Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-01-26

little OF that subscription wood to this
office.
County Clerk Dickinson is parti-
ally laid up with carbuncle on the
back of his neck.
Mrs. Elliott (nee Eta Hannum)
arrived here Tuesday noon from Iowa
to visit her mother, who is i'll.
The Lancaster Shakespearean
club will meet with Mrs. Delos
Abrams next Tuesday afternoon.
Users of the White Cloud soap
are requested to leave the wrappers
OF the same with Baxter & Draper
and c. Fl. Basford & Co., for the BEN
eft of the Ladies Aid Society.
Mrs. James Hughes, of Beetown,
is in Lancaster this week visiting
with her brother, r. b. Showalter's
family. Mrs. Showalter, who has
been i'll for two weeks, is still quite
sick
Mrs. James Atkinson, of North
Andover, has been at r. B. Showal-
ter's for several days assisting in the
care of Mrs. Showalter during her
siege with the grip and other trou-
bles.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Bowen, who
have been visiting with Mrs. Bowen's
parents in this city for month, re-
turn to their home at Alliance, Neb. /,
this week. Mr.. Bowen was a former
Beetown boy; he is now railroad
engineer.
Lancaster X. p Lodge held in
stallation of officers Tuesday night.
Deputy Grand Chancellor, Albert
Chase, of Platteville, was installing
officer. He was accompanied in his
visit to Lancaster by Mr.. Charles
Schnitzler.
August Wenzel brought in an old
male wolf Tuesday, which he shot in
Ellenboro, and received SO bounty
IS from the state and SIS from the
county. He hid behind a haystack
and waited until the dogs drove the
large gray wolf up to him.
Last weeks issue closed volumn
XLVI of the Prairie du Chen Cour-
Ter. The present editor has been it's
proprietor and publisher for over
forty years and by his long and active
career has well earned the high place
as citizen and journalist he now oc-
cupies.
Articles of incorporation have
been filed with the secretary of state
by the Sitter and Livingston Tele-
phone company OF Grant county, to
do a general telephone business, with
capital of 81 900, the incorporators
being A. f. Rlndell, Ira Griswald,
and A. V. Well.
-Workmen now engaged in wir-
ing the Grant county court house say
that they expect to have the building
Illuminated with electricity for the
first time on Saturday night. The
circuit court room will have forty
four lights and the whole building
will contain seventy-four lights.
We expect to issue to city sub
scribers next week booklet contain
ing all the ordinances of the city of
Lancaster revised and in proper form
to conform to the provisions of the
city charter and statutes of Wisconsin.
1t will be of great interest and value
to tie people of the city and should
be preserved for reference.
These are the times that your
dear friend. between sneezes, shorts,
coughing and groans, will tell you
that if you will only put sulphur in
your shoes youth not take the grip.
1t must be happy thought for such
as he that there is a place with nice
broad road leading to it where there
is no grip. The inhabitants all walk
on sulphur.
The seventh annual meeting of
the Wisconsin cheese makers associa-
ton will be held at Madison February
l, ?, and 3. The usual reduction Of
return tickets for one-third fare will
be granted if the convention is large
enough to warrant it. Parties going
should take receipts for the payment
for tickets to Madison so as to be able
to profit by the return reduction.
Fred BOIL. Of Boscobel Nhe young
man who was in Lancaster sometime