Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-13
Local JOttinSS.


of sugar.
Mrs, Culver and daughter of
Mil waukee are passing a few weeks
va cation in Lancaster.
The Lancaster base ball team
is getting ready to meet the Fenni-
more boys on the diamond here
Friday next.
The season of fairs will soon be
on again. Do not fail to book your
self for Lancaster and the big
county fair Sept. $3.50.
The railroads will get enough
out of their passenger fares to buy
the whole Rosebud reservation.
Over 5000 have already registered.
DIR. Carter and Herb. Pendleton
and Misses Bessie Carter and Nellie
Dickinson drove to Castle Rock
Sunday and enjoyed the scenery in
that vicinity.
"A man over in Crawford county
was killed in a runaway while argu-
ing about life insurance and left a
wife and three small children.
Moral-Don't argue but get insured.
Amelia Loshe, one of the in
mates of the Grant county asylum
sent here at the time of the burn
ing of the Racine asylum, died Fri
day, and the remains were sent to
Racine.
The carpenters have placed the
second floors in the Bennett and
Lathrop business blocks, and the
masons have good start on the
walls Of the second story. Thos.
Mcdonald is doing the steel and
iron work.
Now that it has been discovered
to a certainty that fluejays make
war upon sparrows and kill them,
the city authorities or some kindly
society should secure half a million
of the pretty warriors and let them
loose-that is, if the sparrow is
really a nuisance.
1.-THE corn is looking pretty
sickly and weak, said a farmer yes
terday. 100 much wet and not
enough hot sum-" he continued 1t
is little too early in July to grow
altogether pessimistic. There will
be lots of time for a hot season be-
fore the summer passes.
-Fache & Son, the house movers,
expect to get at the oldsDr. Reed
building this week. The building
will be moved to a position on the
street west of the Court house, and
there remain until the new build
ing is completed, which it is ex--
pected will be accomplished about
Nov. 1.
"A tramp printer called the 9TH
er morning and wanted money
enough to get a breakfast. He was
forty-five, and the indelible mark
of fast and dissipated living was
written on every line of his face.
When asked why it was that he, an
ablebodied man at forty.fve, with
no family to support, had to beg
for something to eat, he said he had
been having devil of good time.
About as well try to bale out the
Atlantic ocean with teaspoon as 20
try to do anything for this sort.
There is nothing left for him but to
beg, drink, starve and die.
Conductors and brakemen of
the G. M. & St. Paul Railway Com
pany have received notice to pur-
chase new uniforms in accordance
with a design prescribed by the
corporation. They must also buy
these suits at the place named by
the company. All uniforms must
be ordered through the superin-
tendent. They must be of blue
cloth, with brass buttons and
designs of the company. Of course
the brakemen and conductors must
pay for the suits. Passenger con-
ductors are required to wear the
uniform when on duty and they
must be neat and presentable. They
must wear clean linen and have
their shoes polished and the con-
ductors are required to see that the
trainmen provide themselves with
overalls, with which to protect their
uniforms. There must be standard
cap, but a straw hat and white vest
are permitted during the hot
summer weather.