Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-02-03


Mrs. Lon Wayne visited P,ter
Wayne and other friends in Little
Grant last week
Walter Lewis OF Butte City, Mon
tana. is spending the week in the
city with his mother.
Quite party from Beetown will
leave in few weeks for the gold and
silver mines OF Montana.
Rev. W. 1. Coburn, evangelist.
will arrive here this. Thursday, even
ing to assist in the revival meeting at
the Baptist church.
Mrs. Galloway, mother Of VIM.
Galloway. who has been dangerously
i'll, is now improving and is able to
sit up part of the time.
Fred Baxter. who was Sc. badly
injured in the explosion at Madison,is
improving and strong hopes are en-
tertained of saving his leg.
Parties wishing to reserve seats
for '.Shore Acres at Platteville
March 5, should write to the Sec'y of
the Star Theatrical club, there.
Miss Emma Schreiner leaves in
few days for Seattle for years visit
on the coast She will stop at Two
Harbors for while before going West.
james A. Elwell left Cassville
this, Wednesday, morning for Seattle
to arrange ship transportation for the
expedition that leaves here on the
10th inst.
Peter and Jacob Schuester have
rented the Abrams farm just north of
the city of Lancaster. now occupied
by Harvey Abrams. Harvey is going
to Alaska.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ.
L. church will serve tea in the chapel
We'd +. Feb 8, from until all are
served A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all.
Miss Mabel Myers, OF Rockville,
daughter of Henry Myers, was mar
ried Tuesday evening to Mr.. Tree
luf. from Dubuque. A big charivari
followed in the evening.
There will be donation supper
given at the Boise Greek church We'd
nesday evening, February 9th, for the
benefit of Rev. j. II. Jamison. All
are cordially invited to attend.
The circuit court calendar will be
printed at the Herald office next week.
AS near as can be known now, it will
contain about the same number of
cases as the last October term calen-
dar.
February started in Tuesday
morning with the mercury register
ing six degrees below zero. The
month of January Just passed was
one of the warmest ever exper-
fenced in Grant county.
Mildred Burrows. aged years,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Bur-
rows, aied Sunday afternoon. Jan. so,
of heart failure. The funeral was
held Tuesday afternoon from the M.
+. church, Rev. Sinclair officiating
The coroners jury at Madison
last week that inquired into the
deaths of Beck. Young and Shelper
found that they came to their deaths
by the explosion of the boiler of en-
CINE 249 and that the cause Of the ex-
plosion was unknown to them.
Prof. John b. DeMotte will deliver
his illustrated lecture, The Secret of
Character Building. in Platteville
Wednesday, Feb. s. Prof. DeMotte
is a lecturer out of tie ordinary and
his brilliant experiments and illustra-
tions add much to the interest and
force OF his lectures.
-Forty-seven persons going from
Lancaster to the Klondike Each
one must take at least five hundred
dollars with him to pay railroad fare,
etc. Forty-seven times five hundred
is how much? Twenty-three thou
sand and five hundred dollars with
drawn from circulation in our town.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Starr enter
tanned about thirty veterans and their
wives at their residence on north
Adams street Tuesday night. All OF
those in attendance speak highly Of
the manner in which their host served
tbap, rrhaea YoaatipoS ~ Tho hov-s