Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-12-03


umns The firms who advertise are
the ones to patronize.
Mr.. Geo. B. Clementson leaves to
day for Washington to resume his
duties as secretary of committee on
District of Columbia.
The Lancaster Cornet Band will
give a grand Christmas ball in the City
opera house Dec. %. Music by the
Dubuque Harp Orchestra. Dance
tickets, one dollar. Every body in
vited.
The ladies of Emanuel parish will
hold an apron sale on Wednesday next
at two O'Clock in Ell. Hyde's building
next to 1'rowbridges store. A TWEEN
ty-tve cent supper will be served at
five o'clock. Every one is cordially
invited
-Kiekapoo Chief; a couple of
tramps undertook to clean out NJ.
Schweizer's stock of overshoes last
week, by stealing four pairs while
one tramp had Mr.. Schweizer engaged
in repairing shoe. The tramps
were bagged later on, when the loss
was discovered, but the property
could not be recovered.
The lecture of John r. Clarke in
the Congregational cheurch last week
gave good satisfaction. Mr.. Clark is
an entertaining as well as an instruc-
tive speaker and easily carries his aud
fence 40 aud Fro IN London" for q
two hours tour of imaginative sight
seeing. His address, was enlivened by
bits of story telling. humorous de-
scriptions and quaint philosophy.
The Knights of Pythias lodge
elected officers last Tuesday evening
for the coming year. They are Geo.
B. Carter, c. c.; j. c. Churchill. v.
c.; q. @. Sykes. Prelate; j. w. Wen
eel, NJ of W; W. B. Carter, K of r &
S; H. G. Nathan, M of F; V. L. Show
alter, M of f; Fred Halferty. NJ at A;
Antoine Howell. Trustee for three
years; Geo. B. Carter, Grand Repre-
sentative.
The funeral party conveying the
body of Albert Briethaupt from Mimi
esota to Lancaster were seriously de-
layed and hindered by the great snow
storm. They left their home We'd
nesday and drove thirty miles to Eos
ston where they took the train. At
Crookston the storm ragged so fiercely
that further progress was blocked.
1t was AZ hours before the fury OF the
blizzard had abated sufficiently to
permit trains to begin running. They
arrived in Lancaster Monday noon.
No one came with the body but Mrs.
Breithuupt and her friend Miss Mary
Plat.
= Grandpop Goddlewoggles bum
giles in trying to dodge around sharp
corners. In answer to the HERALD's
article which stated that he charged
Grant county $50 for printing a 500
Job, he says: Seventeen or eighteen
years ago printed calendars for which
| put in bill of $50. The size of
those calendars was more than twice as
large as the HERALD's $40 calendars. !"
OF course he makes a misstatement
when he says they were more than
twice as large; but never mind, we
| will let that pass with the undeniable
statement that the HERHLD printed
more than twice as many calendars
for $50 than the Teller did for $50.
Now, VIII the only Goddlewoggles tell
the people why he made those 500
court calendars .more than twice as
large Was it not to doodle the
taxpay ers out of the difference between
$40 ami 500?
The distinguishing features of
the Teller office showed themselves
again last week. G. Pop Goddlewog-
giles admitted himself a contemplate
Paul pry. He boasts that there is
some sort of a secret connection be-
tween the wire that runs into his Of
flee and the Grant county telephone
line whereby he can hear much that
is said on that line and pry into free
Of eos0 the private and confidential
business issues of that line. He says:
Darlington is another office that was
telephoned to, but not through Tie