Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-04-16
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A big show.
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g the Byrons at City opera
house Friday, April 18th.
-Chas. Budworth has gone to
Minnesota.
Editor Pollock was in Chicago
first of the week.
Miss Stella Thompson passed
Saturday in Sitter.
Atty. III. E. Carthew had bust
ness in Platteville last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Judd are
visiting her parents in Fennimore.
Geo. Wallace and wife have
move to Dubuque, where they will
reside.
-Fetus Maring of Dickeyville
has our thanks for payment on sub
scription, sent by J. B. Wagner.
Father Fisher, resident priest of
Dickeyville, and Postmaster j. b.
Wagner of the same place, were
callers Tuesday.
The premium list for the Grant
county fair is being revised and
will soon be ready for the printer.
The pamphlet will be issued from
| the Herald Job rooms.
Sheriff Watson was over in
Richland county purchasing sheep
for himself and his brother-in-law,
G. W. Hillary, of Arthur last week.
He picked up about 375.
Lloyd Palmeter of Boscobel is
serving a siX-mOnths' sentence IN
county Jail for making way with
change from the Grant house till in
that city, where he was employed.
The pupils of the parish school
at Dickeyville gave an entertain
ment in the town hall Sunday after
noon that was greatly enjoyed by
all who attended. Receipts were
for benefit of the school.
A little daughter of Otto Block,
residing west of the city, has been in
a precarious condition for few days
past. The trouble was caused by
swallowing peanut unshelled,
which took the wrong course.
At meeting of the stockholders
of the Lancaster Mining company
held at the City hall Saturday even
ing it was voted to authorize the
directors to purchase a concentrate
ing mill as soon as business would
warrant.
August Pisbach, aged % years,
died of consumption at the home of
his father, Peter Pisbach, near
Dickeyville Friday evening after an
extended illness. Funeral was held
Sunday, Father Fisher officiating.
Deceased was a young man of good
character and highly esteemed in
| the community. J.. 1890.
An observing individual says a
man can now wear paper shoes and
clothes, eat from paper dishes with
paper knives and forks at a paper
table, sit on paper chairs, read the
news IN a paper, sleep in a paper bed
stead in room carpeted with paper,
wash in a paper tub or bowl, live in
a paper house, ride in a paper car or
carriage, sail in a paper boat, be
rocked in paper cradle, be fed with
paperspoon, take pop or toddy
out of a paper bottle and be buried
in a paper coffin.
-Genevieve Bennett, bright lit
tie daughter of Jos. T. Bennett, the
Lancaster druggist was taken i'll
last Friday and the case was dag
nosed on Sunday by council of
physicians as smallpox. 1t is Of the
very mildest type, the child being not
at all ill today. Precautionary
measures were at once instituted,
and quarantine established. Mr..
Bennett being absent from home es-
capped the measure. How the child
contracted the disease is a mystery,
as no members of the family have
been absent from home, no visitors
have been entertained from abroad,
and it is the first to appear in Ian
caster for a year. Doctors pro
nounce it simply varioloid.
Three brothers named Morgan
became involved in dispute with
James Harvey at Hazel Green on
election day and a general knock
down-drag out was pulled off. Mr..
Harvey received the worst of it and
sustained severe bruises. A war
rant was issued for the arrest of his