Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-08-29
Local lettings.

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this week.
Mrs Moses was PlattevilIe visi-
tor sunday.
-Thos- Trollope Is visiting in
Platteyille
AT Reeds opera house this Thurs
day evening.
Miss Sylvia Wheeler visited in
Beetown last week.
The Platteville Journal is to be
issued Wednesdays hereafter.
Ernest Reed Of Kansas City. is a
guest OF his mother Mrs. NJ A. Reed.
"A Year in Tenement at Reeds
opera house this, Thursday. evening.
Miss Philippine Pabst of Chicago is
visiting friends ia Lancaster and vi
cinity.
Mrs. j. Rogers and daughters Of
Kansas City are guests at Jas. Nc
Br.en's.
-Messrs. Walter Mase and Edwin
Sanders of Platteville were Lancaster
callers Monday.
-Arthur Marks of Milwaukee is en-
joying two weeks vacation with his
parents in this city.
Geo. Roberts of Oelwein was the
guest Of his cousin. Chris Roberts,
q few days this week.
Miss Ora King, who has been a
guest at Geo Marks, Sr.. for several
weeks past, returned home Friday.
Joe Godfrey, who has been spend
ing the summer at his uncle's home
IN this city, took his departure on
Monday for Wyoming.
If you fail to hear the lecture
this evening by the Rev. Arthur
Wetherly on "a Year in Tenement"
you will miss a good talk.
Louis Gelbach and daughter,
Miss Mary, took their departure on
Tuesday for Pennsylvania to spend a
month with relatives They will also
visit Buffalo enroute.
Mr. and Mrs. John Schrelner left
on the afternoon train Tuesday for
Chicago, where they will spend few
days visiting, after which they will go
to Buffalo exposition.
Henry s. Gerlach of this city has
accepted a position on the Platteviile
Journata as operator OF their type-set-
ting machine and commenced work
Monday.
Miss Mabel Bieg leaves today
Thursday for Washburn. Wis :,
having accepted position as teacher
a al the Intermediate department
in the public schools at that point.
Mrs J. X. Flynn and daughter.
after an extended visit of two months
as the guests of her sister, Mrs. John
Burns, took their departure on Tues
} day for their home in LaSalie, III.
Mrs Mary Mcconnell of Rich
mond, H., and Mrs. Alexander Bowie
of Chugwater, Wyoming. who have
been visiting at the rockingham
domicile for several days. LETT for
their respective homes on Tuesday.
Mrs Mcconnell is sister of Mr..
rockingham.
After six years OF service with G.
j. Hyde & Son. Geo. Boyes has sew
cred his connection and has accepted
position with the Mccormick Har-
vester company For the remainder
OF the season Mr.. Boyes will be en-
ployed at the machinery emporium Of
G. ". Knapp * Son.
Every farmer should attend the
Grant county fair at Lancaster week
after next. The management is en-
deavoring to put its purely agricul-
tural features to the front. If farmers
would 90 to the fair and study the
highest types of farm animals on ex-
hibiton there. there would be fewer
cows in Wisconsin which make only
one hundred pounds of butter year.
The Berkshire or Poland-China hog.
which will weigh two hundred
pounds at ten months of age. would
succeed the razor back. which would
not weigh that at ten years. So with
all domestic animals. from draft hOrses
to poultry. If farmers attended
and profited by the far as the Eng
lish farmer does, the agricultural
wealth would be doubled by the inn
proved quality of live stock, without
extra labor or the addition of head
to the animal census.
Mrs. L. B. Pepper. widow of the
late john Pepper, died at her home
in Boscobel Sunday morning after an