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

Lancaster merchants will start
invoicing next week.
Mrs. Dawald Garner Is visiting
relatives at Boscobel.
Fred Miles and family of Fen
nimore were Lancaster visitors this
week.
Miss Beth Lisherness, a student
at Beloit college. is home for the
holidays.
Atty. J. J. Blaine of Boscobel
had business at the county seat
Thursday.
AID. W. j. Bailie and wife spent
Christmas with his aged mother at
Platteville.
1t is rumored that there are
several cases of diphtherla prevail
ent in Mineral Point.
Mrs. Frank Schreiner enter
tanned her father, John Woodward
of Platteville, the past week.
Misses Mae and Marguerite
Joeckel visited at J. w. Watson's
at Livingston portion of the past
week.
GAINESVILLE Masons Dedicated
their beautiful new temple Thurs
day evening with appropriate cere-
monies.
Iowa county paid $714 in
bounties on wild animals this year.
Quite a sum for a small county
thickly settled.
j. C. Parker, a we'll known
resident of Patch Grove, had the
misfortune to break leg in an ac-
cident first of the week.
Judge Clementson's term of Of
flee will commence on the first
Monday in January same as the
state and county officers.
Miss Anime Belscamper of
Lawrence University at Appleton
is a welcome guest at the home of
her parents near Lancaster.
Madison Modern Woodmen in
itiated , class of $50 new members
all In one lump with great pomp
Thursday evening of last week.
u Messrs. Thos. Green. Glen
Hymer, Carl Doolittle and Fay
Baldwin, all students in the Milwau-
kee Medical college, are home for a
holiday vacation.
Among the State University
students home for the holidays in
addition to those already mentioned
are Miss Ethel Carter, Fred Duncalf
and Alfred Bushnell.
Every member of the Platte
vile fire department received a fine
turkey for Christmas, the proceeds
for the purchase of the birds berg
voted from the treasury of the de-
partment.
A complete chronological re-
view of important events that
transpired during each month of
the past year is published in full In
this paper today. 1t is we'll worthy
of perusal.
Rev. VIM. Edwards of Storm
Lake, Iowa. will preach at the
Baptist church on Sunday evening.
Mr.. Edwards was formerly pastor
ON the Mt. Zion and Graham school
house circuit of the Primitive Meth
odist church, SO he is we'll known
through this section. His many
friends will be glad to hear him
again.
The Cheese Makers Association
will hold it's annual convention at
Milwaukee on the 9th, 10 and IL of
January. In connection with the
convention there will be an I'M
portant exhibit of the various kinds
of cheese made in Wisconsin.
Cheese of any kind, any type, style,
or form may he entered. Special
rates will be granted for this con-
vent1On.
The rural mailcarriers through
out the country will feel very CRATE
full toward the fourth assistant post
master general for recommending
an increase in salary for them. rhe
recommendation is for a maximum
salary of 5000 per annum. At
present the rural carriers are not
receiving salary in keep with the
cost of living, the maximum being
1920 a year.
-YAs>force of patent examiners
in the patent Office is composed of
technically educated men. AS soon
as they become versed in patent