Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-09-12
Local lettings.

-Inomas ADAMS OF DougeNllle
tried TO commit suicide last week.
He will recover.
Darlington is to have pearl but
ton factory. We don't see why we
should do without one.
The Wisconsin State Sunday
School convention will he held at
Waukesha, Sept. 1919, 1901.
If its the real good kind of job
printing you wish, come to the Her
aid office. We do that kind.
The National encampment of the
Grand Army OF the Republic is being
held at Cleveland, Ohio, this week.
A number from this county are in
attendance.
jefferson experienced a 800, 900
fire last Thursday. The fire started
in chair factory in the southern part
of the town and swept over the city.
Engines were sent in from Fort At
kinson, WATERFOWL, Whitewater and
GAINESVILLE.
In enclosing stamps for the Grant
County Herald use care in not getting
the gum sides together, for two rea-
sons: First, because we do not want
anything around us that is stuck up
Second. we have use for all the
stamps we can get.
You can tell the breed of a mos
quito by the way he squats on you
when he bites. If he stands square
and fiat he is culex; if he sticks his
hind feet into the air as if preparing
for handspring he is an anopheles-
the fever-spreading kind. But kill
him, anyway.
Those who attended the Hans
Hanson show at Reeds opera house
last Wednesday evening witnessed an
entertainment that was worth going
to see and were well repaid for their
money. 1t was good show and
worthy of larger audience. Their
band and orchestra are good.
The Diamond 10 packets, st.
Paul and Quincy, have made thier
last trip for the season owing to the
low stage Of water. This has been a
very prosperous season for the COM
pany and they feel well pleased with
the splendid trade they enjoyed
Cassville Record.
The following original poem has
been in our pigeon hole since spring;
we now spring it. 4 humble boy
with shining pail, went gaily sing
ing down the dale, TO where a cow
with brindle tail, on the clover past
ure did regale. a humble bee did
gailv sail, over the soft and shady
vale, to where the boy with the shin
ing pail, was milking the COW with
the brindle tail. The bee lit down on
the cows left ear. her heels flew up
through the atmosphere. and through
the leaves of a chestnut tree, the boy
scared into eternity.
-Tennyson could take worthless
sheet of paper, write a poem on it
and make it worth $25, 000-that' s
genius Vanderbilt could write few
words on a sheet of paper and make
it worth $4,000, 000-that's capital.
The United States can take an ounce
and quarter of gold and stamp upon
it an eagle and make it worth $40
that's money. A mechanic can take
material worth s. and make it into
watch springs worth 5000-that's
skill. A merchant can take an ar
ticle worth IS cents and sell it for
$l.25-that's business. A ditch
digger works ten hours day, hand
ling several score tons of earth for So
that's labor. The printer can
write a check for $4,000 and would
not be worth a dime-that's tough.
About forty farmers in Illinois
have been caught in a new-fangled
swindling scheme recently, by which
they must pay about the sum OF SOS
each. Some time ago two agents
called upon them showing a new sort
of refrigerator. A bucket of water
twice day would, it was said, keep
butter and milk much better than it
could be kept by the ordinary method,
and this company would pay twice
the prevailing price for the product.
All that they asked was that the farm
ers take the refrigerators on thirty
days trial There was to be no ex-
pense whatever. Then after trial the
farmers could buy it if satisfied. In
case they were not, the machine
would be taken back. In the mean
time the company would take their
butter at % cents a pound. The
farmers signed the purported agree
ment. but a few days later they re-
ceived notice that a note for SOS was
at the bank awaiting payment. The