Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-20


-Vesperman Bros. delivered
fine bunch of shoats to Fred Aup-
perle yesterday. There were 70 in
the herd and they averaged 225.
Price paid was S.. 122 per cwt.
Wednesday. Jan. 18th, was the
goth anniversary of the marriage of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Barrows. The
fact leaked out and their many rel
atives and friends did not believe it
right that such an event should pass
by without proper recognition. Ac-
cordingly they gathered together
and surprised Mr. and Mrs. Barrows.
1t was midnight before the happy
company took leave, and several
gifts renamed in that hospitable
home-tokens of esteem from those
who came. The Herald wishes the
estimable couple many happy re-
turns of the day.
"A once prominent Iowa politi-
clan represented this government as
foreign consul. After serving in
that capacity he made tour of the
old world. In China he was struck
with the many gambling devices
and the unfairness of them. Finally
he came to one he thought wes sure
ly fair. Some Cinnamon had each
a dollars worth of loaf sugar. Each
put lump on the board and the
one on whose lump fly lit first got
the pot. 1t looked so honest that
cur neighbor took a hand. After he
had lost four dollars the guide took
him away. How did it happen
asked the victim. They sold you
Jumps of salt-said the guide and
there was silence long time.
Marshall Field, the > Chicago
merchant prince, died Tuesday
afternoon at the Holland House in
New York after an illness of a
week. His death was due to pneu-
monia. Marshall Field without
question was the greatest and most
successful merchant of his genera
ton and he was one of the worlds
richest men, his wealth being esti-
mated at about one hundred and
fifty million dollars.
During the forthcoming Farm
ers' Course, to be held at the Uni
versity, Madison, February ZIG,
there will be an examination and
slaughter of herd of cattle afflicted
with tuberculosis Consumption.
This herd belonging to dairyman
in the state, has recently been
diagnosed and found tuberculous
on the basis of the tuberculin test.
Farmers attending the course will
have an opportunity of witnessing
the port norton examination of the
diseased cows and learn many facts
of great Importance concerning that
dread disease. For illustrated cir
culars describing the Farmers
Course send postal card to Dean w.
A. Henry, Madison, Wis.
An elderly Hollander told us
the other day that in early times
the Dutch farmers of the up river
farms of New York had an ingeni-
Gus way of recovering pocket knives
that might have been dropped or
mislaid while blowing or gardening
was going on. Cutlery was not as
cheap and abundant then as in
these days SO the farmers took the
thrifty precaution of keeping two
or three sunfower seeds in their
knife handles. Then if the knives
fell upon broken ground and could
not be readily found the owners
would wait until the seeds sprouted
and an isolated sunfower stalk or
blossom in field or patch would
signalize the possibility of missing
article being at its root. True the
owner did not always realize the
result of the scheme-because a
passing boy who understood the
token got there before the planter.
-Richland Center Observer: Nom
ination papers asking Judge
Clementson to become a candidate
for reelection as circuit Judge of
this district have been circulated
here ana are receiving signatures.
Mr.. Clementson has been on the
bench for twenty four years and his
record is clean and 'honest. There
will probably be no Opposition to
his reelection.