Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-10


days.
Miss Clara Calvert arrived home
from Ellenboro last week where she
recently closed a very successful term
of school.
Mrs. Jack Muesse made a short
visit to Bloomington the first of the
week, where her husband has some
important building contracts.
MIR. and Mrs. Win Brown of Ripon
are visiting with the family Of
DR.. S. E. Hassel. Their many friends
are pleased to meet them again.
The Grant county soldiers reunion
is in progress at Boscobel this week
Wednesday and Thursday. A number
of Lancaster citizens are in attend
ance
Sitter is going to have the larg-
est kind of a celebration on July 5th.
Large posters will announce the lead
ing attractions there on that festive
occasion.
Grant Lewis and Asa DeHart,
carpenters of Fennimore, are at Mt.
Hope etecting a farm house for Lewis
Proctor. The main part is 26x2S feet
two stories, with an addition.
The ..ghastly fnd' of the water
works diggers in the west part of town
has inaugurated season of reminis-
cences and it is surprising how old
some of our young people are.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Altizer, ac-
companied by their little grandson
Ralph Wagner, went to Platteville
Tuesday to visit relatives. They ex-
pect to return home Thursday.
Mr.. Joe Walker, of Cripple Greek,
Colo, is visiting with his many
friends in Lancaster. He will return
in about two weeks and may 60 to
Mexico some time in the near future
With people carrying his teeth
around in their vest pockets and hav-
ing his few remaining bones in cabinets
of curiosities all over creation, Oliver,
the murderer, is going to have an in
teresting time pulling himself togeth-
er on resurrection day.
VIM. H. Clark of Oklahoma
pleased his friends by brief visit
during the past week. MIR. Clark is To-
Gated at Oklahama and returned there
the first of the week. He has been in
Washington, D. c., for two or three
months and came back this way.
Miss Mertie WRIGHT, daughter of
Druggist E. NJ. Wright of Prairie du
CHEN, is dead Of typhoid fever. She
was twin sister of the young lady
who died three weeks ago of the same
disease. 1t will be remem bered that
at the time the first sister died it was
intimated that she was poisoned by
eating ice cream.
Grant county is not the only
field of labor for the electric belt fend
as witness the following from the
Dodgeville Chronicle: 1t has been
demonstrated here that there is a
greater demand for electric belts than
for electric lights; but it is plainly
capable of demonstration that if peo-
pie had more electric light they
would have fewer electric belts.
The St. Agnes Guild of the Episco-
pal church, gave reception last Sat-
urday evening at the home of Miss
Fannie Book, in honor of the Misses
Mary Warren, Gertie Prior and Cor
nelia Burris, who are members of the
order and graduated from our High
school last Friday. The house was
appropriately decorated for the occa-
sion and each member was the recipi-
ent of a souvenir made of class colors.
Prom the Boscobel Enterprise we
CLEAN the following recent deaths:
John Heitzman, a pioneer aged 80
years, dropped dead of heart disease.
VIII Sherrard, who had been barbar
in Boscobel and Richland Center, is
dead of nervous prostration, aged S5
years, leaving wife. Mrs. S. c..
Laney, wife Of the gentleman who
took orders for charging photographs
in Grant and adjoining counties. died
at Waukon, Iowa, aged % years, leav-
ing husband and two small children.
Normal school commencement at
City hall in Platteville, Thursday
morning. Ju'e II. In the class of SO