Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-06
&C, E. Fay of Madison is a guest
of his friend Byron Price.


Pearl Cast and May Schofeld
Of Boscobel are licensed to wed.
j. Allen Coombs of Madison
was a caller in town Wednesday.
The Political Equality club will
meet with Mrs. J. T. Morgans Mon
day at 3 p. m.
Each day is becoming shorter
than yesterday and tomorrow will
be shorter than today.
Judge A. G.. Zimmerman of
Madison visited relatives and friends
in Mt. Hope last week.
Mrs. Will Benn of Richland
Center is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Dan Price.
The Platteville camp meeting
begins next Wednesday. The man
ayers have prepared an excellent
program.
-Mendle Blakesley and wife of
Chicago are guests Of his mother
Mrs. Blakesley and his brother
George for few days.
The ladies of the M. E. church
will serve their monthly tea in the
chapel Wednesday, Aug. 10, from
five O'Clock until all are served.
Clinton M. Perry, late of Min
neapolis, has bought the Mt. Ida
store of general merchandise. Mr..
Perry is hustling business man
and will make it go.
Prof. j. F. Powers of Poynette
is calling on his many friends in
town. His visit lends color to the
persistent rumOr of a matrimonial
event to happen soon-very soon.
H. L. Eek is here from Wau-
kesha and has taken his half inter-
est in the new store Of G. B. Angus,
the firm name now being Angus &
Eek. Mr.. Eck's family will be here
today.
John and Will Pink started
yesterday for South Dakota, where
they will run a threshing machine
during harvest. The crop there is
immense and the boys will find
plenty to- do.
-Chas. Klarman goes to Melrose,
Wis, next Wednesday, to become
the principal in a matrimonial
event. The bride-is-to-be is Miss
Inga Instencs, formerly nurse in
the Lancaster hospital.
Preaching at the Baptist church
by Rev. Sprague Sunday evening.
Subject, Who is Responsible9 Bap-
tism to follow sermon. Preaching
at Mt. Ida in the morning, and at
Dyer schoolhouse in the afternoon.
Anton Knapp is building a fine
new residence on his property
southwest of town, known as the
Urven Walker place. He has the
building enclosed. Tom Baker has
bought the old building and will
remove it to two-acre track on
the White place, recently.purchased
by him.
John Brogley, veterinarian
from the town of Harrison, was in
town yesterday and reported the
birth of a very peculiarly-sha
calf on the farm of Ben Likens in
that township. The calf had three
hind legs, one of which had two
feet. There were two tails, and
the animal was in many other ways
monstrosity. 1t was dead when
born, but the owner thinks of pre-
serving it.
Sheriff Watson accompanied
Rosamond Anderson to the Northern
Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh
last Wednesday, where She will
receive treatment for mental dis
order The hospital authorities at
Madison have notified the county
authorities that no more patients
can be received there at present. So
insane patients must either be con-
fined in the county asylum or sent
to Oshkosh, the extra expense to be
borne by the people interested.
In the adjustment of the salaries
of rural carriers in the postal
service it has been decided that all
carriers appointed prior to June 80,
1904, who were entitled to the
maximum pay Of 5000, under the
rules which governed the establish
ment of routes at that time, shall
receive the maximum pay of $72O,
but that the schedule which became
effective July 1, 1904, and recently
announced, shall prevail in fixing
the compensation Of all carriers APP