Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-05

and Wednesday in Fennimore.
WANTED. baker at John Burns
restaurant. A lady preferred, apply
at once.
The editor is absent attending
meeting OF the State Press Association
in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Glen. Williams and children
of Chicago are the guests of her sis
ter, Mrs. Godfrey.
Geo. Clcmentson returned last sat
urday to his duties in Washington GO
ing by way of Prairie du Cnien.
Miss Beth Muesse has been a guest
at the home OF Mr.. Jacob Baumgart-
ner OF Fennimore for the past week
DIR. Edwards went to Platteville
last Monday to meet Bishop Nicholson
who conducted confirmation services
there at that time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Vande Wall were
called to Platteville Wednesday morn
ing on account of the serious illness of
Mrs. Vande Wallis father.
We are pleased to state that Mrs.
Harry Barnett shows some improve
ment as we go to press. For several
days she has been lying at deaths
door.
Mr.. A. f. Aspinwall the North
Westerns efficient telegraph operator
resumed his duties in the Lancaster
station, March 1st after six weeks
vacation.
Miss Eta Hannum has returned
from visit of several weeks dura-
tion in Iowa and has resumed her old
position OF clerk with the firm of Bax-
ter & Draper
Mr.. w. f. Brown, wife and two
children of Rhinelander are visiting
the family of Richard Meyer, ST., the
ia ther of Mrs. Brown, and other rela-
tives in this city.
w. III. Chandler, state high school
inspector, made an official visit to
Lancaster on Friday last. This is Mr..
Chambers first visit to our school in
the capacity of inspector.
Mrs. NJ. d. Wood, Supreme Mis-
tress of Records and Correspondence
of the Rathbone Sisters, visits Calan-
the Temple this Wednesday evening.
She is the guest of Mrs c. H. Basford
while in the city.
Fred Armsburger of the Lancaster
creamery has established two skim
ming stations, one at Hurricane and
one near Cement school house east of
town. Oscar Jeide will work for him
this summer. He has also leased the
Mt. Hope creamery. He is talking of
establishing third Swimming station
| for the Lancaster creamery.
Frank Wheeler, city marshal of
Waukesha. was here visiting his friend
Charles Angus the latter part of last
week. He called on the HERARD and
informed us that DR.. A. H. Barber is
in the best of health, and that the
reform school is being so well guard
ed that no new cases of smallpox have
appeared in the school or city.
J. w. Martin, a special agent for
the Colorado Colonization Co.. is in
our city in the interest Of the COM
pany, and is interesting the people on
the subject of irrigation. He has some
fine samples of wheat, barley, oats
and alfalfa seed grown in that country
which will bear inspection and may
be seen in the real estate office of Nc
Donald & Altizer.
kilograms in daily papers with
flaming headlines relate that the peo-
Pile of Boscobel are excited over the
discovery of copper there by j. V.
France. The piece found weighed
just SO pounds. Our exchanges seem
to be more excited about it than are the
people. Guess that fly Evening Wis
consin reporter has had another snake
dream. If he had said "brass'' in
large quantities had been discovered
in Boscobel, nobody would have ques-
toned the dispatch.
At twenty when man is young he
thinks he knows it all; he likes to wag
his active tongue and exercise his
gall; he struts around in noble rage,
the world is all his own, he laughs to
scorn the world of age and lives for
self alone. He wears a window in his
eye to see his whiskers GROW; he
thinks the ladies pine and die because