Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28
&C. B. Cushman and wife were
Rewey visitors the past week.

&C. B. Cushman and wife were
Rewey visitors the past week.
Atty. L. Philippson and wife of
Bloomington were in the city yester-
day.
! ATTY. W. E. Howe of Boscobel
had business at the county seat
yesterday.
"A hill of corn takes up abut as
much room under ground as it does
above ground.
Oscar Jeide will be employed
by and live with his father-in-law,
H. Nichols, the drayman.
License to wed has been granted
to Rob't A. Kane Of Darlington and
Cora Ostermeier of Potosi.
-"Judge' Wilmott,, Thos. Ehlen
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Ehlen, all
of Potosi, were in the city yester-
day.
Three cars of stock were shipped
from Lancaster Monday. A special
train took out seven cars yesterday
and three more go today.
Henry Holzinger marketed
some fine 2-yr-old fat cattle Monday
along with hogs. The beeves aver
aged 900 and brought &c.
The Herald is one price to all
we do not charge some folks ST. so
and others $1.25 per year as one
paperIdOes that we know of.
Grant county people who own
farms in the Dakotas are greatly
elated over the bountiful crops be-
ing harvested out there this fall.
Two things mark the first steps
in agricultural progress in new
country, when the farmers begin
to sow clover and when they quit
burning their straw piles.
-Robt. Hake has about COM
pleted the erection of new church
situated near the Burns cemetery
in town of Lima, for which he had
the contract. Mr.. Hake also recent
" completed a store building for
Eugene McReynolds in the same
township. .sl~fS
L. Muf1ey of Boscobel has
picked II quarts of strawberries the
past week-the same being pro-
duct of a second crop from small
door yard patch that was moved
over some time ago. How's that
for Wisconsin climate!
Richard Bennett marketed a
wagon load of apples here Monday
that certainly belong in the heavy
weight class. They were of the
Wisconsin Spy variety and were
veritable monsters, some measuring
over a foot in circumference. ~
The. best. streak of mineral
found for many months, in this Sec
ton of the state was unearthed at
the Shutdown mine on the Carpen-
ter farm between Livingston and
Rewes last week. The vein is Z
inches in thickness.
The expected change in the
schedule of the Potosi-Lancaster
stage line by which Chicago mail
was to arrive at Lancaster two
hours earlier did not materialize as
was anticipated Monday, owing to
the fact that the government has
been unsuccessful thus far in secur-
ing man to take the contract. All
bids received were rejected and mat
ters will be delayed for time.
"A merchant in a neighboring
town states that his advertising last
year cost him "a cents for every
500 worth of goods sold. He used
half page for his business an
nouncement each week and says
that as long as people read news
papers he will advertise. There's
a man possessed of a good head.
Just as soon as merchants begin to
look upon advertising as a branch
of the business which requires as
much care as any part of it, then
will advertising pay. Honesty,
force, originality and persistency
in advertising makes it paying in
vestment.
L. P. Rasford, Ned Ivey and
Lloyd Brooker figured conspicuous
ly in a runaway accident Friday eve
from which they may always be
thankful they escaped with their
lives. The boys were in Basford's
delivering conveyance and in des-
cending the fair grounds hill one
wheel of the vehicle became loos-
o,,od op1 IroY,Y,od off Tho ov1o @Lo