Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-03-13
Local JOttingS.

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DIR. Carter was here from Liv-
ingstOn Sunday.
Miss nellie Dickinson was Liv-
ingston visitor Sunday.
-Ex-Cle1k of Court Hastings was
here from Platteville Saturday.
Atty. and Mrs. J. B. Kerr of st.
Paul were Lancaster visitors over
Sunday.
-Messers. Ed Wilmott and J. P.
Pluemer were here from Potosl on
business yesterday.
The Dodgevllle Sun-Republic is
now issued in an enlarged form and
is better than ever.
Mrs. A. Il. Barber returned
home to Waukesha Monday after a
pleasant visit with Lancaster rela-
tIYes.
Oscar Belscamper is preparing
10 erect a residence next to VIM.
Barrows' property in the second
ward.
Nearly all the snow storms
chung to the trees last winter; so,
if the old observer is to be believed,
fruit will be a good crop this sea-
son.
Did you ever catch a grasshopp
er. hold it In your hand and have it
tickle your palm? Well, a silver
dollar tickles the editors palm the
same way. Try the subscription
paying racket on him for a joke.
Miss Linda Bennett, who has
been a guest of her grandmother
Mrs. Platt and other relatives and
friends for several weeks, took de-
parture Friday for her home at
Osceola, where she will again take
up her duties in a millinery es-
tablishment in that city.
Atty. Geo. B. Clementson was
called to Chicago Monday morning
Dy the condition of his brother, the
doctor, who is suffering from a
severe trouble with his eyes. Mrs.
CIementsOn was summoned to
Dalafield the same day by the ill
ness of her brother, who is a stud
ent at st. Johns military academy
there.
The HeIa aid believes the women
of this place could easily win the
state beauty contest started by a |
Milwaukee paper, were it not for
the tact they are so naturally |
modest they cannot be induced to
have their pictures published.
Nevertheless the Herald is willing
to stand sponsor for the claim that
when it comes to beautiful women
i've have the best there is, and Of
all shades and cOlOrs." A regular
RAINBOW aggregation, as it were.
-BarabOO Democrat: Mr.. and |
Mrs. J. F. Whitney, of Lancaster,
spent Sunday in. the city. They |
left here a dozen or more years ago
on account of a change in Mr.. Whit |
news run, and during that time he
has been serving as conductor on a
regular freight run between Madi- |
son and Lancaster, Mr.. Whitney |
has been assigned to the regular
switch run between BarabOo and |
Reedsburg, and with his family he
will again take up his residence in |
Baraboo. They will occupy the w.
B. Kendall house, 422 Fifth avenue.
8araboo friends will be pleased to
nave the family return to the city.
One of the most notable facts
connected with a country news
paper of today is the large increase
ia the amount of advertising of
local business houses. The change
has taken place gradually, and has
been marked especially during the
past year or 50. It is highly signi-
fcant, and an inquiry as to the
cause of it is of great profit, not
only to those in the newspaper bust |
ness, but to every business man
and citizen of our town as well. |
The change, in brief, means that
local merchants have found it neces-
sary to call attention to their goods
because of the immense competition
they face the most deadly element
of which is that from the great |
stores of the large cities. These
great establishments advertise their
wares most lavishly, and the metro
politan newspapers which contain
their advertisements are distributed |
over the country, some one paper of
which enters nearly every home. |
The result is that these metropolitan
establishments have built up an
immense mail trade. In our town, |