Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-12-20
Prank Orion is in Galena,

Henry Gerlach has accepted a
position on the State Journal at Mad
son.
Mrs L. Muffiey of Boscobel is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. H. j.
Johnson.
A. E. Morse of Granite Falls.
Mimi, is visiting in Lancaster-the
guest of his brother, A. C. Morse.
Before you can get people to talk
about you, you must do something
yourself-in the columns of good
newspaper.
Miss Helen Reed is home from
Cornell college, Iowa. She expects
to return in the spring and complete
the course.
Governor Scofeld has appointed
S. w. Reese as district attorney of
Iowa countp to fiji out the unexpired
term of Levi w. Pollard.
Mrs. Mary Goelz of Beloit, who
has been the guest of her sister, Mrs
John Livens, the past two months,
returned home Thursday.
-Messrs. Will Webb, Rolla Moses
and Misses Mabel Bieg and Blanche
Burr is, students of the platteville Nor
NAL, are home to spend the holidays
-There'll be big times at the rink
next week. The band will play
Christmas afternoon in addition its
regular engagement at this popular
resort.
Miss Edith Godfrey of the Osh-
kosh Normal arrived in Lancaster
Saturday and will spend the holidays
at the home of her uncle, Dr. Jos.
Godfrey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Nathan are to
pccupy the residence property owned
by the Richie estate. in the southern
part of town, where j. I. Bennett
now lives, as soon as the latter moves
into his commodious new dwelling.
Encouraging reports come daily
from Chicago relating to the condi-
ton of G. w, Knapp, who recently
underwent an operation in that city
The many friends of our worthy
townsman will be no more pleased to
learn of his complete recovery than
the Herald is to chronicle it.
John Scheinpfug, the newly
elected county treasurer, arrived
with his household goods Tuesday
from Boscobel and Mrs. Scheinpfiug
and the children came today (Wed-
nesdayl. The will occupy the Will
Carter residence, owned by R. b.
Showalter, situated in the western
portion of the city. The Herald ex-
tends to them hearty welcome.
Look out for the swindler who is
going about the country Offering for
sale box containing SO pieces of
soap for 81 and giving a rubber door
mat with the purchasers initial upon
it as a prize. He delivers the soap
and promises to deliver the mat as
soon as it can be manufactured with
the purchaser name on it, collects
the dollar and vanishes to be seen no
more.
-Henceforth the lawyers who 20
to Madison to attend the sessions of
tne supreme court are to enjoy all the
luxuries that can be found in comfort
able lounging and smoking rooms.
w. j. Scott, superintendent of public
property, has fitted one of the rooms
of the capitol. No. 21S, across the. hall
from the supreme court rooms, where
attorneys may read, smoke and loaf
while they are waiting for their case
to be called.
Young man don't be too soft.
Don't say to her, ''these little hands
shall never do stroke of work when
they are mine, and '.you shall have
nothing to do in our home but to sit
all day long and chirp to the canar-
les. as if any sensible woman would
be happy fooling away time in that
sort of style. A girl has a fine reten-
tive memory of the soft things and
silly promises Of courtship and
occasionally when she is washing
dinner dishes or patching the west
end Of your trousers will remind you
of them in cold sarcastic tone of
voice.
A man is what he makes himself
If he sits down by the roadside or on
the soft side of dry goods box and
waits for some one to come along and
offer him princely salary and life
long situation he generally sits there