Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-05-06

The families OF r B. Showalter and
W B. Carter passed sunday at the
residence of Mr.. James Hughes. west
OF Beetown.
-Amberg in Marinette county has
offered 5000 to any physician who
will locate there. The town has 500
inhabitants and is without a doctor.
Nearly every body seems TO have
bicycle now The new 1897 wheels
are beauties. There are nearly as many
kinds of wheels in town as there are
riders.
Newspapers coming to our ex-
change table from all over the west
indicate that there has been plenty of
rain this spring and the prospect for
crops is good.
MIR NJ Mcdonald has leased the
George Reynolds building just west
of Reeds opera house. and will move
his store into it on June first. The
upper part he will use as a dwelling
for his family.
Mrs. b F Budworth. Jr, nee Coe
Wheeler, of Chetek, Wisconsin has
been visiting at Bloomington for two
or three weeks In company with
her sister. she made Lancaster friends
a welcome visit over Sunday.
The new county asylum at Rich
land Center has new graveyard, and
the first person was buried in it last
Saturday. Valentine Riceland, an in
mate of the asylum from Willow. died
of consumption. aged As years.
/ -Chas. Rodolf, a graduate OF the
Chicago Dental college, viii locate in
Muscoda. That village has been with
out resident dentist for number of
years. the work being done by Bosco-
bel and Richland Center physicians.
The Boscobei Enterprise office
has new gasoline engine which it
says is .'non-explodeable and double
backaeting." The boys must have
placed their oil tank on the hill back
OF the cemetery alongside of Bill
SCOTS water tank.
Eastern newspapers are all poking
fun at Kansas because she was the one
to first discover the air-ship. Where
upon comes the Kansas newspapers
with the retort that if we eastern fell
lows we're forced to drink drugstore
whiskey we would see ships in the
air also.
The Richland county fair associa-
ton has issued its race program and
we note the following purses: In 2:5O
trot, $40; in 2:25 trot, $3.50; in 2:S5
trot, $500; in free-for-all pacing, $3.50;
in 2:29 trot, 5000; in 2:22 trot, $3.50;
in $50 pacing, $3.50; in free-for-all
trot, $500.
The Cassville Index suggests:
The people of the village ought to
get out and promenade the streets
one or two evenings during the week
-on Saturday evening anyway.
Dress up and look your best and
mingle with the crowd every good
chance you get.
By the passage of the new fish
and game law all the deputy fish and
game wardens of the state, Of which
there are 80 or more, were legislated
out Of Office. By that law the COM
missions of all deputies were annulled
and until others can be appointed the
state will be without local wardens
The new wardens are to be appointed
on the recommendation of the county
Judge, county clerk and district at
torney
IS. $ Missionary Macs organized
Sunday school at Anderson Sunday,
May 2, with the following officers and
teachers. Supt.. Miss Maud Anderson;
Asst Supt., Miss Edith Anderson;
Sec. and Treas, Miss Jennie Austin;
teachers. Maud Anderson, Leo Rice,
Edith Anderson. The missionary
will preach at theRock school Sunday,
May 9. at 1890 a. m. and at Mt Zion
P. NJ. church at 2:30 P. M; he will
also liok after the sunday school in
terests at these places.
MIR. F. Maekey has been danger
ously sick for two Or three days but
we are pleased to uote is improving
He was working at the slaughter
house Monday and becoming heated