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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS.
program OF Coming Fair Insures Plenty
of Amusem emit.

The committee Of the fair society
having in charge attractions OF
sport order announce two features
that will prove of decided interest,
besides being new and novel.
On Thursday, Sept 18th, occurs
pulling match for farmers teams.
The contest will take place on the
track in front of the grand stand,
and a purse OF $40 is to be divided
between the owners of the three
best pulling teams, So Go the first,
SIS to the second and SO to the third.
The teams are to be hitched to
loaded wagons with locked wheels.
The ha1f-mile relay foot race on
Friday will be an event that will
not only draw but will entertain
fair visitors. The purse hung up is
$10O-liberal indeed and an incentive
to some fast running on part of the
contestants. This event is open to
Grant county men only, four to con-
stitute team and all members of
each team to reside in the same
township. The money will be div
ided as follows: $50 to the first; $25
to the second; $15 to the third.
Four teams are to enter and three
to start Ten per cent. of purses is
to be deducted by the society.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
DIED ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
Albert Bic ok Passes Away After Long
Illness.


The extended period of illness
with which Albert Block has beer
afflicted for many months termin-
ated early yesterday morning at his
home west Of the city. Yesterday
was also the 29th anniversary of his
birth. M
Deceased was an Industrious young
man, kind husband and father,
and his death is a sad one. Abcess
of kidneys was the malady. A wife
and two children, parents, brothers
and sisters survive.
Rev. Nabholz will Officiate at the
funeral obsequies which will be
held at 10 a. M today.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
In County Court.

Estate of Andrew Wilhelm, dec.
Petition for settlement. Proof
filed. Account examined and al
lowed; order made assigning estate.
Estate of Thos. Heffern, dec. Pc
tition to probate will. Will proved,
allowed and admit ted to probate.
Ellen Heffern appointed adm. with
the will annexed. Bond fixed al
$500.
Estate of Wilhelmina Stagman,
dec. Petition to probate will. VIII
proved, allowed and admitted tc
probate. Geo. Hansler appointed
adm. with will annexed. Bond
fixed at $4,000.
Estate of Martin Pascoe, dec Pc
tition for adm JAS. E. Fawcett ap-
pointed adm. with bond at $4,000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

General Grant died seventeen
years ago last Wednesday.
Harry orion and wife are dom
iciled in cozy apartments in the
Hyde building on corner of Jeffer-
son and Cherry streets.
Bloomington will hold special
election Aug 18th to decide the
question of bonding the village in
the sum of $15, 900 to construct
waterworks and electric lighting
plants.
Joseph Doll, an old settler OF
this county, died at the home OF his
son Henry it town of Waterloo Fri
day. Deceased was father of Oliver
Doll Of this city. Funeral services
were held Sunday.
After a night with A Wise
Member an enthusiastic writer fo1
the Cincinnati Enquirer says: "A
Wise Member not only tells story
which keeps the average auditor In
constant anticipation, but is filled
with crisp, snappy, bright and witty
lines, the cleverest, up-to-date trop-
ical songs and catchiest coon melo-
dies, ridiculously funny scenes ane
situations, vaudeville features that
are absolutely new and startling,
pretty girls, costumes that are gor-
geous, yet in keeping and IN good
taste, scenery and stage accessories
that appeal to the eye, terpsicherean
achievements that cannot be ex-
celled, fund of humor that holds
one in constant merriment from the
rise to the fall of the curtain, and
best of all, cast of unusually clever
people. The second season OF this
play will undoubtedly be even a
greater success than the first. Thus
attraction will be at the City opera
house one night, Wednesday, Aug
18th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
PLIGHTED TROTHS.
Cupid's Work of Week Recorded at
County Clerk Griffis' Office.

