Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12


Milwaukee Sunday.
Miss Abbie Phelps is visiting
relatives at Boscobel.
Smoked spare ribs is q new
thing in the meat line.
Tickets on sale today for the
recital tomorrow evening.
Keep that fair book adv. in
mind. It's paying proposition.
June frosts did not kill off the
usual crop Of sweet girl graduates.
-Chas. Metcalf of Glen Haven
took yesterday mornings train here
bound for Madison.
Ned Ivey and Miss Frances
Andrew spent Sunday at the Miss
issippi river near PotosI.
Frank Thanhouser and family
of Milwaukee were guests of his
parents here first of the week.
Ted Lowry took his departure
yesterday for West Point, where he
enters the military academy IS
cadet.
If there is to be 4th of July
celebration in Lancaster this year,
it is high time something was "do-
ing"
The rainy weather of late has
been a "dampener" on all kinds of
outside mechanical work-a thing
to be regretted.
Mrs. Annie Laird James, who
gives the recital at the opera house
tomorrow evening, arrived from
Baraboo last evening.
Summer resorts are hopefully
removing their winter blankets long
enough to peep out and catch a
Whit of the cool morning ozone.
David Slothower of Warren,
ILL.,, was a guest of his son, Prin.
G, E. Slothower, during commence
ment week, returning home Mon
day.
And while the legislature is
finishing up it's work it might do
something to help along the OBJ
servance of a safe and sane Fourth
of July.
By and by, and not long hence,
our Uncle Sans weather bureau"
will have to come down to the fact
that it is not in IT. with Hicks the
astronomer.
If this weather should calm
down now and be decent for the
rest of the summer those croakers
would feel that they were being dis
eliminated against.
Tickets on sale today for the
recital to be given tomorrow even
ing at the opera house; adults 35c;
children %; no extra charge to have
your seats reserved.
Henry Henkel is attending
meeting Of Knights of the Macca-
bees in session at La Crosse this
week, as a representative of the
local lodge Of this order.
james Bailie of South Lancaster
is raising his residence and making
other substantial improvements on
his house. Fred Bracket has the
contract for the carpenter work.
Crying ''save me for my poor
baby" Mrs. Edna Hummelhagen
fell dead in front of a Freeport
grocery store Saturday morning
last, shot by Herbert E. Springer
Of Rockford. The murderer was
possessed Of q Economical rage on
seeing his victim, whom be had
mistaken for a girl who had Tilted
him in Rockford a short time before.
He followed two blocks firing three
shots, the last bullet entering the
heart.
A problem that is bOthering
some of the farmers just now is the
question of whether they can make
more money out of a full crop at
ordinary prices, or two-thirds or
half crop at prices which are pro-
porti0nately increased. It is really
an old, old question, that has racked
the brains of many men in the past,
but the prospect of grain shortage
this season has again brought it to
the front.
1t is little use for the local
editor to waste his lungs, and sprain
his spine, in trying to boom town
when the appathetic citizens all
stand around with their hands in
their pockets and indifferently wait
for something to turn up. If the
capitalists or business men do not