Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-01-09
Local Jottings*

on the UGC 1a1m near EOIoSI GHe oIAel
day.
The Nathan Grocery co. will here,
after do strictly cash business
Note their ''ad' on page7 z.
Word has been received that An
drew Carnegie is to give $75, 900 to the
city of Madison for library building.
The offer is subject to the usual con-
ditions and will be accepted.
Hicks storm periods this month
are from the 9th to 18th, and from
18th to 23rd he states that billiards
and blockades will be in order. The
latter part of the month will also be
stormy.
The Missionary society OF the
Congregational church will hold a
special business meeting at the home
of Mrs. Kate Mccoy on Friday after
noon at o'clock, Jan. 10. A large
attendance is desired as important
business is to be transacted.
An item is going the rounds of
the papers telling how an elderly
woman is swindling ladies of various
towns in the state on orders for
switches. She canvasses the towns
and gathers up the hair and the pay,
of course to make it into the switches
and then disappears.
VIM. P. Richardson reports the
loss of his fine thoroughbred Short
horn bull. The animal was valua'
BILE one and has taken premiums at
the county fairs in this section for a
numb of seasons. A fine represent
alive CT his kind his place will not
be easily filled in live stock circles.
An Iowa philosopher suggests the
query, "Why don't few thousand
men quit dreaming Of air ships and
perpetual motion aud invent aCsyrup
pitcher that won't dribble at the
snoutP" And he might have added,
"A knife that will cut beefsteak or
beefsteak that can be cut by knife?"
Prairie du Chen will hold a spec
ial election on the 14th inst. to settle
the waterworks question. There
should be no opposition to the move
and after the waterworks have been
installed for one year the residents of
the city will wonder how they existed
without this improvement for SO many
years.
This is the way in which Kan
sas editor POLITICALLY lays bouqu ct
at the feet of his best best girl:
There is gladness in her gladness
when she's glad-there is sadness in
her sadness when she is sad-but the
gladness of her gladness nor the sad
ness of her sadness is nothing to her
madness when she's mad"
Atty. w. E. Shimmin closed up
the years business in his real estate
department by making two farm
sales. One was the Andrew Cairns
farm in Little Grant which went to
Chas. Julius and Jesse Blackburn and
the other was the John Whitish farm
in Clifton, which went to Frank Allen.
Possession is to be given in both cases
March 1st.
Here is mathematical problem
that is going the rounds: A column
of troops twenty-five miles long is or
dered to a point twenty-five miles
distant. A courier starts simultane-
uuslv with the rear of the column and
reaches the head thereof Returning,
he meets the rear oil the column where
the head originally was. Both the
troops and the courier are to travel at
a uniform rate of speed. How many
miles does the courier traversee
Dist. Atty. H. w. Brown went
to Boscobel Friday to appear on be-
half of the state in the &C ion brought
against Geo. Ostrander and his sup
posed wife, young woman named
Culver, and Budd Philips, quartette
arrested few weeks ago at Boscobel
charged with keeping house Of i'll
fame. The hearing came on before
Justice Richardson and Atty. j. j.
Blame of that city assisted the dis
trict attorney ia the prosecution
Sufficient evidence to bind the partie:
over to trial in circuit court was not
available however and the matter was
dismissed on request of the district
attorney.