Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-08
Local JOttin9S.
g @ Sykes is in Boscobel.

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Mrs. Ed. Pollock is visiting in
Chicago.
You always get news first in
the Herald.
VIM. Barrows and wife were at
Potosi Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jeide were
at Cassville Sunday.
FIR. McNulty was over from
Mt Hope yesterday.
July is we'll under way and
1903 is over half gone.
Mr.. and Mrs David Eastman
are home from Boscobel.
Miss Odessa Smith is visiting
relatives in Vernon county.
Miss Bessie Hyde arrived home
Monday evening from Lena.
Misses Margaret and May
JOeckel are visiting at Lake Mills.
Pay tax on that canine at once
or price will be placed on his head.
Philip Tanner and wife went to
their South Dakota farm yesterday.
H. E. Light, Boscobel horse
buyer, was in Lancaster yesterday.
John Rose and family passed
Saturday and Sunday in Platteville.
p. S. Young of Glendale, N. D.,
visited with Grant county friends
the past week.
Mrs. AL. Heiman is entertain
ing her sister, Mrs. Hirschfield, and
daughter Florence of Dixon, Ill.
Lou Eberle has purchased Mrs.
Morey's residence property in the
third ward Consideration, $4,000.
Mrs. Joe Mccoy and daughter
Saloma are visiting in Kewaunee-
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Parkin-
son.
Clarence and Theda Howe leave
today for Evanston, where they
will visit relatives for an extended
period.
Mrs. M. M. Osborn Of Maxville,
Ia, and Mrs. w. j. Coburn of Rock
ford, ILL.,, are visiting with Miss
Warene Bracket.
Sherman Dean, horse doctor at
Platteville, attempted suicide last
week and reports are to effect that
he will not recover.
The newsboy on the North
western passenger that left Galena
Thursday morning last oversight
himself at the hotel and missed his
train.
Misses Pearl and Vera Mcdonald
took their departure Monday for
Duluth, where they will spend the
summer with their aunt, Mrs.
Williams. Mrs. Mcdonald accom-
panied them as far as Madison.
Word was received here Mon
day of the death of Bessie, infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Boardman, in Michigan last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boardman will be re-
membered as members of Angeles
comedians, who disbanded here in
the spring. The child fell a victum
to pneumonia.
Taxes in Lancaster will be
higher the coming year. This is
due to the fact that Lancaster
capitalists having money in other
quarters must pay the taxes on it
where it is. This naturally causes
a fuctuation III valuation and cor
responding increase in property
assessed here.
A new ruling relative to the
delivery of country mail went into
effect last Wednesday. Heretofore
the stage drivers who carry mail to
the country postoffices have occas-
ionally delivered mail to farmers
living along their routes, making
private arrangements for such de-
livery, but hereafter the govern
ment will require the delivery in all
cases where the farmers see fit to
provide the necessary boxes. This
is free delivery so far as it goes, but
it applies only to the people living
along the direct road over which the
stage travels, whereas the regular
free delivery carrier is assigned
route covering all the homes within
a prescribed area.
"A dispatch from Washington,
D. c., says that more than 5000, 000,-
900 stamps will be printed during
the present year. The exact figures
as estimated by the officials will be
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