Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-09

Louis DechOw is home from
Superior for visit.
-There'll be leap year party
at Beetown on the 21st.
Fred Wetmore of Blakes Prairie
was shipping stock here Wednes-
day.
Tom Blewett called on friends
in Brodtville and Bloomington Sun
day.
Mrs. Hal Stephens and son
returned to their home at James
vile Wednesday.
Herald subscribers can secure
the Drovers' Journal every day
for a year for $500.
Miss Mae Hannum is visiting
her sister, Mrs Chas. Elliott, at
Eagle Grove, Iowa.
Mrs. Adolph Lee has returned
to Ft. Dodge, Ia, after an extended
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
AL BudwOrth.
Geo. Kasper has been on the
sick list for some time and is still
confined to his home. The trouble
is seated in his lungs.
A report from France is to the
effect that champagne will be
scarcer this year. Well, we have
sworn off on it anyway.
Geo. Reed takes his departure
next week for California. The
Badger club rendered him recep-
ton last evening at the club rooms.
Frank Smith and family occupy
their new home at Lancaster-the
White farm just west of town.
Thew were given a happy farewell
party Monday evening.
ALI bills must be settled at once
as we will close our ledger by the
goth of this month. We will do a
cash business after that date. Please
attend to this. L. ALT & Sons.
DIR. S. A. NARROW of Blooming
ton, who recently underwent an
for appendicitis at Du-
buque is recuperating at NARROW
Manor. the hospitable suburban
home of his brother, DR.. G. c..
NARROW.
The Hayseed dance on Tuesday
of last week was the largest
ever given in this city. There
were about $50 people present,
and Knapp's commodious rink
furnished room for all to dance to
their hearts content.
Peter Stoffel, the we'll known
breeder of4Durham cattle, is haul
inc lumber for a large new barn,
to be, erected on his fine farm north
of town the coming season. Mr..
Stoffel is progressive and right up
to the times in all respects.
The most useful, the most re-
liable and the most profitable of all
domestic things are the cow and
the hen, whose products are always
and always disable by the
family. You show us a man who
takes good care of a dairy or one who
gives his poultry intelligent care,
and we will show you man who
runs no store bill and keeps square
with the world. This is only text,
but it really contains the whole
sermon.
Lewis Dixon was brought back
here from Greenwood last week by
Under Sheriff Dyer, under a charge
preferred by a wholesale grocery
house in whose employ he recently
was. There couldn't have been
much to the charge, for when the
preliminary hearing came on before
Justice Wheeler the evidence
brought out was insufficient to
warrant binding defendant over to
trial in circuit court and he was
On account of the exceptional
dryness of the atmosphere during
the past two months the health Of
the comm unity has been much
better than usual in winter, not
the steady and ex-
IRENE cold. November was the
dryest month ever recorded by the
weather bureau at Lacrosse, and
the remark has been quite common
that the cold has not been as Sc
verely felt as usual. We have had
a very fair sprinkling of nights
with mercury registering twenty
five to thirty below, and the ground
is said tO he frozen down four to