Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-20
Local JOttin9S.

Judge Goodsell held court at
Platteville yesterday.
M. c. Edwards goes to Beetown
today to pay off creamery checks.
Louis Hoffman of Columbia
Falls, Mont, is here for short
visit.
Miss Edna Burrows is visitor
at Warren, ILL.,, this week, taking in
the fair.
Mrs. Mary Sweeney returned
yesterday from visit with rela-
tives at Cobb.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Drinkwater
attended the Riggs obsequies in
Watterstown Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Smith is here from
Toronto, Can, for a visit with her
cousin, Mrs. W. J. Dyer.
Miss Alice Groenier and Mrs.
j. M. Graves are at home in Chi
cago. They went Monday morning.
Miss Edna Burrows went to
Warren Monday morning to attend
the fair and visit with relatives and
friends.
The ladies of the Mysterious
club held a very pleasant annual
meeting with Mrs. j. S. Wright
Saturday.
"A reception will be rendered
Rev. and Mrs. Morgans at the M.
E. church tonight and all are in
vited to attend.
e. Fl. Buchner and family took
their departure Monday for their
home at Clossett, Ark, after an
enjoyable visit here.
Ed. Angus and family drove to
Boscobel Saturday where they took
the Milwaukee road for their new
home, Sioux Rapids. Iowa. i
During the heavy storm Mon
day evening Ats awning was
blown down. Luckily the plate
glass windows were not broken.
Ringing Bros. circus tent col
lapsed at Maryville, Mo-, during a
storm Monday, fatally injuring
many and causing panic of sever
al thousand.
John Rohinson's circus will
show in Galena tomorrow. Galena
folks do not like it, for they fear it
will injure the receipts of their fair
to be held next week.
Mrs. I. Farnsworth, of James
vile, who has been visiting with
relatives and friends in this city for
the past two or three weeks, re-
turned to her home Monday morn
ing.
One of Joe Wright's saddle
horses, Dukes Mixture, captured
the wreath of flowers and first
money at the Page county, Missouri,
fair last week against all the south
ern good ones.
Bill had a billboard. Bill also
had board bill. The board bill
bored Bill, so Bill sold the billboard
to pay his board bill. So after Bill
sold his billboard to pay his board
bill the board bill no longer bored
Bill.
Frank Meyer left Monday for
Beloit where he will attend the
Beloit college. His father and
mother accompanied him on the
trip. Miss Emily Cronin and Clarence
Howe left the same day for that
place to attend the above named
college.
A farmer from Little Grant was
in town yesterday and much per-
turbed by the frivolity of his wife,
who had purchased one of those
bifurcated, Gordon, elastic wing
dancing shirts that spreads all out
like circus tent in dry weather and
looks like dish rag when it rains.
He said he gave $3.50 for the skirt
and Nancy went to the fair and
got rained on" and then he had to
mortgage cow to get eight dollars
to send away and get it fixed.
The country at present is quite
different in appearance from what
it usually is at this time of year.
Instead of everything being parched
and dried up the grass and the
fields look as green as spring time.
Fall pasturage is abundant, the
ponds and streams nearly all have
abundant water. The farmers are
hustling to get in the fall crop.
The corn is about all in the shock
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