Henry H. Redmund and Nellie
Prideaux, both of Beetown.
George Bremmer and Maud
Swartz, both of Muscoda
Jesse w. Brown and Rosa Gull
ford, both of Marion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

Miss Edith Webb passed Sun
day in Woodman.
Mrs. L. Muffiey of Boscobel is a
Lancaster visitor this week.
Under Sheriff Mcmahon heard
Carrie Nation speak at La Crosse one
evening last week.
If you miss seeing "A Wise
Member" you'll miss a treat and it's
a treat you can't afford to miss.
Mrs. w. j. Letcher and family
of Omro were guests of her sister,
Mrs II. Eastman, for a week past.
Enjoy life while you can; you'll
be a long time dead. See "A Wise
Member" if you don't you'll miss
one of LIES greatest enjoyments.
Now that the gasoline season
is setting in remember this: If you
have gasoline fire, throw flour on
it, or meal, or sand; neyer throw
water on it, Flour, meal or sand
will put the fire out Water only
spreads it. Now, fix this in your
mind SO it will come handy when
you need it,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
&c. w. Ray is in Chicago.

Mrs JAS. Anderson returned Tues
day from a weeks visit at Dubuque.
A good boy is wanted at the
Herald office to make himself gen
orally useful and to incidentally &C
quire knowledge of the business.
Frank Rowe, his sister, Miss
Winnie, of Platteville and Miss Elsie
Kleibenstein Of Grundy Center, Ia,
visited with the family of VIM. E..
Webb on Monday last.
The Montfort ball team comes
here for game on Thursday of
this week with the home aggrega-
ton and the contest will be a good
one. See it at the fair grounds.
Bus fare, round trip, 10c.
Deputy Sheriff Laird brought
Benz. Carr up from Cuba City yes
terday for commitment to Mendoza
hospital for the insane. He was
examined by Drs. Mcdonald and
Edwards in that village and ad-
judged demented He will be con-
veyed to Mendoza today.
Miss Mary Gelbach of this city,
aged about thirty years, was ex-
amined by Drs. Gault and Doolittle
Monday and adjudged insane. She
was committed to Mendoza hospital
for treatment and Sheriff and Mrs.
Dickinson conveyed her there Tues
day.
Mrs. Carrie Nation cleared 5000
at Maids on during the brief visit
she made there last week. Her
speech at the assembly brought
800 and the remainder of the re-
ceipts doubtless represents the sum
realized from the sale of her hatch
cts.
This fine weather is being inn
proved by the farmers and they are
working overtime in meadows and
harvest fields Haying is about
completed, rye and winter wheat
are in the shock and the oat fields
are now scenes of busy activity.
Corn has been laid aside rather
weedy but prospects for it are good.
The asylum driver had another
runaway with the team at Potosi
that INDUCED in such a lively run in
Lancaster recently. The mixup took
place at the Burlington depot where
he was to meet Mrs. Anderson who
was returning from Dubuque. The
buggy was broken some and the
driver was kicked by the black mare
in the fracas.
The hunting season opened July
1st and County Clerk Grifis has a
new stock of applications and licens-
es. Although the game wardens
are not so perniciously active as
they We're few weeks ago, still if
you own gun you had better be
on the safe side and secure permit
from the state to use it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
BOUND OVER FOR TRIAL.
Pecer LongkOmp Who Assaulted Potosi
Marshal, LIS Held.

The preliminary hearing of Peter
Longkomp, who shot at Marshal
jackson of Potosi, was held before
Justice Wilmott in that village
Wednesday and Thursday of last
week.
After the evidence produced in
the testimony of number of wit
nesses was heard, defendant waived
examination and was bound over to
trial at October term of circuit court.
Bail was fixed at $500, which he Sc
cured.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
How Cheap Baking Powder is Made.

The Health department of New
York has seized a quantity of So
called cheap baking powder which
is found in that city Attention was
attracted to it by the low price at
which it was being sold in the de-
partment stores. Samples were
taken and the chemist of the Heath
department. reported the stuff to be
an alum POWDER" which analysis
showed to be composed chiefly of
alum and pulverized rock.
The powder was declared to be
dangerous to health and several
thousand pounds were carried to the
offal dock and destroyed.
It is unsafe to experiment with
these so-called "cheap" articles OF
food. They are sure to be made
from alum, rock or other injurious
matter. In baking powders the
high class cream of tartar brands
are the most economical, because
they go farther in use and are health
full beyond question.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Ray Walker is here from Lew

