Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-30
SHORT LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
WOVEN ENTs OF PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF
LANCASTER.

What is Going on Around Town Given IN
Condensed Paragraphs Items Wise and
otherwise.
The new furnace at the Episcopal
church is complete success.
Peanut soup is one of the late fads;
try it at your next social function.
There will be dance at Reeds
opera house Friday evening, Feb. Z.
The last course of iron was put up
on the waterworks standpipe Tuesday
The Congregational Ladies Society
will meet on Friday with Mrs. Car
thew.
Miss Bell Bartlett gave a delightful
party to some of her friends Friday
evening.
Call on H. 5. Rhodes for anything
in the line of Furniture. Next door
to Sargent's Restaurant. 1t.
Mrs DIR. Hassell gave delightful
5 o'clock tea to about twenty Of her
lady friends on Friday last.
A consultation of physicians was
called Monday in the case of Miss
Moilie Clifford who is dangerously i'll.
We are informed as we go to press
that Isaac Shepherd shows no inn
provement in health and is alarming
~ i'll.
Miss Mary Bellows gave party
Monday evening in honor of her sister
Mrs. Charlotte Kelly, who returned to
her home in Hampton, Iowa, Tuesday.
The Times Review gives Mrs Froth-
lngham a very fattering compliment
on her work IN Fennimore as INSTALL
ing officer fer the Eastern Star lodge.
Among the recent additions to the
list of candidates for the republican
nomination for sheriff is that OF T. S.
Metcalf, a worthy citizen of Glen
Haven.
Freddie. why did you drop the
baby on the floor?n
well, heard everybody say it is
bouncing baby. and | wanted to see it
bounce"
Tax Collector James Woodhouse
admonishes those who have not yet
done so to pay their taxes at once as
after the 10th Of February. per cent
will be charged.
Some OF our young men have or
gained an indoors base ball club.
Howard Rhodes has sent for the
clubs outfit and it will arrive here
the last of this week
For regularity and smoothness of
motion the new waterworks pump is
..not in it, with Michaelis & Roberts
new sewing machines. Each one is
a poem set to sweetest music
Henry Bresee. who has piloted the
stage between Lancaster and Platte
vile for number of years. has re-
signed his position to 60 to farming.
Albert Miller has taken his place.
L. c. MeKenny, formerly a news
paper man in Grant county. has start
ed paper. The News. at san Jose
Cal. Waiting for fruit orchards to
grow was too slow a job for Mac.
A very pleasant surprise party was
given last week at the home of Mr. f.
L. Howe in honor of Mrs. narrower
OF Fennimore who WIS visiting the
Howes and other friends in the city.
The HERALD office will Ge supplied
in a few days With the sparkling and
pure Griswold spring water Ho, all
We thirsty! Come and drink of the
crystal nectar, without money and
without price.
The Lancaster laundry receives
much praise for its prompt service
and satisfactory work. Their prices
are reasonable and their work as good
as the best. If you haven't already
done so give them trial.
Howard Rhodes has placed in his
furniture store a new iron safe pur-
chased of the Dubuque Coffin Co.
which weighs 5000 pounds. viii
Turner hauled the safe from Dubuque
Monday, coming up the Mississippi
river on the ice.
Charles H. Baxter, of Lancaster. is
a prominent candidate for the next
department commandership of the
Grand Army of the Republic of Wis
consin. He was gallant soldier He
10 wealthy and can well afford to give
his time to the work of the order
Baraboo Republic.
James Woodhouse has been con-
ed to his bed for several DAYS. The
gentleman collects taxes, and it is
supposed that the tales of woe related
by taxpayers together with the sight
Of so much money that he couldn't
call his own. produced the illness.
However. he is growing stronger and
will pull through.
John Wright. ST.. i the first man
ii Lancaster to enjoy the use Of water
rom the mains running from the
tsriswold spring into his private resi-
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