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

marks the tongue has the sword
beat block.
! Don't blame the boys and girls
for being foolish about their love
affairs. You were.
| If you want to be entertaining
cut out all talk about your future,
/ and dig up your past
! Some men make fortunes out OF
| old things, and others starve while
trying to invent new ones.
If every man kept his word the
dictionary compilers would soon
have to go out of business.
| The women are becoming such
advanced cooks that they are put
J ting everything into ice cream but
cream.
The ladies of the nj. E. Church
will serve tea on Wednesday,, Aug.
18th, from to z o'clock p. m. You
are all invited.
/ John Jeide has returned from
his farm in Crawford county and re-
ports his crops doing fine. Mrs.
Jeide will undoubtedly remain there
the entire summer.
Marshal John Shelliam, of
Platteville, brought VIM. K. Nichols
over to Jail on a thirty days SEN
tence from Justice Traber's court
! Charge, drunk and disorderly.
Benjamin Carr, well-to-do re-
tired farmer living near Cuba City,
was taken to Mendoza for treatment
of deranged mental condition last
J Thursday by Under Sheriff McMa-
hon. Mr. Carr recently sold his fine
farm for 800 per acre.
John H. Wilson, a veteran sol
der and respected citizen Of Platte
vile, was committed to Mendoza
hospital for insane by Judge Good
sell last Monday at the Platteville
session of court, upon recommend
alton Of Drs. Gasser and Oettiker.
Sheriff Dickinson went with him
Tuesday morning.
Business hasn't been particular
! ly good in any line here in the city
for several days. Farmers have
been watching their opportunity to
make little hay between showers
and trying to keep pace with the
weeds when the ground dried suffi-
GENTLY to allow them to work.
20. Hart, of Watertown, adjust
er for the Northwestern Farmers
Mutual Hail and Tornado Insurance
Company, of Waterloo, Wis, was
! in the city last week and fixed up
| the damages on crops of about nine
ty farmers in this locality who car
ried risks in his company. AL were
satisfied.
"A boy placed big apple on the
front steps and went across the street
to see who would takeit A gentle
man who had observed the action
said ''You shouldn't do that, my
son. Some poor boy may be tempt
ed to steal it." That's what I'm
fishing for, sir. I've followed out
the inside and filled it with mus
tard."
/ "A few days ago an explosion in
the Crawford county Jail at Prairie
du Chen came very near wrecking
that institution. The kitchen range
was blown to pieces and some of the
wood thrown into the next room,
where it set fire to some curtains.
It is supposed that friends of some
of the inmates of the Jail placed
dynamite in the wood.
An exchange tells of a real Mrs.
Partington She walked into the
Office Of the judge of probate and
asked: "Are you the judge of rep
robates?" I am the judge of pro-
bate" was the reply. ''Well, that's
| it, I expect" quoth the lady. you
see, my husband died detested, and
left me several little infdels, and I
want to be appointed their execu-
toner.
There was a time when the
small boys greatest happiness con-
sisted in going about in his bare
feet. The present-day boy wears
shoes, and it is quite a novelty to
see a shoeless lad. Whereas in
former times the average boy I'M
derdressed, today he is overdressed.
The former grew up into a sturdy
lad; the latter is tall and scrawny.
How times change!
The bible as a serial story is the
undertaking prospered by the AS
sumption Independent, a paper
printed at Pana, Ill. The publisher
announces that he will begin with
an inSta1lmant from Genesis this