Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-11-07

-Wec can stay at home in America
and still drink tea in China.
Frank Munich is papa of a
baby boy, born at Argyle Nov. End.
Miss Lou Requette of Platteville
visited Lancaster friends Thursday.
"A good penman might be a
complete failure in making a pig
pen.
The Herald from now until
JAM 1, 1905, for $3.50. Subscribe
now.
Nothing jars a chronic invalid
like being told that he is looking
we'll.
-Robt. .Glenns horse sale drew
a large crowd to Wyalusing yester-
day.
Coy. Yates of Illinois will de-
liver a political address at Galena
this evening.
Some women can pin their
faith to man much easier if it is
a diamond pin.
"A brotherly' boost is usually
worth a whole lot more than
sisterly sympathy.
"A band has been organized at
Montfort, composed Of students of
the high school Of that village.
Pres. Roosevelt has named
Nov. 26th as Thanksgiving day
and the fattened gobbler is receiv-
ing his finishing touches.
| "A company Of friends sur
prised Atty. Herman Buchner at
his home last Saturday evening
and had a very enjoyable time.
The muskrats are building
their houses unusually high this
fall. This is said to be sign of heavy
falls of snow this winter and high
water in the spring.
The iverymen and farmers of
Dodgeville and vicinity held a
mass meeting last Saturday to
discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of establish
ing cooperative blacksmith and
horseshoeing shop.
Editor Goldthorpe of the Cuba
City News was married to Miss
Ina Grindell of Platteville Tuesday.
The bride is an accomplished lady
and will make cheerful helpmate
to the stirring young editor. They
have our heartiest congratulations
Remember the Chicago Tribune
daily and Grant County Herald
semiweekly costs you but $3.50
for a whole year. The Herald is
the only paper in the county to
offer you this proposition those
Chicago dailies won't club with
every paper.
In offering the Herald twice a
week to any address in the United
States from now until JAM 1, 1905,
for 81. so cash in advance we are not
losing any money-if we were we
would not doit Of course if we were
building it would be different. AS
it is we are contented to do bust
ness on a smaller margin than some
people.
! -FennimOre Times: The CITY
well drillers struck big crevice in
the magnesia limestone Tuesday
morning at dept OF $50 feet, and
lost all the water, which before that
stood in the well to within As feet
of the top and had a volume of 70
gallons. The water as it loses itself
in the crevice makes a rushing,
seething noise, plainly to be heard
on the surface There is no ques-
ton now but that the we'll will have
to be deep one.
"A merchant knew what he was
saying when he said 1.-The trade ter
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upon the distance to neighboring
trading points but upon the enter
prise of the merchants and residents
of the town. If the town does not
reach out after the trade 1t will only
come as it has to and the town will
only grow as tits forced to. But if
the merchants go after the business
in the surrounding country, adver-
tise it i'll every way and make good
every word of their advertising, the
trade would come from every in
creasing radius and the town gain a
reputation for being wide awake
and will forge to the front. 1t is
the men in the town and not alto
gether the men living within a GER
tain number of miles from it that
make a good town." Trade is en-
couraged by advertising in the local
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