Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-24

Tuesday.
Band concert Friday night if
weather permits.
Pearl Mcdonald returned Tues
day from Lake Fantum.
Henry Baker is in Madison Wis
iting an elderly brother.
Garfield Bowden of Cuba City
was in the city Thursday
Monday was the 41st anniver-
sary of the first battle of Bull Run.
Will Eberhart and family
were over from Fennimore Tuesday
Earl Tillotson of Madison was a
guest of Harry Carthew over Sun
day.
Miss Tela Calvin is visiting her
friend, Miss Rea Powers, at Fenni-
more.
Some people so through life like
a pocket edition Of the Salvation
Army.
Frogs peal forth their charm
ing chirps this season where they
never chirped before.
Politics is being dropped on all
sides and a war is now being waged
against Jupiter Pluvius.
Its all well enough to keep GOALS
of fire on the heads of our enemies,
but it's rather expensive.
Mrs. Sam Joeckel and Miss Mol
lie Goodrich are attending the Ma
mona Lake Assembly this week.
Mrs. DR.. McDermott of Fenni-
more spent several days last week
as the guest Of Mrs. J. P. Lewis.
Mrs. Nelson Walker returned
last week from an extended visit
with her mother at Prairie du Chen.
! About the only use some people
have for a bed is that it makes a
/ convenient peg to hang their hats
on.
| Misses Liddie and Elsie Kinzel
of this city and Mrs. L. Tornoski of
Bloomington were Sitter visitors
Friday.
"A man may be ugly enough to
stop a clock and still he can marry
a woman pretty enough to stop a
! street car.
Many a man fails to get elected
the second term of Office because
| the people find him out during the
| first term.
Farmers and gardeners COM
plain that potatoes are rotting in
the ground on account of too much
dampness.
Lots of people would rather eat
corned beef and cabbage if they
weren't afraid the servant would
laugh at them.
A prominent dairyman said the
other day that if this weather kept
up he would be obliged to construct
a single roof over his cows backs.
! The ladies of the Earnest Work
ers of Baptist church will serve
their regular bi-rnonthly supper
next Tuesday evening at the church
All are cordially invited.
Mrs. Anna Davis and children
of Mineral Point, who have been
spending the past six weeks with
relatives in Lancaster and Hurricane,
returned home Saturday.
John Roach, the inmate of the
asylum who escaped last week, was
located at Genoa, a small station on
the Burlington between Prairie du
Chen and Lacrosse, and Under
Sheriff Mcmahon returned with his
charge yesterday
An exchange says that the peo-
pie who need religion are: The
man who left his horse stand out in
the cold without blanket on; the
man who grOwls like a wild beast
when his wife asks him for money;
the woman who is not what she
ought to be; the minister who is
looking for an easier place and a
higher salary; the man who walks
the streets with his hands in his
pockets, while his wife carries the
baby; the man who keeps a dog and
can't afford to take the home paper.
Many persons, especially farm
ers, will be inclined to believe that
figures sometimes lie, for the wealth
er man comes now with the state
ment that, Notwithstanding the
heavy and frequent rains in the
past two months, there is a defici-
ency in the rainfall for the period
from Jan. 1 last until June 80 last.