Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-10-12
Local JOttingS.

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home of her father, D. Abrams.
The water at the cemetery has
been shut off for the reason that
the freezing weather will burst the
pipes.
Jas. Blewett, Jr., and wife are
IN South Dakota; the latter for
visit and the former on real estate
business.
Rev. Paul Brown was suddenly
summoned to Usage, Ia, last week
to attend the funeral of sister who
died IN Canada.
The Royal Neighbors are pre-
pairing for another royal time, Sc
ven Cent Social, on Friday evening,
Oct. Is Everybody invited. Prog
ram in next issue.
Tempest and Sunshine" to be
seen at Opera house on Oct. IL is a
dramatization of Mary j. Holmes
popular novel of the same name
presented by W. T. Mann.
The track record at the Bosco-
bel fair last week was lowered to
the 2:2O mark in the 2:18 pace, won
by Winifred, a mare owned at
Elkhart Lake.
Geo. Blakesley, wife and moth
er went to Bridgeport yesterday
where George enters the mercantile
business. Lancaster friends Owish
them health, happiness and success
in their new home.
w. F. Mccormick purchased a
fine bunch of cattle on his Iowa
trip. He will have sale at the
fair grounds IN Lancaster Nov. 9Th,
particulars of which will be an
nounced by bills later.
"A man was heard to remark at
the depot the other day that he
didn't approve of the two-cent fare
proposition. He said he had made
the discovery that since the said
law went into effect his wife's rela-
tions visited him twice as often as
they did before.
Convention 5th Dist. No. z w.
r. @. will be held at g. A. R. Hall
Tuesday, Oct Is th. Also inspec-
ton of Tom Cox Corps No. AZ.
The Dept. Inspector Mrs., Jul1etta
Morris will be with us to preside
during convention and inspection.
"A man in a ghboring town |
who secured a wife through a |
matrimonial agency is now trying
to secure a divorce. Just another
instance of finding that mail order
bargains are not as represented and
that a much better grade OF the
same article could be secured at
home.
The Castle Square Entertainers,
he first attraction in the Lecture
course will appear in Reeds opera
house next Tuesday evening, Oct.
%. You can still secure season
tickets and select your seats at
BENEFITS drug store for 81. so.
admission to this attraction soc.
arrangements haYe been made
~ the state horticultural society
md Supt. George McKerrow, of the
armers' Institutes, according to
which a lecturer on horticulture
will speak at every institute this
winter. Half of the expenses of
he lecturer will be paid by the
horticultural society, the other
lalf to be borne by the farm in
stitUtes.
In an advance report prepared
~ Secretary of Agriculture J. M.
True, for the United States govern
nent, he declares that the yield of
barley in the state this year will be
about q bushels TO the acre; wheat
is, rye 16 and oats %. The oats
crop is always below the average.
He says the corn crop this year is
Is per cent of the yield last year,
but from 80 to 40 per cent of it is
soft and therefore unmarketabIe.
The potato crop is so per cent of
last year.
The production OF the dramatic
alton of Mary J. Holmes popular
novel by w. T. Mann to be seen at
Reeds Opera house on Oct. IL, does
not carry two car loads of scenery
neither does 1T carry the most
beautiful chorus in the world, but |
it does carry everything necessary
to a successful production. Quaint
costumes of the style in vogue in !
1850 which. is the period of the play. |
An adequate cast headed by Miss
Marie De Beau and Ruth Raynor.
The greatest corn exposition
ever known In the history of agri-