Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-03-16

anybody notice the increase IN
travel2 What we need more than
reduction in rates is better connec-
tions and better service on the rail
roads.
Tax payers of Crawford county
have brought suit against ex-County
Clerk Allen, at Prairie du Chen, to
recover ror the county fees to the
amount of $1,000, alleged to have
been collected by said clerk, during
his four years in Office, ending IN
January last.
A gentleman at one Of our
boarding houses after having beans
showed at him each meal for two
straight weeks, asked the waiter to
please read the eighth verse OF the
thirteenth chapter of Hebrews. We
imagine this will make some OF our
readers get the dust off their bibles.
The postoffice officials are quoted
as saying that torn stamps cannot
be used, yet thousands of people.
and even postmasters are in the
habit, when a stamp has been ac-
cidentally torn, to paste it together
and put it on an envelope. This is
one of the petty, stupid and needless
regulations from the department at
Washington.
If you know or hear of an in
teresting item in the community.
make it a point to see that it finds
place in your local paper. Any
thing which tends to better or
brighten the news service of pa
per makes it of so much more value
to the community, and the sub
scrlbers are the ones mostly bene-
fitted thereby.
Did you ever stop to reflect that
it was one thing to talk about peo-
pie and another thing to have peo-
pie talk about you9 If those or us
who use our tongues a little too
freely, about our >neighbors, would
stop and reflect about this matter
and how the great evil that comes
from too much gossip and tattllng,
we are sure we would call a halt
and gossip no more forever.
The national president of the
order of the ladies of the G. A. R.,
has invited the Dept. President of
Wis. to give the floor work Of the
order at Oshkosh in June. Mrs
Showalter chose the Lancaster
circle to exemplify the work, and
the delegates are giving a series of
entertainments TO assist pay ing
travelling expenses to convention.
This last Thursday they gave very
enjoyable and well attended koffee
klautsch as a start toward expenses.
Yesterday we were asked if we
ever saw a baldheaded woman. We
answered NO" we never did, nor
did we ever see a woman waltzing
around town in her shirt sleeves
with cigar in her teeth, and run
ming into every saloon she saw.
We have never seen a woman go
fishing with a bottle in her pocket,
sit on the damp ground all day and
come home drunk at night. Nor
have we even seen woman yank
off her coat and say she could lick
any man in town. God bless her,
she's not built that way.
If there is one thing in which
churches, as rule, need TO be more
careful, it is the matter of preach
ers' salaries. With an indifference
and an insensibIlity which we can
not understand many churches
seem to think that a contract be-
tween themselves and the minister
is no contract at all. They promise
him definite salary then pay him
whatever is convenient. The gas
man, the coal man and even the
sexton must be paid, but the debt
owing the minister is looked upon
as altogether righteous and proper.
A subscriber once received a
dun through the postofice, and 1t
made him mad. He went to see
the editor about it, and the editor
showed him few duns of his own
one for paper, one for type, one
for fuel and several others. Now"
said the editor, II didn't get mad
when these came because I knew
that all ! had to do was to ask
several reliable gentlemen like you
to come and help me out, and then
could settle all of them" When
the subscriber saw how it was he
relented, paid up, and renewed for
another year.
"A Madison dispatch Of Saturday