Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-20
The nights are too cool for corn.

"A large Darn is D0lnS on FRANK
Walkers farm east of town.
The Badger club initiated two
new members Thursday eve.
Miss Celia Heron of Shullsburg
is a guest of the Misses McBrien.
Grant county threshermen will
meet again in Lancaster June Goth.
Miss Alice Clark has gone to
Oklahoma to pass the vacation with
her father, w. H. Clark.
Miss Laura Roberts of Rock
Island is guest of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Israel Roberts
Prof. r. M. Orchard has been
re-engaged as principal of the Mont
fort schools for another year.
-Platteville Normal commence
ment ceremonies Thursday wit
messed ~ graduates receive diplo-
mas.
Notice of school meeting blanks
in stock at the Herald Office and for
sale cheap. Mail or telephone or
ders attended promptly.
The Maccabee lodge of Lancas-
ter which is now seventy strong has
received their new 800 outfit and
the degree team is putting in some
good work rehearsing
BILLY" Dyeris ''settin EN- up"
and you can make him pay for two
for it is twins this time. Two Of
the finest little kids you ever saw
arrived at his home yesterday. All
are doing well.
The Herald job printers are
busily engaged in turning out -, 900
personal property statements this
week for Grnat County assessors to
distribute. They will afford you
the opportunity of recording your
wealth.
-Sherm Hayden, affable dis
penser at the Philips house bar, in
company with JOS. Blindert of
British Hollow, has purchased the
Schumacher saloon at Hazel Green
and the new firm will assume con-
troll July 1st.
-Rumor in railroad circles has it
that Lancaster is to have a Sunday
passenger train regularly in the
near future, leaving Milwaukee
shortly after a. M. and arriving at
Lancaster about 1 p. m. 1t will
bring Chicago and Milwaukee pa
pers and be an untold convenience
in many ways.
After trial in the circuit court
at Viroqua, lasting all the week,
Judgment was rendered against
fifty two farmers of Vernon county
which involved $4,000 by reason of
the suspension of the Farmers
Union store which had existed in
Viroqua for many years. The case
was tried a year ago with the same
result and was reversed in the SUI
preme court, a new trial being
granted.
The following articles have
been added to the list of property
exempted from taxation-tools Of
mechanics to the amount of fifty
dollars, one bicycle, one sewing ma
chine, firearms of the value of TWEEN
ty-fve dollars, five colonies of
honey bees, poultry, to the value
of twenty-five dollars, all farm
animals born after December 31st
proceeding the assessment and one
watch less in value than fifty dol
lars.
-Tonsorial artists in Wisconsin
are now putting in their spare
moments in study, preparatory to
the coming examinations required
OF them under the new law. Mere
skill with the razor will not do, as
the law requires them to have a
practical knowledge of the nature
and treatment of all common dis
eases of the skin. On this branch
of their art some of them feel rather
shaky when required to pass ex-
animation
1T is related of Kansas young
man that he was riding one evening
with his best young girl when the
conversation drifted to fortune tell
ing and he asked her if she believed
in palmistry. She replied that she
believed she could fortell more
pleasure if she could see the lines in
one of his hands and he drove two
miles in deep study before he
grasped the situation and took the
the reins in one hand. This may
be all right to tell about Kansas
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