Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-21
LOCAL NEWS NOTES



Sitter Saturday.
e. L. Mccoy was in Fennimore
Monday afternoon.
H. S. Vaughan, of Platteville,
was in this city yesterday.
Mrs. Henry Elwell returned Sat
urday night from Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Whitcher, of
Lima. were callers Saturday
"A W. Hastings car of household
goods was shipped Monday to their
new home in Oklahoma.
Ladies Aid of the Congregational
church will meet Friday afternoon
with Mrs. John Jeide in her new
home
-''Scarlet Letter" based on the
novel of that name was the feature
picture at the Orpheum Monday and
last night.
DIR. A. B. Bailey. of Fennimore,
visited last Friday in this city. He
made the trip down and back in his
automobile.
The Lancaster high school team
will probably go to Boscobel next Sat-
urday and play the high school eleven
of that place.
Among the visitors Monday at
the county seat we're: Otis Blanchard
and F. Fl. Roewe, of Fennimore, and
d. Livingston, of Livingston.
Jos. Hurlburt, of this city was
examined last week by Drs. Fowler
and Hassel and found to be insane.
He was taken to Mendoza Saturday.
John Day, Louis Heberlein, Fred
Heberlein, L. Fl. Stevens, A. j.
Guernsey and Nick Adams started
yesterday for Gettysburg, South
Dakota
Duncan McGregor, of Platteville
and John J. Blaine. of Boscobel,
spoke at Potosi Monday evening on
political issues They went from
there to Cassville.
Hon. Neal Brown, of Wausau,
democratic candidate for United States
senator, will address a democratic
meeting at Reeds opera house next
Thursday evening, Oct. %.
For the second time this fall the
smoke from the northern forest fires
reached Lancaster. Sunday afternoon
and Monday the air was blue and
heavy with smoke which even reached
the interiors of the residences.
The new irCA stairway for the
stage enrance of Reeds opera house
has been received and will be put
in the place of the old one which has
Deen condemned. The stairs was pur-
chased of wrecking concern.
Marriage licenses since our last
edition were issued to P. M. Talon,
of Milwaukee, and Elizabeth Spiegel
berg, Boscobel; J. ). Specs and Lena
Sanger, OF Lancaster Fred L. Erwin,
Mt. Ida and Edith Oyer, of Ellenboro.
The Hillside Cemetery Association
will hold their annual rummage sale,
October Both and 31st on the first
floor OF the city hall. Housekeepers
will please take notice and get the
things ready that they wish to dis
pose of.
Carl Harper, former Lancaster
boy. is distinguishing himself on the
gridiron He is playing one Of the
ends for the Madison high school
eleven and although light is said to
have shown up we'll against the strong
teams Madison has met.
Miss Mabel Vincent won the
three dollars in Joeckel's clock con-
test Saturday. By singular coin
cidence her card bore the same num-
bers in hours, seconds and minutes as
the one held by Mrs. Henry Elwell
the week previous, both being 8 :27 is,
The auction sale of Doolittle &
Walker, one mile south of the city,
yesterday, was largely ATTENDED and
lot of high grade Jersey cattle were
sold at good prices. The sale was
conducted by Auctioneer P. A. Bishop,
of .Platteville, who does a great deal
of business in this part of the county,
and is said to be one of the most sue
cessfuI stock auctions that has taken
place about here in a long while.
The contract for printing the
official ballots, 10, 500 of them for the
general election, to be held Oct. 3,
was let by County Clerk Tufiey, last