Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-05-23
Local lettings.

Lancaster has . miles Of side
walks.
Cuba City viii celebrate the 18th
OF July.
Rev. Father Albers was in Fenni-
more Friday.
Sam Draper had business in
Sitter Thursday.
&C. H. Argus and Geo. Angus
were Boscobel visitors Sunday.
Miss Emma Venerable Of Sitter
was Lancaster caller Thursday.
Miss Cora Baumgartner visited
with Cassville relatives last week.
e. L. Mccoy worked Cassville
people last week for life insurance.
Miss Laura stephens was enter
tanned by Cassville friends hast week.
Mrs. H. J. Johnson and children
are guests of Boscobel relatives this
week.
Three rural mail routes were
successfully inaagurated at Brodhead
last week.
Miss Mary Baxter of Fennimore
was a guest Of Lancaster friends on
Thursday.
j. B. Mauer and Ben Schuppener
of Sitter had business here last
Thursday.
Sheriff W. w. Bennett of Prairie
du Chen was in the city Monday on
business.
The Cuba City band has been en-
gagged by the merchants of that thrifty
village to furnish free concerts every
Saturday evening.
"A short grass philosopher says
baby is like crop OF wheat; it is first
Graded. then thrashed and finally be-
comes the flower of the family.
As result of the erection OF the
tobacco ware house at Boscobel a
largely increased acreage will be set
out to the culture Of the weed in that
locality this season.
Physicians who have been finding
business little dull since the let-up
in the grip epidemic will note with
interest that nice fresh cucumbers are
beginning to be marketed freely.
1t is probable Platteville will en-
Joy the luxury OF a special election to
vote on the bond question again, as
the proceedings previous to the recent
election were irregular and illegal.
If the pork packer uses up all of
a pig except his squeal and kick and
thereby makes it pay would the farm
Ell not do well to use up everything
that can be utilized and now goes to
waste around the farm?
B. d. Budworth has accepted
position with the head camp, Nj. W.
A. as deputy organizer and IS already
engaged in hustling in interests Of
this popular order Beryl is cut out
for the business and viii add many
new new names to the roll.
An editor out west printed an
item which stated that 1.-THE man who
was hugging the hired girl had better
stop or his name would be published"
In few days about twenty-five citi-
zens paid up their subscriptions and
told the editor to pay no attention
to foolish stories going around. ,
The Milwaukee road is now using,
experimentally, a wonderful device
that is hung in the cab Of the locomo-
tive. If, for instance, an engineer
has orders to hold for further orders
at station 80 miles down the line he
will set the device at 81 and at that
point the automatic arrangement will
blow the whistle and at % miles ii
will stop the train without the help
of the engineer
The contract for construction of
Plattcville's new race track has been
let to Williams & Sheenan of Dubuque,
at the rate of 10 cents per yard. bring
ing the cost to about 81 400, the con-
tractors taking 5000 worth of stock in
the association in addition to their
contract, and offering to pay spot cash
down for the same. Bids for the job
ranged as high as $1,000 Grading
machinery is already on the ground
and work has commenced.
There lives in BoscobeI a couple
who think a great deal of each other,
and when one is i'll the other does
everything in the world for his or her
recovery Not long ago the husband
was taken i'll and his wife rummaged
around to find some medicine in the
house. Finally she came across box
Of little black pills. She gave them
To her husband recularlv and he