Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-08-14

Miss Loretta Broderick of st.
Paul is guest of her uncle, James
McBrien.
Geo. A. Moore's next shipping
day for live stock of all kinds is
Aug. Goth.
There is an opening at this office
for two young ladies DESTROYS of be-
coming typesetters.
Remember the Whitefsh bay
excursion Sunday. Fare 80 for the
round trip. See bills.
-Messrs. Fay Baldwin, Frank
Reed and Ralph Vandewal were
Boscobel visitors Sunday.
J. Brown will hold an auction
sale Of young horses at the stock
yards Saturday, Aug. 10th.
Wanted at this office, & bright
boy of Is to Is years to learn the
printers trade. A splendid chance
for a good boy.
The Y. P. S. G.. E. of the Con-
gregational church will give an ice
cream social on the church lawn on
Friday evening. Everybody is in
vited.
The drop in temperature the
past week knocked the foundation
from under the straw hat and crash
suit stock and the price descended
accordingly.
A. Kluckhohn of Sitter, a ven
cradle Republican desiring a paper
that is always Republican, dropped
in Tuesday and enrolled his name
to the Herald list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Calvin
drove to Fennimore Tuesday to at
tend picnic of Sam Montieth Post
and w. r. c., held in Walters
grove west of town.
Justice Wheeler bound George
Jerome and Ed Kelley OF Galena
over to trial at circuit court undeT
bonds of 5000 at the preliminary
hearing given them yesterday on
charge of rape.
improvements to the value OF
81, 500 are to be made on ST. Law
rence's church at Mt. Hope, includ-
ing new steeple and belfry. Fir.
McNulty has seen eighteen years OF
continuous service as resident priest;
there.
The ladies of the Grand Army
will give 10 cent social on R. B.
Showalter's klawn next Saturday
evening from o'clock until all are
served. Ice cream and cake or cof-
fee and doughnuts. All are cordi-
ally invited.
R. Meyer, Jr., received letter
from his brother, Fred P. Meyer ON
Monday, written at Cape Nome and
mailed July Goth. Thirteen days
enroute is remarkable fast time
from that far-away point and speaks
well for Uncle Sans mail service.
Bert Groom, son of that pros
porous Cassville farmer, Geo. E.
Groom, became benedict at AL
bany yesterday, the bride being
Miss Weltha t. Smiley, a popular
young lady of that city. The happy
couple will reside in North Dakota,
where the Groom is a successful
teacher.
The Monona Lake assembly this
year lost $500 The deficit was the
result of rainy weather the first few
days and poor attendance during
the entire season of two weeks.
The gross receipts were 81, 600. The
largest attendance was on the day
Ellen M Stone, the ransomed mis-
sionary, lectured.
On Monday afternoon about fiji
teen of the girl friends came in to
celebrate the 9Th anniversary of her
birthday with Miss Margretta Floy
Nehls and a most pleasant time was
spent. 1t was a magniticently
planned surprise and about 3 o'clock
when she was enjoying herself as
usual one after another came in la
den with a beautiful present which
was deposited on a table and by and
by it broke upon her mind that they
too were gladdened with the thought
of her birthday and came in to make
it still happier. In the evening her
tender young life was presented or
dedicated to God in the act of Chris
tan baptism, Rev. T. j. Brown per-
forming the ceremony. Her two
aunts, the Misses Emma Madelyn
and Wilhelmina Janice Nehls, were
baptized at the same time.