Ray Walker is here from Lew
iston, Idaho.
Miss Carrie Schreiner returned
from Madison Tuesday.
Eddie Robinson of Cobb visited
in the city last week.
Mrs. Thompson and children of
Dubuque are guests of Mrs. John
Burns.
-Messrs. Con Kaiser and VIM.
CORTLAND of Glen Haven were in the
city Tuesday.
The Ladies' Aid society will
meet with Mrs. Geo. A. Moore at 2
O'Clock Friday p. m.
There will be an ice cream social
at the Pleasant Ridge church Aug.
18th. All are invited
DIR. J. H. Reed sold his farm
near Mitchell, S. d., this week to
D. b. Bfunson of Fennimore
Monday was self binder day in
Lancaster, all dealers selling num-
bers of machines. G. j. Hyde &
Son report sale of six and G. w.
Knapp & Son five on that day alone.
r Meyer, Jr., and family re-
turned Saturday eve from their Wis
it and outing at Long Lake and
Rhinelander. They report an ex-
cellent time.
Ben Zeur and John Day became
involved in dispute Saturday and
finally came to blows. Zeur brought
buggy hub into action which for
convenience still contained one
spoke which he used as a handle,
and struck Day with the instrument.
This put a quietus on the combat
for time and Day was so badly in
jured that physicians care was re-
quired. Zeur was arrested, plead
guilty to the charge of assault and
was fined S. and costs.
During the nine months ending
June 3Oth, the state OF Wisconsin
paid 1920, sos to counties for the
care of the chronic insane. This is
announced IN the report of the state
board of control as part of The
forthcoming report of the end of the
fiscal year. The amount received
by Grant county is $6,71062. Mar
athon county received the most, $17,-
480.06. The county to receive the
least was Eau Claire, S., 648.99.
Counties maintaining insane asy-
! lu1ns of their own receive from the
state 81. so week for each patient
belonging to that county, that is,
each patient whose home or legal
residence is in that county. The
counties that have no asylum of their
own take their patients to other
county asylums and pay those coun-
ties 81. so a week for care and main
tenance of each patient; the state
pays another 81. so week, SC, coun-
ty caring for patients motifs own re-
ceives So a week for each patient.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
THE FARM AND THE BOY.
Some PRACTICAL Suggestions for Keeping
the Boy the Farm


the Boy the Farm.
The movement to endeavor to per-
suade country boys to stick to the
farm instead of rushing into the
great cities will hardly accomplish
very much. The warning uttered
as to the difficulties of winning sue
cess IN the rush and competition of
a crowded city may keep some from
the metropolis, but the average boy
full OF ambition and hope will nat
llrally long for the wider opportun-
tiles and more varied experiences of
city life. The desire to see the world
is in him born and it requires some
greater restraining influence than
the advice of those who have seen
it to prevent the farmer boy or vii
lage lad from leaning longingly on
the fence and looking up the road
/, that leads to town and wondering
how he can manage to travel it.
To offset the influence of the
warning of probable failure are the
numerous instances which history is
constantly producing showing that
many of those who have won great
est success in the struggling city life
spent their earliest days on the
farm.
The country lads look on those
winners of fortune and fame and
the warning examples of the many
more who have tried and failed are
UNDECIDED. If he is a boy who has
confidence in himself and ambition
for his future he will fancy he will
be one Of the winners and not one
of the failures, and he watches Gag
erly for chance to make trial.
The surest way to keep a boy on
a farm is to make that life more at
tractive rather than by attempting
to make the city life less SO. He
should be given greater opportun-
tiles for pleasure and improvement.
Fortunately the introduction of ma
chinery is lessening lots of the
drudgeGy of farm life. There are
being established more rural hbrar-
les, better railway facilities, and the
farm is being brought into closer
contact with the busy world than
ever before. Social and literary
clubs are being multiplied and var
ious forms of helpful amusements
are being afforded. But all these
must be supplemented by such home
government as will give to farm life
something besides drudgery, and
the fact must be recognized that the
lad needs opportunity for enjoyment
and for reading and rest. There
should be more holidays, more So
cial gatherings, more attractiveness,
If the lad is to be made content in
the field.
It is not enough to supply a boy
with food and clothing and place
to sleep and then expect him to live
as content as the animals that have
no higher ambition. In the demand
for work and eagerness to economic
many a good fellow forgets of life,
and especially Of boys life, be-
sides those things which go on his
back and into his stomach. He has
heart and head telling with colt
ish activities and the lad doesn't
feel like Flooding along the furrow
like an old horse. Give the boy a
chance to be boy and the farm life
will not seem so irksome.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

