Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-05

with friends at Sitter.
Paul Schaller and family of Bar
aboo are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Schreiner
Geo. BROKER took his departure
Monday for an extended visit with
relatives at Lincoln, Neb.
Remember the ice cream social
at the Congregational church this
"wednesday evening.
An action for money demand
will be brought today in Justice
Shimmin's court wherein T. F. Or
ton is plaintiff and Thos. Hore, ST.,
defendant.
Misses Helen Reed and Leta
Kinney went to Madison yesterday.
They will be present at the mar
rage tomorrow of Miss Jessie
Coombs
AID. T. D. Goodrich offers his
commodious residence property for
sale in the Herald today. The price
asked is but $4,000 and includes
house, barn, sheds, five lots OF
ground and every convenience of a
home. Just the thing for a farmer
who is DESTROYS of retiring to reside
in one of the best cities on earth.
Rev. A. j. Hood of Muscoda
was in the city Monday, and while
here enlightened us on the details
of a new invention he recently per-
fected. It is an attachment for a
job printing press by which two
colors of ink can be printed by one
impression. IF success, the appar-
atus will prove boon to printers.
Casper Lehner, the Galena mar
BILE works representative, contract
ed for two fine monuments at Bos-
cObel last week. One was for the
grave of the late John Varrell and
will be set up over the spot that
marks his final resting place in the
New Hampshire cemetery where he
was inferred. The stone will cost
$2,25O. The design was selected by
the heirs and will be paid for by the
executors, Messrs. Spiegelberg,
Kronshage and Pittman of Boscobel.
1t was provision of his will that
not less than $4,000 nor more than
So, 500 be set aside for this purpose.
Another fine monument will be
erected in the Boscobel cemetery
over the grave of the late T. Car
rier. It's cost is between $500 and
5000.
"A copy of the New York Tele-
graph of recent date is before us,
containing detailed accounts of a
number Of racing events in which
Frank O'Neil, nephew of Jennie
O'Neil Potter, had the most success
full mount in three of the most i'm
portant, winning thousands of dol
lars for the owners of the racers he
rode as we'll as few columns of
praise and considerable gold for
himself. AS the lad was about to
take his mount in the $40, 900 derby
a telegram was handed him that
his mother was seriously i'll at ST.
Louis. He finished his race in the
lead, though disheartened by the
sad news, and Immediately after
ward took train for his mothers
bedside. The young mans uncle,
A. J. O'Neil, has our thanks for the
paper.
The remains of Mrs. Martha
Wheeler arrived on the evening
train Monday and were inferred in
the Lancaster cemetery yesterday
by side of her parents and husband
who preceded her to the great be-
yond. Mrs. Wheeler died at Madi-
son, ILL.,, Saturday, at the home Of
her son, Proctor Wheeler. Madison
is a suburb of East ST. Louis. De-
ceased was eighty-one years of age
and resided in this locality a long
term of years. Her father was Cal
vim Currie, and she married Leonard
P. Wheeler. Ten sons and a daugh-
ter were born to them and they all
survive. The family resided in this
vicinity until about twenty-five
years ago when the father died and
the mother went west to Nebraska
to live with her children. At the
time Of her demise she was residing
at Madison. Funeral services were
held there Sunday. VIM. Wheeler,
one of her sons, resides in Fenni-
more, and Afford in Crawford coun-
ty, near Boscobel.
Insurance Commissioner Host
has decided that the mutual life
insurance companies doing bust
ness in Wisconsin must distribute
their surplus among the policy