Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-28

Mrs. Dennis Bray and children
visited at Galena this week.
Miss Hazel Vandewall has re-
turned home from Platteville.
L. Weber and family visited at
Cuba City few days this week.
Farmers are complaining Of the
damage to corn by grub worms and
| other pests.
The primary law has knocked
half the fun of an election out at
one fell swoop.
Clay Chapman, of Platteville,
! is spending his vacation with friends
in Lancaster.
Mrs. Helen Carter has been in
Platteville this week, a guest Of
Mrs. J. W. Livingston.
While there is not much build
ing in Lancaster this summer there
is a good deal Of repairing and
painting gong on.
Candidates for the several coun-
ty offices ale whetting their APP
petites for something that is to be
pulled off Sept. 4th next.
Bring the news to this office.
We are always glad to have our
subscribers send or bring us items
of news. If each one of our large
list Of readers would give us one
item each week what a grand local
paper we could have. Send in any
thing but politics and we shall be
thankful.
Thoughts at sea; by a Lancas-
ter traveller: The first day called
up the gravest fears that made me
nervous hearted; the next day
called up memories of friends from
whom I'd parted; the third day
called up thoughts Of land where
one is safely carted; the fourth day
called up everything I'd eaten since
started.
If every business man in our city
could do business on a strictly cash
system it would be blessing to us
all. If we all had to pay cash we
would learn to live within our
means. 1t would save business
men the expense Of bookkeepers
and the loss of bad debts all of
which someone has to pay for. If
our town could gradually work in
to strictly cash system it would
be better for us ali.
Asked to define the word
gentleman" a wise old guy re-
piled as follows: IA man who is
clean both outside and inside; who
neither looks up to the rich or
down to the poor; who can lose
without squealing and win without
Dragging; who is cOnsiderate of
women, children and old people;
who is too brave to lie, too generous
to cheat and who takes his share of
the world and let's other people
have theirs"
"A young man asked a Hur-
ricane farmer for his daughter in
marriage. The answer was: go
into the orchard and bring in a.
parcel of apples. Give me one-half
of the whole number and to the
mother One-half of the balance and
have one apple over, and to the
daughter one half of the remainder
and half an apple over, and have
one left yourself without cutting
an apple. Then if she is willing
you can have her." He solved the
problem. How many apples did he
bring?
"A postmaster in nearby town
has posted the following notice in
his office: mo letters will be de-
livered until received. If you don't
get letter or paper on the day
you expect it, have the postmaster
look through all the boxes and in
the cellar also. 1t ought to be there
somewhere, and he looks for it Just
to please you. If your friends don't
write, curse the postmaster. He is
to blame. If he tells you there is
no mail for you, put on a grieved
expression and say, there ought to
be some.' He is probably hiding
your mail for the pleasure Of having
you call for 1t two or three times a
day. Ask him to look again.
A new law which was passed
during the recent session of con
gress grants all rural mail carriers a
vacation of two weeks in each wear.
during which time their full paw
shall continue. This effects the
local carriers as it does all rural
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