Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-03-19
COUNTY NEWS \ |
IN GENERAL
Herald Writers Contribute
NewSy Letters.
ITEMS HERE AND THERE
Bloomington, CaSSville, Livingston and
Cornelia Heard From. Gossip
Picked Up.
ITEMS HERE AND THERE
Bloomington.
OBITUARY MENTION.

OBITUARY MENTION.
Mrs. Henry Kuenster of Glen Haven
died Saturday morning, after a short
illness of pneumonia. The funeral
yesterday at that place was one of the
largest ever held in the village.
Mrs. Reed Patch. an old resident OF
Patch Grove, died on Tuesday Of last
week. Mr.. Patch is reported to be in
poor health.
ANOTHER RAILROAD.
Two representatives Of the American
Electric company Of New York exam
ined the southern part Of this county
and we're favorable impressed wlthS5ne
rich farming country and the wealth
of the mines. They came on represen-
tations of P. Flynn, the railroad pro
moter of this place, and found things
even better than he represented them
to be. The idea is to build through
Lancaster and Platteville to Blooming
| ton, with south terminus either at APP
pie River or Dubuque, we know not
which. We hope that Mr.. Flynn shall
be ordered to go to work forthwith.
BRIEF MENTION.
Robins seen here March 9.
Ed johnson of Platteville and Billy
Dyer of Lancaster called on Landlord 3
J. M. Donnelly Wednesday.
The G. B. Davis case of wife aband-
onment from this village was settled
out of court. We did not hear the
stipulation.
| r 1,Ea 1Yofn in
his store to his son Lee, who has been
clerking for him for some time.
| JIM. Donnelly, our hustling land
lord, has secured the Bridgeport and
Glen Haven stage lines, running daily
to this village. John Klarman Of Lam
caster has the Lancaster and Beetown
line. Otto Oswald the present mama
ger, is looking about for hotel,
Mrs. Catharine Brookens now occu->
pies John Pennock's former nome,
which she recently purchased.
Mrs. Harley Dickinson of Madison is
, visiting relatives here.
: Mrs Cherrier of New Hampton, Ia,
| and Mrs W. III. Lewis of Alden, Ia,
were in town the latter part of the
week. They came to attend the fune-
raj Of Mrs Peter Campbell of Patch
Grove.
Our schools are ouAfUT week. Prof..
Barnes is visiting at Sun Prairie, and
Miss Zimmerman at Mt. Hope.
Ell. Craig is Smuggling his house,
Mrs. Strong's new house is enclosed
Oscar Ward lost a valuable horse
last week.
A. J. O'Neill, sick as his home i'm
Prairie du CHEN, is reported improved
in health
Chas. Scott is home from Mississip-
pi, where he served as commercial
traveller.
Monroe Hoskins, son of our under
taker and furniture man, r. N. Hos
kins, went to Milwaukee Saturday to-
take course in undertaking.
No particular ceremonies or demon.
strations marked St. Patrick's day.
Our local politicians are casting
about for available timber for the var
ious town and village offices. The sal
} aried offices are generally sought after
by a reasonable number but the hon
orart positions go begging. One Of
the boys recently remarked that "dis-
honorable" would be more appropri-
ate appellation for these offices. How
ever, Cincinnatus is generally found
at his pillow who can be wheedled away
from the placid joys of private life to
take up the troubulous burdens Of
state.
Mrs. Jones of North Andover, who
has been so i'll, is better.
The meetings at the Congregational
church are drawing large crowds. Rev.
Wing is an eloquent speaker
Geo. Humphrey is back from a pros
pecting tour in North Dakota. George
thinks of moving there.
The young folks attended party at
Thos. Myers new house, given by his
daughter, Essie.
Jamie Hampton gave party Satur-
day evening.
John Kitto departed for his home il
Mineral Point today.
Pat Smith of Little Grant is serious
ly i'll,
Bloomington will do the usual
amount of building this season,
The high school girls went to Sun
Prairie to play the girls of that town
game of basket ball.
CaSsville.
Once more we will try to oblige the
II of them