Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-06

Frank Grimessey for S275 a year
Amael Kosehka is the present owner
of the route
-Fennimore Times: The property
known as the Govier opera house
block was sold by foreclosure sale Fri
day afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Me
Gonigal to Mr.. Geo. Muesse of Lam
easter for S2400 The new owner
holds mortgage against the block
for something like $4,000. and was the
plaintiff in this action. But few bid
ders contested.
The new city council Of Platte
Vile have made the following appoint
ments: T. d. Laughton, chief OF POI
lice; John Stark, night policeman;
James Parish, city hall janltor and
park policeman; J. d. Iyens, street
commissioner; H. Kleinhammer, sup.
erintendent OF waterworks; G. w.
Eastman, city treasurer; j. w. Muir
ply, city attorney.
Last weeks paper may have suit
ed you. but there are others that it
didn't suit. This weeks issue may
not please you but there are others
whom it may please. Every issue of
newspaper receives its share of
praise and censure generally at a
ratio of about 8 ounces of censure to
pound Of praise but the editor
quietly attends to business, says
nothing and saws wood. n-Ex.
Platteville Witness: d. +. Grin
dell and wife, who have been travel
ling with theatrical company the
past winter have returned home for
the summer Prof. Chas. Fox.
principal OF the high school at New
Lisbon. has brought his family to
Platteville. He has purchased the
Eastman property on the Lancaster
road near the Platte, which his family
will occupy. He will return to New
Lisbon and finish his school
Mr.. 3. White, living one mile
west of Lancaster, is one of the oldest
settlers in the county. He came here
in 1885. In those days the country
was so wild and people so scarce that
every body in the county knew every
one else According to Mr.. Whites
m emory there is no one now living in
the county except Mr.. Enoch Robin
son of Platteville who was here when
he came. Is there anyone to dispute
the claim OF Mr.. White that he and
Mr. Robinson are the oldest settlers?
-Boscobel and Platteville newspa-
pers seem to be passing through a
mild epidemic of making jokes on
those visions of angelic lovliness,
sweetness and beauty known as Ian
caster girls 1t is only a tantalizing
jealousy that prompts the lunv ies-
tiers. Here is a sample from the
Dial-Enterprise: "A Lancaster girl
ties piece OF sand paper about her
ankles which produces the same effect
as by purchasing an expensive silk
skirt The sand paper rubs together
and sounds just like $50 skirt 1t
has the swish and rustic and what
more do you want9"
As some of the citizens of Ellen
boro were returning home from cleo
ton they had an experience with the
turbulent waters of Platte that they
will not want to repeat soon. The
trouble happened a. what is known
as the Upper Kings ford. +. NJ East
man was the first to get it. He was
with his son and Louie Heiliger. The
river was up. He rode his horse as
he thought near the bank and with
pole was hunting for the best entrance.
Suddenly his horse went in deep. made
lunge ana tnreW Eastman INTO the
current. Eastman swan for life, was
carried down stream about fifty yards
and finally landed on the north side
of the river just below the mouth of
Austin's branch. He walked home
distance of mile and one-half. His
harse swan across the river and
couldn't land and swan back again.
HeilIger and young Eastman came
home round by Boyd's bridge. A
little later Henry Raukauf and Henry
Alcorn came to the same ford and
plunged boldly in. They were soon
beyond their depth. The horses swan
/ hrareIr and carried thenn tn an leland