Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-01-25
-Thos. Finnegan is in Madison.

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Of the quincy; he enjoys it. Nit.
Think about the fertility of the
soil more and not SO much about
making money.
Elbow grease and self-denial
will knock the prop from under
almost any mortgage.
Horace Hampton is filling his
ice houses this week. Anton Schmitt
has his crop about harvested.
Lancaster can certainly point
with pride to her financial institu-
tions. None safer in the state.
The official report of the Grant
County Agricultural society can be
found printed on another PAGE of
this issue.
You cannot fail to note the
advertisements of the Hub and r.
N. Davenport today. Prices quoted
are extremely low.
j. w. Watson Will open a real
estate and collection agency at
Livingston soon. The ex-sheriff is
right at home in this line.
"A meeting of the directors OF
the Cemetery association will be
held in the council room of the city
hall at Z p. m. Friday evening.
The excellent condition of the
Potosi State banks finances is made
public in an official statement
printed in another column today.
The railroad ice house here is
being filled with CONCEALED GOODNESS
from Lake Monona. A crew of rail
road employees, expert at the bust
ness, is handling the job.
Herald auction bills bring the
best buyers. We advertise your
sale in the Herald twice free, also, if
we print your bills. This Imeans
that 1900 families in Grant county
will read of your sale. That's what
does the business.
State Supt. Cary has our thanks
for copy of the arbor and bird
day annual. The date set for the
event this year has not yet been
named by the governor. His time
has been taken up with other affairs
he deemed Of more Importance.
january 9th will be observed
all over the United States as Carna-
ton day, IN honor the martyred
President Mckinley. The day is
the anniversary of his birth and the
carnation being his favorite flower,
it has become custom to wear his
flower on the anniversary of his
birth.
IA -Thos. Mcdonald and James Ire
loar returned Monday evening from
a trip to Indian Territory. Mr..
Mcdonald will go there again with
in few weeks to remain for some
time, opening up his new coal
mines. They had freezing weather
down.there for few days following
heavy rainfall that was our biz
card here.
One of the severest cold snaps
of the winter struck this neck-o'-
the-woods yesterday and the mere
ury is expected to drop down to
two figures at least this morning.
The noon train yesterday was over
"a hours late. All freight traffic
was abandoned entirely. Six car
loads of live stock were ready for
shipment here yesterday, but were
held in consequence. Four car
loads were shipped on Monday.
When the train crew on the
evening passenger pulled into the
station Monday evening they re-
ported seeing dead man by side of
the track near the stand pipe.
Marshal Budworth was notified and
FASTENED to the depot with con-
veyance to bring in the corpse. The
crew retraced their course on the
engine in the meantime and picked
up the man, returning to the depot.
where he was identified as Jim
Livens. The victim was in a sad
state of intoxication and knew moth
ing of his wanderings or destina-
ton. Jim was placed in the cooler
to thaw out and was liberated in the
morning. Had the train men not
discovered him he surely would
have dreamed his final dream
yesterday morning about time the
zero zephyrs from Winnepeg struck
Lancaster.
The gowns worn by Miss
Margaret Ralph as Katherine in
1.-THE Tanning Of the Shrew" are
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