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

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| MIR. and Mrs. +. III. Fischer Of
Bloomington visited relatives here
Sunday
Some of our bowlers went to
Boscobel Saturday, and were de-
feated by seven pins by team at
that place.
Frank. Huftil and Will Nichols
| departed for Baraboo Monday,
where they will enter the employ
of the G.. & N. w. as brakemen.
The sale of 1875 choice ewes, ad-
vertised by J. w. Watson to take
place at Livingston next Thursday,
has been postponed to Saturday,
Feb.6. Remember the date.
j. M. Burgess and Glen Smith
drove up from Cassville Monday.
The former went on to Madison,
where he had been summoned to
serve on the U. S. grand jury.
While chopping wood Frank
Smith accidentally cut his knee.
Blood poison followed. He is now
under DR.. Gault's care at the Ian
caster Hospital, where he is report
ed as getting along nicely.
The c. &. N. w. passenger
train due here at 11:45 a.. m. did
not arrive until 625 in the even
ing, Monday, on account OF an
accident to the west-pound freight
at Verona, small station west of
Madison. Owing to a defective
rail five cars we're derailed, two of
which turned over and were con-
siderably damaged.
&C. B. Angus has taken pos
session of the Jenkins Eastman
lumber offices south of the round
house, and will convert them into
a general store. He expects to
have them in shape for business
in a few days. There will be
nice new building erected on that
corner the present season, which
Mr.. Angus will occupy with his
store.
The Dubuque Times through
it's subscription manager, D. H.
Slattery, is arranging with the
farmers to place Uncle Sans
Favorite and Dixie Bond steel mail
boxes along the lines of the new
rural routes to be established in
Grant county in the spring These
boxes they furnish at factory
prices and guarantee them to be
the best. They are recommended
by inspectors, postmasters and
carriers.
Conflicting emotions may be
described as the condition animal
ing the breast of We festive porker
habitat Of the underground persua-
sion, as he emerged from his subter-
ranean home yesterday and sur
veyed the weather situation. There
was March weather, including sun
shine and blizzardous shadows, OK
cept that it was about twenty
degrees colder than March weather.
This may be taken as a sign that
spring will be neither very early
nor very ate-simply medium. The
ground is said to be frozen deeper
than ever known before in this
country; so deep, in fact, that it is
freezing up the main pipes of the
waterworks in many towns. The
ice on the Mississippi river and other
streams and lakes is the thickest re-
corded by the oldest residents. Lake
Michigan is frozen from shore to
shore-a level expanse of snow and
ice as quiet as the noiseless prairie.
This is condition which does not
prevail very often. The frosts and
snow furries of the first days of
November never left the shady
north slopes, and there has not
been a day in three months when
snow melted sufficiently to run in
the cutters on the ground. In fact,
it is the longest spell of continuous
freezing weather in the history of
this country. Nevertheless, the
health of the community has been
excellent, on account of the dryness
and purity of the air and stationary
temperature.