Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-12-18

MISS WILHEIM'S big clearance
sale on millinery continues till
Christmas.
Give your snow shovel coat OF
shellac. Snow will not stick to a
shovel after a treatment of shellac.
Miss Myrtle Hughes arrived
from Fond du Lac Monday evening
and will pass the holiday vacation
at her home in Beetown.
Levi Garner advanced his sub
cription to the Herald to Aug. 16,
1905, Saturday. Now if all subscrib-
ers would do likewise what a Merry
Christmas we would have.
1t is stated that the price Of
wagons, buggies and farm nipple
ments has advanced. This is due to
increased wages paid to labor in
factories.
Robert Spencer and wife of
Hickory Grove were in the city Sat-
urday enroute home after a pleas
ant visit with relatives in the south
ern portion of the county.
John Dobson has rented his
farm to his two younger sons and
has moved to the city to reside. He
will buy stock for Nathan Grocery
| Co. and is domiciled on the Nathan
farm.
w. L. Gelbach, who has resided
on the Philip Roesch farm in town
of Potosi for some years past, will
move to farm in the Hurricane.
Mr.. Roesch has leased his farm to
his son.
w. A. Bell, the genial land
agent of Aberdeen, N. D., was here
last week and together with j. P.
Smith and Jas. McGonigal, local
agents, negotiated a deal whereby
r. B. Showalter became owner of a
section of fine Dakota land.
He criticised her pudding and he
criticised her cake; he wished she'd
made the biscuits his mother used to
make; she didn't wash the dishes,
and she didn't make the stew and
she didn't mend the stockings as his
mother used to do. Oh, well, she
WASH perfect, but she tried to do
her best; until at length she thought
it time for her to have a rest. So
when one day this man had growled
and whined the whole day through,
she turned him up and famed his
pants-as his mother used to do.
An exchange observes thata boy
can sit on a sled six inches square
tired to a sled moving nine miles an
hour, but can't sit on a sofa five
minutes for a dollar. A man can
sit on an inch board and talk
politics for three hours, but put him
into a comfortable church pew for
forty minutes and he gets nervous,
twists and goes to sleep. A man can
pouch his cheek with tobacco and the
juice running down his chin feels
good; but hair in the butter simply
knocks him out completely.
The Burlington officials an
nounce that a dead train robber will
be worth 81, 900 to any of it's employees
hereafter. 1--WE have given all our
trainmen to understand, said F. A.
Delona, general manager of the
Burlington road, land also the ex-
press messengers, that a dead train
robber is worth a 1000 to any of
them. All our conductors and train
men carry revolvers and we are en-
couraging them to do so and to learn
to shoot straight. lam in favor of a
concerted action on the part Of the
arrangements and express COM
panies which shall have for it's object
the bounding of train robbers to the
ends Of the country"
The country is overlooking
with fake steel range peddlers,
fake fruit tree men, fake
jewelry men, fake everything whose
ways are dark and whose tricks are
vain look out for them Be on your
guard. Do not permit any oily
tougued smoothly worded scapegoat
who if his just deserts were melted
out to him would no doubt be in Jail,
to inveigle you into signing papers
about which you know nothing.
You have in your own country town
honest and responsible men in
business to- deal with, men whom
you know will not defraud you.
They are men to tie to rather than
the roaming roustabout, whose sole
aim is to beat the farmer, to beat
everyone he comes in contact with.
Patronize your home merchants.