Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-14

coal, range, gasoline range, heating
stoves ETC., garded plow. and i'm
plements, lawn mower etc: Must
be sold at once! Pd
If some of the young strips of
girls were as persistent in pushing
up their sleeves and help mother"
in the kitchen as. they are IN push
ing up their sleeves and strHtting
the streets, polishing nail heads in
the sidewalks. those eareworn
wrinkles on dear old mothers face
wouldn't be so deep. Try it girls,
and see.
Miss Sophia Hurd OF Madison
who had a slight stroke of paralysis
was advised to give up hOusekeep-
ing and board. After preliminarles
were settled she decided to cross the
lake and enter the Sanitarium for a
short time while her sister take S
her boarding place in the city the
interim.
-'sLet me kiss those tears away
he begged, tenderly. She fell for
it, and he was busy for the next
fifteen minutes. And yet the tears
flowed on. "Can nothing stop
theme" he asked breathlessly sad.
Nope" she murmured. Its hay
fever, you know. But go on with
the treatment.
Did you ever notice how much
more valuable a dead hog is than a
live one, especially when it dies on
the hands of an express compaLy9
We have in mind an instance this
year where quite a good Poland
China hog died while en- route to
fair and the owner forthwith
claimed it's value to be S., 900.
i "A. w. Moore, for many years
resident of Platteville suffered
another paralytic stroke at the Big
Badger Fair grounds last Friday
afternoon. The stroke proved fatal,
Mr.. Moore passing away early Mon
day morning. He was probably
one of the best known hotel men
in the state, having the faculty OF
making himself agreeable and &C
commodating to the travelling fra
ternity.
Frank Brown. son of James A.
Brown, formerly of Beetown; was
renewing old acquantances at Ian
caster on Thursday and with hif
: wife and two children was the
guest of his cousin Mrs. III. A. Reed
and his early-day chum Park
Dudley. After an absence OF thirty
wears ne visited Beetown the home
of his nativity-from there ne went
TO La Crosse to visit the sons OF
Vim. W. Forkes. Mr.. Brown is a
, hardware dealer at Longfored,
Kansas.
1t cuts out an immense amount
of work during the fall months il
you are fixed so that you can turn
your growing pigs into small field
of corn. I have always adopted the
practice of sowing a little rape and
some cow peas in a field Of eight OF
ten acres, and about the first OF
September turn the whole bunch
, in. This practically does away with
the chore of feeding for the next
three months. A legume like COW
peas tends to balance the ration
and I'have never yet seen a hog
hurt on new corn when this is done.
= Wisconsin Farmer.
Two pearls, each weighing
alike, the same odd shape, size and
color, picked up on the same day
within a couple of miles of each
other is peculiar coincident which
happened in Prairie du Chen last
week. This, together with the fact
that the pair of gems is valued at
81, 900, makes it all the more rare.
Each weighs twentY-eight grains,
saucer shape and half an inch in
diameter, white in color and excel
lent In quality. One was found by
a woman who was claiming for
pleasure.
-Platteville has spring chicken
that is quite interesting for it's
motherly instincts. An old hen
raised two or three chickens in
May. Only one lived, and followed
the mother around. A few weeks
ago the old hen raised new brood.
all the while mothering the lone
chick. Last week the old mother
died and the May pullet Immediate
ly took charge of the brood and has
assumed mothering them. She
clucks to them and calls to them
when food is given them and nestles
them under her wings at night Just
as their mother did for them.