Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-06-29

D. l. LUX, VI EdIlSy Was Ian =
caster caller Sunday.
IS. A. Hatch, of Bloomington.
visited in Lancaster Monday.
Louis and August Lenz. of
Sitter, were Lancaster visitors Sat-
urday.
-Potosl, Cassville, Rewey and Ben
ton will all celebrate the 4th of July
this year.
T. L and G. E. Cleary, 'of
Platteville, were Lancaster callers
yesterday.
The shady spots on the courthouse
lawn are literally peopled by refugees
from the intense heat these days.
The W. F. M. S. of the NJ. E.
church will meet with Mrs W. N.
Stone on Friday afternoon, July 1.
at o'clock.
H L. Moses arrived home Mon
day from North Dakota. where he has
been for some time attending to real
estate interests
Mrs. Henrietta Dubrox of Dubuque
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Hugo
Kohlenberg, and her brother, Fred
Diesel, in South Lancaster.
There has been a little improve
ment reported in Gov. Ryland's con-
dition during the past week. His
illness is of a dropsical nature and is
quite serious.
Mrs Peter Wedie, a we'll known
resident of this city, passed away
yesterday. Her death was caused by
a stroke of paralysis which she suffer-
ed a week ago.
George Hyde and family have
moved to Mineral Point where Miss
Grace is employed in an electric the
alter. Mr.. Hyde will spend most of
his time in Lancaster.
Richard Meyer, T. F. Orion and
B. J. Lowery will start this morning
for Adams County, where they will be
guests of the Wolf Lake club for a
fishing trip lasting several days.
German preaching service will be
held in German Presbyterian church
next Sunday morning at 10: 45; Eng
lish preaching in the evening at z 80;
Sun lay School at 9: 45 a. M. Rev.
August Cramer, pastor.
Under the management of genial
Michael Banteld the Northwestern
hotel at Cuba City is a very comfort
able and pleasant place to stop. The
service is excellent and all guests re-
ceive courteous attention.
The City authorizes call attention
in another column of this paper, to
infringement of the regulations relat-
i've to the using of city water for
sprinkling purposes, and prompt action
is promised for the enforcement of the
rules.
The light shower of rain with
which Lancaster was favored Sunday
night was quite refreshing but was
only "a drop in the bucket as to
quantity Of what was badly needed.
The southern portion was of the coun-
ty is said to have been more boun-
teously favored.
Byron Long has been employed
in the roundhouse during the past few
days. Chas. Benoy. one of the
regular employees. had the misfortune
to fall against sand heater which SO
injured his side as to incapacitate him
for some time. He is getting along
nicely however and will resume work
shortly.
The engagement of Virgil Pid-
dington, the former Lancaster ball
player, and Miss Mary Thomas. of
Smelser, has been announced. After
his marriage it is thought that Mr..
Piddington will engage in farming,
Many of his friends were sorry to
learn of his retirement from profess
sional baseball but 1t is believed he
will make a success of whatever line
Of work he takes up.
DIR. j. w. Smith arrived at his
brothers. home, Frank Smith of this
city, on Thursday of last week. DIR.
Smith left Chicago nine years ago last
January. as army surgeon to the
PHILIPPINES. He has been in steady
service there until July, when he
started on the completion Of trip
around the world. He took several
months in special study, surgery, in
Vienna, also two months in the same
line of work in New York. He went
from here on Friday to see his father,
the venerable John Smith at Beetown,
and is now at the home of his sister,