Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-26

er. Mr.. and Mrs. I. Barr OF Glen Hav-
en-, were in Lancaster today, Wednes-
day.
The soldiers picnic at the Platte
vile campmeeting grounds on Tues
day of this week. was very pleasant
affair
Mrs. Kate Mccoy went to Cass-
Vile last Wednesday expecting to
visit her sister Mrs. Garner for a
month.
New fall millinery arriving every
few days at B. j. Schloesser's. Store
opened until g o'clock P. m. Call
and see.
e. B. Rivers, agent for the Carey
Safe Company, Of Buffalo, n. Y. has
been doing business in our city for
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nehls, and
the Misses Minnie and Emma Nehls
and Miss Sue Muesse visited in Platte
vile last Sunday.
Mrs. Allen Burleson, after an
extended visit with relatives in this
city, left for her home in San Antonio,
Texas, Tuesday morning.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Congregational church, will meet
with Mrs. David Schreiner on Friday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The Misses Marie Ovitz, Lillis
Rogers, Mat Rogers, Name Prior and
Delphia Oswald attended campmeet-
ing at Platteville last Sunday.
Judge Chas. w. McIlhon of Min
eralpoint was married in Chicago
Wednesday of last week. The bride
was Miss Kate Amberg of Chicago.
At the band contest at the Dodge
vile fair Montfort, Mineralpoint and
Highland competed. Mineralpoint
took first prize and Montfort second.
Two young men named Children,
nephews of Judge Carter, are visiting
in this vicinity. They came awheel
from Council Bluffs. One day in
Eastern Iowa they rode distance OF
973 miles.
Marshall X. L. Hassell. of Red
field, South Dakota, who has been
taking medical treatment for jaundice
with his brother, is much improved
in health and will return home tomor-
row, Thursday.
VIII Lickel, formerly of Lancas-
ter, but recently living at Ripon
where he worked for DR.. w. T. Brown,
has joined the United States Army.
He enlisted for three years at Mil
waukee last Tuesday.
H. P. Irish and wife viii 90 from
the Buffalo Encampment to Mr.. Irish's
boyhood home in New York. Rasche
says he intends to sit on the dc )rstep
of the old homestead and write from
there to his sisters in the west
Justice Dickinson returned home
from Platteville on his bicycle Mon
day. He was accompanied by Bert
Wagner, of Patch Grove, who re-
manned here for two days. They
made the trip, sixteen miles, in two
hours.
The ladies of the Congregational
church expect to serve warm meals
at the Fair during the three days in
the main dining hall. All who are
interested in the success of the church
work, are urgently requested to help
in the preparations.
While in Milwaukee the other
day the editor called on Hon. w. f.
Carter for short chat. Mr.. Carter
has large and lucrative practice and
easily ranks with the best attorneys
in the city. He is at present corpor-
alton council in the interesting and
dramatic Jones Island litigation.
To-day, Wednesday, there was a
family reunion at the old Lewis home
stead in Potosi. Among those pre-
sent were Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Lewis,
of New York City; Mr.. Insul, of Chi
cago, DR.. Lewis and family, OF
Dubuque; T. G. Lewis, of Chicago;
Miss 10 Graham, of Denver; Mr.. and
Mrs. John p Lewis, OF Lancaster.
The occasion was one to be long re-
membered.
Rev. Short, of the Reorganized
Church OF Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, has returned to Grant county