Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-05-21

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purchases TO enlarge her millinery
stock.
Attorney Geo. R. Whitman Of
Dodgeville was a visitor in the city
on Monday.
Sam Bambrough has been offered
$500 for his three-legged colt. Several
museums are after it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lon. Wayne were
over from Boscobel and spent Thurs
day and Friday with friends in Lam
caster.
Miss Nellie Altizer, having con-
eluded her years engagement as
teacher at Cuba. returned home here
Monday.
-Thos. Mcdonald organized an A.
P. A. council at Platteville. Thursday
night which starts out with a large
membership.
Charley Barber, Who keeps a
strict account of the weather, informs
us that / 3-16 inches OF rain fell here
last Saturday,
North of us the hay crop is show
ing up light. The stand is thin ow-
ing to grass having been killed out
by many droughts.
VIM. Schmitz, residing near Cass-
vile, was seriously hurt in run
away by being dragged along the
road for half mile.
A number of people were cheated
out of contemplated trip to Dubu-
que Sunday last, on account Of the
rain on Saturday night.
Base Ball Season has opened up
in Lancaster, SO is that complete line
of canned fish, meat and other Picnic
delicacics at j. Nathan & Sons.
Lace curtains, delicate fabrics in
children's clothing, fine work of all
kinds are some of the specialties at the
steam laundry of Geo. P. Angus.
Harry Patch has moved into his
new residence on West Maple Street.
Mr. H. c. Walton intends to occupy
the rooms vacated by Mr.. Patch.
Miss Maud Caruther's equal as a
reader has never appeared on the stage
here. Plymouth, Wis, Review. At
Reeds opera house Friday, June 5.
There is to be reunion and PIC
mic of the Odd Fellows lodges of Lin
den, Dodgeville, Mineral Point, and
Livingston at Linden on June 18th.
The third mines of Lancaster and
Fennimore will play ball at the fair
grounds in this city on Saturday after
noon at o'clock. Admission free.
Ladies of this vicinity who desire
shirt waists delicately and superbly
laundried call at the Lancaster steam
laundry, Geo. P. Angus, proprietor.
Suspicious looking tramps were
in the vicinity of Mount Hope, Friday.
Some think they are the same parties
that broke into the store at Montfort.
The Lancaster Gun club had a
meeting Friday. Some good shooting
was done and c. H. Basford was de.
clared champion shot of the occasion.
IL say, Blossom, how do you pro-
nounce c-a-s-t-o-r-i-a?n ..Why, cas-
toria of course; how else could it be?''
swell, the doctors pronounce it harm
less
MIR. T. Morgan of Little Grant
died few DAYS ago. He was a highly
respected gentleman and had reached
the ripe old age of about ninety
years.
Miss Clara Bieg, the HERALD's
efficient typo, is taking weeks vaca-
tion and visiting her sister Nettie who
is clerk in Gimbel Bros. store at
Milwaukee.
Verne Holford of the Blooming
ton Record passed through Lancaster
Monday on his way to Stevens Point
to visit his sister Elva who is teaching
school there.
A brook trout weighing six pounds
has just been caught in Beaver creek,
near Galesville. Wis. Newspapers
there claim the statement is true be-
yond dispute.
The body of Waldo Weaver,
drowned at Prairie du Sac, has not
yet been recovered, although experts