Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11


has been seriously i'll with quiusy has
50 far recovered as to be able to ride
out,
-Ripon Advance Press: Miss
Clara Calvert OF Lancaster is visiting
Mrs. DR. Brown for a few days this
week.
The Aupperle school will com
mence next Monday. Nov. Is. The
teacher hopes to meet the whole
school.
Master Fay Baldwin entertained
a happy company Of little friends last
Saturday, the occasion being his 18th
birthday
Married in Boscobel DC. S1,1S97.
by D. B. Richardson, ESQ. Eldrid T.
Brown to Miss Eda Orthotf, both Of
Boscobel.
Noble aud Cummings is the
name OF the new barber firm in Ian
caster. Their shop is neat and
attractive.
"A county board meeting without
its complement OF newspaper report
ers at the desk is a lonesome looking
affair, to say the least.
j. o. Homes, former citizen of
Smelser, died in Platteville, aged
nearly 20 years. He was member
of Co. F, 4th Wis. Inf.
British Hollow society gossips are
shocked over an elopement The
shock came when they found out that
there had been no elopement.
1t is very dull week over in
Dodgeville when someone is not on
the warpath about church or relig-
ious question of some kind.
Mrs. Delos Abrams had the mis-
fortune to fall on a slippery walk last
Saturday and break one of the bones
OF her leg just above the ankle.
-Pollock's horse ran away again
the other day. 1t is good horse
and wasn't much to blame. 1t
stopped when it ran up against tree.
Bloomington Baptist church be-
gins series OF revival meetings this
week under charge OF the home pas
tor. Rev. S. E. Sweet, and an evange-
list.
He" Really, never loved any
one until l met yon.' She-"Oh,
know that. You acted just like a
colt that was seeing its first locomo-
tive
This fall has been so mild and
spring-like that even vegetation is de-
ceived. Several persons report their
raspberry plants as budding and bios
soming.
"A very neat monument is being
cut at the Lancaster marble works to
be placed at the grave Of Addie D.
Mink, wife of Henry Mink, in Mt. Ida
cemetery.
Miss Linda Moore is visiting in
Meadville. Penn, her fathers birth
place and the home Of his relatives.
She expects to return home in about
six weeks.
The next meeting of the Modern
History Society will be with Mrs. K.
B. Showalter, Friday evening at Z
O'Clock. Mrs. Showalter has recently
been elected Treasurer.
"A man will die for want of air in
five minutes, for want of sleep in ten
days, for want of water in week and
for want of food at various periods de-
pending upon circumstances.
The B. Y. P. T. will give a crazy
and basket social at the home of John
Miles, Friday evening, Nov. 10.
Everybody come and have a good
laugh. Bring your baskets.
We saw the man with rattle
snake farm, lowering on the outskirts
of county board recess crowd; but
bounty-on-snakes resolution will
hardly 60 through this year.
The county board is an unusually
intelligent looking body this year.
However, they seem to enjoy adjourn
ment recesses fully as much as the
old legislators did in old days.
The Platteville Lecture Course is
thriving as usual The course this
season promises to be one of rare ex-
cellence and large sales of season
tickets have all ready been made.