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

Atty. P. BARLEY of Blooming
ton attended probate court here
Tuesday.
MIR. and Mrs. John Auchter
passed Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Uren at British Hollow.
Thomas B. Jones, the well
known travelling agent for the
Blatz Brewing company, is dead.
Mrs R. B. Showalter made a
trip to Shobaygan Falls early
in the week, where she instituted a
circle of the Ladies of the Grand
Army.
-Chas. Kendall has returned
from an extensive soiourn at
Moscow, Idaho, and is again with
his brother Will at the Lancaster
cigar factory.
Richard Samuel took possession
OF the Lancaster house, yesterday
noon, John Berrig gan retiring. Mr..
Samuel is the proprietor of the
institution.
Frank Narrower recently
traded the Fennimore hotel to
Joseph Unash of Watterstown, for
a 375 acre farm. Consideration for
farm $13, 125, and for the hotel
$12,O
Sheriff Watson took the
prisoner James johnson to Waupun
Monday morning, where he will
serve out a six-months' sentence
for burglarizing house in Potosi
recently.
MIR. and Mrs. John Mankel en-
tertained Mrs. Barth and niece Mrs.
Ernst OF Elkader, Iowa, and their
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Slmons, of
Clark, South Dakota. former part
of the week.
John Hoffman took possession
Of the John Treloar farm Tuesday,
and Mr.. Treloar with lot of stuff
departed for his new home at
Nara Springs, Iowa. He has a
brother living there.
For the first time in eight
years we greeted February 10Th last
Monday. The calendar man is
kind thus to throw in an extra day
once in while, just to even things
up and keep time on the move.
Nevertheless, Nature reels off one
day more and charges it up against
all of us.
The result of the Crawford
caucuses Sat urday gives the county
to j. w. Babcock, and the con-
vention. on Monday ratified the
decision. The Vernon county con-
vention on Saturday was for Judge
Mahoney, the only county in the
district to, go against Mr.. Babcock.
The congressional convention is at
Baraboo tomorrow.
w. w. Prior of Kendall, Wis,
and five of his children came to
this city Friday to attend the fun
eral of Frank Markert. Mr..
Markert was a brother of Mrs.
Prior, who came here several
weeks ago to be with him i'm his
illness. Mr.. Prior was resident
of Patch Grove years ago. He is
now an engineer on the G. e N. w.
r. r.
M. L. Spaulding, the veteran
Potosi travelling man. is once more
on the road, after lay ing off
several years. He is with the
Dubuque Roofing company. Mon
day he missed the 2 o'clock train,
his watch having slowed up a
little. Ordinarily this circumstance
is uninportant, but with him it
was the first train missed during
his entire experience on the road.
According to an exchange the
following story is told by a
preacher: He stopped at a farm
house for dinner and while eating,
the lady Of the house inquired his
business, and he replied. II am
hunting the lost sheep of the house
of Israel" She left the house and
returned IN a few minutes with her
husband and said, THAT man is
hunting lost sheep and I'll bet that
long wool ram that's been around
here is his'n." mo, no, sister, yon
mistake me, I'm hunting for sinners;
those for whom Christ died."
"And is he dead?" she inquired.
20 yes, long ago." replied the
minister, astonished at her
ignorance. There now, old man,
l told you that we'd die in ignoran ce
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