Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-05-30

Miss Gershbach of Fennimore
was guest at Fl. Albers' Tuesday
The State Firemen's tournament
will be held at Elkhorn June 19-2o-2l
IT. F. Orion and j. S Wright re-
turned home Monday from West
Baden.
"A w. 10y and wife of Platteville
were Sunday visitors at the Burris
home.
Frank Smith and Miss Mamie
Chase of Sitter were Lancaster visi-
tors Sunday.
Miss Ella Lothrop Of Lexington,
md. is tie guest Of her grandfather,
Jason Lothrop.
Geo. Rudersdorf and family were
entertained by Mineral Point relatives
the past week.
-Messrs. Aug. Michaelis, H Ress-
meyer. S. p. Green and Thos. Me-
Conald were Dubuque visitors Fri
day.
The Southwestern Wisconsin Pic
mic association will hold its annual
Masonic picnic in Argyle this year,
the date beng set for June oath.
Last year this picnic was held at Mon
roe and the year before at Darlington.
Owing to poor heath Postmaster
S. B. Petit of Mt, Ida has resigned.
His probable successor will be Robert
Robinson, whose petition papers have
been hume tcusly signed by the pa
irons of the office.
-Chas. Cobb, one of the crew in
cha, re If the well drilling machine at
the asylum, managed to get his hand
in a dangerous position while oiling
the apparatus Friday and as result
lost portion of the third finger.
W H. Lightcap has received no.
tice from Washington attorneys an
no uncing the granting of a pension
to him of Sc per month. This is
certainly a meag er stipend to faith
full soldier who participated in long
term in Andersonville prison along
with other hardships of service.
A ciergyma recently addressed
an audience in his town. composed
entirely of the sisters of his congre-
CATION, as follows: "Be not proud
that the Blessed Lord paid your sex
the distinguished compliment of APP
pearing first to a female after bis
resurrection, for it was done that the
glad tidings might be spread the
sooner.
The m ercantile firm of Prideaux
& Hooper of Dodgeville, which has
been conducting general dry goods
aud grocery business in that city
since 1868, ceased to exist last Satur-
day, when The stock was sold to E. X.
Golden, VINO will sell it out at retail
AMI IL lots to other merchants. The
nrm of Prideaux and Hooper was one
of the oldest firms doing business in
Iowa county.
"A Sunday school superintendent,
who happened to be dry goods mer-
chant, and who was teaching a class
of very little tots asked when he had
finished explaining the lesson: Now.
has anyone a question to ask? A very
small girl raised her hand ~ hat
is it Martha?" asked the superlnten-
dent. why, Mr.. BROOKS, how much
are those little red parsols in your
window ?'' asked Martha.
A law in force in South Dakota
makes it unlawful to manufacture
sell or dispose of for any consideration
or give any air gun or cannon fire
crackers more than three inches in
length or any fire crackers made who'll
ly or in part of dynamite or giant
powder. A violation of this law sub
iects a person to fine of 500, or i'm
prisonment in the county Jail to the
exceed thirty days, or both
such fine and imprisonment. The
small boy of South Dakota will have
to content himself this year with
celebrating the glorious Fourth ofJuly
in the old fashioned way and worry
along without blowing off his fingers
with the deadly giant fire cracker.
The law is a good one and similar law
should be passed in every state in the
union.
Connecticut is taking up what
commends itself as an excellent metz
cd of keeping county highway and
streets in good shape. Instead Of
abandoning all attention to a road as
soon as ii is finished, and allowing it
gradually to deteriorate through the
effects of storms and travel, certain
number of men are retained. and each