Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-31

The subject was Resolved: That
the city of Chicago should own and
operate all street railway lines, it
being conceded that such change
can be constitutionally made"
Whitewater had the negative and
was represented by Earl Robe,
Rachel Smith and Mr.. Powell.
Kinsley Livingston, Samuel Wilson,
and Will Beeds represented the
Platteville Normal school.
Not until one leaves home does
he really appreciate the value of
the home paper. That distance
lends enchantment is clearly prov
en- in this case. When a man
pulls up stakes and shakes the dust
of his old home from his shoes to
seek pastures new, he has ham
kering to know what is going on in
the old home. 1t is then he ap-
preciates the little old country
paper that had always made week
~
has heretofore looked upon as a
mere circumstance in the whirl-
pool of life. It's weekly visits to
him are like a spring shower upon
parched fields. They leave the
mind refreshed by telling of the
movements and actions of those
who were at one time his nelghbors.
Truly the home paper is not ap-
preciated until we go where it is
hard to get. The home paper is al
ways a welcome visitor when the
reader is away. He reads all the
advertisements, even the patent
medicine, and never lays the sheet
down until he has entirely absorbed
the contents. There are ties con-
Meeting us with the old home paper
which the hand of time can never
entirely sever.
Royal neigh bors will hold in
stallation all by themselves Friday
eve and it goes without say1n that
there's a good time in store. Mrs.
Eva Childs of Hanover, who organ
lied the camp here, will be install
ling officer. Mis-. Childs is one of
the supreme board of managers.
Eggs are still on the slump and
the biddies are evidently working
over time. Local merchants are
paying but Is cents dozen for fresh
eggs and Louis Alt informs us that
all the packed eggs one may wish to
purchase can be secured in Chicago
at 9 cents. The packers got it put
to 'em again this spring on account
of the open winter. A slight ad-
vance may be made N hen fruit
when the lenten season opens.
Contrary to general belief the
mornings are not lighter than for
several weeks past, the almanac
showing that the sun is now rising
but one minute earlier than it did
week or two ago. The belief is
that the day begins to lengthen at
both ends after December 81, the
shortest day, but this is not true and
it will be some days before morning
makes it's appearance earlier. The
days have been lengthening since
December 10, but up to December
81 it was shortened at the morning
end. The sun now sets a minute
later each evening and Feb. 1 will
set 35 minutes later than it did Jan.
1.
The year 1906 will record five
ecllpses-three of the sun and two
of the moon. The first will be a
total eclipse of the moon visible
throughout North America. The
shadow will reach the moon at 1854
o'clock in the evening of Feb. s, and
will come out into the clear again at
4:40 o'clock next morning. Feb. %
there will be a partial eclipse Of the
sun, visible only near the south pole.
July p another partial eclipse Of the
sun will take place, which likewise
will not be visible in this country.
The second total eclipse Of the moon
will occur Aug. 4. It will be visible
only IN the western part of the U. S.
just before sunrise; and in the same
month, on the 10Th, the moon will
again be partly eclipsed by the suns
shadow, but the phenomena will be
seen only by the inhabitants for no
thern Greenland and around the
north pole.
Articles of Incorporation of the
FennImore Lumber company were
filed with the secretary of state
Thursday. with the following list of
incorporators: A. B. Bailey, j. B.
Bradbury, j. B. and c. w. Mauer,
Theo. Wehrle and Henry Roth.