Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-07-09


tional church viii meet at Mrs. NJ. A.
Reeds on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
All members are requested to be pres
emit.
Public meeting of the Lancaster
Temperance League at the Congrega-
tional church, next Monday evening,
July 18th. Everybody invited to at
tend.
Brick work has started on the
new extension TO the Philips house.
Miss Annie Nauert of Boscobel is now
the pretty landlady of that flourishing
hotel.
The familiar face of Hon. j. I.
Mills was seen on our streets last week.
1t was pleasure for his many friends
to meet and chat with the Judge once
more.
George Hyde of Milwaukee shook
hands with old friends in Lancaster on
the Fourth. George looks prosperous
and passing years have touched him
lightly.
II. A. Burr visited A. H. Barber
at Waukesha over the Fourth. He
says that the doctor is well and that
there are now twelve patients in the
Kelley institute.
John Baldwin and his family have
been visiting for ten days at Kanka-
kee and other points in Illinois. They
will return home to Lancaster the lat
ter part of this week.
-Dodgeville Chronicle: Capt. Nc
Gov OF Platteville, called ON friends in
this city Tuesday. The Captain is
being talked of in Grant county as a
candidate for the position of state
senator.
John Wilkinson is home in Ellen
boro from Alabama and will remain
until fall. He says the climate of
Grant county agrees with his health
better than that of his new home in
the south.
WANTED A good girl to work in
kitchen and wait on customers in res
taurant Such a girl or woman can
find steady employment and good
wages by applying to John Burns,
Lancaster.
--Galena Gazette: Senator Baxter
is building a mansion at Lancaster.
say the papers. Well, it's heap bet
ter than building castles in the air as
great many candidates for office are
doing now.
Roy Knapp. son Of Jasper Knapp
of this city, left Tuesday morning for
Beeman, Ia, where he intends to
learn the timers trade with his
brother who is in the hardware bust
ness at that place.
Mrs. d. H. Scofield of Plainfield,
Wis, gave birth to the smallest baby
ever known in the state. 1t weighed
one and three-quarter pounds and is
thirteen inches in length. 1t is boy
strong and healthy.
"A camping party Of six young
men. Clark Buchner. III. G. Altizer,
Harry Orion, Walt Weber, Geo.
Thompson. and Virgil Showalter com
muned with nature at Kings ford
Friday to Sunday last week.
&C W. Knapp & Son delivered and
started six new j. l. Case separators
with telescope automatic weighers on
this week. which are all giving excel
lent satisfaction. If you want good
work done get Case machine.
Mrs. Grace May Vance died at her
home near Mason City, Iowa, June 26,
1896. Mrs. Vance was the daughter
of A. NJ. Mckinney Of Mt. Ida. She
and her husband moved to Iowa from
Fennimore only few months ago.
e. G. Uren of Auburn. Cali, who
has been visiting relatives in Lancas-
ter and Potosi for month. returned
home Tuesday. He was accompanied
by Miss Mary Ennor of Potosi, who
will stay in California until next
spring.
Attorney Howe rather got the
start of the other candidates on the
Fourth. He could talk to a whole
crowd for an hour while the other fell
lows had to do their talking to one
man at time and have him talk back
half the time at that.