Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-26

The robins came north little
too early this spring.
VIM. Battle visited his mother
at Platteville a few days this week.
Note the meeting Of Town
Board of Audit, called in another
column to meet next Tuesday.
Mrs. B. j. Kicks of Boscobel
was a welcome guest at the editors
domicile a short time this week.
One week from tomorrow is
Easter, and the milliners are get
ting ready for their annual har-
vest.
Miss Emma Williams departed
Tuesday for her home in Cassville
after weeks visit with Lancaster
friends.
Chris Garner and Charles Steers
came up from Beetown on Tuesday
with a four horse team and trans
acted business.
The long hard winter is having
a telling effect upon old people,
many of whom are suffering with
extreme feebleness.
City Clerk Michaelis is notify
ing water patrons that rent is due
for the SKIS month beginning April
LIST and ending Oct. LIST.
Fred Aupperle h as leased the
Ed Mckinney residence property
in the fourth ward of Louis Alt for
one year, and will occupy it soon.
Miss Winnie Hoisington, teach
or at Crow branch school near
Livingston, is spending a few days
with her friend, Miss Mildred Mar
tin.
-Boscobel's city council has
instructed the electric light com
mittee and business mems committee
to purchase two 100 horse power
boilers.
The hen has changed her
methods and as a result eggs are
now within the reach of common
people. They are quoted at 10
cents on the local markets.
"A short letter from T. D. Good
rich written from Phoenix, Ariz.,
on the 10Th instructs us to mail
the Herald no longer to that adj
dress that he and Mrs. Goodrichs
intend returning to Wisconsin
this week, providing Mrs. Goodrich S
health will stand the journey.
g. w. Hillary of the town Of
Clifton had an operation performed
Thursday by Drs. Hassell, Kinney
and Godfrey. He is at the sheriff's
residence, being brother-in-law of
Sheriff Watson. The operation
was successful and the patient is
recovering nicely.
20. w. Seaton of Chicago, pas
senger agent of the Wisconsin
Central R'y., accompanied by his
sister Gertrude, late of Potosi,
made flying trip to Lancaster on
Tuesday. They took time to call
upon their lamented fathers friend,
Mrs. Belle D. Smith.
The Herald will announce a
prize story contest in the near
future. There are, or ought to be-,
100 pupils in the Lancaster schools
who would deem it a privilege to
write short story for the Herald
on it's prize offer. 1t is just the
sort of practice that young people
need. You may possess the ele-
ments Of journalism and not know
it.
Berry, D. Budworth is here from
Dubuque for farewell visit with his
parents and friends before taking de-
parture for San Francisco. He has
resigned his position as street car
conductor at Dubuque and will go to
the coast in search of more lucrative
employment in a milder cline. He
leaves Wednesday and will arrive
in San Francisco Sunday. The
Herald wishes him health and
prosperity wherever he anchors.
The spring drownings have
commenced. Dyson, nine-year-old
son of Chris Dunnigan, was
drowned in Green river Saturday
evening near Werley station. The
lad was about to cross on a plank
and lost his balance. The stream
was swollen by spring freshets and
the youth was Carried away by the
swift current. His body was
found several miles below on the
following day. Funeral was held