Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-23

Sheriff Hymer took James Han
IAN and john Ryan. the Cassville
burglars. to Waupun prison Tuesday.
AT the Nathan meat market is a
mammoth turkey weighing thirty
four pounds. 1t was raised by John
Zenz.
Geo. Govier says he will 90 to
Oklahoma in the spring Hope he
will change his mind before grass
grows.
Miss Hattie Schultz, OF Platte
vile, was adiudged insane and taken
to Mendoza by Deputy McGonigal
SATURDAY..
Miss Nina Brookens and Fred
Foster were married at Bloomington
Wednesday, Doe. IS, 1897, by Rev. A.
A. LOOMS.
Joe Morrison. Of Fennimore, viii
probably 20 in two weeks to Madison
to attend the DAIRY school to learn
cheesemaking.
r. c Lybrand has received his
commission as postmaster al Richland
Center. and will take charge on the
first Of January.
-Wasf Garner has struch lead in
Beetown Hollow on John Smiths
place. He took out thirty pounds
Saturday evening.
Just after the holidays Fannie
Schmitt and Carrie Schreiner will 60
to Milwaukee to take a course Of
training for nurses.
Mrs. John Norris. OF Fennimore.
was buried at Highland Monday
morning. Miss Wilhelm, Of this city,
attended the funeral.
Many of our teachers are at home
from the country for the holidays.
Among others we notice Messrs. Guy
Williams add Philip BENEFITS.
John Halferty, the democrat, has
just completed a fine home in Mt.
Hope. Tom Seaman, of this city,
just returned from plastering it.
james Mccormick breeds some
fine stock. He sold an S-months-old
registered Durham calf to William
Schloesser for $45 few days ago.
The Junior Epworth League soci-
able1held Friday evening in the M. f.
church chapel, was well attended and
heartily enjoyed by the crowd present.
The aged school teacher, Miss
Ellen Chaffee. has come to Lancaster
from her farm near Burton and will
reside permanently with Miss Belle
Crosby.
Note the change in merchant
tailor John Jeide's ad on the inside
af this paper. 1t will interest your
pocketbook. Mr.. Jeide makes first
class clotnIHg.
The report that DR.. W. I. Brown,
of Ripon, has paid $3.50 for a blood
hound is thought by his friends here
to be mistake. 1t probably should
have read $3.50
The ladies of the Baptist Earn
est Workers Society, will meet with
Mrs. Chatfield on Tuesday afternoon,
December 2S, 1897, at o'clock. All
are cordially invited.
Mrs. Geo. T. Clements and her
son, after visit of several weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Nathan, returned home to Chicago
this, Wednesday, morning.
A plat of land in Elmdale was
bought in by the heirs of Phineas
Walker at sheriff sale here Satur-
day. Two other sheriff sales Of land
by the sheriff were postponed.
Some of Muscoda's citizens are
talking of building an opera house.
1t is thought by many that Smalley's
hall is large enough to accommodate
the crowds for years to come.
The mother of Barber George
n. Gibbs returned to her old home in
Illinois Tuesday afternoon. Her heart
yearned so much for her old home
that she could not remain here.
Rev S. S. Grinnell, pastor of the
Congregational church in Lancaster
from Jan. Is, 1887, to Jan. Is, 1890,
died in California a number of days
ago, leaving wife and one daughter.
Don't forget date of that success
full specialist DR.. McElwee's next
visit to Lancaster, Wednesday, De-