-Robt. Draper is away on a trip
to Indiana.
Walter Lathrop is a sufferer
from varicose veins.
The humane man provides a
straw hat for his horse.
Commission men say the peach
crop is enormous this year.
Mrs. J. Ludens of Fulton, ILL.,,
is guest of Mrs. c. w. Ray.
Frank Schreiner's resinence is
respondent in new coat of paint.
Miss Bertha Menkhausen of
Boscobel is a guest of Lancaster
relatives.
Will Webb has accepted a good
position in the schools at Grand
Rapids, Wis.
Atty. w. E. Howe of Boscobel,
candidate for assembly, looked after
fences hereabouts Tuesday
Geo. A. Moore's next shipping
day for live stock of all kinds will
be Wednesday, Aug. 9Th.
Mrs. L. B. Stiles of Milwaukee
is being entertained at R. B. Show
alters. Her husband will join her
later.
Geo. Tufiey, ST., and Misses
Josephine and Mamie Tuffiey re-
turned Tuesday from their visit at
Moline, Ill.
Mrs. G. F. Rowe of Platteville,
who has been visiting at w. E.
Webb's the past ten days, returned
home Monday evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
RURAL MAIL BOXES.
Must be of Standard Make or they are
Not Acceptable

Postmaster Webb is in receipt of
a notification from the department
at Washington inst1ucting him to
make a report on all the mail boxes
on the ru al routes out OF the city,
in two liStS-one to DE the good
boxes and the other the poor and
defective ones
This report will be followed by
orders to the owner of the bad
boxes that they must secure stand
ard boxes at once if they desire to
continue as patrons of the rural
mail service. The time is limited
to Oct LIST in which to provide the
regulation receptacle, and upon
failure to comply Cal riers will not
be allowed to deliver mail to boxes
that come under the ban.
Future boxes entered for approval
by the postmaster general must
conform to the new regulations.
They must be made in workmanlike
manner, If square must measure
Is inches by exc, and if round must
be Is inches long by in diameter.
The side or top opening is prefer
able.
Anyone who proposes to manu-
facture rural mail boxes must sub
nit sample boxes and samples of
material 20 the special agent in
charge of the district If approved
there will be stencilled on the box
Approved by the postmaster gen
eral, and the boxes thus come I'M
der the protection of the depart
ment
Rural mail boxes must be placed
at the roadside SO that it is not nee
essary for the carrier to dismount
or alight from his. conveyance in
order to deliver the mail The use
Of one box by two families is pro-
hibited unless near relatives or res
iding in the same house.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

-Picr1cs and camping parties are
numerous.
Hicks predicts August to be a
dry month.
An observing farmer says;
''There are some curious things
about corn and one is where do the
red and speckled ears come from
when you don't plant any but white
corn? And another is, why don't
we find an ear with an odd number
of rows on it? You can find four
leaf clover but you never found an
odd row on an ear of corn yet. II
is always fourteen, sixteen and
twenty, or some other even number
and we would like to know about
it's mathematics, and what objec-
tions nature has in these instances
to odd numbers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Shots at Random.

