Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-27
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Presumption is very close akin
to ignorance.
All playing that man is paid to
do is called work.
Silence is the chief virtue, but is
often overlooked.
Boosting of your benevolence
manifests weakness.
For the breeches of promise use
rope for suspenders.
Leo Ryan of North Andover
was in town Sunday.
Better hunt for your own faults
than your neighbors'.
Miss Kate Maclay was a guest
of Sitter friends Sunday.
"A man may have wheat in the
mill and be short in dough.
Mrs. VIM. Rothschild visited
Fennimore relatives Sunday.
The most unlovable creature in
the world is fretting person.
Hope ~ings a sweet song, but
don't spend your time all in listening.
Ray Flynn, a brakeman from
Baraboo, Srndayed with his parents
here.
-Chas. Townley, railroad
brakeman, is home from Madison
for week.
DIR. S. A. NARROW and Ora
Hatch of Bloomington were callers
in town Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. Clemens returned to
Milwaukee Monday, after few
days visit here.
Mrs. Laura Fahy and family de-
parted Monday for Barron, where
they will reside in the future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. T. Bennett
went to Dodgeville Monday on &C
count of the death of his mother.
-Arno Alt returned Monday from
a deer hunt in the north. He
brought nice deer with him as a
trophy of his craftsmanship.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reub French came
up from Cassville Saturday to visit
Mrs. French's mother, Mrs. Henry
Thomas, who is still seriously i'll.
The material for the new bowl
ing alley is on the ground and near
ly all in place, and it is expected
that the rumbling Of the balls will
be heard there today. Bowling is a
fascinating game, and it has many
devOtees.
Grant county will have two
farmers Institutes this winter
North Andover and Hazel Green,
January 30 and 80 FL. M. gilbert
son will conduct the North Andover
meeting and F. Ell. Scribner will
hold forth at Hazel Green.
A well-known local sportsman
who was down to the river on a
fishing trip recently, remarked on
the plentiful supply of small fish in
the isolated sloughs which will be
frozen in the ice this winter. He
thought that people should be al
lowed to run seins through these
sloughs if they would agree to turn
the small fish into the river.
The hydrophobia scare east and
north Of BeetOwn seems to have
subsidized, no new cases having de-
veloped among the animals. w. FL.
Prideaux who went to the Pasteur
institute at Chicago on account of
q suspicion of infection in a cut on
his hand, while doctoring an infect
ed horse on his farm, reports prog
ress satisfactory with the treatment.
The international Correspond
ence school of Scranton, Pa, has
a creditable display in the window
of Joeckel Bros. old store. Legiti-
mate correspondence schools have
done much good in replacing mis-
placed people and in extending
knowledge where it otherwise would
never be found. The plan is a good
one where people cannot afford
time or money to go away to school.
Our football team, after chal-
longing almost every high school in
the state, including Madison and
Whitewater, have finally found a
Thanksgiving game for today. They
meet the Bloomington boys on the
gridiron in CHS city, and as the
Bloomington team is regarded as
rather strong, the game promises
to be warm one, even if the day
happens to be cold. The Blooming
ton team is comparatively new, but