Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-04-03

yesterday from Madison.
Hugh Livingston and wife were
Livingston visitors Sunday.
Joe Staver, of Livingston visited
Lancaster relatives Sunday.
Otto Behncke sold fine Ayr
old horse to Andrew Lewis Monday
for $175.
-Chas. Edwards and family were
Easter visitors at the Rowden
domicile.
Mrs. Smoker OF Oshkosh was a
guest of Under Sheriff Calls and
wife last week.
Mrs. j. S Chandler of Montfort
visited her daughter, Mrs. F. B.
Calls, last week.
M. NJ. Rice and wife Of Marion
were guests Of their daughter, Mrs.
Chas. Tufiey. over Sunday.
Mrs. A. J. Howell visited rela-
tives at Livingston last week. Mr..
Howell was an over Sunday visitor
there also.
Frank Meyer, Clarence Howe
and Mac McCrady and Misses Emily
Cronin and Beth Lisherness were
home from Beloit for spring Yaca
ton.
Misses Maud Carthew and Marie
Baumgartner were home from
Downer college for a short vacation
to gladden. the home folks the past
week.
A DesMoines man carried on a
conversation with the surgeons
while they amputated one of his
legs. He may have something more
to say while they pull the other one.
In Milwaukee there is an as
ISOLATION of secondhand clothing
dealers who keep a daily record of
the dead and then go around and
beg for the clothing formerly worn
by the dead.
Bicycles have come into general
use again since the roads began to
dry and settle. A few years ago
there were scores of them inI use
here, but now you can count them
on your fingers.
Thirty students from the en-
cheering department of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, enroute to
Niagara Falls, had narrow escape
from death and injury Friday night
when their train ran into an open
switch and collided with a freight
train standing on sidetrack at the
junction yards at West Detroit.
Mr.. Graham. local editor of the
East Dubuque Register, while IN his
Office the other day was approached
by a dear fellow citizen named
Schauers, who was candidate for
alderman. knocked down and kick
ed several times before assistance
came. the editor had seen fit to
strongly oppose Schauer's candid
acy.
A bill for more stringent mai
riage regulations has been introtuc-
ed in the assembly. 1t provides,
first, that marriage licenses instead
of being issued by the county clerk
shall be issued by the county judge
in the county in which the woman
resides, and, If she be not resident
of the state, then by the judge of
the county where the marriage is to
take place. Persons to secure such
license must be of legal age and
neither of them insane, feeble
minded or epileptic or have any
other impeachment to marriage. A
certificate to this effect must also
be presented to the judge signed by
some reputable physician or physi-
clans so situated as to know the
facts. The judge may in his discre.
ton require such additional evil
dence as he shall deem necessary.
Licenses must be taken out FIVE
days before the marriage and shall
remain in force no longer than one
month.
The Burlington railroad has
$4,000 old box cars on the system
about third of which will be put
out of commission. AS fast as those
which are not equipped with air
brakes arrive they will be burned
at the West Burlington shops. The
law requires that after August first
1907 all cars on the railroads shall
be equipped with air brakes. The
Burlington has figured out the cost
of putting the appliances on the old
cars and has arrived at the conclu-
sion that it is cheaper to burn the
old ones and build new. Therefore
on oTdor hos hoan conf ont Uh1oh