Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-30
Next Tuesday is election day.
L. Alt was in Montfort yester-
day.

day.
Advertising patrons encroach
upon our news columns today.
Strawberries will soon be on
the market at about Csc per quart.
The horse market is the best
it has been for long term of years.
Dan Price will occupy the resi-
dence in the first ward vacated by
Chas. Borah.
Love may be tireless worker,
but it won't start a fire in the
furnace on cold morning.
-Chas. Dickinson is distributing
judicial ballots in the southern as
sembly district for Tuesdays cleo
ton.
The Herald will print 200 town
election tickets for $1.0O. Send in
your orders, or we'll print 'em while
you wait.
Miners near Fairplay struck a
big lead last week. The vein is four
feet wide and all that was in sight
was ten feet high.
The streams are becoming clear
of ice. The fact that fish will soon
get hungry makes jubilant the di
ciples of Isaac Walton.
The Herald is turning out
judicial election ballots for Tues
days election. About 10000 are
required for each assembly district.
Lou Star has the most upto-
snuff tonsorial parlor III this section
of the state. He still contemplates
further improvements. Note his
adv. in this paper.
One way to secure good neigh
bors is to have line fences. Another
way is to observe the Golden Rule.
If you cannot or will not observe
the latter you want to make the
line fence extra good.
The millinery stores are the
busiest places in town these days
and many deft hands are busily
engaged plying needle and thimble
combining the finest Of materials
into artistic hats for spring adorn-
ment.
AS the patrons of the rural
routes are becoming better &C
quainted with the work and diff
culties confronting with the rural
carriers they will not begrudge
them the increase in pay which
seems to be within their reach.
Lots of wallpaper is being sold
this spring in Lancaster, so the
dealers say. We are glad to hear
it. It's a good sign when people
take pride in fixing up their homes
and have the money to do it.
housekeeping time is near at hand
and painting and papering will
follow.
Any man is well off who has
good health, pleasant domestic rel
ations, a home of his own, the res
pect and good will of his neighbors,
business which gives him COM
Portable living and enables him to
lay by a little for old age. With
these he wouldnot get any more
out of life if he had a million dol
lars.
The woman man wants for a
wife is not Martha, all engrossed
with Cooking, scrubbing and the
cares of the home. nor Mary
absorbed with literary tastes and
ambitious to shine in a social way,
leaving a fellow to wear buttonless
shirts and eat bakers bread. There
is a woman just about halfway
between these TWO types that ills
the bill.
An elaborate leap year ball will
be given by young ladies of the
State University at Madison in the
gymnasium April 10th, preparations
for which are already being made.
It is reported that a lot
of young men will be imported
from outside towns. This is done
to turn the tables on the naughty
young men of the institution who
have for years brought in outside
young ladies at the annual Junior
prom"
1t by no means follows that
because one man can raise pair
of horses which will sell for $500
all other men engaged in raising
horses can do the same. Most
folks are just common folks, and
most horses are just common horses.
Only rarely is man found who