Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-04

llOu. LII Is IOr I,UOU miles, Is SoOu
for all roads and is sold for 500.
When the book is exhausted a re-
fund of $40 SO is made provided the
signatures on the mileage slips torn
out by the conductors all agree.
This will prevent the use of a book
by more than one person.
There's to b. something besides
tool house at Preston station. The,
railroad company has given official
assurance that a comfortab BILE wait
ing room, heated in cold weather.,
will soon be provided for the travel
ing public at Preston, also that the
company will have representative
at this station. This is something
Preston ought to have had long ago,
still it is better late than never"
"A new five dollar counterfeit
has been extensively passed through
the central part of the state, and
people in this section of the country
can afford to look at their money a
second time. This time the counter
felt is five dollar gold piece and it
is said to be dangerous one. 1t
may be identified as being lighter
than the genuine, while the in
scription. Five D." is trlfle
larger than that found in the real
article.
The State Journal says: erich
land Center reports more than it's
share of violence. Whether it is
due to an inherent decadence in the
people, or whether the geographical
outlay of the country, with it's
mountains, It's rough. inaccessible,
sparsely settled districts explain it,
is referred to the geologist and the
penal expert. The county ought to
be a good territory for some old
school Methodist circuit riders"
Mrs. E. A. Berge of Potosi met
with painful accident at her home
by falling into a cellar. The en-
trance to the cellar is drought the
pantry and is covered by a trap
door. She had been in the cellar
for a jar of fruit and forgot to close
the trap door. Having occasion
later to go to the pantry for some.
thing, it being somewhat dark, she
stepped into this open place and fell
to the bottom Of the steps. No
bones were broken, but she sustain
ed some very severe bruises, and is
slowing improving.
-Sharpers are working a new
graft in different parts Of the count
ry. A stranger approaches farm
er and offers to sell him a water tank
which he guaran Hes will prevent
water from freezil !, in zero weather.
Failing to make ale he induces
the farmer to act as salesman and
has him sign a contract for one
tank to be used as sample, as Mr..
Stranger is very deslrous of placing
one tank in each township. A few
weeks later couple of accomplices
come llolg vil5ls trans
formed into note and demand pay
ment.
Nelson Morris, the Chicago pork
packer, says that sugar beets make
the finest pork in the world and
that in the near future Colorado,
Nebraska and Wyoming will pro-
duce the best pork in the world. AL
falfa, field peas and sugar beets will
take the place of corn. The sugar
cured ham must surrender to the
sugar beet hog. Sixty years ago
the hog that was fed on beech nuts
was held to be almost worthless
from the fact that in the frying pan
his meat turned to oil and shrank
terribly in the cooking. But now
beech nut fed pork is delicacy and
is rated high on the market. We
may reach time the corn fed hog
will be below par.
The Berndt brothers, Jacob and
Louis of North Lancaster, Peter, OF
the same township and Philip OF
South Lancaster, are having series
of family reunions in honor Of their
father, Peter Berndt, ST., and their
other brother Adam, both here
from Ironton, Ohio, on a visit.
Their coming was in the nature OF
a pleasant surprise as they had not
let the boys know anything about
it. This is the senior Mr.. Berndt's
first visit to Wisconsin and he
expresses himself af greatly pleased
with our state. He is a prominent
farmer of Lawrence County, Ohio,
and came over to this country IN
1857 from Germany. His deceased
wife was sister of Fred Heberle1n,
Jacob Heberlein and Mrs. Joseph