Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-23

| lily LII.
&C. w. Knapp & Son shipped a
carload of mineral Monday.
Miss Ella Rothschild of Lanark,
ILL.,, arrived home Saturday.
Geo. Tuf1ey, Jr., of Boscobel
was Sunday visitor at the county
| seat.
Miss Edith Godfrey of Oconto
Falls is a guest Of DR.. and Mrs.
Godfrey.
Miss Marjorie McCawley of Fay
cite, Ia, is a guest at Mrs. S. R.
Green's.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Williams
are absent on tour to California
and Oregon.
Mrs. Jos. Snyder of Greenwood
is making an extended visit with
relatives in Lancaster and vicinity.
-Messrs. HI. E. Austin, Chris
Miller and G.. Olson Of Hickory
Grove township we're here on bust
ness Monday.
Misses Mary and Lena Meyer
of Fennimore were guests a few
days the past week at the home of
Mrs. P. Belken.
The Badger club orchestra will
furnish music for a dance at Bee
town Christmas eve and at Bloom
ington Christmas night.
-Messrs. Ed Wilmot, William
Penekomp and Henry SEEKER were
up from Potosi yesterday, having
business in county court.
Misses Laura and Sena Barber,
teachers at Oswage, Ia,, and Mime
apolis, Mimi, arrived home Satur-
day to spend the holidays with their
parents.
The second edition of Eithe
Herald will be issued either on
Thursday evening or Saturday
morning in order to give Herald
printers a chance to observe
Christmas day.
"A bazaar was held at Glass;
vile Monday evening, proceeds
being for benefit of the high school
piano fund, and teachers and
pupils of the school were in charge.
1t was success in every way.
An unruly box car on the
freight train Monday evening
caused all manner of trouble for
the crew. 1t jumped the track
near Lancaster Jet. and again near
Liberty, OBTAINING the evening
passenger a half hour,
The development of the mines
in and about Linden, in Iowa
county, has stirred up 5the enter
prise of the people in that locality
and they now propose to- build a
railroad from there to Dodgeville
and to erect zinc works in their
village.
Wisconsin may well claim to
be one Of the greatest dairy states
in the union. There are nearly
one million Of COWS in this state
according to the returns of the
assessors, the exact number re-
turned being 923, 400 and no doubt
there are good many that were
not assessed.
Christmas is near at hand. Our
exchanges will ring out the glad
tidings" and take columns in ex-
patiating over the day and it's OBJ
servance, and pictures of Christmas
will illuminate their pages, and
tell of the blessings of bestowing
gifts. But the whole sermon can
be told in three simple words and
which contain more Christian good
fellowship than all the rest: RE
member the poor"
Too many merchants look upon
advertising as scheme to help the
editor. With rural delivery and
department stores sending out tons
of advertising matter the country
merchant must have goods and
prices and he must advertise or get
run over in the march of civilization.
His rents are less and his help costs
less and he can compete with the
city retailer and pay his advertising
too and the time has come when he
absolutely has to do it. Country
merchants are finding this out and
are taking advantage Oft. Our ex-
changes are showing half-page ads.
and whole page ads. that always
carried small ads heretofore. Get
on the band wagon or the automo-
bile will butt you into the middle of
next week,