Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-12
T. F. Orton'sInew ad.

Montfort yesterday.
John Fassblnder of Montfort
was in town Monday.
Frank Fl. Grimm of Cassville
was in the city yesterday.
L. D. Eastman arrived home
yesterday from his trip to Texas.
An extra train hauled away
the seasons crop of ties Monday.
Jim McBrien says he knows of
a dog that won't eat meat on Fri
days.
Conductor Moran's Sunday was
made happy by the presence of his
wife from Baraboo.
The Misses Roseleip, Libert and
Prussing, of Platteville, were
visitors here Sunday.
1t is not the saving of money
that builds up a town but a wise
and liberal expenditure.
The Ladies Aid society of the
Congregational church meets with
Mrs. VIM. Humphrey at 2 p. m.
Friday.
The millinery stores are indeed
bowers of beauty these days with
their artistic creations for feminine
head gear.
One of our farmerl friends
states that Aprill snow is! a good
fertilizer if you pillow it under while
It's warm.
The Herald is unable to furnish
an obituary sketch of the nlate JOS.
Kasper, ST., with this issue. It will
appear later.
Fritz Hopes brewery at Platte
vile is not the only source of re-
venue he has. Fritz owns 80 shares
in that rich Empire mine.
Mrs. J. G. Bradley, Presiding
with her sons in Ellenboro town
ship, has been granted a widows
pension of $12 per month.
You'd better keep your shot
gun loaded this sping for fruit tree
fakirs and seventeen-year locusts.
Both are headed this way.
"A fanatical religious sect down
in Indiana says the world will end
in April. Go on making garden
however. They may be wrong.
We know of some folks who
put on fortyidollars' worth of airs
and when they move they have
about forty cents worth of trash on
the dray.
A Lancaster citizen who is
noted for being stingy found a shell
at the depot the other day and took
it home and boiled it to see if he
couldn't get a crab or an oyster out
of it.
County Supt. Nye's majority
over Bray was 919. The vote was
light, Nye 1858 and Bray 1874. For
state superintendent the vote in
GRAVITY county was: Cary 2O7S and
Salisbury 1776.
"A new order went into effect on
April first allowing young men of
eighteen years old to enlist in the
regular army instead of twenty-one
as heretofore. This is due to the
fact that nowadays it is hard to get
new recruits.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Voight of
Jefferson attended the funeral of
Mrs. Caskey at Potosl Friday-Mrs.
Voight's mother. They are super
intendent and matron respectively
of the Jefferson county asylum and
county home.
Ralph Ray is to accept the ex-
traordinary offer made him by the
king of Spain as an instructor to his
royal highness and expects to sail
in June for his new field of labor.
He will be home for a visit before
taking his long journey.
While snow bound at Montfort
last winter, enroute home from
Milwaukee, Dave Johnson was in
duced to buy so shares in a mining
prospect located in that locality at
10 cents a share. The mine proved
better than anticipated and the
shares are now selling at so cents
each.
AID. G. w. Ray expects to take
another trip to Virginia this sum-
mer. He was there last year. Ought
to hear some of the stories he tells
about the ocean fishing. Charley
saws he baited pair of ice tongs