Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-12-17

with Trends il this city over sunday.
the guests Of Col Richard Carter and
family Joseph Bennett Of Lam
caster was here over SUNDAY visiting
his father, Hop Jos Bennett. who
has been quite iil COR some days past
with an affection Of his right arm.
which has troubled him more or less
for some years past We are pleased
to learn that the senior Mr.. Bennett is
now Improving.
A Christmas Cantata entitled
Santa Claus Arrival will he rendered
10y the children OF the Congregational
Sunday sthool in the City opera house
on Christmas eve. The author Of
this produetioni Charles Gabriel who
has written more pleasing cantaras
for Sunday schools than any one writ
er. Don't fail to hear it, Admission
fee adults 20 cents, children over u
years ofage not members Of the sun
day school 10 cents Children Of the
Sunday school free.
What l would do if / were a
girl was the theme from which the
Rev. I. j. Brown delivered an inter-
esting lecture last Sunday evenin,
Among the things he would do were
the following; he would be neat and
gentle; would be courageous; would
keep good company and avoid fiirta-
ton; would read good books; would
get married; would be helpmate. etc,
The advice to the girls was good and
if needed would be helpful in the
formation of strong characters.
Nov that the Spanish General
Weyler has assassinated Maceo, the
leader Of the Cubans who are fighting
for their freedom. he is trying to talk
Maceo's soldiers to sleep by telling
them that they have no one to lead
them to battle and therefore had bet
ter lay down their arms and come into
his camp. If the Cubans only knew
that our Fred Burke is due there on
the first Of January. on account OF
having lost that election bet. they
would probably brace up and try to
hold out until he gets there.
AT their election last Saturday
afternoon the ladies of the Tom Cox
W. r. C. elected officers as follows:
Catherine Strong. President; Marcia
Buchner, S. v; Mary E. Rothschild,
j. v; Annie Ivey. Treasurer;Elizabeth
Spencer, Chaplain; Sarah Calvin, Con-
ductress, Florence Bradley, Guard /;
Kate Greene, Clara rockingham, Mar
ian Sykes, Ida Showalter, Delegates to
convention at Eau Claire; Ocea Bas-
ford, Elizabeth Spencer, Annie Ivey,
Mary Starr, Alternates. Ida Sho-
walter was appointed Secretary, Kate
Greene Asst Con-, and Lucy Wier
Asst Guard.
-Platteville Witness: Miss Martha
Schellenger dropped dead at the home
of her daughter Edith in California on
Monday of last week. She was buried
there. Mrs. Schellenger was a former
resident of this place, a lady well
known and much thought of by hosts
of friends. We learn movement
is on foot to secure the passage by
our city council of Curfew ordinance
under the provisions of which it will
be unlawful for boys under the age of
/ years to loaf around on our streets
after certain hour in the evening 1t
IS well understood that much of the
deviltry that is learned and INDUCED
in By boys takes place after dark, and
it is a step in the right direction 10
keep them at home after night fall 1t
/ is no compliment 10 parents TO ac-
knowledge that a law is necessary in
order to control their children. but
for all that, there is a very urgent
need that just such a law be enacted
Other cities in this part of the state,
notably Lancaster, Mineralpoint and
i Viroqua, adopted the curfew law some
time ago, and the people are enthusi-
astic in its favor. A special
meeting of the Common council was
held on Monday evening to take into
consideration the further prosecution
OF the work on the waterworks we'll
T. NJ. Gray the proprietor of the drill
ing machine, was present. The well
is now over 100 feet deep and he
claims that they have passed through
the potsdam sandstone and that they
are now penetrating the granite, and