Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-10

-A.C. BudWorth went to Madison
on business yesterday.
r. G. Hale. of Plattveille, was
county seat business caller Monday.
William Hahn, of Sitter, called
at the hub on Monday of this week.
-Chas. Curtis. of Mineral Point,
was in this city on business Monday.
Henry Schrader and Richard
Boesser of Sitter, were Lancaster
callers Monday.
Ray L. Mink, of Burton, called
on county seat friends and relatives
last Saturday.
Albert Wiedenbeck returned yes
terday to his work as student in
Wisconsin University.
-M1. and Mrs. H. @. Nathan left
Saturday morning for visit with
relatives in Dubuque.
The three year old son of Will
EbeIhardt who has been seriously i'll
with brain fever, is much improved
at this writing.
Miss Abbie Connell, of Chicago.
will be employed IN Thanhouser's as
trimmer this season. She is expected
here on Saturday.
Joe and Will Holzmiller, of Fen
nimore, returned home yesterday
afternoon after a short visit at the
Victor Holzmiller home.
There will be a basket shadow
social at the Five Points school, Fri
day evening, March IL. Everybody
is invited. Miss Eta Blackburn, of
this city teaches the Five Points
school.
The stock shipments have been
very light for several days. Last
week Place and j -rrett shipped one
car of hogs and on Monday of this
week Ge). Moore sent out two cars of
hogs.
The Herald is. as usual, prepared
to do all kinds of printing for horse
men in first class style and proper
prices. We have a large assortment
of horse cuts of all kinds for posters
and cards.
The list of players who have
signed contracts to play with the Du
buque Three team this season was
published in Sundays Times Journal.
Among them we noticed the names of
Jack Palmer, Chas. Katz and Arnold
Hauser, who played with the local
aggregation last season. All three
of them should "make good.
The tenth annual Judge Mills
contest will be held next Friday even
ing at Reed s Opera house. Tie fol-
lowing members of the Senior class of
the high school will take part:
Edwin Knobel, Myrtle Judd, Floyd
Suttle, Elva Dyer, Clarence Markert,
Edmund Totman. Julia Wise, Frank
Stone, and Leila Bidwell. The fol-
lowing are the titles of their orations.
The Man of the World. w. S. Grants
Military Ability, Milton as an
Exponent of Anglo Saxon Freedom,
Higher Education. Lord Byron,
Robert Morris as an Ideal, The Race
Problem, The Little Foxes of the
Twentieth Century and Wisconsin.
The general admission to the contest
will be as usual Is cents. All friends
of the school should attend.
I'm the Sunday edition of the Mil
waukee Sentinel appeared very COM
plete 'write-up" illustrated with
three cuts of the PIatteville Mining
school The article written by Earl
Huntington. former Herald printer,
states among other things that the
Platteville school is the first institu-
tion of its kind in America The
present enrolment is 20 students.
Twenty are from Wisconsin and the
others from Kansas, California, Mas
sachusetts. Michigan, Ohio and Texas
The first graduating class will be
presented with their diplomas in June
having received credits for work done
in other schools.
Mrs. Jane Hyme1 died at the
home of her son w. G. Hymer of this
city. Tuesday afternoon at $50, at
the age of "a years and three months.
Mrs Hymer came to this country in
1916 from Corn wall. England, and
was married to Thomas Hymer of
Potosi in 1851, where they lived
almost continuously up to the time
of her husbands death in 1900. when
she went to live with her son, W.
c., up to the time of her death To
L. oI