Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-03
Local JOttingS.

D5CGu use u q lass.
Miss Barbara Caspers is visit
ing friends at Hurricane.
Hot weather Is needed for the
corn crop from this time.
-Postoffice Inspector Walker was
here from BoscobeI Monday.
Andrew Zenz has his fine pew
house well under way west of town.
Deputy Sheriff Elwell had Of
fetal business at Livingston Mon
day.
A goodly number of the Lam
caster fire crackers have already
been tested.
Several from Lancaster took in
Barnum & Bailey's circus at Madi-
son yesterday.
Mrs. Pitt Cox returned home
Monday evening from visit with
relatives at Oregon, Wis.
A Kansas City paper says there
is town in Cass county, Missouri,
called Peculiar. Isn't that strange?
A Kansas editor kicks because
50 many people drop in to pay their
respects and so few to pay their sub
scriptiOns.
The next four week of weather
will decide the kind of corn crop
which we will have this year. Keep
the weeders and cultivators busy.
Always wash your hands after
handling money" counse's a health
authority. Yes-and if the stain
still seems to linger, hand some of it
back
An Iowa editor sold his cow to
obtain funds to take IN the James
town show He kept the calf and
is now advertising If for sale SO that
his wife may see the exposition.
An Oregon editor killed a
perfect stranger by mistake for
man against whom he had grudge,
but as is the custom with editors,
made a handsome apology in the
next issue.
June is the greatest growing
month Of the year. All things seem
to be in competition to determine
which IS to have the greatest
growth. Grass, grain, trees and all
the vegetables are making a rapid
growth.
The free puff season is on and
the fair and chautauqua and carni
val grafters are beginning to soft
soap the country editor and Of
course the usual number Will be
found ready to give nine dollars
worth of advertising for ninety
cent ticket.
L D Eastman is erecting
grand stand along the first base line
which will provide seats for g large
crowd at the games this season. Mr..
Eastman will charge the small price
of FIVE cents a seat. The stand
should be filled Thursday without
fail.
After being oppressed by greed,
graft, and deception for 10, these
many days, the homegrown straw
berry comes to restore confidence in
the world of mankind. This de-
licious harbinger of June can be
ikened to the country lass who
deity let it fall from her finger tips
to the raised bottom Of the deceptive
box. It's figure is all its own and its
scarlet tints are natures color1ngs.
The Herald force is indebted TO An
ton Schmitt's nursery for a fine box
of this delicious fruit.
Just &C the opening of the rattle
snake season in Crawford and other
river counties, a disturbing piece of
information IS being widely circulat-
ed by the newspapers. A new cure
for snake bite has been discovered,
and there is not hint of any of the
old ingredients in the new prescrip-
ton. The victim of the bite is made
to lie down, and a drachm or two of
gunpOwder is sprinkled on the
wound and then a lighted match is
touched to the powder. We don't like
it. They can 90 to-Arizona with
their new tangled cure. Until the
new cure is made compulsory by the
state board of medical examiners
we shall stick by the old remedy.
The cost of about everything
used by the people of this country
is up to the very top notch at the
present time, and still the tendency
is TO push prices higher Authorities
all agree that the cost of living is
higher than it has been for a good
many years, and the man who has
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