Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-30

the recollection of the oldest inhabi-
tant.
The fare from Boscobel to Racine
and return acct. of the Department
encampment of the e. A. r. is So
25 cents. Tickets win on sale May
18th and goth good returning until
May 2Srd. t. w. Lippincott
-Platteville Witness: The Grant
County Telephone Co. has opened an
office at NJ. f. Rewey's. on the Lam
caster road, where they will accommo-
date those who wish to communicate
with their offices throughout the
county.
Geo. Wahl, residing near Rhodes
school house, who had both bones of
his right leg broken below the knee a
week ago by hog falling against it
while butehering, is getting along
nicely under the care OF DIR, F. E.
Strong.
The crowd of farmers trading in
Lancaster Saturday was so large that
places sufficient to tie teams could
not be found. To stand inside the
court house square and look at the
teams was better than any horse show
we ever saw
On Tuesday morning Wesley Behls
confined in Jail charged with obtain
goods under false pretenses, made APP
plication to the county judge to plead
guilty. In seven days from the date
of the application Judge Carter will
sentence him.
Robert Webb, an old citizen of
Richland Center, committed suicide
Friday afternoon in his barn by cut
ting his throat with a butcher knife.
He was about 20 years old and we'll
to-do retired farmer. He is supposed
to have been insane.
The HERALD is the great adver-
Using medium between the merchant
and the people. The business man
who has no ..ad'' in it is behind the
times and puts slight upon the peo-
pie, his patrons, who have right to
know what he is doing.
F. E. Tenant, our new harness
maker, opens up with fattering sue
cess having received orders for new
harness continually since unlocking
his door for business. Call on him
when You want an honest jobo work.
He has had ten years experience.
While driving along in front of
Dytr''s barn Charley Decker's team be-
came frightened at a passing bicycle
and ran for Mr.. Wright's house.
They jumped over the sidewalk rail-
ing and landing in heap were cap
tured without doing much damage.
-Platteyille is threatened with a
$4,000 picking factory. Prairie du
Chen has picking factory with a
hole in it through which thousands OF
dollars of the peoples money have
slipped away never to return, as Wur-
ster & Keller and others can testify.
The Rathbone Sisters of Wiscon-
sin are iubilant over now being able
to have a Grand Temple. The SUI
preme Temple requires that there
shall be ten temples in state before
a Grand Temple can be organized.
There are now ten in this state and a
Grand Temple has been called to meet
in Milwaukee, May 18th.
List of Patents Granted to Wis
consin inventors this week reported
by C. A. Snow & Co; solicitors OF
American and Foreign Patents. Wash
ington d. G. A. G. Sierbach Milwau
kee. car-door. w. NJ. Booming. Port
Washington, rocker. l. p Cadman,
Beloit. cloth winding and measuring
machine. w. Dingee Racine, band
cutter and feeder. w. S. johnson.
Milwaukee. pressure regulator. NJ.
|. futile, mather baling-press.
Uncle Jed Barnett had the boys
in George McCarty's building paint
his wheelbarrow. They laid on seven
different brilliant colors and when
Jed wheeled it home with the bright
sun-rays glinting, giancing and re-
fecting over its multicolored field,
people fell to the ground all along the
way. Mr.. Barnett is a good. old
fashioned, modest man and when you
want to celebrate perhaps YOU can