Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-06-01

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Lewis BETTER. of Bloomington,
visited here the fore part of the week.
Postmaster Walter .Kleinpell and
wife, of Cassville, were in the city
on Memorial Day.
Inspector Terry visited the city
schools during the past week and found
them in excellent condition.
Yesterday ushered in the first
summer month and yet many of the
nights now are nearly cold enough for
frost
Rev. W. H. Hannaford delivered
the baccalaureate address to the
Sitter graded school graduates Sun
day evening.
-Picnics have been unusually
numerous in Lancaster this spring in
spite of the chilly weather that has
prevailed much Of the time.
Circus day will soon be here but
our small boys are uneasily waiting
for the gorgeous posters which will
destroy any remaining doubt.
DIR. j. w. Gibson has installed
an electric drill of the latest model.
The equipment of this dental Office is
now up to date in every particular.
The comet has been plainly
visible nearly every evening during
the psat week Sometimes the tail
could be seen and sometimes it was
apparently missing,
The city marshal requests all
citizens not to deposit lawn cuttings
and other grass in the street cutters,
as it washes into the sewers after a
rain and clogs up the drain pipes.
Sheriff Harcleroad, Frank Calls
4 and Atty. W. J. Brennan, of this city,
were Platteville visitors last week.
The T. o. Drinkall- residence property
in that city was sold by the latter, to
Mrs McKernan.
This was ons year at least upon
which it failed to rain upon Memorial
Day. The weather was bright and
beautiful throughout the day and the
carrying out of the exercises in very
details was in no way interfered with.
S Fl. Brown, former superlntend-
ent of this division of the Northwest
ern, last week severed his connection
with the railway company by resign
ing the SUPPLEMENTARY of the Sioux
City division. Impaired health caused
him to take this step.
All items and correspondence sent
to this Office for publication must be
accompanied by the sender's name
} We do not publish the name but must,
ourselves. know who it comes from as
matter of good faith. This is an
} old rule and one which we can not
} deviate from,
The black bass season opens today
Wednesday,. 1t is said that there
are a few members of this gamey
family left in the larger streams Of
the county. Oscar Wright, who re-
|. Gently captured the record % inch
trout. again demon strated his skill as
fisherman by landing thirteen inch
speckled beauty while fishing in Nc
Pherson's.
The moving pictures of the Mel
SON Wolgast prize fight, in which a
worlds championship changed hands,
shown at Reed 8 opera house on Tues
, day evening of last week were Of a
most interesting character and devoid
of the brutal features that in the
popular mind inevitatably accompany
! such exhibitions. The attendance was
rather light.
The annual baccalanreate sermon
: to the high school graduating class
, was delivered Sunday evening at the
NJ E. church by Rev. ]. T. Morgans.
!, The congregation was unusually large.
The sermon itself was full of whole
some advice to the twenty seven
young men and women soon to receive
their diplomas and was delivered in a
manner that held the close attention
of all present. At the beginning Of
the service prayer was offered by Prof.
Laube, of Dubuque. An unpleasant
feature of the evening was that the
electric lights refused to do their duty
and it was necessary to light several
oil lamps
In his "reminiscences of his
pioneer days in Grant County publish
ed recently in the State Historical
Society Collections. Jonathan H
Evans tells Of discussed character
of southwest Wisconsin, who many
Lancaster citizens remember as the
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