Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-09-25
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! you expect her to act like one.
County Judge E. B. Goodsell
was Dodgeville visitor last week.
A Fall Festival and Street Fair
will attract people to Dubuque Oct.
1918.
-Messrs. Frank Kuehl and Jack
Relish were over from Platteville
Friday.
"A new heating plant is to be in
stalled in the Iowa county insane
asylum.
Miss Elizabeth Schmidt has
gone to Pullman, Washington, to
visit friends.
Miss Ida Sanders of Platteville
was visitor of Lancaster relatives
the past week.
We acknowledge with thanks
courtesies to the Galena fair, to be
held Oct. 1928.
/ Thus far Wisconsin has contrib
uted $12, 900 towards the Mckinley
monument fund.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Biddick Of
Iowa are guests of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. David Eastman.
] Mac MeCrady took his departure
Saturday for Beloit. His mother
accompanied him for a visit with
relatives.
Mrs. VIM Baxter of Montfort
and Miss Sadie Davis of Waukesha
were guests at Martin Oswald's a
few days last week.
Miss Elva Holford of Blooming
ton passed through Lancaster Fri
day on her way to Fond du Lac,
where she is engaged in teaching.
John NARROW, an enterprising
Shorthorn fancier, disposed of fine
! bull calf of his own raising at the
county fair last week for 800. The
animal was seven months old and
was beauty.
Attention is directed to the Of
fetal notice of general election in
this paper. Voters should especially
give attention to the several pro-
posed constitutional amendments to
be voted on. These are of as vi
tai consequence as who shall fill
the various Offices for the next two
years.
Thirty five head of short-horns--
twenty-five COWS including heifer,
and ten bulls were sold under aus
pices of the Wisconsin breeders as
ISOLATION, at the state fair for &c.
800. The average selling price was
trifle under $3.50 per head. The
range was from $55 for a bull calf
to $43O for a cow.
The corn that has been and is
being gathered by the farmers in
the country is large one and will
the coming year and will have a
tendency to keep up the price OF
lands, which some have thought
were much higher than conditions
warrant. Grant county is forging
well to the front as an agriculture
and dairy county.
There are over $50 men in the
prison at Waupun at present. Of
these 800 are employed in the shoe
making department, so in the knit
ting department, 10 in the store
building and tailor shop and the re-
mainder in the prison yard, on the
prison farm, as walters, and in other
departments. The shoes and socks
made in the different departments
are under contract by the state for
private corporations and the convict
labor is thus made a source of rev.
enue to the state. When a prisoner
has completed his sentence he is
given his money, which he may
have had when he entered the place
and the balance he has saved from
his earnings and new suit Of
clothes, best les a railroad ticket to
his home. Six weeks before his re-
lease his hair is allowed to grow.
In Iowa the road law has
changed so that farmers are no long
er permitted to work out their road
taxes at So Or more per day. Ac-
cording to a new law enacted in that
state the working of the roads is to
be let by contract to regular road
workers and farmers are required to
pay their taxes in money. Some
farmers are disposed to regard the
new law as a poor law for them.
They come to such conclusions when
they think of the amount Of money
thew saved by working out their