Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-04-08
SHORT LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

District attorney Howe was in
this city Monday
Fred Taylor Of Boseobel has leased
the Jerry smith farm at Blue River.
DIR. McElwee viii be at the Grand
Central hotel on Thursday, April Is.
-Dodgeville has passed curfew
ordinance similar to the one in force
here.
a J. Howell has 50 lar recovered
from his illness as to be on our streets
again.
Miss Mabel Vincent received the
highest honor card in her class-A
grade, first Grammar department.
Vacation in the public schools Of
this city closed last week. Teachers
and pupils are again hard at work.
Miss Bernice Buck OF Platteville
is spending part OF her vacation in
this city visiting her sister and
friends
Your attention is called to the
auction sale on the Farrell farm in
south Lancaster. April 20. See notice
in this paper.
Go early if you wish to consult
that most successful OF specialists, DR..
McElwee on Thursday, April 10 at the
Grand Central hotel.
DIR. Geo. E. Budd Jr., is home
from Milwaukee where he has just
graduated with honor from the Mil
waukee college of Dental Surgery.
The first day OF next fails term
of the circuit court in this county has
been set apart as a Memorial Day in
memory of the late Hon. I'D. Wilson.
\ We are pleased to welcome the
CHEEKY face of Chas. Harvey on our
streets again after his trying siege OF
sickness and the loss Of his noble
wife.
Editor Brooks of the Record was
in the city Saturday. He has secured
the services of Mr.. Frank Baldwin of
this city as an addition to the Records
force of printers.
The funeral sermon of Mrs. Chas.
Harvey was preached in the NJ. E.
church last Sunday. The sermon
was delayed until this time on ac,
count OF the sickness OF Mr.. Harvey.
Mrs. Fred Parish. aged "a years,
died at Richland Center. Shes was
formerly resident OF Boscobel and
was married there Oct %, 1891 She
leaves a husband and one child.
-LOsT-In the city Of Lancaster.
March3I, between the depot and Ivey
& Wcbb's store, a mixed shawl with
blue and white center. Finder viii
please leave at Ivey & Webb's store.
Mr. Paul Howell Of Chicago is
visiting his brother, A. J. Howell OF
this city. He too is a barber with as
true and easy a hand with razor as
Tony himself and has been helping
cut at the shop during blsy days.
The commission OF W j Mccoy
as postmaster Of Lancaster is dated
September 1898. His four-year term
viii therefore expire next September.
1t is not probable that the appoint
ment of a successor will be made be-
fore that time.
The Kickapoo Valley railroad is
having trouble with its roadbed on
account Of the high water undermln-
ing the track and ditching their trains.
A large force Of men IS at work re-
pairing the damage but the high wat
er binders all work
Here is d pointer for Grant COINS
tn: In Kansas the farmers have
solved the cheap telephone question
to perfection Two farmer living
mile apart purchased a couple Of cele-
phones and attached them 70 one 81
the wires On a barbed ware fence and
commenced talking to each other.
They found that message could be
conveyed just a. distinctly as though
a special wire had been strung from
one house e another and now if the
railroad company does net enter
protest they propose 70 put in an in-
strument ID the village where they
transact business aud receive the lat
est news and market quotations, Us
ing the railroad eompany,s fence as