Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-10
NEWS or THE COUNTY.
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Miss Maggie Bailey has accepted a
position in the Home for the Friend
less in Dubuque. She left for that
place Wednesday Miss Bailey has
had experience in that line and is we'll
qualified for the position.
John Fest, Jr., came down from Gut
tenberg Sunday to see his father. Fred
Vogelsberg Of Potosi was also visiting
at the Fest home.
Mrs. Ed Blewett served ice cream
and cake to her Sunday school class
Sunday afternoon.
WHAT THEY SAY.
Gnats, gnats, gnats! Did you ever
see SO many gnats?
eff the water doesn't go down with
in the next ten days there will be no
corn planted on the Mississippi bot
toms. j. A. Klindt.
II have over hundred cords of wood
floating around in the sloughs below
town. w. Okey.
! r. O. Caldwell to j. A. Klindt:
"That's water what you see up there on
that 200 acres of corn ground. +"
Il just thought I'd beat the drum
myself Walter Kleinpel
81 have more carpenter work than I
can do The people are trying to kill
me with work. Fred Schwerin.
eff I say I'll be there at certain
hour and am not send the undertaken.
There's job waiting for him. "A.
Schaal.
"Guess I'll get my corn in today,
June As. w. Okey.
"Yes, I've finished one kiln of brick
and am going to start another right
away Geo. Barrows.
eve can't vouch for anything more
than day ahead. w. w. Weather
wax.
I'm tired of killing dogs Everett
Ishmael.
"My school closed Friday Lilly
Holt.
"Eh, eh! I don't count these
'go-devils' beat any hoe all to bits, and
Tn sellin' lots of 'em e. Trollope
81 try from day to day to do some
one some good job Hartford
CORNELIA ITEMS.
Mrs. VIM. Cooper of Cuba City is a
guest of her niece, Mrs. Mary Horn
beck
Peter Johns has recently placed a
new gasoline engine on his farm for
the purpose of pumping the we'll at
the house and removed the windmill
to the other farm.
Mrs Jennie Alderman and little son
of Grand Rapids are visiting her par
ents this summer.
Lucy Walker Of Milton, who is pres
ident of the Woman's Board of Foreign
Missions, gave two very interesting
and instructive addresses at the church
last Thursday and Sunday
Rev. e. D. Bevier and family re-
turned home Thursday, after a long
absence with Mrs. Bevier's parents
and relatives in Pittsburg, Penn. +, and
Atlantic, N. j.
S. B. Vannatta is in Dubuque for a
few weeks.
John Blakeley, wife and little son of
Waukeena, Kan, are the guests of old
acquaintance in this place.
Will Curtis of Boscobel is visiting
his sister, Mrs Henry Vincent. Joe
Roole and wife of Butte City, Mon
tana are also visiting at the Vincent
home again
The six telephone companies whose
lines run into the Cornelia central
met last Thursday for picnic and
general good time in Silas Vannatta's
grove south of the creamery. A large
crowd was present and good time en-
joyed by all.
Mrs. S. Howell and children of Ten
nyson recently spent several weeks
with her grandfather, Jacob Fure and
family.
Ed Ivens and family of Potosi spent
Tuesday with his brother, Chas., and
family.
Silas S. Vannatta is erecting large
barn. Russell Janney of Platteville is
the carpenter.
I GLEN HAVEN.
Mrs. Ad Handy of Bagley visited
with Mrs. Irene Barr last Sunday.
Stone & Donnelly shipped hogs from
here Friday.
Lepha Bennett was here Thursday
calling on friends and relatives.
NARROW Kidd and daughter, May,
were in town Saturday, taking in the
sights.
Our machine men, William Cortland
and Jas. Millin, are selling a great
many corn plows these days.
Rev. F. w. Schoenfelt passed through
our town Friday from the west, en-
route for his home in Bloomington.
Elsie Hutchroft returned home Fri
J day from Dubuque, where she had
been visiting for few days.
Two carloads of brick were Shipped