Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-11-10

II. G.. Craig are now in charge.
The ladies of the M. E. church
will serve their regular monthly
tea Wednesday evening from 8
until all are served. Everyone
cordially invited.
The Boscobel nigh school foot
ball team comes to Lancaster to-
morrow to play the local high
school seven. Game will be called
at 2:3O at the fair grounds. Turn
out and witness the contest.
-Lucian Il. Palmer, colored, of
Milwaukee, won out in an assembly
contest and goes To the legislature.
He has the distinction of beng the
first negro to ever be elected to the
Wisconsin legislature.
All Royal Neighbors wishing to
go to Bloomington in buses next
Thursday should notify Mrs. Amelia
Lisherness of the fact, that ar
rangements may be made in ad-
vance. Those who go will meet at
the G. A. r. hall promptly at 2 p.
m.
"A reception was given Mrs.
Ocea Basford Wednesday evening
in honor of her reelection at the
national convention of Rathbone
Sisters, recently held 0at New
Orleans, as supreme mistress of
finance. Refreshments were served
and Mrs. Basford was the recipient
of numerous congratulations.
If men are the salt of the earth,
women are undoubtedly the sugar.
Salt is a necessity, sugar a luxury.
Vicious men are saltpeter; stern
men are rock salt; nice men are
table salt. Old maids lare brown
sugar, good natured matrons are
loaf sugar and pretty girls Ithe fine
rulverized sugar. Pass the pulveriz-
ed sugar, please" -
Every property holder and
tenant should take the greatest of
pride in cleaning up and keeping
their holdings and home IN an ad-.
mitted sanitary condition. OHeaIth
is happiness. We have the reputa-
ton of having the healthiest climate
and the best water in the state.
Let us keep that reputation by all
means,
There was another Halloween
party missed by the Herald reporter
in, the last issue. ALI 4the school
children in the neighborhood, and
some older ones, assembled at Rose
lawn, arrayed themselves in ghostly
attire and carrying jack-o'lanterns,
proceeded to the home of Fred
Miles, surprising Edith and Elva.
aad all having glorious time.
1t is not surprising that some of
our young men seem to have such
hard work to be decent. Just re-
member that the first man to dwell
upon the earth was no saint II
we can rely upon history no was
liar and sneak. The first woman.
kept bad company, and woman-like
pried into things that did not con-
Germ her. The first child born was
murderer and killed his brother.
Our first ancestors were a tough lot
and it is hard to get it out of the
blood.
"A farmer at Richland Center,
advertised for his stray calf by post
ing in the postoffice the following
peculiar notice:
ROND A Way
Won Ret and Vite Calf NIT its to
behind legs vas plack, he was a she
Calf. Aney potty dot prings Dot
Calf home pays me five Tollar.
Hans Bog
Tree. Mile Behind
de pr1dge
Bear Creek.
An exchange paper bids fare
well to a departed citizen as fol-
lows: He was man of push; he
played marbles with a boy for keeps
and!cheated alllhis playmates out of
their allies; he snapped a bladeless
knife, unseen, for a four BLADDER,
sold it for so cents. bought a pound
of sugar, made oarrel of lemonade,
which he sold on circus day for
eight dollars. He started III bust
ness and sold tough meat for choice
cuts and made a fortune. When
he got thousand dollars he started
company with five million dollars,
mostly water, and soldjthe stock at
par. When the company busted it