Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-17

Remember the band concert Fri
day evening.
Mrs. j. RuudIe is visiting in Liv-
ingston few days.
Mrs. VIM. Decker of Fenn1more
is visiting in the city.
The fire department. will hold a
meeting Monday evening.
Ernie Starck of Nebraska is visit
ing at the Mackey home.
Mrs. Anterior of Dubuque is a
guest of Lancaster relatives.
Henry Sulzer of Hickory Grove
visited his sisters here last week.
Miss Maggie Rose of Rhodes, Ia,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harvey
Smith.
Will Thomas and family and Hugh
Orion of Potosi spent Sunday at L. F.
Orton's.
Miss Bertha earns of Georgetown
is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. II. j.
Johnson.
W. L. Jane, the accommodating
clerk at the Wright house is absent on
a vacation
The Misses Berdine Levan and
Mary Till of Dubuque are guests at
| Fl. G.. Nathan's.
Hail to the depth of four inches
is reported to have fallen three miles
| west of Lancaster.
Misses Jessie and Florence Will
mers of Potosi are attending Teachers
institute in this city.
Misses Florence and Helen Street
of Chicago are guests of Mrs. Phelps
aud daughter, Abbie.
Mrs. Ann Cover took her depart
ure Tuesday for Ashland to spent a
moath with her son Joe.
Mrs Mary Craig and her two
daughters Of West Virginia are visit
ing with Mrs. r. B Showalter.
On Monday evening lightning
struck the band stand on the fair
grounds and made wreck Of it.
IS. E. Hood and family and Miss
Theresa Kahns of Madison were Ian
caster visitors the first of the week.
-Tde depot at Cobb was burned to
the ground during Wednesday morn
ing's storm. A fire at Cuba City is
also reported.
The young man in this locality
who is idle these days will be looking
for work all through life and will not
be able to find it.
Jos. Nathan, the veteran stock
dealer, was in Boscobel Tuesday to
secure bunch of cattle shipped to
| him from the west.
The house of S. H. Taylor in
northwest Lancaster was struck dur
ing yesterdays storm. Very little
damage was done.
Miss Alice Cooley died at her
home in this city Wednesday after
noon of consumption afteran extended
illness of several months.
| Mrs. Thos. Orion, accom- panied
by her sister-in-Ia law, Mrs. Thompson,
of Michigan, went to Scales Mound,
Ill.,, Tuesday to visit relatives.
Editor Pollock narrowly missed
the train Tuesday that took him to
the convention aud if it had not been
for Conductor Kuhns' kindness and
the f1eetness of Andrew Lewis horse
he would not have been in attendance
at the grand opening at Madison yes
terday.
| teachers institute is being con-
Quoted by Supt. G. H. Nye assisted by
G. w. Gehrand and G. E. Slothower
| in Lancaster this week. The mum Der
of teachers enrolled is 1O8 including
gentlemen. All parts Of the coun-
ty are represented. Enrolment will
doubtless increase until near the
close. One session daily frokn S a. m.
to 1880 p. N.
Mrs. Edna Behncke, who died in
this city on Saturday night of
hemorrhage due to Placenta Previa,
was born in Beetown in 1873 and
leaves hus band and two children to
mourn her sad death. Funeral SER
vices were held Tuesday at German
Lutheran church. conducted by Rev.
Schoenfeldt of Bloomington. assisted
by Rev. Nabholz of this city.
During the hard storm Wednes-
day morning lightning strncs the
house occupied by John Philipps and
family in south Lancaster. Mrs
Philips and daughter were alone