Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-09
Local JOttingS.

that or mother, Is the greatest
ever uttered by human tongue.
What refuge the home is when
the darkness gathers! How glad
one is to get a glimpse of home
when time and space have separated
him from it If even but for a brief
period There seems to be good
natured rivalry here in an effort to
make ''our home" look a little neat
e. and thus be the more inviting to
the occupants than all others. Such
rivalry is certainly pardonable.
One dlstillery company III Ken
tucKy turns out every seven days
]. 2OS barrels Of sweet mash whiskey.
The output for a year would be g.
400 barrels. The cost of all this to
the manufacturer may be fairly
estimated 1T 1914, 600 and they re-
ceive from the wholesalers a profit
oz from 81 to 50 per barrel. The
government come in for nice little
rake off, but the fellow who has
10 pay it all, including Stransporta-
ton charges, government and local
license fees, salary of barkeeper,
and rent of building is the man be-
fore the bar. and for 400 barrels
OF Dooze he lets go Of S24,761, 678
and then goes home and beats his
wife because supper isn't ready.
"A Young man went to preacher
Go get married, and the preacher
asked How old are you, John?"
He replied, Il am half as old as
nv father. He is two years older
than my mother. Ny eldest sister
i two years older than my young
est sister. My youngest sister is
four years older than N.Y. youngest
brother How old are they al
together?" asked espreacher. The
yourg man replied that the five
children are seventeen years older
than his father and mother. How
old is John and each of the children
and his father and mother? Elk
change. Well, if the Young man
isn't married until the preacher
gets his age Fl gure1 out, M3thuselah
would be a Kid compared to him.
We presume that some people
think neWspapermen are persistent
DINNERS. Let a farmer place him
self in 4 similar position and see it
ne would not do the same. suppose
that he raises a thousand bushels
Of cora and his neighbor should
come ID aud buy, and his price was
one dollar OF less, and saws. II viii
pay the amount in a lev days" As
the farmer does not want to be
small about the matter he says,
All right" Another comes the
same way, and another. until the
Whole thousand bushels of corn are
trusted to a thousand different p9o-
pie and no one OF the different per-
sons concerns himself about it, for
It is a small amount they owe the
farmer and Of course that will not
help him any. He does not realize
that the farmer has frittered away
his entire crop Of corn, and that its
value is due in a thousand little
driblets, and that he is seriously
embo raised in his business, because
his debtors treat it as a little mat
ter But if all would pay him
promptly, which they could as well
as not, 1t would be a large sum to
the farmer and enable him to carry
on his business without difficulty.
Chairman w. J. Brennan went
70 Madison first of the week to use
his influence with the committee on
state affairs of the assembly against
the passage of the bill introduced
bv Mr.. ROethe authorizing the
purchase and future maintenance of
two bridges across the Wisconsin
river, one at Blue River and one at
Muscoda. The bill if passed will
entail great expense to the county
and only the small localities in
Grant and Richland counties deriv-
lux anu DCAClltS lIOul lI6O GOll
bridge would derive any benefits.
Muscoda people wish to have the
bill passed because it is owned by
private individuals who tax extor-
tomato toll and these individuals
are now DESTROYS of disposlng of the
bridge as it does not bring in the
revenue it rised TO before the bridge
at Blue River was built. Thelatter
would never have been construed
had it not been for the hearty toll
charged at Muscoda. Boscobel owns
a similar bridge and it turns in
revenue to the city-at a rate of 10
cents for teams. The citizens of
that city are not DESTROYS of the
county PURCHASING theirs. Several
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