Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-06-19
Local JOttingS.

Oklahoma.
Oscar Wright is home from the
University.
A sharp man never cuts his ac-
qpaintances.
Mrs. F. c.. Basford was in Mil
waukee Friday.
M Blum, the Galena brewer, was
in the city Monday.
"A kiss may be either punish
ment or reward.
Louis Dechow of Cham berlain,
S. D., is in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Rhodes were
Cassville callers Tuesday.
Don't Judge a man by the way
he talks. He may be a liar.
F. E. Book of Boscobel looked
after interests here Monday.
Chippewa Falls gets the next
state encampment of the G. A. r.
stores that advertise in this paper.
The worst think about the credit
system is that the bills become due.
The more man learns of prac-
tical politics, the less fit he is to die.
In order to dog a mans footsteps
the detective should be given point
err.
Madison is now making an effort
to secure the Democratic state con-
vention.
Edgar Ward and wife, of Riclland
Center, visited Lancaster relatives
this week.
People seldom improve when they
have no better model than themselves
to copy alter.
A store filled with merchandise
that won't sell is the most unprofit-
able OF drug stores.
1t seems to be safe prediction
that coal will 60 up in price before it
goes up in smoke.
He who never gives advice and
he who never takes it are alike un-
worthy of friendship.
Many a poor author sets luxu-
rious table for his readers who rises
hungry from his own.
There is something out of joint
about the girl who is womanish and
the woman who is girlish.
What has become of the old
fashioned man who parted his hair
behind and comb bed it over his ears.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Abrams take
their departure this week for visit
with relatives in Idaho and South
Dakota.
Sam Stephens and his sons Sam
and Harry have completed a COM
modious new barn on their farm east
of town.
S. Scoroe is the Primitive Metho
dist minister assigned to Little Grant
pastorate. The conference was held
at Dodgeville last week.
ALL who are interested in the
Beetown burial ground are cordially
requested to- give some assistance
Saturday, June 2Sth, in the task of
cleaning up the same and in putting
the graves of their departed loved
ones in proper order.
Whitewater Register: Prof. and
Mrs. L. L. Clarke arrived home from
Lancaster last Friday. AS Mr.. Clarke
was unanimously requested to remain
as principal of the high school in that
city it is quite possible that he will
return there for another year.
Work on the new fine art hall at
the fair grounds commenced Monday
with Henry Henkel as boss carpenter
and Thos. lockwood as o7erseer.
The officers of the society wish it I'M
derstood that there will be no more
ball playing on the fair grounds until
Aug. lst.
Mrs. Clarence jenkins died at the
DeSota house at Galena Thursday of
last week. In company with her hus-
band she was on her way home to
P latteville from North Dakota to visit
her parents and was taken seriously
i'll after arriving at Galena. Two
small children, the youngest five
weeks old, survive with the bereaved
husband. Deceased was formerly
Miss Jennie Squires and lived at
Platteville.
A deal involving 100000 was
consumated last week in Platteville.
H. L. Jenkins, of Minneapolis, has