Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-29
Local JOttineS.

were going 10 turn over?
karl LANCE and family visited
at Platteville yester day.
Peter Blum of Glen Haven was
in Lancaster Thursday.
j ohn Rading of Cassville was
county seat visitor Thursday.
-Potosi has box car depot to
use until new one is erected.
Lewis Groom and son were
here from Cassville Thursday.
"A happy and prosperous year
TO all is the wish of the Herald.
Miss Pearl Mcdonald is home
from Duluth for holiday vacation.
Jos. Blessing and wife of Fen
nimore were county seat visitors
Thursday.
Misses Maude Carthew and
Marie Baumgartner, students at
Oowner college, Milwaukee, are
home for the holidays.
Marvin Simpson of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, is spending a
few days in Lancaster visiting
friends and former schooi-mates.
The Potosi M. W. A. lodge,
noted for hospitality and royal en-
tertaInment, gives It's annual ball
next Monday evening at the village
hall there.
&C. T. Langridge. of Velva.
North Dakota. came Saturday to
spend the holidays in Lancaster.
He is a guest at the home of his
sister, Mrs. o. P. Walker.
Fred Fischer of Bloomington, a
we'll known life insurance agent,
viii enter the employ OF the Yeo-
men lodge, a popular fraternal
order, the first Of the year.
Gordon Smith expects to go to
st. Louis within a day or SO. He
expects to remain there some time.
On the way south he Will stop off
at Quincy and visit friends.
This is the season of the year
when almost every one tries to get
even with the world pays what he
owes. We trust you won't forget
the printer man, even if the account
is 50 small.
The directors of the Farmers
Telephone Company met in Lancas-
ter Wednesday to settle their &C
counts with the company, prepare
tory to the general meeting to De
held in few days.
The Woman's Club will meet
with Mrs. Selma Knoble on Mon
day, December 31st, at 2:3O p. m.
A special New Years programme
has been prepared. R0ll-call re-
sponses. Current events.
Word was received from St.
Johnsbury, VT, that Rev. Z ID.
Eaton has resigned as pastor OF the
First Congregational church in that
city and indications are now that he
will soon return to BelOit and again
become president of Beloit college.
Anyone wishing the Chicago
Inter Ocean, Chicago Tribune or
Chronicle at greatly reduced prices.
as we announced several weeks
ago. should get their order in as
early as possible as this offer may
be withdrawn within the next two
weeks.
The Ladies Aid of the Congrega-
tional church elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Miss Linda Moore; LIST vice
president, Mrs. Theo. Calvin; I'd
vice president, Mrs. VIM. Starr;
Secretary, Mrs. Lou Fisher; treas
urer, Mrs. E. L. Mccoy.
The bureau OF Labor and In
dustrial Statistics has demanded a
list of all children of school age
who are not attending school, ana
it is obligatory on the teachers to
furnish this information. AS soon
as the lists are received steps will
be taken to enforce the compulsory
education law. This hint should be
sufficient.
Post cards can be made at home
after March LIST, 1907, when q
recent order of the postal depart
ment, removing nearly every
restriction now placed upon the
issuance of post cards will go into
to effect. 1t will also be permissible
to paste photographs, newspaper
clippings and other imprints on
thin paper upon the cards. The
left half of the address side of the
cord will ha availah la for messages