Shots at Random.
Neglect to take care of the nipple
ments and consequent buying OF
new ones is responsible for keeping
some farmers poor, and have sent
others to bankruptcy. Buying new
tools and machines when with Teas-
enable care the old machine would
have done the work is one of the
most common and greatest wastes
on many farms. A good rule is to
buy the best the market affords and
then take care Of them; when in
many lines one machine will out
last three with the average care.
Painting helps to preserve machines;
oil prevents them from wearing out;
protection from rain saves them
from rusting and rotting out.
The American hog is a machine
that oils himself, puts ten bushels of
grain into less space than a bushel
measure, and in SO doing doubles its
value, then carries it to market on
his back. Corn loaded to a we'll
bred hog is money at big interest.
1t is like mint, while the American
staple, corn, is the bullion, which,
put into the hog, is transmitted into
coin. 1t is an honest mint and
gives sixteen ounces avoirdupois of
good material Properly bred, fed
and intelligently handled, this auto
cratic porker will pay offour debts,
place a piano in the home a surrey at
the door for yourself and family to
ride to town in, educate your boys
at the agricultural college and leave
balance in the bank for rainy
day.
A large majority of people are inn
bued with the notion that the more
ice water, iced tea, lemonade, etc,
they drink and the more they battle
in cold water the cooler they will
be. Cold drink or Q bath excites a
physical reaction and thrills the
body with a warm glow which
causes more uncomfortable feel
ing than before. A hot bath is far
better than a cold one and hot
drinks at meals will prove far more
cooling to the system than iced-tea
or iced water. A well known ply
stefan prescribes the following as the
best method of keeping cool: Do
not drink any ice-water, take only
one glass of soda or lemonade a day;
eat warm dinner, but do not eat
quite as much as you want; take hot
coffee or tea for breakfast, just as
you do in winter; sleep with very
light gauze blanket over you in the
night, and take a sponge bath IN
tepid salt water before retiring
This makes the body cool and keeps
the mosquitoes away. Do not wear
a heavy hat or tight collar, wear
light flannels, low cut shoes, carry
an umbrella, and above all do not
rub your face too often, because the
action only heats the skin to a great
er degree and makes you perspire
more freely. If this advice is strict
| ly followed you will be cooler and
| healthier.
| Every newspaper man has al
some time or other in his business
experience met the man who takes
more papers than he can read" He
was in Lancaster this week. He
wiped his nose on the awning, paid
25 cents for an almanac, bought a
cake of 10 cent soap for half a dol
lar, put nickel in the slot at the
depot and kicked because train did
not Immediately appear; watched
the watch sign in front of Weber's
iewelry store for thirty minues wait
ing for it to strike, and still ne takes
more papers than he can read. We
we think that's even so.
|
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31
Notice to Contractors.

Bids will be received by the I'm
dersigned for the construction of a
frame school building in Dist. No. 2,
Ellenboro, plans and specifications
for which may be seen at the post
Office at Ellenboro. Separate bids
for basement and building will be
considered. The right to reject any
and all bids is reserved. Bids must
be in prior to Friday, Aug. 8th, at
noon. w. d. BURR,
23w2 Dist. Clerk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

GO TO BURNS for dishes at very
low prices; closing out a line of
crockery, glassware, flower pots and
jardiners. We have some good bar
gains in shoes, shirts, overalls,
trunks and valises. If you want
some good bargains see our ten cent
counter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-31

DIR. w. T. BROWN, the eye, ear,
nose and throat specialist, will be
in Lancaster at Dr. .Hassell's Office
Aug. Sth.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-03-14

ton the Mayor and Board of AL
dermen aud the Parish Board of
Supervisors of Election shall meet
and canvass said returns of said
election and ascertain and declare
the result thereof.
Which being read in full was
considered by sections, and after
being so considered was finally
passed, the vote on the final pas
sage being taken by yeas and
mays and resulted as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Curry, Newell
and Skinner. Nays-None.
Adopted February 4th, 1902.
w. NJ. DAVIDSON, Mayor.
Josiah P. Scott, Clerk.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-03-14
Hadao Conquer or Die.

81 was just about gone," writes
Mrs. Rosa Richardson, of Laurel
Springs,N. c., Had Consumption
so bad that the best doctors said
Icould not live more than month
but / began to use DR.. Kings New
Discovery and was wholly cured
by seven bottles and am now stout
and well. +" Its an unrivaled life
saser in Consumption, Pneumon-
ia, La Grippe and Bronchitis;
jnfallable for Coughs, Colds, Asth-
INA, Hay Fever, Group or Whoop-
ing Cough. Guaranteed bottles
free at st. Joseph Drug Co. Linn
tied.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-03-14

Why go to vicksbury when in
need of anything in our line. Call,
and we will guarantee satisfaction
as to prices, &c. We have of our
own make in stock, 1 1-horse wag-
on, B 2-horse wagons, 1 4-horse
wagons and 6-horse wagon. We
are selling these wagons below
Vicksburg and Natchez. Give us
a call.-Saint Joseph Forge aud
Vehicle Company.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-03-14
Working Overtime.

Eight hour laws are ignored by
those tireless little workers-Dr.
Kings New Life Pills. Millions
are always at work, night and day,
curing Indigestion, Billousness,
Constipation, Sick Headache and
all Stomach, Liver and Bowel
troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe,
sure. Only 25c at ST. Joseph
Drug Co. Ltd.