Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-17

/ Platteville Thursday.
james Harcleroad, of Platteville,
visited here this week.
Elmer Brown. of PIatteville. was
in Lancaster Thursday.
F. Fl. Heberlein. of Mineral
Point, was Lancaster visitor Thurs
day.
Mrs. W. P. Richardson has gone
to Rochester, Mimi, taking medical
treatment.
Miss Mae Rogers visited this
week in Cassville with her sister Mrs.
Glen D. Smith.
An orchestra of travelling must
clans played on the street here
Thursdya evening.
DIR. Critchlow attended the meet
ing of the Dubuque County Medical
society, Tuesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry McGraw and
Miss Ida Pollmann, of Fennimore,
were at the county seat Thursday.
Will Miller returned yesterday
from Trip County. South Dakota.
He egistered at the Rosebud opening.
Sheriff Copenhefer of Richland
County. was visitor here this week.
He was a witness in the ladder case.
WIN. Spencer returned home last
week from South Dakota, where he
has been for the past two months.
] DIR. j. E. McGovern, of High
land, accompanied by his brother DR..
NIcGovern, of Potosi, were callers in
Lancaster Thursday. -
Mrs. Julietta Morse. state in
spector of the w. r. c., will visit
Lancaster next Monday afternoon for
the purpose of inspecting the work
of the local corps.
"A number of the Royal Neighbors
of this city attended class adoption
in Boscobel last night. The Boscobel
lodge did their best to make the &C.
casion a success and it certainly was.
The following Lancaster Royal
Neighbors attended the Boscobel do
ings'' last night: Mesdames Austin,
Burrows. Williams, Lisherness,
Hagen, Galloway, Walker, Schm idt
and Wiedenbeck and Messrs. Ed Hyde
and Ray Mccormick.
Twelve Lancaster ladies came
over Wednesday to be entertained by
a like number of Platteville ladies.
they were received at the home of
Mrs. Fawcett, shown through our new
Normal and other places of interest;
they were dined at the home of Mrs.
Schuster, and were given musical
and other entertainment at the home
of Mrs. Sickle later in the day. The
ladies who came were Mesdames.
Schreiner Baxter, Brown, Goodsell,
Meyer, Howe, Barnett, Slothower,
E. Mccoy and Bennett and
Misses Schreiner. Meyer and Phelps.
The ladies Who entertained them were
Mesdames Dewitt. Schuster, Fawcett.
Hetherington, Ellis, .. A. Eastman,
Hawley, Cunningham, Meyer, Block,
Sickle, Livingston and @ Gribble.
These ladies spent a lovely day at
Lancaster about year ago. Platte
vile Journal.
The state civil service commits
sion has fixed Dec as the date for
holding the examinations for candi-
dates for positions in the legislative
service. There Will be competitive
examinations for all positions in the
service excepting those of typewriter
or engrossing clerks, the examinations
for which were held some months
: ago. These places carry salaries of
from 81 to $5 a day, pay being al
loved for every day OF the week dur
ing the entire time that the legisla-
ture is in session. after the date of
ones appointment. The commission
desires especially to get desirable
eligible list of stenographers for the
legislative service For any male
steuographer who can take the dicta-
ton at the rate Of leo words per
minute, and do neat and accurate
TRANSFERRING on the typewriter, a
legislative position will be available.
In a bulletin recently issued
State Fire Marshal Purtell says {:
Although the cold weather has
hardly begun to such an extent as to
require continuous fires in unused fire
places, furnaces and stoves, yet the
reports Of losses resulting from de-
fective fiues have already begun to