Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-02

The Iroquois Theater of Chicago
will be known as the Northwestern
when it is re-opened.
-Pennock & Browning are erect
ing carpenter shop on the north
west corner Of J. G. Clarks lots.
= Geo. T. Jerrett has moved onto
the Dyer farm in North Lancaster.
His fathers farm, which he former
ly occupied, recently changed hands.
There will be no prayer service
Wednesday evening of this week at
the Baptist church, but a Bible
reading on Friday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Cover.
George w. Selleck recently
traded his farm in Millville for
Andrew Browning's residence
property in this city. George will
Iengage IN the real estate business
here.
Herald job printers are busily
engaged in issuing a stock catalogue
for Fred Aupperle's big Shorthorn
sale on the 18th inst. Address him
for copy if you desire to inform
yourself as to the merits of his
herd
Robert Stoffel, who took five
cattle to Brookings, South Dakota,
and sold them at a big auction,
reports that while cattle sold rather
cheap, theirs sold for $35 per head
more than any other cattle at the
sale
Reports come to us from those
who have visited our schools recent
ly that excellent work is being done
there in all the grades. Let us all
take more interest i'll our schools
and keep. in touch with the work
being done there.
The Mt. Ida Baptist Y. P. S. C.
E. are to have contest this even
ing between six young ladies. A
good program of vocal and instru-
mental music will be interspersed
with the recitations. A small adj
mission fee will be charged, pro-
ceeds to be used for church i'm
prOvement.
| This pathetic paragraph is going
the rounds of exchanges: ut was a
sad scene. The loving wife and
mother who had not passed a cross
word with any member of the
family for years, was weeping
bitterly. Every now and then she
would turn her head aside and
brush away a tear, which in spite
of self-possession would steal to her
eyes which were already red with
weeping. She was grating horse
radish."
The Herald job department
turned out 1000 policies each this
week for the Southwestern Wiscon-
sin Mutual Fire ms. Co., and the
Wisconsin Mutual Fire Assn, two
well known Grant county organic
ations enjoying a prosperous and
fast increasing patronage-as well
as gaining enviable regulations
under the capable management Of
their efficient secretary, T. M.
Young. The task was difficult,
and but few country print shops
would have attempted it.
-Ackley, Ia, has the champion
egg eater of the United States.
Geo. Richardson, stock buyer of
that city, has mania for eggs.
His appetite is not satisfied with
the usual allotment, as he demon
strated when he ate sixty -one in
twenty minutes in the presence of
reliable witnesses. Mr.. Richardson
thinks nothing Of eating two or
three dozen at one sitting, and
experiences no inconvenience from
devouring the unusual number.
His appetite is an expensive luxury
as eggs are 80 cents a dozen at
present.
AT the cemetery the minister
was moved by the grief of the
husband whOSa wifn woo RI no
buried and sought to commiserate
him in the following manner: my
brother l know that this is a great
grief that has overtaken you, and
though you are compelled to mourn
the loss of this one who was your
companion and partner in life, I
would console you with, the assur-
ance that there is another who
sympathizes with you and seeks to
tenderly embrace you in the arms