Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-03
Local lettings.
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DR.. j. A. Gault is in Chicago.
w. S. Lathrop was in Chicago
last week.
Geo. Reynolds is to 60 west on a
prospecting tour soon.
Money makes the mare 60, but it
won't move a balky horse.
When a man is on his uppers it
means that he is pretty low down.
Mrs. w. F. Joeckel returned
from Lake Mills Thursday eve last.
-Chas. Edwards was over Living
ston to pass Sunday with his family.
Mrs. Milt McLimans Of Little
Grant is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
E. H. Griffis.
Michael Month, a Fennimore s.
loonkeeper, died Friday and was
buried Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Schreiner and
Miss Emma Schreiner returned home
from California Monday eve.
The Tierce brothers, of Ellenboro,
tool their departure Monday for Or
egon, where they will locate.
Morning light service was discon-
tinued for the season at the electric
lighting station Monday morning.
Walter Kleinpell, aspirant for
office of register of deeds on the Re-
publican ticket, was a guest of Lam
caster friends over Sunday.
The lumber firm of Horsfall &
Patzlaff at Prairie du CHEN has been
dissolved, MIR. Patzlaff goes to Oregon
to engage in numbering.
I'll have noticed" said the wise
man of Pine Creek, 'sthat a lie travels
faster than the truth, but truth car
ries it's trunk along and stays awhile"
By the time the egg man has be-
come reasonable in his charges, and
the butter man is again civil, there
will be the ice man to reckon with
again.
Miss L. G. Bartholomew of Mt.
Hope returned last week from a win
ter's visit with friends in Ohio. She
is a guest at the E. H. Griffis resi-
dence at present.
Statistics show that 1000, 900, 900
cigars we're smoked in the United
States last year, not counting those
which Mrs. Nation snatched from the
mouths of the smokers.
Senators McLaurin and Tillman
have been restored to the privileges
of the Senate, but their m are
last on the roll call. This fulills the
prophecy that the first shall be last.
Assisted by J. A. Mccoy, R. P.
Brightman, a horse buyer of Saratoga,
N. Y, purchased twenty head of
horses in Lancaster and vicinity last
week. The consignment was shipped
Monday.
Fred O. Lester, the freight con-
ductor, has been offered a more lucra-
tive run on the Northwestern than
the one he now has and will make
the change soon. The new run is
from Baraboo to Winona.
Bloomington Record: News has
come that Elgie Ryan, formerly en-
ployed by Hatch Bros, who went to
Colorado Springs, Colorado for his
hoo1fh hoe noCcQH tho pYam1nQf1nn
before, the state board of Pharmacy
with highest honers. He now has a
position as manager of the Parlor
Pharmacy in Boulder, Colorado
Arrangements have been made
by the High school for an art exhibit
ton on April IL and II. A collection
of excellent reproductions of famous
paintings, ~engravings and etchings
will be furnished by the Beard Art &
Stationery Co., of Minneapolis. A
small admission fee will be charged,
and any money so raised will be used
to purchase pictures for the school.
A further announcement will appear
in the next issue.
Representative Babcock has in
troduced a bill in Congress providing
that s $500 be appropriated for the
purpose of purchasing a suitable ap-
proach, fencing and otherwise i'm
proving the old military cemetery on
the Fort Crawford reservation, at
Prairie du CHEN. This step is taken
as the result of a petition to Mr.. Bah
cock, from about $50 citizens of
Grant and Crawford counties, who
were anxious to preserve this relic of
OF the historic old fort of Indian
days.
"A humorous fellow from Kansas
wantS to know .sMhere is the state of