Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-05-27
SHORT LOCAL HAPPENINGS

RFalrIe du Cnlen.
Mrs L. A. Dodd visited in Mil
waukee over Sunday.
T. F. Orton is having his grain
elevator roof reshingled at the DEPOT.
-Laborers are digging waterworks
trenches in different parts Of the city.
Our sidewalks and streets are be-
ing nicely repaired by Com Bud
worth.
Verne Brooks Of the Bloomington
Record shook hands with our printers
| Monday.
! james Murphy, Platteville, buried
Sa little child Monday afternoon, May
"a. 1897.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet
with Mrs. OFT stephens on Friday at
2.3o p. m.
Bus lines VIII carry passengers to
TO the cemetery and return Memorial
Day for Zoe.
Dick Willis lost colt valued al
800 last week 1t was cut to death
in wire fence.
Prank Cover was in Platteville
Tuesday. He said he would not visit
Lancaster this trip.
Rev. Frizzell OF Darlington will
deliver the Grafton at the Masonic pic
mic at Platteville, June "A.
s MIR. and Mrs. Joe Horsfall OF Mill
Vile visited Lancaster and the HER
AID office to-day "wednesday.
Editor Martin P Rindlaub of the
F.latteville Witness paid the HERALD
pleasant call Tuesday afternoon.
Wv. /. Washburn OF Platteville is
in Lancaster. He says L. G. McKen-
ney left for California Tuesday night.
Mrs. VIM. Holmes. a highly re-
spected ladyof Platteyille. died very
suddenly Monday night. May %. She
leaves a husband and a daughter.
John Quick of Georgetown, has
lost his long beard and 1t is the first
time he has been seen without it for
twenty-five years; to say that he looks
strange is putting it in a mild form.
Here is lesson in economy for the
| bows. If Mr.. Quick bad been shaved
twice week by a barber in the
hwentv-two years it would have cost
&im $22S 50.
The Boscobel Enterprise says:
..Spiegelberg Bros. store in Boscobel
was entered by burglars ard $4,000
worth Of valuable silks We're stolen.
1t is a great deal worse than if they
had taken $4,000 worth OF cheap
silks. you know The paper also
states that Sam Bartholomew is look
ING for transient couple who are
suspected of doing the stealing.
There is couple of transients around
Lancaster selling Bibles and nutmeg
graters who came in from Madison
wav that Sam ought to look over.
They are fine as silk, anyway
1t is seldom that the people of
this place have the opportunity of
seeing anything good in the entertain
ment line. They will therefore hail
with pleasure the coming Of Alba
Haywood with delight. Times are
too hard to patronize all the shows
that come along but when company
OF real merit appears they should re-
ceiye due encouragement. The Alba
Haywood company have withstood the
financial drought we are enduring and
will appear Monday night next in
Reeds opera house fresher, brighter,
and better than ever.
The Primitive Methodist Western
Church conference at Ridgeway made
the following appointments: New
Diggins. j. A. Anderson: Platteyille,
j. d. Blenkinhoff Albion, supplied by
John n Vannatter: Mineral Point,
Thomas kent; Hazel Green. John
Challiner; Grant supplied by D. Bell;
Ridgeway, NJ. c. Baker; Kewaunee,
5. r. Chubb; Pleasant view, supple
bv j. w. Hunter; Miflin. John Hard
! castle; Braidwood, supplied by Mich
ael Henderson; streator. supplied BY
Thomas Hancock; Willow Springs,
William Croft; Angus. supplied by W.
A. Morris. The next conference will
be held in Linden on the third Satur-
day in May, 1898.