Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-06-22
1T Is almost haying time.

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The small boys are practicing
for the 4th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed King are
visiting at Hudson, Wis.
Don't judge a man by the
frown he wears. He may have the
tooth ache.
Chester Miles of Waterloo.
Iowa, is visiting relatives and
friends here.
Oscar Jeide returned to Soldiers
Grove Monday, where he manages
the Jeide farm.
The little tots at the McCawley-
Kellogg entertainment next Friday
eve will please you.
Mrs. Ellen P. Weathersby of
Shullsburg is the new department
president of the w. r. C.
MIR. and Mrs. R. A. Austin left
Monday for st. Louis where they
will view sights of the fair.
Homegrown Strawberries are
now on the market and next will
come the luscious watermelon.
Lou. Starr and wife are in Mil
waukee, enjoying the sights and
taking in the sessions of the K. P.'s
and Rathbone Sisters.
Leap year may not cut much
ice, but still it's fact that there's
girls getting married this year who
were never married before.
Atty. and Mrs. w. j. Brennan
are in Milwaukee, attending the
annual meeting of Knights of
Pythias and Rath bone Sisters.
MIR. and Mrs. John Bracket
went to Milwaukee Monday, where
Mr.. Bracket is taking his yearly
examination before the postal ex-
animation board.
"A dozen cases of typhoid fever
in mild form exist at the Mendoza
hospital for the insane. Physicians
lay the cause to the lake water
used for drinking purposes.
Mrs. E. L. Mccoy gave a
6 o'clock tea Saturday, in honor Of
her sister Miss Beatrice Decker, of
Wyalusing, who has been her
guest.
"A doctor says, Don't cross the
knees" With few more Of these
medical prohibitions a man will
have to rest standing on one leg
like goose.
-Goiand see the electric lighted
Indian club swinging at Reeds
opera house next Friday eve.
Tickets-adults Csc; children 15c; on
sale at Benefits drug store.
: Register George Gunderson
went out to Hickory Grove Sunday.
He reports heavy thunder shower
there that day. Too bad it didn't
extend all over Grant county.
Herman Grimm of Cassville
and Mr.. Lawther of Dubuque drove
over from the former place Monday,
having business in Probate court,
the final settlement of
Mrs. Alderson's estate.
The white man has exceeded
the Indian in discovering an ex-
qrisite method of torture. Some
youths in western town held q
bridegroom while the train sped
away with his new bride.
Lester Clifton andl wife have
informed their friends and former
of this city of the birth of
a son, on June Is, at their home in
Platteville. Mrs. Clifton's maiden
name was Jennie Irish.
Miss Portia Showalter, who
returned home from Waupaca last
week, closed her fifth year as
teacher in the schools of that city.
She has been elected to position
in the Lancaster schools for the
year.
An automobile on our streets
attracted considerable at
tention. 1t was owned by travel
ing salesman, who was trying that
method Of locomotion in making
his territory. Lancaster has none
of these horseless carriages as yet,
and consequently they are some
thing Of a novelty here.
Mrs. Lizzie McGonigal received
a check for $4,000 from the Inde-
pendent Order of Foresters, twelve
days after her application for the
on the policy carried by
her husband, the late James Nc