Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-03-18

SICK.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the
Congregational church will meet with
Mrs. D. Abrams on Friday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. H. Terrant are
expected here tonight, Wednesday.
for a few days stay at the old home
stead, with Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Steph-
ems.
Mrs. Carrie Clement came home
from Chicago with her father, Jos.
Nathan, and will spend a few days
with her relatives and friends in this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Schmidt
of Montfort visited the first of the
week with Mrs. Schmidts parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. d. G. Garner of this
city.
The Richie and Browning dray
line begins an advertisement this
week. They are reliable and trusty
men and are entitled to liberal
patronage.
Mrs. D. G. Garner lost a pair of
silver bowed spectacles in a case on
the streets of Lancaster last Sunday.
Finder is requested to leave them at
the Herald Office.
"A splendid line of spring and
summer suitings just received at John
Jeide's tailor shopin Lancaster. Suits
made to order on short notice and at
reasonable prices.
Mrs Frank Hickok returned from
Chicago Presbyterian hospital a week
ago and is greatly improved in health.
She has gone back on to the Schloesser
farm near Bloomington.
Twelve of Lancaster's fairest
ladies attended carpet rag bee at
Belle Dudley Smiths in Beetown last
Friday We suppose Mrs. Smith will
now have carpets to sell.
Mrs. Bailey of Fennimore, mother
of DR.. A. B. Bailey and who has been
lying at the point of death for some
time is improving and her friends ex-
pect her complete recovery.
Ladies, to be in style you must
have your new spring hats well
adorned with fowers-violets and
roses. Miss Schloesser has some that
are ''just too sweet for anything"
Frank Wagner has moved into
one of Mr.. Harvey's houses. We are
pleased to state that Frank is improv-
ing slowly but certainly and the
chances are that he win again be a
well man.
The new gospel ship of Capt.
Henry Bundy has been completed by
the Racine Boat company and viii be
launchedfin fewdays. The craft is
forty feet long, twelve feet beam and
cost 81, 900.
they look like straw berries, they
smell like strawberries, they taste
like strawberries, they are strawber-
ries. Nathans keep them. Think of
it, fresh strawberries the 18th ofMarch
and only 40 cents box!
Katie Keller, the efficient clerk at
j. Carey, Jr's.. store, has gone to
Bloomington to stay awhile and she
expects to go from there to Iowa. Geo.
McGonigal now waits upon costumers
of the Carey store in Lancaster.
Mrs. R. P. Perry of Reedsburg has
been visiting for few days in the
city, the guest of Mrs. E. NJ. Lowry.
Mrs. Perry will be remembered as
Helen Nicely, who was a successful
teacher in the city schools here some
years ago.
An exchange says if all the COWS
in Wisconsin were standing, heads
and tails, in single file, the leader
might have her nose stuffed in feed
box in Maine while the last one
thoughtfully switched flies in sunny
California.
On Monday evening last, thirty
warm friends of John Mcmahon sur
prised that gentleman at his home in
Lancaster. They carried refreshments
with them and received a hearty well
come. The evening passed most
pleasantly.
james Tenant has rented the
old Vivian place just south of town.
Last Wednesday evening thirty-eight
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