Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-07-19

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business in town Tuesday.
M. Blum, the Galena brewer,
transacted business here Tuesday.
Thomas Orion and wife returned
Tuesday evening from their lake trip.
-Robt. Morse. of Grand Rapids, is
spending a month at his home in this
city.
r. c. Huntington of the Platte
vile Journal was Lancaster visitor
Tuesday.
Hon. Geo. Brown was up from
Woodman on official business first OF
the week
John Clauer of Bloomington made
business trip to Plattevi!le last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Raymond Smith and little
daughter of Chicago are visiting in
Lancaster.
Mrs. Lou Eberle was over from
Boscobel first of the week, guest of
her husband.
Master Clarence Howe is spending
the week visiting with relatives in
Evanston, III.
There will be an ice cream So
ciable at St. Clements parochial
school Thursday evening.
Mrs. Martin Oswald and Mrs. j..
Baumgartner spent Saturday in
Liberty with Mrs. Louis Boerner.
The Misses Pine and Weiner of
Dubuque are visiting at the homes of
Will Orion and August Michaelis.
There will be no services nor
Sunday school at the Congregational
church next Sunday, evening owing
to the absence OF the pastor at Monona
Lake Assembly.
Hon. John Ryan and wife accom-
panied by Mrs. James Atkinson and
Miss Lou Bryer and wife of North
Andover, were visitors at c. w. Rays
a few days last week.
B. F. Eisenbise received a tele-
gram Monday conveying the sad and
unexpected intelligence of the death
of his brother, Lee, at Lanark, Ill.
Mr.. Eisen bise reached Potosi in time
TO catch the Burlington outh-bound
train for Lanark and was in attend
ance at the funeral.
The insurance on D. Aupperle's
barn which was destroyed by fire on
Friday, July 6, was $415 instead OF
5000. His loss would have been great
deal more. if it had not been for pass
ers-bv, who assisted in saving the
surrounding properly, and to who m
Mr.. Aupperle extends his heartfelt
thanks.
"A new clam bed has been discov-
cred at the head of the rapids above
Clinton and a dozen or so men have
been making all kinds of money dig
giug them for several days. The bed
is situated in midstream, but the
water there is not very deep and toe
men stand on the bottom and lift the
shells out with a fork. This is a
rapid way of gathering shells when
conditions are favorable, and if this
bed should prove to be a large one.
there will be plenty of money for the
clammers.
An enormous dead catfish was
pulled out of the Mississippi near the
high bridge at Dubuque on Thursday.
Several mill employees who saw dark
object floating in the water thought
it the body of man and rowed oct
in boat to get it. To their astonish-
ment they found it to be dead cat
fish. They towed 1t to shore ana an
examination showed its bead to be
fully a foot wide and its body six feet
long. 1t was the largest catfish ever
seen in these waters. The men
pushed it out into the river again.
The week has been characterized
by severe thunderstorms, high winds
and heavy rainfall in all parts OF the
state. the total precipitation for the
| week in some sections amounting to
over five inches. The rainfall was
heaviest in the northwest section and
lightest over the northeastern coun-
ties, including Brown, Calumet and
Kewaunee. Several local storms, ac-
companied by high winds and hail oc-
Cured in Adams and Juneau counties.
| Tho bo;Istopac Uara of largo size and