Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-09-07


visited in the city Tuesday
Rob Morse returned to his work
as court reporter on Tuesday
carson Scott Of Galeua had bust
ness in Lancaster the first Of the week.
Dick Nye commenced work Mon
day as teacher in the Muscoda schools.
Miss Emma Schrciner arrived
home from Milwaukee Tuesday even
ing
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Chisholm started
for Nebraska on Tuesday for an ex-
tended visit.
Mrs. Carrie Nathan Clement and
children leave for their home in Chi
cage Thursday.
The families Of Judge Goodsell
and W. II. Brown arc spending week
at hotel Reincke in Cassville.
New goods arc arriving every few
days at the millinery store OF Miss j..
b schloesser. Call and see them,
Miss Jessie Pearl Hover Of Cross
Roads, Ohio, was the guest OF honor
at dinner party given by Miss Helen
Van Tyke Arthur at the Hotel Grand
Central last Monday
Miss Marjorie McCawley spent
several days with friends in Platte
vile last week She leaves Saturday
for Oconomowoc where she has aposi-
ton in the city schools
The smallest horse in the world
was on exhibition at the fair grounds
at Dodgeville last week. 1t was
found in FL Paso, Texas, and is 3
years and months old. It's weight is
241 pounds and it is perfect in every
particular.
Darlington Journal. Charles
Brees, son of c. w. Brees OF this city
drank carbolic acid last M onday, from
the effects of which he died fifteen
minutes later. 1t developed at the
inquest held Monday evening before
Justice Higgins, that hopeless love
affair was the cause of the act
A little son of John Adams had
his hands badly burned last week by
trying to hold onto the rope attached
to a hay fork while his father was I'M
loading the hay in the barn. The
rope passed between the thumb and
first finger on the right hand and burn
ed the first two fingers Of the left hand.
Secretary Young Of the South
western Wisconsin Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company and the Wisconsin
Mutual Fire Association Of Lancaster,
Grant County, Wisconsin informs us
that these companies wrote over forty
thousand dollars insurance in the
month OF August, 1899 This is GER
tainly a remarkable record for Grant
county corporations giving insurance
to its members for about two-thirds
less cash than they have heretofore
paid
AT 4 field contest on the farm OF |
Edw. Austin, two miles east Of the
city to-day between the Dcering and
corn harvesters, the Deer |
ing won on all points, its work being
superior in every respect, there being
no side draft, and the draft being
much lighter. The judges were prae
teal farmers, and the machines were
given a thorough test The large
crowd OF farmers present were fully
convinced Of the superiority Of the
Deering machine
Times Review CIV. Loney was
81 years old last Thursday and Isl
still able to be about and take an &C.
tive part in life. For the size Of our
city it is surprising the great number
OF people in Fennimore who have
reached an advanced and eontented
old age Messrs Melvin Goodrich
and Chas. Dasch, of Lancaster, accom-
panied by the Misses Edna Washburn
and Pearl Robinson of Platteville,
drove over from Lancaster Sunday
evening.
Bloomington Record The sad news
Of the death Of Mrs Frank Cooper,
was received from Oakdale, Nebraska.
Monday. Deceased was daughter
of Mrs. Mark Hadley and sister of
Mesdames r. n. Hoskins, VIM. Garner
and VIM. Bates. She has been in poor
health for several years. Horace
Lord has sold his finely-improyed
farm on Blake's Prairie and will move
to town in short time Mr. and Mrs.
Lord have passed many years on the
farm, and il i high time that they
left the work TO younger hands
Geo. w Pike sold his fine farm, con-
tanning $50 acres. to Joseph and Ben
Brookens. Consideration, 10, 600. Mr..
Pike cleared the timber from that farm
in the very early pioneer days. s.
-Witness The tolling bell ON
Saturday last announced the death of
Rudolph Longhenry, He ate his sup
per aud went to bed rs usual on Fri
day evening. Some time in the night
he was taken with cholera morbus
and his family physician DR.. II Gass-
or brinU indiSpaSpd and not ag1., j., -