Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-06-09

ihVu ihatlsih. lie Is expected home
Saturday.
Mrs. Geo. VaudeWan has moved
to Platteville where she will make her
home with her mother until Mr.. Van
deWall returns.
Miss Eliza Atkinson Of North An
dover called on Lancaster friends Sat.
urday. Miss Atkinson treated her
self to one of c. j. Hyde's fine carri-
ages.
First Lieut.. Charley Hodle is
studying strategy now. He tried for
four hours TO drive fly into bottle
and failed; but perseverance may
bring its reward.
a Lexington paper asserts that
"a person who will take ten drinks of
whisky day will never be troubled
by mosquitoes" Nothing on earth
could trouble him, except snakes.
Miss Flora Rothschild returned
Saturday from Marshaltown, Ia,
where she has closed another success
full year of school work. She intends
to leave for st. Paul and Minneapolis
and from there to Boston for her sum-
mer vacation.
u lad living near Elkhorn filled a
glass bottle with powder. attached
fuse and applied lighted match. The
services of physician were required
to separate the youth from the frag-
ments of the improvised cannon, but
when he grows up he will beware
the bottle
On Tuesday Capt. John Lane and
Under-Sheriff Jim McGonigal went to
the Episcopal cemetery in Lancaster
and planted flag on the grave of
Nelson Dewey, the first governor of
of the state of Wisconsin. Mr.. Lane
was present when Mr.. Dewey was
lnaugurated governor.
On Friday of this week the family
of George Angus will leave Lancaster
to make their home in Oskaloosa, Ia.
George has given up his position as
travelling salesman and has a perma-
nent position in Oskaloosa. He re-
ports that his health is much better
and that he has gained 20 pounds in
weight since leaving Lancaster.
The Wisconsin Farmers Mutual
Hail and Cyclone Insurance company
is the name of new venture in the
insurance business. Its head quarters
are at Juneans, Wisconsin. It's pur-
pose is to give protection against hail
and wind-storms to crops and farm
property at cost. An agent of the
company will be in Grant county soon.
Mr.. and Mrs Ned Wiseman, of
Millville visited the family Of county
clerk Dickinson over Sunday Mrs.
Charles Bean of Bridgeport came with
them and visited the family of Dan
Price. Also Miss Gertie Prior who is
teaching in joint district No. 6, Patch
Grove and Millville, came with them
to visit her mother. They all return
ed Sunday evening.
VIM. Guthrie of Marietta. Craw-
ford county, got into row at Bos-
cobel saloon and hit Bartender Char
ley Wolfe in the face with broken
beer glass. He waived examination
and is now in the county jail awaiting
trial in circuit court. The prisoner
claims that he did not intend to hit
Wolfe; but intended the blow for MAY
or w. 7. Hurd with whom he was
quarreling at the time.
Feeds and Feeding is the title of
new book by Prof. Henry OF the
State University. 1t gives in simple
popular form the principal results of
experiments with different kinds Of
stock feeding at the experiment farm
connected with the school. 1t is one
of the books recommended for school
libraries and must prove ofgreat bene-
fit not only to the older pupils in the
school but to parents and farmer boys
who have left school.
"A special dispatch to the Evening
Wisconsin from Boscobel says: A
strange case of poisoning took place
near here SATURDAY.. Ed Curtis, age II
and James Weloh, age 45, had been
planting corn in the hot sun all day
and were taking a rest by the roadside
when Curtis took ont his knife and
dug up plant and he and Welch ate
the root. In about twenty minutes
both were taken very IN with oopvul |