Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-10

rives this week.
DIR. and Mrs. S. E Hassell t ook.
departure yesterday morning for
New Mexico, where they will spend
some time with their daughter,
Mrs. Brown.
Every resident Of Grant county
who can make it a point to take a
day off should attend the unwilling
ceremonies of the Dewey monument
in Lancaster July 23rd.
We need better roads. The
road grader is good thing In its
place but it does not mend bridges
or culverts, fix mud holes or tile the
springy places IN the roads.
form is growing so rapidly that
you can almost see it grow. Small
grain looks fine and meadows are
improving and potatoes will do well
if the bugs will only let them alone.
The coal men are certainly
strategic They put their prices
down in the spring when few are
ready to purchase and by the time
the average man finds he has got
to invest the prices are back at the
top notch again.
Livingston is being painted up
in all the new tangled ways, a half
of Lancaster painters being engaged
in decorating new buildings and
touching up the old ones over there.
The Grebe brothers, James Hayden
and VIM. Hicks are among those
employed, and they expect to be
busy until Stow flies.
Home strawberries are usually
about gone by the arrival of the
Fourth of July, while this year the
crop is only commencing to ripen-
July almost half gone. However
the season will probably last as long
as usual, so the amount of satisfac-
ton derived from this luscious fruit
will be about the same.
/ Mrs. VIM. Barrows returned
Saturday from Dubuque where she
was with her sister-in-law Mrs.
Lillian Graham of Potosi VINO died
after a long illness with tumor on
the brain at the home of her hus-
bands brother, Mr.. James Graham.
All was done that was possible for
her comfort by her dear ones during
her illness.
The government Is going to
make a systematic investigation of
skunk raising for the purpose of as
pertaining if these animals cannot
be- domesticated and bred for profit
through the sales of their pelts and
oil. At the same time there is
scarcely a probability of a rush of
applications for places on the in
vestigation committee.
Racine liverymen, who have en-
tered into an agreement by which
they will refuse to rent rigs for the
use of funerals on Sunday, doubtless
based their action on business, rath-
er than on moral grounds. The
dead can wait till Monday for atten-
ton, but the picnic excursions and
the young mans drive with his best
girl scheduled for Sunday must be
taken care of on the dot.
Success in farming depends
upon the man and his family rather
than the place. Energy, economy,
perseverance and attention to small
things and determination to sue
coed must prevail in the house and
the barns and in the fields. Of
course the place has something to do
with success and there are but few
places like southwestern Wisconsin.
The Roberts poultry firm ship
ped their annual carload consign-
ment of live chickens to New York
Monday. The firm had represent
atives here for week securing the
country. Price paid was &c for hens
ard &c for roosters, per pound. In
the latter case most of the poor hen
pecked fellows were Jumped off at a
quarter apiece after all they had
accomplished for their country.
What an ignomInious surrender
from an active life. But few spring
chickens were shipped. The day
was busy one for all, nearly 200
patrons bringing in fowls.
The P easant Ridge school was
closed June % by an enjoyable
picnic altho the weather was rather
unfavorable. During the storm we
were Hospitality entertained at the
home of Ed Mclean. The number
of pupils who attained the standing
of 80 or above in all branches was
greatly increased, one being the
number last term and four this
term. The names of those who
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