Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-13

Mrs. Fred Burckhardt and Lu-
Gle are visiting relatives at Bos-
cobel.
Vera Shearer of Fennimore is
visiting her friend Mabel Ress-
meyer.
The good cook will always put
more berries than crust in her
strawberry shortcake.
Joseph Wenzel returned to
Waterloo, Iowa, Monday, where he
has a position in a hotel.
The Lancaster band will play
another concert at the court yard
band stand Thursday evening.
Roy DiVall requests us to
change the address of his paper
from Lyman, S. d., to Chamberlain.
"A boy can hardly be called lazy
when he will work hard for an hour
to get enough money to buy a glass
of soda water.
james Powers of Glen Haven,
accompanied by his brother, Thos.
L., of Clear Lake, S. OAK, was in
town Tuesday.
Rev. Father Schleicher went to
Milwaukee Monday, to pass a few
days in retreat in st. Francis
church. He expects to return Fri
day.
w. B. Dyer has been raising
and otherwise repairing the livery
barn. There is a new floor, new
office and new addition to the back
end.
An adjourned session of the
regular February term Of circuit
court for Grant county will be held
in Lancaster next Tuesday, Judge
Clementson presiding.
When some scamp comes into a
farming community with some
scheme to swindle the farmers it
would be mighty good plan for
the first farmer he tackles to notify
all his neighbors by phone to be on
the lookout.
The band gave a nice concert in
the band stand Monday evening.
The streets were crowded with peo-
pie, among which were about a
hundred hool-maams. All enjoyed
the music. These band concerts
are success.
1t is ''home, sweet home," sure
enough when John comes in from
the corn blowing at night and finds
a strawberry shortcake a foot in
diameter and three inches thick on
the supper table and the berries
from his own garden.
There is right and wrong
end to all things, which truth is
we'll illustrated in the case of two
men recently killed, one of whom
was gored to death by bull and
one kicked to death by mule.
Both Of them got at the wrong end.
&C. B. Angus has leased the cor
ner opposite the Grand Central
hotel, owned by Col. Clark, and al
ready has a building under way.
The new structure will be 22x5O and
will house Mr.. Angus stock of
meats, groceries, candies, etc. He
will increase his stock considerably
to fill the shelves of the new build
ing.
Warren Sentinel-Leader: Prof.
Chas. Slothower and wife, of Lam
caster, Wis, have been visiting at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. David Slothower. In company
with Roy Slothower they left Mon
day for the worlds fair. The pro-
fessor is superintendent of schools
at Lancaster and meets with graft
flying success in the work. He is
considered one of the ablest educa-
tors in Wisconsin.
The farm boy should be allowed
a reasonable number of holidays
circus day, Memorial day, Fourth
of July and at least half a day off
each week to go a-swi1nmin' and a.
fshin'. The wise man will take a
day off himself once a month dur
ing the summer and take the boys
with him on a fishing excursion or
a picnic. By doing this more and
better work will be done by the
boys, and then they won't want to
run away from home the very first
chance they get.
The w. r. C. of Tom Cox post
had one Of its many pleasant meet
ings Saturday afternoon. Nearly
70 were present including several
invited friends The c0TnS is in q