Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-03-16
T. NJ. YOUNG
Local JOttingS.

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Another com bination sale Sat,
March %.
VIM. Starke, Jr. was here from
3aetOwn Thursday.
Patch Grove votes on the Ii
eoense question April End.
Chas. Harp is again in his old
place as clerk at the Philips house.
A band has been organized at
Patch Grove with membership of
-25.
Mrs. John bradley is seriously
i'll at her home in the southern part
OF the city.
Joe McBrien was home first of
the week from Minneapolis for a
few days visit.
City Clerk Stone gives official
notice of the coming city election
in the Herald today.
The Montfort high school held
a declamatory contest last evening.
There were nine contestants.
The professional man who buys
OF DIN order house and merchant
who has his printing done out of
town belong to the same lodge
: anne degree.
We notice in our exchanges a
number of towns are having heavy
penalties to pay on account OF dam
ages sustained by dilapidated side
walks. A broken board in the walk
cost one town $4,000. A word to
the wise is sufficient.
a leading citizen in a neighbOr-
ing town said to us DO you know
that your paper las jast revolu
tionized your town?" People are
now going there to trade who two
years ago did not know there was
such town. 1t is the best paper
IN the stated and the business
men cannot too highly appreciate
it,
-Piatteville's uptown depot for
the G. NJ. e. st. Paul road, has been
relegared to the far distant future.
The reason assigned is the curtail-
ing of expenses owing to the reduc-
ton of passenger rates to 21c
mile. Parties who had given OPP
items for the proposed depot grounds
and yards, will retain the money
paid and keep their homes.
The John Ellsworth farm of
900 acres, in the town of Mifiin, on
which the celebrated Coker mines
are located, were sold last week by
Ernest N. Warner and T.. f. Cronk,
OF Madison, the present owners, to
the Mineral Point Zinc Co. for
1920, 900, Cronk and Warner max
ing a profit of $50, 900 over the sum
they paid for it four years ago. The
Coker is a money making mine.
The first mill on any zine property
IN Wisconsin was erected on it in
1904.
A schoolmaster once said to his
pupils to the boy who would make
the best piece of composition IN five
minutes on 'tHow to overcome
Habit" he would give a prize.
When the five minutes had expired
a lad of nine years stood up and
said: "Well, sir, habit is hard to
overcome. If you take of the first
letter it does not change 'abit.' If
you take off another letter you still
have a bit left If you take Oft
still another, the whole of 1T re-
mains. If you take off another it is
not totally used up, all of which
goes to show that if you want to
get rid of habit you must throw it
of altogether" Result-He won it.
That our town is a live town in
easy Of demonstration. More bust
ness is done here now at this time
of the year than has been done for
several years. We are not DESTROYS
of having the public think we are
suffering from boom. We are en-
joying an increase of business and
prosperity. Our streets are crowed
early and late, people and teams are
bringing in produce and money TO
exchange for goods, and our mer-
chants are paying the very highest
market prices for produce and are
selling goods at live and let live"
prices and the people are not slow
to take advantage of this opportuni-
ty and get the bargains as adver-
tised by our merchants.