Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-08-28
Local JOttingS.

"A man may have wheat In the
mill and be short in dough.
Miss Jessie McGregor of Platte
vile is a guest of Miss Helen Reed.
Mrs Jacob Dersch and children
are visiting in the town Of Harrison.
Mrs. Amy Brandt, of Baraboo,
is a guest of Frank Spicer and wife.
Hope sings a sweet song but
don't spend all your time in listen
ing.
Fred Burr and Newell Garner
are hustling life insurance for the
Northwestern.
Mrs. l. H. Tarrant and children
are visiting at the home Of her faith
er, Sam Stephens.
The trouble with men blowing
their own horns is that they never
hit the right tune.
Darlington fair this week and
Platteville comes next. Then the
big county fair at Lancaster.
Will Ressmeyer was called into
Baraboo to work on the Northwest
ern as a brakeman Saturday.
Miss Abbie Phelps entertained
a company Of young friends in hon
or Of Miss Florence Street Thursday.
Mrs. Sam Emler entertained
Misses Mary Emler and Viola and
Oracle Day, Of this city, on the farm
Sunday.
No one on earth can love his
neighbor as himself if he has gar
den and the aforesaid neighbor has
chickens.
During the year 1901 nearly half
a million cases of champagne were
imported into the United States. It
will be remem bered as an extra dry
year.
-Limburger cheese has one great
advantage over oleomargarine, and
that is, nobody can ever accuse it of
tying to pass itself off for some
thing else.
The trout law expires Septem-
Der LIST, when the fishing rod must
be laid aside until the 18th day Of
next April On September LIST you
may lawfully hunt partridge, pleas
ant, prairie chicken, plover and
Snipe until the succeeding LIST day
December.
Lou Starr and wife and Mrs.
Garner, arrived home from their
trip to Oklahoma Saturday. Lou is
not overly pleased with the new
country-still believes it to be all
right. He states that the thermom-
eters registered all the way from 1O2
to 1O7 above every day he was
there
The census bulletin shows that
the unmarried men in the United
States number 6, 1926, 10 and the I'M
married women only 4,192, 446, the
excess of unattached men being over
two and one-half millions. This is
quite bunch for the ladies to select
from and if they find out they will
undoubtedly raise the conditions Of
eli gibility. Right here in Wisconsin
there are 1902 more unmarried
men than women, SO the census
says.
A travelling man tells of tomb
stone in Illinois which bears a pc
culiar inscription. Among the things
q bereaved husband had carved on
the headstOne was the following:
SLOrd. she was thine" RemOrseless
time has wrought havoc with the
slab of marble and the letter ''e'' of
the last word is entirely effaced, so
that the reading of the sentence is
now hardly complimentary to the
departed.
The Lancaster friends of Mr..
and Mrs. JOS. Roberts, who are now
residents of BaraboO, will regret to
learn of the death of their daughter
Miss Edna, which occurred at the
family home Thursday, Aug. 18th,
Of paralysis, aged fourteen years
They formerly resided here, Mr.
Roberts being in employ of the north
western in capacity of brakeman
What we want is more boys who
49,, Ho,71.a how MANY bl1 of wheat If
will take to seed a 1e.rm and how to
raise a crop from that seed; more
boyatthat can tell a coffee mill from
an engine and can figure the
difference in the cost of each, and
how much it will cost to run them;
more girls that can figure the cost
and make a good baking of bread;
more girls who know more about
+hon q hn11t LOT