Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-16

Mrs. Elida Burchard Fall Of Key
stone, S. Dakota, is visiting her
many friends in this city She is on
her way East for an extended visit.
-Fennimore is to have rural
mail delivery which has been estab-
lished through the,intluence of o. J..
Arnold and Congressman Babcock
The headquarters for music, mus
ical instruments, sewing-machines,
ETC., can be found on Jefferson street
next to Ressmeyer's harness shop.
MIcHAELIs 4 ROBERTS.
County Supt. Nye held very in
teresting and profitable teachers
meeting at Fennimore last Saturday.
Fourteen teachers from Lancaster
were in attendance and speak in high
praise OF the hospitality of the Fenni-
more people.
-Ex-Speaker Reed sent for a GER
tain man to come to Washington. A
freshet had destroyed part OF the
railroad bed and made travel impos-
sible, he wired the Speaker;'sWa
on the line, can't Gomez Reed tele-
graphcd back, ''Buy new shirt and
come anyway
-"Star Grocery Company is the
name of a new firm that will soon oc-
cupy Clark building. The firm is COM
posed of two well-known business
men of this city, namely, w. j. Weir
and Martin Oswald. These men are
well and favorably. known for honesty
and fair dealing and we bespeak for
them great success.
Mrs. Daniel Price left Saturday
morning for Bartlett N. Oak. She
was called there by tie serious illness
OF her grandchild, the infant son of
her daughter Leila, whose house was
recently destroyed by fire. LATER;
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Widman, aged three weeks, died on
Sunday afternoon, and was buried in
Lancaster today, wednesday,, Rev.
1. j. Brown officiating.
Mrs. e. H. Basford is entertain
ing Mrs. NJ. Z. Gushing of Milwaukee
this week. Mrs. Cushing is Grand
chief of the Rathbone Sisters of Wis
consin. Tuesday evening Mrs. Basford
gave reception to the Lancaster. r.
5. in honor of the Grand chief, which
is reported by those present as a de-
lightful affair. Mrs. Joe Wright,
Miss Lane and Miss Baldwin assisted
in serving refreshments.
Mrs. II. l.. Patch received letter
from her husband in Eagle CITY,
Alaska one day last week. lie writes
that all are well. and that he would
Just as lief live in that country as any
if his family was only with him. Mr..
Patch is working at his trade for the
government and gets $l.00 per hour
and works 10 hours per day His let
ter was dated September 5th, and he
said the boats would soon stop rum
ming
There will be an old-fashioned do
nation held IN the new church at Bee
town on Friday evening, Nov. II.
The Memorial quilt will be sold at
that time to the highest bidder. This
affords a good opportunity to buy a
valuable remembrance quilt and at
the same time help along a worthy
cause. Everybody invited. Come
and have good time. a good supper
and help the good people of Beetown
in good cause. 3St2
In connection with the District
Equal Suffrage convention, Mrs. Alice
Ball LOOMS will deliver lecture in
the Methodist church, Wednesday
evening at 7:3O o'clock, Nov. 22nd.
Mrs. Loomis is most pleasant and al
tractive speaker, and no one should
miss the opportunity of hearing her.
There will also be a meeting in the
same place at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noon. An interesting meeting is an
ticipated as there will be music, papers
and addresses by the ladies of the con-
vention and others. All are most
cordially invited to be present.
-Dodgeville New Star: John Grit
liths, farmer living about a mile
south of this city, had his right arm
severed from his body on Wednesday
OF last week. He was at work feeding
a shredder and his hand accidentally
caught in the rollers, pulling his arm
in, and tearing it from the socket at
the shoulder. Had not the engineer
seen it occur and stopped the engine
Grifliths would in all probability have
been killed. DR.. VIM. Reese of this
city assisted by DR.. c. I. Mcdonald
of Mineralpoint dressed the wound
and at present Mr.. Grifliths is on a
fair road to recovery.
To-day, Wednesday at u O'Clock
at the home of the brides mother in
in this city, Miss Clara Belz and Mr..
John Dechow were united in the
bonds of matrimony. Tomorrow
they expect to leave by the way of