Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-19

Strawberries of fair quality for
20 cents per quart on local market.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Birch and
son were up from Beetown Monday.
Rural mail delivery for Vernon
county will be inaugurated May
1st.
Our neighbors IN northern Wis
consin are gathering the beautiful,
fragrant trailing arbutus.
A boy dreams Of the day he
will smoke and a girl of the day
she will smell it on bis mustache.
Adam Mink and wife of Du-
buque were Lancaster visitors over
Sunday, guests of their daughter,
Mrs. Oscar Belscamper.
The Hazel Green Gazette gets
newsier with each issue. Editor
Williams is a pusher and has a way
all his own of furnishing the news.
Marsh Riggs has moved to
Lancaster from Boscobel and is
located in the residence he pur-
chased from Fred Orion, situated in
the third ward.
S. B. Sarles, prominent Wis
consin lumberman years ago, died
at his home in Minneapolis last
week at an advanced age. He was
a brother Of John Fl. Sarles, de-
ceased, who was a we'll known
citizen of Boscobel.
Subscribers desiring a change
in their address will take note of the
fact that the alteration can be made
with less trouble and inconvenience
if they will kindly note their pre-
sent address as well as the one they
wish the paper sent to.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Moore
arrived home Saturday from Madi-
son, where Mrs. Moore was operat-
ed upon at local hospital. We
are pleased to state that the opera
ton was a success and beneficial
results are already noted.
If you know what we don't
know and don't tell us, how do you
expect us to know what you know
so as to tell your neighbors what
you know and we don't know? Let
us know what you know and we'll
tell everything we know to every
body we know and then everybody
will know what you know and we
know don't you know.
-Workingmen on the new gov
eminent building at Baraboo
went on a strike for higher wages
last week. The bricklayers claimed
that they were to have received So
cents an hour on an S-hour basis,
but when their checks came only
As cents an hour was allowed. Fifty
cents an hour on the 10-hour basis
would suit them, but the govern
ment will not allow any govern
ment contract laborer to work more
than s hours.
Surgeons have found some.
thing else to amputate. A female
carving artist demands the removal
of the tonsils of all children, affirm.
ing that they are the home OF
bacilli which contribute to every ill
Hence the side trimmings of ou1
palates must go, along with oul
appendices and other useless things
that cucumber our anatomy. In the
light of advanced surgical science
one is forced to the conclusion that
when Nature created man the jot
was badly botched.
The home grown, hand-spanked
bare-footed, listed country
boy, makes a better fight in the
battle of life than the pampered
high collared- creased trouseret
youth of our cities, whose clothes
have always been busted with {
whisk broom instead of a single
Let the town boy out of a jol
try year on the farm. Ploughins
behind a mule will take the kinks
out of his throat and the weakness
out of his legs, and will give him ar
appetite, an honest living and 6
sight of heaven.
Following winter of extreme
severity March was phenomenally
warm except a few days in the Sec
ond decade. The soil thawed and
the surface dried off rapidly and
conditions were favorable for plow-
ing, seeding and preparatory farm
operations week earlier than usual
and more than two weeks in adj
vance of last year. The bulk of the
spring wheat area was seeded prior