Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-26
L. G.. Ryan is home from the

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he secured a good job.
Mrs. W. B. Daily and children
went to Beloit yesterday for a
visit.
j. E. Semrad of Highland
looked after business interests here
Thursday.
Phil. Goldstein will be in his
new quarters in the Masonic build
ing Monday.
-Messrs. F. Hoppe and John
Reddy of Platteville were in the
city Thursday.
A full-fedged alligator three
feet long was killed in Rock river
first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Bishop of
Pittsburg are visiting with j. c.
Thier and family.
The Political Equality club
will meet with Mrs. Sotll Monday
at the usual hour.
Atty. James Dolan and A. c.
D1etzman of Platteville were in
town Wednesday.
The Shakespeare club will
meet with Mrs. Strong Tuesday at
$50 %. m. Full attendance invited.
Word comes from Mrs. r. B.
Showalter that. she will leave
Seattle, bound for home, on the
2Sinst.
Don't fail to see poor drunken
Joe Morgan in ''Ten Nights in a
Bar Room at Reeds opera house
Saturday night.
B. c.. Rosencrans, general
manager of the Kickapoo division
of the st. Paul road, was in the city
on business yesterday.
Two attendants from the state
hospital accompanied three in
durable patients here Wednesday,
to be confined in the county asylum.
John Schneider surprised his
relatives and friends by arriving
home from Germany Thursday
evening. He went there in April
last.
The billboards about town
sensationally depict a temperance
lecture that John B. Cough in his
palmiest days could not equal.
It's a picture story of the old play
''Ten Nights in Bar Room"
We are in receipt of letter
from Aid. T. D. Goodrich, written
at Phoenix, Ariz., upon their ar
rival there Sunday last. Mrs.
Goodrich stood the journey well
and is already benefited in health.
They will sojourn there for the
present at least.
The Northwestern will cut out
telegraph operators and remove
instruments from large number of
their depots throughout the entire
system on account of new
schedule adopted by the telegraph
ers' union, demanding an increase
in wages. By removing the in
struments the station master is no
longer considered an operator and
does not come in on the new DEAL
instruments at Rileys and Klev-
eLville have already been taken
out and many more are slated.
It is hardly probable that the
telegraph office at Lancaster will
be done away with-still you can
not tell.
The postmaster general has
ruled that patrons Of the rural free
delivery routes may have their own
choice of service by rural carriers or
by calling at the postofice for their
mail; that the postmaster will not be
required to go through the carriers
case in the absence of the carrier
from the postoffice, and that carriers
are not required to stay at the office
after making their daily trips to
wait on their patrons. Patrons
desiring both service by the rural
carrier and at the postoffice during
the day will be required to keep
rented in the postofice a box in
which the postmaster may put the
mail that accumulates during the
day, and such patron may be served
from that box as other renters are
served.
Talk about artistic advertising
The pencil pusher who wrote the
following which appears on label
of a certain kind of wet goods is an
artist: This brand lis the most
wonderful whisky that ever drove
skeleton from a feast or painted