Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-11-18

are smooth.
Lou Eberle was at Cobb ON bus
mess Monday.
Lewis Wilcox of Beetown was
caller Monday.
The Country club reception will
be held Dec. goth.
Geo. Eustice of Sitter was in
the city yesterday.
The windows are being placed
in the new court house.
Harry Barnett and family were
Boscobel visitors over Sunday.
Remember the first big dance
of the season at the rink Thanksgiv-
ing night
j. NJ Teasdale has purchased a
residence of John Blackburn in the
third ward.
"A social will be held at Rev.
Sprague's Friday evening to which
all are invited.
The Ladies Aid society Of the
Baptist church will meet at the
church Thursday afternoon.
--Chas. Kendall has disposed Of
his cigar factory at Moscow, Idaho;
and may return to Lancaster.
-Schreiner & Sons call your at
tention to discount on jackets,
cloaks and capes in an ad. today.
Mrs j. r. Place is home again
after an extended sojourn with her
sons out on the farm. And the pop
ular first ward alderman is bache-
lor no longer.
james Duncan, barber of Du-
buque who learned his initial
rudiments of the trade in Lancas-
ter, is visiting his mother here and
shaking hands with friends.
Fifteen men have been en-
.ployed at the Eberle mine the past
week getting the buildings ready
for the concentrating apparatus,
which is expected every day.
Mrs. Christina Gerlach, who
has been making her home with
her daughter, Mrs. John Huhnstock,
in Neilsville the past year, has re-
turned to Lancaster to reside.
JIG. Churchill will move to the
Mckenzie farm northwest of the city
to reside about Dec. LIST. It consists
of over 500 acres-enough to keep
Charley busy at least II months of
the year.
An unwelcome arrival yester-
day of a large assignment of frigid
weather direct from Winnipeg, &C
companied by a small batch of snow,
served as a reminder to the tardy
ones that cold winter is before us
and fastened their preparations for
the season.
Miss Carrie Wenzel, a teacher
in the North school, has been
seriously i'll with appendicitis and
it was feared Monday that an opera
ton would be a necessity. The
lady is recovering at this writing,
however. Will Webb has charge
of her school.
There is one thing about the
show business that we can't under
stand and that is the practice of the
piano player or the orchestra chip
ping in with their music in all the
pathetic parts of the play so that
the audience can't hear the words
of the actors. The idea of having
the heroine turned out from a farm
house in a snow storm to the &C
compartment of a piano, or having
the villain of the play stabbed to
the time of an orchestra seems out
of place to us. In real life they
don't do things that way. Farmers
don't usually have piano and a
player always ready on such occa-
sions. Another thing seems strange
too, and that is the piano player
pounding the instrument with such
force that the audience can hear
neither thevoice nor thewords of the
singers. Most accompanies are too
muscular. They would be valuable
as drill strikers in the mines, but
they pound the piano too hard
Musical notes waited softly on the
air are all right but cyclonic explo-
sions are not adapted to all occasions.
1t has been suggested that accom-
panists should be killed but we
should not approve of that; it is a
little too severe.