Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-06-02

Dick Mahan of the Galena Demo
crat, visited friends here over Sunday.
He made the trip from Galena on his
bike.
For best grades of lumber at rea-
sonable prices 90 to Hixon & Britting-
HAMS at Muesse's old stand in Lam
caster. If
The Ladies Missionary Society of
the Congregational church will meet
with Mrs. S. r. Greene next Friday
afternoon.
a horse belonging to John Hamil-
ton took IA lively run aronnd the court
yard square Tuesday afternoon with
out doing much damage.
Berry, Budworth and Miss Mar
gurite Daily were married by VIM.
McGonigal, Esq, in Lancaster on
Thursday, May &c, 1898.
Miss Lou Dryer who has been Wis
iting the past three weeks with Lam
caster friends returned to her home
in North Andover, Tuesday.
Mrs. j. d. Griswold and Miss
Carrie Harris left on the train We'd
nesday morning for Chicago. They
expect to be gone about two weeks.
We are enlisted for an indefinite
time or until the end of the war to
sell lum Der right. both as to quality
and price-Hixon & Birmingham,
The Ladies Aid society of Nj f.
church will serve tea in the chapel
Wednesday, June s, 1898, at 5 D. m.
till all are served. All cordially in
vited.
The Ladies Guild of the Episco-
pal church will give a ten-cent supper
at the Rectory next Thursday even
ing beginning at 5 o'clock Every
body is invited.
Married-At the Methodist par
sonage in Lancaster, May 25, 1898,
by the Rev. ID. NJ. Sinclair, Mr..
Earnest Braudt and Miss Eta Stimp-
son of Mt. Hope, Wis.
Patriotic citizens of Hazel Green
have purchased a thirty-foot flag
which they float from staff eighty
five feet high. The example is worthy
of imitation by other communities.
There are bargains in shingles,
bargains in all kinds of dressed and
undressed lumber, and bargains in
every stick of timber used in building,
at the yards of Birmingham & Hixon,
DR. John w. Perrin, a talented
educator, at one time teacher of his
tory in the PlattevfHe Normal school,
has been elected to the professorship
of history in Adelbert college, Cleve-
land, Ohio.
The Rev. I. j Brown will preach
on the subject The Nations Great
ness; its Elements of Weakness; its
Dangers, next Sabbath morning, and
Rev. David Bell viii speak in the
evening on the theme True Great
ness" You are invited to attend.
On June 9Th the meetings in con-
nection with Little Grant T. NJ. Circuit
will be held in the grove adjacent to
Mt. Zion church, North Lancaster, at
1880 a. m. The meeting will be in
charge of Rev. ID. Bell and others. At
2:S0 Rev. I. j. Brown, Congregational
minister; and Senator Baxter of Lam
caster, will be the speakers. No even
ing meeting. All who can attend are
cordially invited.
The Herald reporter counted the
unhitched rigs standing at several
hotel barns in Lancaster at 3 O'Clock
Monday afte1poon with the following
result: Lancaster house Sc, Joe
Smith So Grand Central %, Philips
house SO. The hostler at the Philips
house informed US that he had "a
strange horses in the barn, and at
the other barns we did not ask about
the number Of horses.
Photographer H. c. Walton has
just received diploma from the Wis
I consin Photographers association
which met in Milwaukee March s, 9.
and 10, 1898. At that meeting all
photographers who received a rating
Of 80 and over on exhibits Of their own
work were awarded diplomas. Com
petitors submitted their work with
out their name or address. Mr.. Wat
ton received a rating Of IS, and his