Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-06-05
LOCa! JOttingS.
Dodgeville will hold no fair this

-Iodgevllle Will hold no talr TINS
season.
1t takes two to make a quarrel,
but one can end it.
Miss Nellie Finnegan is visiting
in Sitter this week
A boy is usually ready to eat ey-
cry time he stops playing.
Trousers seldom lose their shape
from carrying too much money.
1t always makes US mad to see a
poor player wear a baseball suit.
Mrs. Muench is erecting large
new barn on her farm west OF town.
George Philips of Mineral Point,
visited with his parents over Sunday.
One way to avoid being robbed is
not to have anything worth stealing.
Mrs. w. T. Brown and daughter
of Platteville are guests at DR.. S. E.
Hassells.
The labor agitator and the base
ball pitcher should have striking per-
sonalities.
There is no reason why the man
who makes his money in oil should
have a bored look.
People go to the mountains in
the summer to keep cool in spite OF
the mountain RANGES
Men are continually going up
against schemes that look like more
money and less work.
Mrs. Frank Turner is spending
the week with her sister, Mrs. Chas.
Myers, at Platteville.
-DodgeviIle will ego dry" July 1st
and the saloon keepers ale advertis-
ing "clearing up'' sales.
The girl who has broiled lobster
with champagne sauce rarely marries
the many who pays the bill.
A man who thinks he knows it
all usually marries woman who can
teach him whole lot more.
1t is all right to train girl to
meet troubles with smiling face,
but what man needs is club.
When a woman horsewhips a
man, about all she accomplishes is to
give his coat long needed busting.
1t is pure selfshness on the part
of others to talk about themselves
when you want to talk about your
self.
The Common Council held reg
ular monthly meeting Tuesday even
ing. Proceedings appear in full on
first page.
L. c. Phinney, freight conductor,
is to move his family here from
Madison next week. He will occupy
one of E. E. GraLam's houses in the
4th ward.
Mrs. Sam Oates of Lancaster was
examined for her sanity Saturday and
pronounced insane. Under Sheriff
Mcmahon took the unfortunate woman
to Mendoza hospital or treatment
Monday.
Hon. Richard Kennedy and Ulrlch
Eberle Of Highland were in Lancaster
Monday and inspected mining pros
PEGS in this locality Mr.. Kennedy
believes the Eberle mine near Bee
town an excellent prospect.
The ladies of the W. r. G. wish
to express their appreciation of the
help given them in the preparations
for Memorial day by she ladies of the
corps, and especially to those ladies
who are not mem bers of the order.
Thanks to you, one and all.
"A young lady asked the editor this
question: do you think it right for
a girl to sit on young mans lap
even II she is engaged?" Whereupon
our editor told this cheerful lie: 1--WE
have no experier ce in the matter you
refer to. But if it were our girl and
our lap, yes; if it was another fellows
girl and our lap, yes; but if it was our
girl and another fellows lap, ye,
gods! no!E'
City boys have learned by long
experience that they must not tamper
with Uncle Sans mail boxes; but out
in the country the rural free delivery
boxes are something new, in most
localities, and many urchins are
tempted to have fun with them. The
postoffice department therefore issues
TIE timely warning that the punish
ment for injuring these boxes or in
terfering with their contents may be
as high as $1,000 and three years i'm