Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-09-04
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Mrs. Frank Whitney, Of Chi
cago, is visiting Lancaster relatives.
Mrs. Eva Mabon, of Cresco, Ia,
is a guest of her sister, Mrs. VIM.
Mcmahon.
Mrs. James Townley and child
ren were guests of Madison relatives
last week.
The relay race at the fair next
week will attract the crowds from
all over the county.
DR.. C. A. Moore and Miss Daisy
Burris were passengers to ST. Paul
Saturday night via the Burlington.
When young man leaves col
lege with the intention of reforming
the world, he changes his mind and
hunts a paying job.
You have chance to secure
that elegant rubber-tired buggy
shown on another page absolutely
free. Read the offer.
If there is one time more than an
other when a woman should be alone
with her thoughts, it is when pass
ing vehicle splashes mud on her
new gown.
The Lancaster, Montfort and
Cuba City bands will contest at the
fair next week for the big prizes.
This will insure good music and
plenty of it.
When a woman marries man
named Smith or Jones, she tries to
raise above her environments by
naming her children Gabrielle or De-
Mounteville.
Some Herald subscriber will get
that beautiful $50 buggy pictured
on another page for $3.50 and have
his years subscription thrown in.
1t may be you.
Fred P. Barnett is the owuer of
the trotting mare, Gypsy H., form
erly property of DR.. w. T. Hurd, of
Boscobel. The animal makes a
fine buggy horse.
Arrange to go to the fair and
take the whole family. This is a
time when the whole family can
have an outing that will do them
all good. 1t is all right to suspend
operations for few days during
the fair. By an extra effort all can
get away and enjoy a day at the
fair
The business man who pushes
to the limit will probably not be the
one who wonders whether advertis-
ing pays. He will know that what
ever he undertakes has a great deal
of value in il and the reason for
that value is that he has had the
confidence to push, intelligence to
plan and reasonable reasons for ex-
pecting results from what he has
attempted.
You may approximate the stars
in a nail key, hang the ocean on a
grape vine to dry, wipe the nose OF
cyclone with a towel, cut off the tail
end of a tornado for a keepsake, put
the sky in the ground to soak, un-
buckle the belly-bar d of eternity,
and open up the sun and moon as
health resorts, but never be deluded
with the idea that you can escape
the other side of purgatory if you
don't pay for your paper.
A good advertisement will carry
business message to more people
in a day than any other means OF
talking to them. You can't reach as
large an audience by talking on the
street corners. You cannot go to as
many homes if you send "a dozen
messengers. The newspaper carries
the message and works where you
could not go. You will see the re-
sults of the publicity and should be
able to see the moral of the invest
ment.
A promising young merchant OF
this city recently presented his bet
ter half with handsome piano lamp
on her birthday. He was much
fattered when she told him she in
tended TO give itYhis name, until he
asked her reasons for such a peculiar
proceeding WELL" said she, ''you
know, dear, it has a good deal of
brass about it, it is handsome to look
at, requires good deal of attention,
is remarkably brilliant, is sometimes
unsteady on it's legs, liable to ex-
plode when only half full, flares up
occasionally, it is always out at
bed time, and is bound to smoke. !"
Mans life is full of crosses
and temptations. He came into
this world without his consent,
out against his will, and his trip be-