Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-27
Local JOttinSS.


james Scullon had business in
Boscobel yesterday.
Geo. BROKER intends TO depart
foz Lincoln, Neb., this week.
Geo. Garner was here from
Boscobel this week on business.
The Herald is better prepared
than ever this spring to print horse
bills.
Ted Lowry is home from his
school at Anderson's mill for va
cation.
Fred Schneider was here from
Wonewoc for brief visit the
past week.
Mrs. J. 7. Bennett and daugh-
te- Genevieve were Madison visitors
over Sunday.
Tom Finnegan was called here
Saturday by the dangerous illness
OF his father.
-Messrs. John Day and Nick
Adams were at Fennimore on bust
ness Yesterday.
Jacob Hartman, Sr. of Platte
vile transacted business at the
county seat Monday.
p. Finnegan, an Old-time resi-
dent of the city, is seriously i'll at
MS home in the first ward.
Herman Bast, residing in the
fourth ward, is seriously i'll with
but small hopes of recovery.
The jurymen while off duty
Yesterday went out and inspected
the asylum and county home.
DIR. Rafferty, will be located in
his commodious new dental parlors
over Barnett's jewelry store this
week.
There will be a supper at Grant
Hampten's Friday evening for bene-
fit Of the church. All cordially in
yited.
The Baptist church will hold
basket social at P. l. Stoffels', two
and one-half miles northeast of this
city next Thursday evening.
Garden seed displays and small
boys playing marbles are two in
evitable signs of an early spring,
despite Hicks and the grounding.
The Missionary society OF the
Congregational church will meet
Friday afternoon at o'clock with
Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Everybody
invited.
The True Blue Club" will give
al entertainment at the Gray's
Mil school house on Friday even
ing. March 1st. Candy sale after
program. Admission Is cents. Pro
ceeds to be applied on organ.
Railroad business continues to
grow and the Madison division of
the Northwestern is one of the busy |
lines. Last Sunday 27OO cars were
handled on the Madison division |
and the daily average is about 1900. |
An able writer in a western
journal suggests that the shortage
Of freight cars on most railway sys-
TENS may be caused by the many
instances of two trains trying to
pass on the same track. This theory
ought to stand until better one
is suggested.
If you want to ruin your boy
Just take his side on every question
and dispute he has with his teacher
or your neighbors' children. Just
let him know you are with him,
right or wrong, in all his disputes.
This will give him a good start in
the downward path.
We acknowledge with thanks
an invitation from the Platteville
Commercial club to attend the
formal opening of the new club
rooms recently furnished and
equipped. The event comes off
Friday evening. The rooms are To-
Gated in the Empire block.
Many Lancaster residents have
been seeing robins, woodpeckers
and 'Peeping Jacks, but signs of
spring at this time are always some
what mythical Even the small
BOY can no longer be depended on as
sure Indicator, as he is getting
into the habit Of playing marbles
both in and out Of season.
will Hazard, born and reared
at Bloomington, who had been a
travelling representative of the
Strauss Bros. company of Chicago
for a long term of years, died at his
home in Eau Claire Monday morn
ing after a brief illness. Deceased
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