Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-03-05

-EQ1UOr POLLOCK was Ill NdulooAA
a portion of last week
The sign painter can always
make a name for himself.
F. Hoppe, the Platteville brewer
looked after interests here Tuesday.
"A. j. Howell advert1ses straw
berry and raspberry plants for sale.
The way to let woman have
your way is to insist on her having
her way.
Mrs Carrie Stoddard and child
rem of Benton are guests of Lancas-
ter visitors.
Dexter Angus and children were
here from Valley Jet. for a brief
visit first of the week.
County Clerk Griffis gives notice
of judicial election to be held April
9TH, in another column.
Geo. Burton orders address OF
his Herald changed from Winthrop,
Ia, to Eastman, Crawford county.
Geo. Baxter is in Chicago buying
spring stock. He is accompanied
by Mrs. Baxter and Master Marcus.
L. Alt & Sons grocery is handi-
capped for help this week on &C
count of sickness of employees.
Henry Nauman is very i'll with
pneumonia. Arno is quite sick also.
It is reported that an additional
passenger train each way daily will
be added to the Burlington's service.
Since the discontinance of the
Dewey" another day train has
been badly needed.
Local architects and contractors
report that a number of new resi-
dences are contemplated by Ian
caster residents the coming summer.
and all indications point to a busy
season in building circles at the
county seat.
New subscribers this week are
w. c.. Hill, Platteville; Frank Allen,
Livingston; Joe Scott, Lancaster
John McKelvey, ST., Potosi; B. d.
Decker, Hopkins, Mimi; VIM. Brande
muhl, Wilbur Short, Mrs. FL. Bar
low, Albert Br1nkman, Lancaster.
An exchange is authority for the
story that there is man in Custer
county by the name of Burst who
has named his children John Wood
Burst, Nell May Burst and Charley
Will Burst. It is equal to the story
from Texas where the well known
senator of the name lived who has
named his two children lima Hogs
and IRA Hogg.
For some time past the Prairie
du Chen merchants have provided
free toll on Bridgeport bridge fol
Grant county people who wished tC
go to the Prairie to trade. Now il
is rumored that Bloomington mer
chants are up in the air" about il
and have threatened to boycott
the bridge owner if he allows the
practice to continue. Evidently the
end is not yet.
Those wise people who know
enough about music that they
can go into rapture over a Paderew
ski or a Patti often show that they
are shams by the contempt they ex
press for amateur music. They
claim to be tortured by the singing
of humble local tenors, or the play
ing Of girls who have graduated al
some country music school. Bu1
the person who really loves music
never talks that way; he finds as
much pleasure in the performance
of some simple air by a girl with
her hair in pigtails as he would il
the majestic execution of Pader
ewski. 1t is with music as it is with
poetry. There are times when we
prefer the songs of some humble poet
to the stately strains of 1.-The bards
sublime, whose number sevens echo
through the corridors of time" as
Longfellow has it. No matter how
enthusiastic you may be over poetry
you are glad to turn from the pages
of Danta or Milton to the poems OF
James Whitcomb Riley; and though
you may adore Beethoven and
Chopin and Handel, and the rest OF
the giant composers, you can't deny
that you enjoyed after the Ball, :
''Annie Roney," and Maggie Muir