Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-30
Christmas is less than four

months away.
Geo. Baxter is in Chicago pur-
chasing goods.
The Frank E. Long company is
at Boscobel next week.
Jacob Lift, the well known
theater owner is dead.
Mrs. Lee Morrell is visiting at
Galena and taking in the fair.
Miss Barbara Lewis went to
Freeport yesterday for a visit.
Misses Mildred and Frances
johnson are visiting at Boscobel.
Judge jerks was over from
Dodgeville on business yesterday.
Joe Mccoy shipped afne bunch
of draft horses to Milwaukee this
week.
Preston people have applied to
the state railroad commission for a
depot.
The fall term of circuit court
will open in Lancaster on Monday
Oct 9th.
II. NJ. Young and wife visited
old friends at Glen Haven first of
the week.
Miss Mollie Olson was home to
Hickory Grove on visit portion
of the week.
The Livingston band assisted
in furnishing music at the Galena
fair this week.
Saloon license hereafter at
Cassville will be $500 as result of
recent special election.
Football today at the fair
grounds, Cassville VS. Lancaster.
Better see it'll be a good game.
Mrs. L. Mufaey returned to
Boscobel Thursday after an ex-
tended visit with her daughter,
Mrs. HI. J. johnson.
The tobacco trust is sending
out thousands Of sacks Of cigarette
papers by mail, all over the state,
to every person whose address they
can secure. Men who never smoked
cigarette in their lives have their
little seven packages and the card
telling how they can secure more.
Men who hate cigarettes, ministers,
officers Of the anti-cigarette league,
aged business men, have all been
treated alike. There has been no
discrimination as to age.
State Supt. Cary has distribut
ed SO, 900 among the counties Of
Wisconsin, being the fund pro-
vided by statute for the encourage
ment and support of county teach
ers' institutes. The apportionment
is made on the basis of the number
Of teachers in the county, engaged
in the comm On gcaded schools, not
under the supervision of the CITY
superintendent. This number is
1921. Dane county receives the
most of any county in the state,
the amount being $3O9.93 for the
two school districts of the county.
Grant county is second, receiving
$308.9 5. Dodge third with 1924 and
Rock fourth with $323.O3.
According to a recent press re-
port from Washington, druggists in
prohibition communities. and malt
ers of some widely advertised |
medicines will better themselves
the next few months. The commits
sioner of internal revenue has
rendered a decision that will effect
seriously a number of patent medi-
clnes composed largely of distilled
liquors. He has reversed ruling of
his department. made many years
ago and now decides that the manu-
facturers of these medicines must
take out licenses as rectlfers and
liquor dealers and that druggists
and others handling them will
have to pay the usual retail liquor
dealers license.
"A death every Is minutes; a
birth every s minutes and 81 Sc
conds, murder every 70 hours; a
suicide every Is hours; a serious &C
cident necessitating nurses or ply
sicians care every minutes case
OF assault and battery every 26
minutes; a burglary every hours;
disturbance OF the peace, to at
tract attention, every 6 seconds; a
larceny every 20 minutes; an ar est
every minutes and 10 seconds; a
fire every hour; an arrest for
drunkenness every Is minutes; a
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