Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-01
Remember the supper Monday

Remember the supper Monday
evening.
The Political Equality Club will
meet with Mrs. II. S. Rhodes Mon
day afternoon.
John Cox of Lima was pas
senger to Lancaster on the noon
train yesterday.
Mrs. Noah Eastman of Max
well, Ia, arrived Wednesday even
ing for a visit with her mother, Mrs.
Sweeney, Of this city.
H. J. Rupp and bride Of Potosi
returned from their wedding tour
Tuesday evening, and were given a
hearty house-warming by their vii
lage friends.
Mrs. VIM. Barrows, accom-
panied by Mrs. James Graham and
her two little daughters, Leta and
Florence, have gone to Dubuque to
visit their sister, Mrs. John Ora
ham.
Mrs. J. F. Whitney, Mrs. A. G.
Morse, Mrs. G. w. rockingham,
Mrs. Thos. Orion, Mrs. J. S. Wright,
Mrs. H. G.. Nathan and Mrs. Abbie
Cronin, the seven Lancaster mem
bers of the Mysterious Club, at
tended the annual netting of that
order held at the home of Mrs. John
Carey at Bloomington Monday.
Hereditary instinct is now
where more noticeable than with
dogs. While having a common
origin, training and environment
have developed the hound with the
keen scent, the pointer and setter
which point their game. the collie
which instinctively takes to the
herding and care of stock, the re-
triever, the greyhound, the spaniel,
the huskie of the arctics and score
of other types, the puppies of each
breed naturally taking to the special
work and service for which their
ancestors had been trained.
Wherever star routes exist
rural delivery is not established, as
contracts made by Uncle Sam with
stage drivers are to the effect that
they shall be carriers Of mail to- all
residents of the locality through
which the stage traverses who
erect mail boxes and otherwise con-
formI to rulings governing the
rural mail service. In laying out
the routes in Grant county this
provision was adhered to. Patrons
along stage routes have daily service
the same as people along the other
routes. y
When you visit a print shop
adhere strictly to the following
customs: Go in like a cyclone; the
force appreciates it. Tear down and
strew around all the exchanges;
put several in. your pockets. #
you left them there the editor
might sell them. Then get up and
monkey with the job press, read
the copy on the hook; the editor
likes that. Then pi some type;
that's funny and will only take an
hour or SO to put it back up. Pick
up everything you see and ask
what it is, that's the way to learn.
Then tell the editor how to run a
paper and leave.
Excellent potatoes can be pur-
chased on the local market at soc.
per bushel, with probabilities that
the price will drop to 25c. before
the crop is all marketed. We would
like to know just what causes have
been at work this season to pro-
duce SO large yield Of potatoes as
compared with previous years when
conditions varied but little from
those of the present year. Some
mysterious and happy combination
of weather and available plant food
seems to give us potato years, apple
years, corn years, and the causes
for such prolificness are not well
understood. Or the other hand,
the baroness of other years is just
as much of mystery.
Grant county never before saw
and will probably not see again for
years such a crop of apples and
plums as she is blessed with this
year. Trees are fairly breaking
with fruit and the ground beneath
many is red with it. In one or
chard there are nearly 1000 bush
els of apples on the ground rotting.
God gave this aboundant crop for
the use of man. It is a crime to
let it go to waste. Every apple
a