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

| -Atsuanles Ut. Olasler ana Joe
Donelly Of Bloomington visited the
VIM Lewis family in Lancaster Tues
day.
Mrs. Birmingham, who had been
nursing Bessie Garside for four weeks
returned home to Bloomington Satur-
day.
Mrs. Kluckhon of Odebolt, Ia, is
the guest of Mrs. Henry Henkle of
this city.
Tuesday, June IA. is Flag Day,
being the l2lst anniversary Of the
adoption of the stars and stripes as
our flag.
Allie end Jessie Humphrey went
to Patch Grove with Mrs. Richards
Tuesday and will remain for visit
with their grandmother.
You can help along the work Of
identifying the Lancaster cemetery
by attending the festival in the court
house park Saturday night.
Miss Effie Lane has been accepted
as member of the trained nurse class
of St. Barnabas hospital in Minneapo-
lis and will take three years course
"A large window glass in the front
of the Lancaster postoffice was broken
Saturday night in some unknown
manner. Probably by common
drunk
Postmaster Ed Patch, of Patch
Grove was in Minneapolis Monday.
June 9th, to help celebrate the Tooth
anniversary Of the birthday of his
mother.
AT the funeral of Miss Cora Kem-
per in Liberty on Sunday there were
80 teams in the procession. A num-
Der of Lancaster citizens were in
attendance
The Northern Wisconsin quarter
ly conference of the Latter Day Saints
church was held at Valley junction,
Wis, on Monday. About 200 were in
attendance.
The mother of Lyman Munson,
Patch Grove. celebrated her 99th birth
ay on the 9th of May. She is near
ly blind but her health is good con-
sidering her years.
Mrs. DR.. Crane and her children
started for Toledo Thursday. From
there she goes to Canada to spend the
summer. Mr.. Crane remains here to
keep business going.
The St. Paul company will soon
repaint all its dark colored sleeping
cars in the bright yellow of its new
limited trains, doing away entirely
with the Pullman colors.
-Platteville Witness: Levi w. Pol
lard, the talented district attorney OF
Iowa county, will be the orator of the
day at the Odd Fellows celebration in
Platteville Wednesday, June %.
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,
While working in the waterworks
trench Monday afternoon rock fell
from above on to the head of George
Duncan, infiicting a painful scalp
wound and slightly fracturing the
skull.
Lee q Woodhouse are making the
new flag staff for the court house and
owing to some delays in preparing
the timber to withstand the weather,
it will not be erected for about two
weeks.
-Children's day exercises at the
Congregational church next Sunday
morning at 1890 In the evening at
6:45 the Y. P. 5. G. +. viii hold me-
mortal services for Miss Laura Carter,
deceased.
: Nelson Breithaupt has moved in
to tenement house belonging to Mrs.
Belz on north Adams street. and Mrs.
VIM. Duncan and her son George oc-
cupy the Sessler house vacated by
Mr.. Breithaupt.
The black art as Practiced by the
Egyptians and East Indians for ages
past has been a mystery to the world
Edward Garenne will expose some OF
them at the Baptist church next Fri
day evening. Admission 10 cents.
Bishop Katzer assisted by Father
Albers confirmed fifty-nine persons at