Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-03-14

ri THIS city now mas membership OF
&c.
II might be a good plan to call il
and subscribe. A great number are
doing it.
DR.. J. Godfrey attended tbs
Liquid Air lecture at Plattegille sat
urday evening
The Herald is good all over thi,
week, even if We do say it. Compare
it with others you read.
-Messrs. f. c. Bryan and John n
Miller were over from Boscobel on
business Saturday. We acknowledge
a very pleasant call
The Knights OF Pvthias and Rath.
bone Sisters will hold another of Their
popular parties Thursday evening Of
next week-the 21st.
The merchants of the city are al
ready beginning to receive their spring
goods and the display windows will
soon take on spring attire.
st. Patrick's day falls on Sunday
this year. 1t has happened onlytwice
in the past twenty years-in 1889 and
1895. 1t will not happen again until
1907.
Rev. T. j. Brown writes from
Washington that he expects to arrive
home today (Thurday) and wishes us
to announce that he viii occupy his
pulpit Sunday, both morning and
evening.
1t is reported that the Chicago,
Milwaukee 4 St. Paul road is COM
templating making Madison a divi-
sion headquarters, when the new Chi
eago lime IS completed to that point,
and erecting large machine shops to
employ 400 or 500 men The road is
buying land near both the East aud
West Madison depots.
Its an old saying hat il we get
through the month Of March in good
shape the balance OF the year will be
easy. or words 10 that effect. It's to
Be regretted that many elderly per-
sons around Us are complaining just
al present. They must have eour-
age. which is better than lots of med
iciue Don't give up and retire to
bed. get out in the sun bat avoid the
shade and the winds.
If a man wants to fill his cup of
anguish until it runneth over and
Stops down on one side, Just let him
try to Please every body for while.
Ii be goes into politics he is called a
thief, and ii he stays out he is called
unpatriotic Ii he lays mp his money
against a rainy day he is called a
miser. and if he casts his dough upon
the waters people say he expects it to
come back in the shape Of a whole
bakery II he stands up for his
rights he is shot at, and if he don't
stand up for them he is trodden on
like the husband Of female suffragist.
The only way man pleases every
body IS when he turns his ace to the
wall and expires then the people
hang around him and say things
about him that would make him
scream with JOY if his poor deaf ears
could only hear.
The bill introduced by Assembly
man 5. f. Smallev in the Legislature
recently, authorizing the coun j
Judge Of Grant county to hold probate
court at Platteville once each month,
was passed without any great opposi-
ton. Ia conformity with this meas
ure Judge Good,ell was in Plattevillt
last week where he met the member,
Of the bar and others there interested
and completed arrangements for com
plying with the new law. Court will
be held there on the Srd Tuesday in
each month in the court room Of tn
city hall The necessary record,
will be taken over each trip. but il
will not be necessary for Register
McBrien to be on hand there. Mat
tiers Of any great Importance where
extended reference TO records is re-
quired will of necessity he tried here
as before, but numerous transaction:
Of mere form will be acted upon and
this will prove very acceptable
change for residents Of the southern
portion OF thecounty, to whom Platte
vile is more easily accessible.
John Ferguson, a vel. known
travelling man, representing Roundy
Peckham x Co. Of Milwaukee, es
capped getting into trouble BY the very
skin of his teeth Friday. Mr.. tergu
son with his customary vim for bust
ness and thirst for orders stopped a
Ridgeway Friday and visited all th'
dealers. Ridgewav is quarantine
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