Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-08
M. Mcnamara is home for


the city Wednesday.
Ringing Bros open the circus
season in Chicago today.
What do you think of the Her
aid today? Expressions solicited.
Mrs. Geo. Moody OF Fennimore
was Lancaster visitor portion of
the week.
Tomorrow is the 10th anniver-
sary of the surrender of Lee at
Appomattox.
The Herald is no recorder of
ancient history. Readers get the
news twice a week while it is fresh.
There are several saloon pro-
pertles for sale cheap at Montfort.
The village voted no license after
July LIST.
1T is stated that Pete Wenzel
had rather deliver millinery on the
1st day of April than any other day
in the year.
E. E. Graham has traded his
Mt. Hope farms for a section of
South Dakota land, but will not
move there for year.
The fish wagon made it's first
appearance on the street Wednes-
day. The contents of the box were
principally buffalo suckers.
Albert Henkel returned to
Whitewater Normal Wednesday
morning to resume his studies after
a pleasant vacation at home.
Litigation will continue to be
OF the endless-chain variety so long
as lawyers are permitted to make
the laws for that express purpose.
The Fennimore Political Equali-
ty club marched in a body to the
polls to vote Tuesday, but failed to
arrive before the polls were closed.
Such disappointment!
The county fair will be a
hummer this year. It's to be the
5Oth anniversary of the event and
everyone should take an interest in
making it record breaker.
Mrs. j. HI. Baldwin and Misses
Marie Knapp, Marie Mccarthy and
Dorothy Baldwin were Fennimore
visitors portion of the week,
guests of Mrs. Chas. Weber.
Representatives of the high
schools of Fennim ore, Linden, Cobb,
Argyle, Montfort and Dodgeville will
hold declamatory contest at Fenni-
more Friday evening, April 2Sth.
-Oae of our good friends present
ed the editor with jar of delicious
maple syrup the other day, but he
positively refused us permission to
mention his name in these columns.
Luke Webb has purchased the
R. Morrow farm in Mt. Hope and
will settle down to business. Luke
is good fellow and it's a wonder
some prepossessing young lady has
not ensnared him ere this.
Rev. Fl. E. Fuller. pastor of the
Baptist church at Cassville, has re-
signed his work there to take
charge of the field at Mt. Ida. He
is also pastor of the Baptist church
at Bloomington.
1t is announced in railroad
circles that the Union Pacific has
absorbed the entire Northwestern
system. If this be true, about the
first thing the Union Pacific people
should do is to erect a new depot at
Lancaster.
DO not forget that the Herald
can furnish yov with 1906 calendars
as cheap and better than you can
get them elsewhere. Just ask us
and we'll be pleased to come to you
with at fine line of samples as you
ever saw.
Otto Behncke and Grant Bon
ham have fine mining prospect
on the farm of the elder Behncke.
The boys have been working at it
all winter and believe they have
struck something rich. We trust
their anticipations may be realized.
One of the finest acetyline
generators manufactured is on ex-
hibition at Thos. Webb & Sons
shop. II possesses all the latest i'm
provements and is to be installed
at Adam Schumacher's brewery
at Potosi. The plant will light the
residence. brewery and barn.
The season for catching bass,
pixies, pickerel and other game fish
opens May 25th. The open season
for brook trout is from April 18th
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