Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-20
Local JOttin9S.

DO not neglect that fair book
adv.
Miss Wessie Dudley visited reIa-
tives at Platteville and Cuba City
this week.
Mrs. Chas. Muffiey and daugh-
ter Of Boscobel are guests of rela-
tives and friends III Lancaster.
Members of the Lancaster ".
r. G. enjoyed a picnic on the ROths
child lawn Thursday afternoon.
Geo. a. Moore's next shipping
DAY for veal calves, lambs, sheep,
cattle and hogs. etc, will be on
Wednesday, July "a.
-Fennimore has its big days
again this year. The dates are Aug,
1916, and an interesting program
is already being prepared.
The goth anniversary Of the
opening OF the Iowa county insane
asylum was celebrated last Friday
with appropriate ceremonies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur w. Kick
man and little daughter of Madison
are visiting over Sunday at the
home of Warren Hannum, ST.
Mr.. Arthur W. Hickman one of
MadisOn's leading baritones, will
sing a sacred solo at the Congrega-
tional church Sunday morning.
Sam Levin of the Boston store
liked his page adv. in the Herald So
well Wednesday that he repeats it
today. Bargains are quoted in every
instance. The big sale starts today.
From 1902 to date Is, AS rattle
snakes have been killed in Crawford
county, on which bounties to the
amount of $7,787 so have been paid.
The rattlesnake business seems to
be looking up.
The circle at the top will con
tinue to be a designation on the
Wisconsin official election ballot A
hard struggle was made in the as.
sembly to remove the character,
but without avail.
New potatoes are in the market
and home grown at that. Some are
rather small, but we can do as it is
said they do in Kansas, where, in
the language of the song. ''they eat
them SKINS and ALL"
The Political Equality Club will
hold its next meeting with Mrs. j.
J. Mckenzie, on Monday, July %,
at $3.50 O'Clock. The subject will be,
Conditions in Australia and New
Zealand under Woman Suffrage"
Now is the time to make hay
while the sun shines. Agricultural1st
say that the green bug has not ap
peared in Wisconsin and the farm
ers say it has. Anyway the oat
crop is not as good as it might have
been expected.
One of the results of the work
of the legislature just adjourned is
a total of $50 new bills to go upon
the statute books. They will be
published as a supplement to this
paper for benefit of Herald readers
in few days.
Venerable Luther Basford,
whose age is now 90, has a watch
ne purchased when 16 years of age
and still carries it. 1t is of the old
fashioned key wind pattern, but
still ticks away the correct time as
good as the modern watches.
-Thirty-five years ago the con-
sumption of Portland cement was
5000 barrels per year, and now it
has reached 100000. 1t is said
that last years output would be
sufficient to construct a sidewalk
fifteen feet wide encircling the
globe.
1t is said Boscobel has just lad
an experience with what was de-
signated as white elephant"
party. Each lady was invited to
bring something for which she had
no earthly use and yet was too good
to throw away. The club was
broken up after the first meeting.
a. eleven of the ladies brought their
husbands.
Geo. Rudersdorf went goose
berrying the other day out on the
Hatch farm and stepped on a real.
live RATHER. The snake gave shrill
whistle, Geo. &c dropped pail, berries
and all. He jumped into his buggy
and hurried home, and reports are
to the effect that his teeth were
still chattering when he arrived.
He swears he will buy his berries in
the future.
As result of the new federal
v1r1rso food Il eo,~,, e 49,