Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-02-15

4 The ladies of st. Clements
parish will give a card parry next
Tuesday evening for the benefit OF
the cemetery, at the city hall.
Every body cordially invited; re-
freshments will be served. Admis-
sion 25c.
The noon train was ten minutes
late Thursday but it was not the
snow this time. During the thaw
the water ran down on the low
tracks leading out of Galena so that
when it froze there was three miles
of ice covered rails. The train COM
ing from Galena to MonfOrt could
not get through this, and the Mil
waukee Lancaster train was de
layed by the same thing. We we're
forced to do without the Chicago
dailies that day.
Rev. w. e. Hannaford depart
ed Thursday afternoon for a visit
with his mother, at White Cloud,
Mich, where he will remain several
days. This item is Of especial in
terest to the editor Of the Herald,
for the reason that every spring
during the past II years he has
spend a week or ten days trout
fishing withIn a few miles of White
Cloud, which is the nearest railroad
station to the famous fishing pools
of that section.
H. f. johnson, former publisher
of this paper, has purchased the
Prairie du CHEN Union, negotia-
tions for which have been in pro-
gress for the past two or three
weeks. and assumed charge of the
paper last Monday, although he will
not go there personally for few
days yet, and his family will re
main here until some tune in the
spring. Mr.. Johnson has many
friends in Lancaster who Will hope
that he may meet with success in
his new field.
"A variety shower" was given
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
G. Burr, Thursday evening, for Miss
Elizabeth Butler, of West Branch,
Iowa, who is visiting her sisters,
Mrs. @. f. Orion and Mrs. Frank
Horton in this city. Miss Butler is
to assume Hymen's bonds in the not
distant future and this was in testi
mony of the regard of her Lancas-
ter friends for the occasion. She
was presented with many pretty
things that will be dear to the heart
of one who deserts the joys of girl
hood for the responsibilities of mar
ried life
Mrs. Chas. Langridge, who has
been Ill for some time with bron-
chial-pneumonia, died Thursday
night, about midnight. Mrs. Ian
gridge was about 70 years of age,
and was we'll liked by all who knew
her. She leaves to mourn her
death besides her husband. the fol-
lowing children: Mrs. Fany Bay
man, of Sitter; Mrs. Lucy Walters,
of Canada; Charles, of Velva, N. D.;
Fred and George, of California;
Mrs. Kate Petty, of Hurricane; Mrs.
Ed. Brlnkman and Mrs. Carry
Knapp, of this city; also a brother,
Chas. Martin of Lancaster, and a
number of other relatives.
Will Hall, a farmer living 3
miles north Of the city, had quite
an experience with wolves last Mon
day. About 10 a. m. he was haul
ing load of straw through his field
and reaching the gate on the east
side of the road he got off the load
to open it Just then he noticed his
sheep huddled UP to the gate on the
west side of the road and then saw
two full grown wolvesgwithin three
rods of the sheep. He yelled and
the animals skunk away across the
field. Before he could get his gun
they had disappeared. They ap
peared to be hungry and one of
them brlstled up when he saw Mr..
Hall and seemed ready to fight.
The following pupils in the
Grant county schools are entitled to
pei feet attendance certificates: Ken
meth Ableiter, Bessie DIVall, Hilda
and Victor Kasper, Milton Young,
Melvin and Harry eager, Paul
| Zenz, Jessie Kalish, Lucian Smith,