Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-12-24

returned home last Tuesday.
Miss Grace Godfrey. daughter Of.
DR.. H. T. Godfrey. OF Galena. viii be
married Dec. %. 1896. in Grace
Episcopal church to Mr. Leigh Leslie.
Mr.. J. 4. Williams, formerly
principal Of schools in Cassville and
Bloomington and later superintendent
Of the Galena city schools. is pastor Of
a Congregational church at Des
Moines. Iowa After leaving Galena
he practiced law for several wears.
Mrs. Williams viii be very pleasantly
remembered by Lancaster people as
Miss Wilkinson, teacher in the high
school Of this CITY.
Last Friday one OF Barnett &
Sons fine large dray teams nearly
met death by drowning. Sam Rich
ards was using the team to clean off
one ofAnton Schnitt' ice ponds when
they broke through and fell into the
water. They became entangled in
the harness and the heroic efforts Of
Mr. Richards and some other men
brought them well out Of what seemed
for while to be hopeless engulf-
ment.
DIR. Thomas Bishop of Platteville
and Miss FLOW Wheeler Of Baraboe
were married last week. Mr.. Bisnop
is Platteville man who improved his
opportunities and is now popular
physicians in that city. Miss Wheel
er is the daughter OF Rev. Wheeler,
deceased, formerly presiding elder of
the NJ. E. church in this district. She
is charming young lady well worthy
the man of her choice. We extend
congratulations
Its rather amusing to hear some
of our esteemed neighbors cry out
about the wickedness of Lancaster be-
cause there were two or three petty
offenses committed here in one week.
Such happenings would, of course,
pass unnoticed in Platteville. Fenni-
more or Boscobel. Because we are
the hub the felloes spoke. They tire
US. Such a whirling Of sand and
gravel because once in a thousand
years or less we revolve just little
below the axle OF perfect proprietyl
Well, we accept the situa-
ton; we know we set the example for
the restaof the county and will try to
do better after the holidays.
-Messrs. F. E. Tenant and Frank
Markert of Lancaster have just been
granted letters patent on a device for
opening and closing glass fruit Jars.
1t is.amply. apiece of bent steel, wire
which clamps over the top of the can
and is held firmly j q. place by pressure
OF the hand ON the--twog ends of the
wire--net unlike the old wrench used
for that purpose. The boys conceived
the idea of slipping. over the, wire a
small piece of.rubber hose which pre-
vents the wire Slipping when once a
grip has been taken on the tin screw
cover of the jar. They seat in to
Washington their rubber hose-eover-
ing idea to be patented when they
found there was no patent on the wire
wrench, so they were granted a patent
on the whole contrivance.
Puppy" Richards is lost. The
dog was last seen on Monday and all
efforts to find him have up to the
present writing proved fruit,ess.
Puppy was about two and one-half
feet long, foot and one-half high,
with dark red corkscrew hair, mel
low, lemon eye and he had an immod-
crate hankerlng for acknowledged
chickens and cats. Any information
concerning him will be cheerfullv re-
ceived by the disconsolate owner, Mr..
Sam Richards, Lancaster, south Adams
street. With no desire to create
trouble we beg leave to suggest that
Billy, the great American Trapper
and Hunter, probably by this time
has his hide stretched on the cabin
wall out at the Game Preserve Of
Thompson brothers, LATER.-.Pup-
Ply" came home this morning in his
usual good health.
There are curious and humorous
things in the most prosy work. A
special committee appointed by the
chairman of the county board has
been Investigating the books in the
register of deeds Office. The very