Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-07-12

Prof. w. \. Parker of Madison,
State Asst. Supt. of Education, was a
guest at the Congregational parson-
age on Tuesday.
Mrs. F. NJ. Cronin and daughter
are in attic ndance at the Grimm Col
burn nuptials at Cassville this WED
nesdaO evening.
Louis Allen, accompanied by his
sister Miss Beryl of Fennimore, drove
over to Lancaster Wednesday, max
ing brief call on friends here.
DR.. j. H. Reed will be absent
from his office portion of next week.
He will attend the annual meeting of
the State Dental society at La Crosse.
Thomas Nichols of Mineral Point
has instituted suit for 81, 900 dam
ages against saloon keeper of that
city for throwing him out of his sa-
loon while he was intoxicated and
breaking his leg.
Henry NJ. Gunderson, a clerk in
the pension department at Washing
ton whose home is in Hickory Grove
township. this county, has been pro-
NOTED and will receive an annual sal
AIRY of 81, 200 in the new place.
State Journal: Chas L. Harper,
of the state uperintendent's office
will leave in few days for an outing
at Spooner lake, in Washburn county,
where the Teachers Rest association
has an attractive summer resort.
Lancaster is fairly overrun with
schoolma ANS this week. There are
scores of 'em and they are here to at
tend an institute being conducted by
County Supt. Nye, Profs. Gentle and
McGregor of Platteville and Prof.
Gehrand of Boscobel. Sessions are
held in the high school building and
the institute is to last two weeks.
An opportunity will be given our
people Thursday morning to see
some fine specimens of real Belgian
hares. Thode Sherman of Sitter is
to bring his little group to the city
and they will be OH exhibition in the
display window of j. Schreiner e
Sons. Avail yourselves of this op-
portunity.
-Boscobel Masonic brethren who
attended the Okey obsequies Monday
came from Prairie du Chen to Cass-
vile via Mississippi a la gasoline
launch, and made this portion of the
return trip in similar manner. 1t
was necessity on account of lack of
train service and was indeed a most
acceptable diversion.
If farmers along the rural mail
routes would place their mail boxes
parallel with the highway and have
their respective names painted on the
front, considerable rubbernecking
would be saved the curious passerby
who is DESTROYS of learning the name
of the farmer whose possessions he is
passing. As it is, the boxes are usu-
ally erected in various other positions
and the name can be seen only on one
side.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Althouse, re-
siding at Livingston, were visitors at
the home of Mrs. Louis Heberlein in
the town of Liberty Saturday. Their
little child, an infant of four months,
of course accompanied them and
while at the Heberlein domicile it was
the victim of painful accident. One
of the other children in the household
picked the baby up and started across
the room with the precious bundle.
In some unaccountable manner the
baby was dropped to the floor and in
the fall one of its limbs was broken.
DR.. Doolittle of this city was called
and attended to the trouble and the
little sufferer is doing as well as can
be expected.
Mrs. Fawcett went down to Po-
tosi last Friday to meet Sheriff Faw-
cett who came in from the west on a
Burlington train. On their return
they narrowly escaped possible injury
in collision with another team and
in the mix-up were obliged to alight.
On arriving home Mrs. Fawcett dis
covered to her dismay that she had
lost her gold watch aud was confident
that the loos occurred at the place on
the highway where the collision took
place. A return trip was made to