Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-09-05
Local lettings.

Two big dances in the Rink next
week, on the 18th and 18th.
Frank Buchner and family re-
turned to Milwaukee Saturday.
Mrs. Kate Lynch OF Mineral
Point is a guest Of Mrs. Carl Roth.
Mrs. Maggie Wenzei and daugh-
ter were Fennimore visitors last week.
The Belmont Bee has been sus-
pended on account of lack Of support.
Miss Annie Tenant is spending
the week visiting her sister in Mineral
Point.
Miss Amy Dietzman of Rewey
was guest of the Misses Moses over
Sunday.
The big Grant county fair next
week. Take it in-its going to be a
hummer.
r. B. Showalter and wife returned
home Saturday from their trip to
Seattle, Wash.
Don't fail to read the notice Of
the dances at the rink next week in
another column.
Miss Maggie Mel of Madison,
who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs.
o. W. Flynn, returned home Friday
The "Happy-go-lucky'' club
spent Thursday afternoon at the
spring. A good time was reported.
Prank Fawcett has gone to Platte
vile where he will attend the high
school this year, completing his course
there.
Conductor S. G. Clifford and fam
lily Of Fennimore were Lancaster visi-
tors Sunday-welcome guests under
The parental roof.
Mrs. Chas. Weber and children
returned to their home in Iannimore
Saturday after few weeAs' visit
among relatives here.
Sunday was Memorial day for
the Ancient Order of United Work
men and was observed with due cere-
monies in many cities.
Mrs. Nellie Newman and Miss
Portia Showalter left Friday for Wau-
paca, where they have been engaged
to teach the coming year
The old soldiers of southern
Grant and Lafayette counties will
hold their first annual reunion at Ben
ton this month, the date to be named
later.
Mrs. w. w. Aspinwall and sons
of Barneveld were visitors at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Fred Hagen,
and other relatives in this city last
week.
-Baraboo has postponed building
$50, 600 school house and is seriously
considering putting that amount in
waterworks system. The water fur
nished by the present company is so
impure that it keeps typhoid fever
epidemic in that city the year round.
-Gollmar Bros. & Schumans circus
showed at this place Saturday to large
audiences. They have the best circus
on the road. the performance as a
whole being better than most circuses
rnt up. This was their second visit
to this place and they left a good i'm
preston each time.-Sheffied Stand
ard, Sheffield, Ill, AT Lancaster,
Sept. H.
A certain New York hotel uses a
bushel Of potatoes year for pen
wipers on the table in the writing
roolns. Every morning a large pota-
70 is put in a compartment of a pen
box, and after "a hours the potato is
removed and another put in. Pens in
pen holders are stuck into the potato
half dozen at time, giving it the
appearance of a porcupine. 1t is
claimed that potato penwiper is the
best preservative against rust and
mildew that can be secured for the
pens.
One Of the most remarkable pearl
finds was made by Miss Ida Brooks OF
McGregor, Ia recently. She was on
the river FOR days outing and after
taking dinner on the island asked
clam digger to throw her few shells.
He replied that he would as soon as
be made another haul. In the course
of fifteen minutes the fisherman re-
turned with the CLANS, there being
but three in the lot that are not util-
lied in the factories there for buttons.
He threw her these shells. saying IN a
joking way, Here are the kind they
ind the biz pearls in" Miss Brooks
set TO opening these shells when in the
second she'll she found a pearl valued