Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-22
Local JOttin9S.

For Her Sake"
AT the opera house
Thursday of next week.
Levi Eastman is home from
Waterloo, Ia.
"A fellow who fishes for suckers
always seems to get bite.
Fay Baldwin left Thursday for
Colorado where he will spend about
four months.
w. E. Lathrop was called to
Wauzeka Wednesday to adjust an
insurance loss.
Mrs. Ed Krog of Platteville is
visiting at the home of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Macke.
-Rumor has it that Lancaster will
have several more new autos before
the summer is we'll started
Lee Morrell plans to build fine
modern residence on his lots in the
west part of the city this summer.
Highland has new cheese and
dairy board of trade with eighteen
factory owners or statesmen as
active members.
Prof. Duncaif went to Dodge
vile Thursday afternoon where. he
was a judge in the. High School
declamatory contest. -
WIN. Marsden of Fennimore,
one of the assessors, was a pleasant
caller yesterday and advanced his
subscription several notches.
There's too much dynamiting
of small streams in this locality 60
ing on and the .pernicious practice
should be stamped out. Some OF the
miscteants should be made examples
of. Gi.t>@tIs l',5#t ~ saCA':I LIN ssst
The new hitching rails put in
by the city seem to be pretty well
patronized and are found easily en-
ough. Perhaps about fifty years;
from now someone with lots of
time on their hands will sit down
and tell how they used to ''get
down and help tie the team to
these rails, wear No. Shoes" etc.
Wednesday evening about $50
the town was startled by loud ex-
plosion and those up town heard
an awful racket following it, which
continued for good while. Upon
investigation it was found that
nothing serious had happened how
ever. Pollock had simply started
his noiseless gasoline engine, the
one he said would be no ''chug
chug" affair.
The Modern Woodmen of
America will skip the April as
sessment, the fund On hand being
sufficient to meet all claims and ex-
penses for the month, and leave an
adequate surplus. This is the first
assessment missed this year, but
last year the order got through
with only eight and the officers are
confident that they can do as we'll
in 1905.
The Modern Woodmen's con-
vention, to be held in Milwaukee in
June, promises to be the record
breaking event of that organiza-
ton, which is famous for it's great
gatherings. 1t is estimated that the
convention will call to the city fully
$4,000 visitors, members of the order
and their families who will be there
to witness the parade and COM
petitive drill of the uniformed
Foresters, the pride of the order.
The Wisconsin farmers who
went into the sugar beet industry
last year, have made a wonderful
record, according to report that
has recently been made. Fifty
farmers planted 1S4 acres and raised
1868 tons of beets which brought
$685. or at the rate of 1891 an
acre. The average yield was 81
tons to the acre. The beets were
bought by the sugar factory at
Menominee Falls. There is bitter
fight in Rock county between the
tobacco men and the beet people.
Beets threaten to crowd out tobacco
and the capitalists largely interested
try to coax the beet growers back to
the weed.