Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-05-15

The grass grows for the brindle COW
Let all arise and sing
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-''In Mizzoura."
-Tonight-Tonight
Bring up boy the way he should
60 and away he will 60.
R. Meyer, Jr., was in Northern
Wisconsin on business this week.
Special music. Specialties be-
tween acts. The best play of the sea-
son.
John Decker occupies his neat
new barber shop in the Philips
house.
The pen is mightier than the
sword when it comes to signing
checks.
The gossip doesn't have to own
an automobile in order to run down
his neighbors.
Postmaster Webb receives 800
per month additional salary as re-.
suit Of recent raise.
We like to console ourselves with
the delusion that the grape just be-
yond our reach is sour.
A few more good seats at Ben
nett's for "In Mizzoura." You had
better 60 in and get yours.
Miss Jennie Short and Miss Lar
eta Butler of Dubuque, Ia, are the
guests of Miss Edith Webb of this
city.
Good game of ball at fair grounds
Saturday-Platteville Normal VS. the
Lancaster city team. Time 2:3O;
admission 10 and and 15c.
-s.ln Mizzoura'' will get it's finish
ing touches tonight. Orchestra, cast,
quartette and specialties Wall all be
put through most rigid rehearsal.
Mrs. Lou Widman took her de-
parture Tuesday for Fosston, Mimi,
where she joins her husband. Her
brother, Byron Price, accom-
panied her.
-..Hit the line hard" is President
Roosevelt's advice to a youthful ball
player. The president has never been
an advocate of slapping the line on
the wrist.
Owing to the high price of meats
of all kinds, eggs are higher than
ever before at this time of the year in
in memory of Lancaster merchants.
The price today is 13c.
Children envy grown people be-
cause they think grown people are at
liberty to do as they please. Every
grown person is hedged about with
don'ts as closely as child.
"A pleasant little company gave
Grandma Sabins royal surprise
party in honor of her ninetieth birth
day, May 18th. Grandma Sabins is
the daughter of John Burton who
fought in the war of 1912. Her for
mer home was near Blue River but
she has spent her later years on Oak
Ridge and in Lancaster with her
daughter Mrs. Mary Hiclin. Mrs. c.
Burns is granddaughter of Grand
ma Sabins.
Alfred Warren. an experienced
marble cutter, has opened a shop in
Lancaster just south of the city hall
and solicits your patronage in monu-
ments of marble OF granite and is al
/ sosopen to engagements in inscription
work, etc. Mr.. Warren is we'll posted
on every line of his business and his
work cannot be surpassed. II you
are in the market for monument do
not fail to see his designs and obtain
his prices.
Judging from the amount and
variety of properties that are being
carted to Reeds opera house for the
play, sIn Mizzoura" we should say
that there will be something doing
from the start Thursday night. An
entire blacksmith's outfit has been
taken up for the blacksmith shop
scene and some actual smithy work
will be done. This act will be one of
the most true life pieces of stage work
seen here in years.
An exchange says that over in
West Virginia on one of the railroads
is little town called Sawyer. Close
to the town the train passes through
a tunnel. One day nice young
couple were or the train and they
never seemed to know that there was
any body else on the train. Obvious
to their surroundings they were like
two souls with but a single thought.
While the train was passing through
the tunnel those near the young cou-
Pile heard a succession of suspicious