Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-11-26


continued from last week viii be found
on the inside pages OF the HERALD
this week.
Arthur Dickerson and Miss Anna
Byrne were married at the Catholic
church in Benton Nov. Il, Father
Bergen officiating.
There will be a Green Sociable"
at the Congregational church next
Friday evening. Admission 10 cents.
Everybody invited.
Don't worry your mind any long
er about that Christmas present but
take what cash YOU have to spare to
j. II. Baldwin. He will do the rest.
II, B. Lewis OF Fennimore revolt
we'd around the hub" a little while
Wednesday Bert is a wide awake
life insurance agent and hustler for
business,
Married at the P. NJ. parsonage
in Hazel Green. Nov Il, 1896, by
Rev j. Challinor, Mr. j. G. Ayers
and Miss Margaret f. Peacock, both of
New Diggings.
The December FORUM will contaia
striking paper by President Chas.
F. Thwing of Western Reserve Univer-
sity, entitled The Drawbacks of a
College Education.
"A special session of court is
called for Dec. Is, to try the Belle
Proctor VS. city of Platteville damage
suit and two or three smaller cases.
The jury will be required.
The Christmas McClure's will have
a special cover, richly printed, and
decorated with one of Botticelli's no.
ted Madonnas, adapted and interpret
ed in line by Henry McCarter.
Charley Cooley is quite i'll, hav-
ing had tumor removed from his
back. Charley Weaver of Fennimore,
is filing his place at the barber shop
during Mr.. Cooley's illness.
Henry Holzinger found a black
kid in the road near the Aupperle
church and left it at the HERALD Of
flee. If any one has the mate to it
and wants "pair of kids call for
this one.
-Baldwin's silverware is not ex-
actly "free silver but it is so near
free that its cheapness will be a sill
yer lining to that gloomy cloud that
overhangs your Christmas present
pathway.
Il feel as though I'd met the
golden sun of prosperity" as the
lady said to the gentlemanly clerk in
Baldwin's jewelry store land l want
to exchange some of my surplus cash
for one of those fine silver tea sets.
A man with no visible means of
support was committed to the county
Jail Tuesday as vagrant, for three
days. The total cost to the county
will be 1925. Under the old rule
just abolished by the county board he
would have cost taxpayers seventy
five cents. Not much saved to the
county on that fellow.
L. w. Starblrd, secretary and
general manager of the Wisconsin
Savings and Loan association, is
spending few days in the city. He
expects to be able to establish branch
and form an advisory board in Lam
caster. The association sells several
classes of stock which can be paid fol-
in one sum or in monthly insttllments
it also negotiates loans.
in paying the bills of the register
without an order from the county
board Treasurer Harsberger has fol-
lowed a custom that has been in op-
Grafton good many years. The re-
fusal ofsthe county board to credit
him with the 1886 paid to Mr.. Belt
Ter looks like criticism on him but
was not so intended That action
means simply that Mr.. Better must
return 1886 to the treasurer.
The new county officers are max
ing arrangements for their labors in
the court house. C. F. Dickinson
will move into one of Mrs. Fanny
Duncan's houses on west Hickory
street. S. W. Rogers will occupy a
portion of Mrs. Baxter's residence on
the corner of Pine and Madison streets.
And Horace Hymer will 90 to jail