Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-13
Number Of New Arc Lights
to be Installed.
REPORTS ARE APPROVED
DR. Reed Granted Permission to Place
Old Building in Street. Surveyor
Will Place Stones at Corners.

City Council met on Friday evening,
July s, and the minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved.
Business committee recommended
that arclights be placed at the fol-
lowing places, requests having been
made: Peter Henkel's, VIM. P. Richar-
sons, John Stones, the Anton Schmitt
hill, Mrs. Phin. Walkers and Marion
Eastman's. A motion to grant all
these requests was carried
Action on laying more water mains
was laid over until next meeting.
A motion was carried to purchase
one hundred yitrified monuments and
Surveyor Sampson was given au-
thority to plant the same at a COM
pensation of $50.
Application of Pink Bros. for sa-
loon license read. License granted
The bonds of the different saloon
keepers read and approved.
DR.. Reed asked permission to place
the building in which he is now To-
Gated on the west side of the court
house square, until the new building
is completed, not later than Decem-
Der 1.
Reports of street commissioner and
city treasurer read and approved.
A deed given by Richard Willis for
land to be used for street purposes
was accepted.
A number of bills were read and al
lowed, with the exception Of one from
the Lancaster Electric Light COM
pany, which was referred back to COM
mitteee on finance. for the purpose of
adjusting the amount to be deducted
for outages of arclights.
e. Ishmael was here from Cass-
VILE Saturday.
DIR. and David James of Mont
fort were in town Monday.
Rev. and Mrs. Fuller of Bloom
ington were callers Monday.
Mrs. r. B. Showalter, who has
been indisposed, is convalescent.
Miss Louise eTuf1ey of Marion
township is visiting in town. Miss
Tuf1ey says her father, George
Tuf1ey, has been somewhat i'll
disposed lately. due principally to
hard work.
Ralph Ray, son of our we'll
known townsman, G. w. Ray, ex-
poets to accept a position as head
bookkeeper for the Lee Live Stock
Commission of Chicago. Ralph
is well qualified for the position,
and no doubt will enjoy the work.
Lancaster shippers received no
tice from Chicago to stop shipments
as there was strike started at the
stock yards yesterday. It is a gen
eral strike, the employees of every
packing house in the country hav-
ing quit, involving about $4,000
men.
AT a recent meeting of the
library board it was decided that
hereafter only one new book Of fc-
ton may be taken by family at a
time. Books will be regarded as
new until they have been in the
library three months. Quite list
of new books was recently added to
to the library.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Congregational church will meet
in the church parlors Friday after
noon at 2 o'clock. Entertainment
in the way of refreshments will be
served by Miss S. Watts, Mrs. Joe
Mccoy and Mrs. VIM. Humphrey.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all ladies intrusted in this society to
attend.
Mrs. Catherine Ohlert, an old
resident, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Thielean in Usage,
Iowa, last week, where she had
been living for several months. The
remains were brought to this city
for interment, and the funeral was
held in the Catholic church Sunday
at p. m. Size leaves a large fam
lily of children and grandchildren
hereabouts.
David Powers, a well known
resident of Cassville, died Saturday,
and the funeral was Monday at the
Catholic church in Glen Haven.
Mr.. Powers was a son of the late
Patrick Powers of Glen Haven and
was about forty-five years of age.
There are several brothers and sis
tiers in the family. The brother
Thos. e., of Clear Lake, S. OAK,
came home to the funeral.