Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-10-03

The Ladies' Aid society will meet
on Friday afternoon at o'clock with
Mrs Chas. Roberts.
Politics are beginning to warm
up about the county and soon the
politicians viii be repairing their old
fences and building new ones.
Don't watch the clock: don't listen
for the whistle don't notice the shad-
ows You need none Of these things
to tell you when you have done a
days work, 50 long Is you have a
conscience
The days are getting shorter fast
aud as the long winter evenings come
YOU will want good reading matter
Subscribe for the Herald and get the
news from this city and surrounding
/ places besides large amount of.mis-
cellaneous matter.
The party who borrowed the boil
er from the Congregational church
and forgot to return it can save
themselves trouble and consequent
humiliation by returning il promptly.
/ Ii not done this week legal action VIII
be instituted for its recovery.
The ladies Of the Congregational
church are planning for flower sale
to be held late in October or early iu
November A very rare collection Of
plants will be offered for sale and
those contemplating the purchase Of
valuable plants for wiuter use VIII do
well 10 attend the sale.
"A well told story IS as welcome
as a sunbeam in sick room A good
laugh IS better than medicine. The
man who can tell wholesome story
to his family and keeps his troubles
70 himself will have very little use
for doctor. The world IS too busy
to bother with the troubles of each
individual. A good laugh is also
good for torpid liver.
Mary had little lamb; it fol-
lowed her to church and then it
stood around the door like an owl up
on perch why don't the little
lamb come imp the watchful peo-
pie cried. Why Mary told the silly
thing to watch outside. So vou.
each gentle maiden, may one and all
still find some sheep head waiting
near the door, if you admire that
kind.
Georgia has just passed law to
this effect: If woman fails to man
age the house according to the hus-
bands ideas he Is justified in insist
ing that his ideas be carried out" It
is solemnly made his prerogative .to
determine what servants shall do and
not do the hours at which meals
must be served and the menu at each
meal The man that undertakes to
act upon that law will have more ex-
perience to the square inch than lie
ever had before.
The weather has been 30 hot in
this country. walls southern Mis-
souri, paper that uverymen have
had to stand their horses in water an
hour day 10 keep their shoes from
coming of, and wagons are going
around with THEN tongues out. The
catfish kick up such a dust iii the bed
of the Gascopade river that the river
has to be sprinkled before you can 60
fishing. A spark from an engine set
the big railroad pond on tire and
burned UP a wagon load Of bull frogs.
The ground : SO hard and dry that
the crawtish holes in the low places
are being pulled up and shipped off
for gas pipes"
There never was a paper publish
Cd IN any locality that gave all the
local news It is often the case jha
some persons come or 20 that the edi-
tor does not see or even know of 1t
may happen shat the same family is
M >,ed several times. and they get the
impression that the paper does not
care To mention them or has some
grudge against them, it Is mistake.
The home paper has no Ill feeling, no
enmity. no spite against anyone so
don be afraid to tell the editor when
Won have friend, visiting YOU or that
YOU have returned from a trip or con-
template visit. II you think the
paper, how partiality try and See if
il doesn treat you as well If YOU
give 4 chance