Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-01-18

-overalls and pants very cheap at
John Burns.
Ladies free Monday night at
Reeds opera house.
-HousE FoR SALE OK RENT. The
house and lot belonging to Mrs A.
Kilburn, is offered for sale or rent.
For particulars inquire at the resi-
denee, or at the office of Brennan q
Mccoy.
IS. Chandler OF Glen Haven attend
ed the Masonic hall dedication last
Friday evening in this city.
Miss Clara Hearn and Miss Rich
ards of Dodgeyille visited few days
last week at the home Miss Blanche
Rothschild.
DR.. Glasier will be in his Office at
Bloomington on and after Nov. ] .
Special attention given to diseases Of
the eye, ear. nose and throat. Eyes
carefully tested for errors Of refrac-
tion and glasses correctly fitted. 2m
This year, 1900. is the year OF
taking the twelfth census, that is, of
the crops. Farmers should take
special care to keep the farm records
complete in order to help in getting a
real census of the people and indus
tres
The employees of the Story &
Clark piano and organ company, of
Chicago, Illinois, who have been out
on strike for ten weeks. returned to
work Monday morning. Michaelis &
Roberts, our local music dealers, will
have stock OF goods in few days
from the Story e. Clark company, |
they having exhausted their supplies
with that company during the strike.
p. w. Baumgatner. a son of our
townsman, Jacob Baumgartner, came
down from Fennimore Monday and
presented VOLTS scalp to the county
clerk. Mr.. Baumgartner killed the
wolf northeast Of Fennmore. and he
says it was the largest one he ever
saw, measuring % inches in height,
and % inches in length The animal
had mark on one ear, and the query
is-whose pet was it?
w. H. Rose of Lancaster has
fine lot of fancy poultry Fer sale. Any
one wishing to buy few mems or a
eockerel or two, would do well to
write to or call ON him. He has the
Barred Plymouth Rocks, Silver-laced
Wyandottes, and single combed
Brown Leghorns. Orders for eggs
are booked now for spring delivery.
He says, Come and see us, the latch
string is on the outside"
Not one of us but has wished to
change places, and in the January
Cosmopolitan, the brilliant Edgar
Saltus writes on 1.-The Delights OF
Trying to be Somebody Else, in a
manner that makes the folly of the
almost universal wish excusable and
even commendable. The article is
heavily illustrated with pictures OF
people who for the time being have
tried to be somebody else
MIR. Charles Roberts went to Mil
waukee last Thursday morning, and
returned home Saturday evening.
While in Milwaukee he attended
meeting held by the directors of the
Sohmer \ Steger piano company
The meeting included not only the
directors of the two piano companies,
but also included their agents from
various parts of the state who were
highly entertained by the directors.
Bloomington Record: Elgie Ry-
an visited friends at Lancaster and
Platteville ........ John Anderson of
Patch Grove, was in town Saturday.
and while here showed us a nugget
of gold valued at $3.50, sent home
from the Klondike by his nephew,
Abe Anderson ... The Stars are
making preparations for their second
annual minstrel show, which will be
given soon. The committee has in
structions to use the best material
obtainable. The show will be larger
and better by half than it was last
year.
Mineral Point Tribune About
$4,000 of the $26, 900 to be raised in
Mineral Point city this year was paid
in up to last night. The tax on indi-
viduals, averages fully fifty per cent.
higher than last year and kicking is
pro rata. The present city admins
tration is being censured in some
measure unjustly. A considerable
part of the debts that necessitate the
heavy levy this year is inherited from
former administrations and should
have been provided for heretofore, dis
tributing the burden over two or three
years instead Of all to fall upon us at
once
Friday evening January 9TH,
Misses Buck and Ives entertained the
senior class OF the High school. The
evening was given to an excursion on
the Fun and Frohctown L. r., from
Chris Cringle's Garden to the Port of
Rest. During the evening the con-
duptOr would coll off tho station. |