Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-08-07

SICK uSU.
-Chas. Hicks is slowly recover
ing from a severe sick spell.
Bessie May has returned to her
home in Boscobel after a short visit
in this city.
Register of Deeds Tuffey and
Under Sheriff Mcmahon were in
Boscobel Monday.
They say that twin girls are SO
much alike that they generally fall
in love with the same boy.
Miss Esther Henkel entertained
her friends, Helen Hood and Clarissa
Kuhns of Madison last week.
The philosophical tramp rises to
remark that dog in the manager
is worth two in the front yard.
&C. B. Angus, the pop man, made
a lucrative trip through the south
ern part of the county last week.
&C. B. Angus, the pop man, made
a lucrative trip through the south
ern portion Of the county last week.
Will Tenant and Miss Emma
Shearer of Fennimoer visited at
James Tenants few days last
week.
TILL a woman she looks fresh
and smiles; tell a man the same
thing and he is sure to start a rough
house.
When the wedding bells ring,
it's case of two souls with but
single thought, two hearts that beat
like sixty.
1t may take nine tailors to make
man, but if he happens to be a
married man one dressmaker can
break him.
Lou Starr and family and Mrs.
Reub Garner took their departure
Tuesday for Phelks, O. T., for a
three weeks visit.
Ministers should bear in mind
that short sermons are the most
popular in summer-as well as IN
the spring, autumn and winter.
An idea Of the high price oats is
bringing may be found upon visit
ing L. F. Orton's warehouse these
DAYS and seeing the fat checks dealt
out to producers for this cereal.
John Ohlert sold load of Is sacks
the other day and realized $36.45
for the bunch.
Stevens Point has a fly factory.
That's no joke, but true as gospel,
and it's run by a woman who en-
ploys sixty eight women in the bus
mess, although women generally go
to great trouble in persistently kill
ing flies. The Point women make
artificial flies for fishermen. And
despite the fact that frost alone puts
final quietus to the fly every fall
this factory for producing flies is run
by Miss Frost.
A farmer who is perfectly sat-
isf1ed with present conditions has
been found at last. An agent for a
Chicago commission house was
looking over crop prospects down in
Indiana and found man who
seemed perfectly satisfied with the
outlook and who said that 1.-The
weather couldn't be better for him. !"
After little further investigation
the agent discovered the man was
running a frog farm.
A Columbia county farmer who
went to Kansas a few years ago to
engage in farming writes to a friend
as follows: II believe in diversified
agriculture. An exhibit of my crop
report for 1902 is as follows: | have
raised one acre of baked potatoes, so
, bushels of dried peaches, Is acres OF
parched corn, 1 acre of roasted pea
nuts, and if the weather continues
dry I will have two acres of melon
preserves. The balance of my crop
consists of chinch bugs, grasshop-
pers and jack rabbits"
Crops have not been the only
things to suffer from the recent wet
weather, if we can believe the state
ment of those who are interested in
musical instruments. The damp
ness has gotten into pianos and
caused the strings to rust, and the
treble strings have in every case
been sharpened in tone by the rust
ing. The excessive dampness has
also swelled the action, making
some of the keys stick and all work
much harder than before. It has
also affected the sounding board of
, pianos, causing the tone to be rath-
er pinched.
The wife of a. Methodist minis