Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25

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phia Smith, Archie Basford, Willie
McGonigal. Bessie Zeigler. Mart Burris
Jr., of Lancaster, and Mile Bieg of
Philadelphia.
DR.. q. c. NARROW is moving his
household goods from Bloomington to
Lancaster and settling in the house he
recently purchased from the DR.. Crane
estate. Workmen wired the house
for electric lights on Tuesday. Mrs
Crane has stored her household goods
in the third story of the Baxter block.
and she with her children will board
with Mrs. H. 4. w. McNair,
Mr. and Mrs r. B. Showalter re-
turned from a trip to Omaha and the
big exposition last Tuesday. While
there they visited with Mrs. Leila
Showalter Hammond, who with her
husband and little son were on their
way to Tacoma, Washington. where
they were moving with the intention
to locate permanently, having sold
their property at lama, la.
-Mankel Bros. farmers residing 8
mile swest of Lancaster in the town of
Beetownsent to Rochester last fall and
purchased 7Olbs. of Century" wheat
which they planted on three-fourths
of an acre of ground. They have just
completed threshing and find they
have % bushels, machine measure,
and 30 bushels by weight, of tine
wheat from the seed planted.
Robert Mckee of Farley, Iowa,
had a narrow escape for his life last
week In driving toward his home
his horse became frightened at an on
coming train and became unmanage-
able. The result was collision of
horse, cart and man with the engine.
The horse was killed, cart smashed,
but the man was ouly stunned and
bruised. Mr.. Mckee formerly kept a
EtSlauEdDI III Lancaster.
Benton Times:-A large barn and
80 tons Of hay belonging to John
Harms near the Platteville mound was
struck by lightning and destroyed
Monday. Last week we referred to
Deputy Game Warden "Campell, . but
should of said Chapman - Charles
Mappes and wife, pioneers ofBelmont,
celebrated their golden wedding Aug.
IA. Mr. Mappes is Y and Mrs. Mapes
is 20. They have lived in the vicinity
of Belmont more than 40 years.
DR.. j. H. Reed leaves Lancaster
next Monday for ten days vacation
in Omaha and vicinity, where he will
take in the big Exposition and a large
portion of recreation to nerve him to
unnerve teeth and perform the many
other kind offices to aching humanity
in which he is so proficient. His pa
irons will remember that he will be
absent all next week and part of the
following week. So please put off
that toothacle ir which you were go
ing to indulge ANIL more convenient
season.
First thing the sun does in the
morning after rising is to look into
the two beautiful front pay windows
! - tho JorolI ,a,ao A. ,,o,, Tho e,,.,
drops courtesies into the new Heard
Office drought large skylight over
head. In the evening at setting the
sun throws brilliant goodbye into
the rear windows of the new Herald
office. The Herald is fpn Of sunshine
and good cheer The Herald's good
will seems to be reciprocated and we
believe it hasn't an enemy on earth
except very few criminal or poiti-
cal rascals rot worth mentioning.
There was an interesting game Of
ball this Wednesday afternoon be-
tween the heavyweights and light
weights Of Lancaster. The players
and substitutes are as follows: Heavy
weights-Nathan, Rhodes, Trentzsch,
DR.. Moore, Barrows. Boyes. V. l..
Showalter, McGonigal, Schreiner,
Angus. with Hodel and Schlew bat
terry. Lightweights-Ho Holmes. Froth-
ingham, Williams, Budworth, Ivey,
Nehls, Lane, X. Showalter, Weber
and Dolphin. with Harshberger and
Walker battery. The game was full Of
enthusiasm from start to finish. 1t
resulted 10 to 20 in favor OF light
weights.
-Platteville Witness:-Several Gag
es containing squirrels, woodchucks
and minks have been placed in the
park by Marshal Stark. Also couple
of coopS and a hawk II bopod tbat