-
main until Wednesday on account of
the sudden illness of Mr.. Huntington.
He improved so as to be able to re-
turn on the afternoon train.
A large number of visitors from
Platteville and other points came to
Lancaster on Tuesday to witness the
ball game but were disappointed on ac-
count of the rain. An enthusiastic
delegation arrived from Potosi We'd
neahay afternoon after the game was
all over.
Roy Ivey was one of several bows
who erected a platform on the fair
ground yesterday in order to COM
mand a better view. 1t fell with
them and Roy received quite a bad
hurt by having a stick thrust into his
thigh. He will be laid up with it for
some time.
The Madison State Journal makes
the mistake of ascribing the author
ship of Road Rights and Liabilities
o Wheelmenn to Judge Clemen tson
instead of his son George b. 1t is
the attor ney and not the Judge who is
responsible for the neatly gotten up
book dedicated to the..Devotees of ter
%restial flight in its most e%xhilirating
FORM"
DIR. o. P. Sala and wife of Bloom
ington visited in Lancaster the first
part of the week and enjoyed the fes-
t~ivities of the Eastern Star Special at
Mrs. Frothingham's. Mrs. Cawood
Minor. sister of Mrs. Sala, accompa-
MED them. Mrs. Minor was born
and reared near Bloomington but now
lives in David City, Neb. This is her
first visit to Grant county in twelve
years.
The Wisconsin Bankers Association
met in Oshkosh last week. Mr.. Fred
p. Meyer was one of the speakers for
the occasion. His address was in re-
Spouse to a toast to The Young Bank
er and was highly complimented by
members of the association. Fred is
winning laurels rapidly as an orator.
Boscobel people continue to mention
the scholarly and appropriate address
delivered by him in that city on
Memorial Day.
The Hon. j. b. Mccoy and wife of
Platteville accompanied by Mr.. Eu-
gene Boynton and wife of Kansas City,
Mo-, drove over to Lancaster from
Platteville on Friday. Mrs. Boynton
is a sister of Mr.. Mccoy and former
ally lived with her brother in Platte
vile. Mr.. BoyntoE is a Grant county
boy. reared and educated in Platte
vile. He is a graduate Of the Nor
NAL school and visited hat institution
during its closing exercises.
Mrs. rockingham, the w. NJ. OF
the Eastern Star gave a very pleasant
surprise to the members of that order
last Monday evening, June oath it be-
ing the day of the festival of st. John
invitations were sent by her request
ing the Stars to be present at a special
meeting at her home. Nearly all re-
sponded and found the host and host
ess had prepared a delightful enter
tainment for their guests. A variety
of games was provided for amusement
and later refreshments were served
on the lawn which was made beauti-
full with flowers and Chinese light.
Mrs. A. T. Nye of Sapinero, Colora-
do, who with her little daughter Ray,
has been spending a week with her
husbands parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
Nye, left for her home last Friday.
She was accompanied by her sister
in-law, Miss LAME Nye, who intends
to spend her vacation with her broth
er who is agent at S~apinero, a station
on the Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
way in western Colorado. Mr.. Nye
has been in the employ of this com
pany for some sever years and is en-
thusiastic in his praise of the climate
and natural advantages of the Cen
tennial state.
Our ''model small pox patient" re-
Gently INDUCED in a two-column ex-
PLANTATION of a short paragraph in the
HERALD, which might be styled
''How l Came to be On the Town in
which he states that he made a tender
of two hundred dollars and over to
reimburse the council and which they
refused to accept. We have his word
for it, that is al. The records show
nothing of the kind and no remem-
brance of such an event remains in
the clerks mind. Such tenders are
not so common as to be easily forgot
ten. Now is it not possible that
Grandpa has mixed up what he did
do and what he knows he ought to
have done until they are so ~s.inextric-
ably intertwined" that he has forgot