Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-13
Local JOttineS.

John Day made a business trip
to Iowa Friday.
DIR. Roy Ivey returned home to
Ft. Atkinson Thursday.
Tom Marshal is home from a
visit at st. Joseph, Mo.
July 23rd will be big day in
Lancaster-better come.
You will find that fair book adv
to be q paying proposition.
Miss Gretta Livingston is visit
ing relatives in Livingston.
Jacob Baumgartner visited in
Fenn1more first of the week.
Judge Goodsel and wife are in
Milwaukee to spend the week.
Rev. Heddon and Miss Pansy
Linton are visiting friends here.
Miss Francis Kuester of Platte
vile is visiting Lancaster friends.
Mrs. Weber is visiting her sons
Charles and Albert IN FennimOre.
John Buening of Preston was a
guest of his daughter, Mrs. Frank
Pink, Wednesday.
Rev. Schleicher returned home
Yesterday from a trip to La Crosse
and Prairie du Chen.
W. W. Ford of Manchester,
Iowa, is the guest of his brother
in-law, F. A. Bracket.
Misses Bessie ana Addie Kiet-
linger are visiting relatives and
friends in Fennimore.
Mrs. Bryton Bennett of Chi
cago is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Wannamaker and other relatives.
Miss Anna Krast of Madison is
a guest of Miss Georgia Finney.
Miss Krast is a hello girl" at Madi-
son.
-Messrs. John Clark and Eugene
Clark are erecting fine new home
for Will Hickok IN Bloomington
township.
The asylum trustees held reg
ular meeting this week, all mem bers
being present. The customary
amount of business was transacted
Walter Webc's familiar coun-
tenance is once more seen behind
the postofice window. He is home
for a time from the north, perhaps
to remain.
Mrs. Charlton Beck of ST. Louis,
formerly Miss Lenice Oettiker of
Platteville, is a guest of the w. j.
Dyer family at the county home.
Mr.. Dyer is Mrs. Beck's uncle.
Every farmer should know how
to ground his wire fences. Simply
thrust length of heavy wire down
the side of the post several feet and
staple TO the fence wires where they
cross.
The total appropriations of the
legislature for 1907 will be approx
mately s4,517, 545. This is the larg
est amount ever spent by leglslat-
ure in Wisconsin, exceeding the
amount two years ago by several
thousand dollars.
"A pupil in one of the schools,
down where the boys come from,
was asked by the teacher to define
the word spine, and this is the way
he served it up: "A spine is a long
Timber bone; your head sits on one
end of it and you sit OD the other"
-Au increase in the price of
stamped envelopes and newspaper
wrappers went into effect in the
poStOffices July 1st. A bunch of
twenty-five envelopes now costs "a
cents instead OF 53, and twenty five
wrappers cost p cents instead of &c.
The Soldiers and Sailors Re-
lief commission, composed of
Arthur Doyle OF Cuba City, Hugh
Mathews OF Boscobel and Alex.
Ivey of this city, held their regular
meeting here "Wednesday and tran
sacted the usual amount of routine
business.
The newspaper is a law book
for the indolent, a sermon for the
thought less. library for the poor
and aa admOnlsher for the lawless.
1t may stimulate the most indiffer-
ent, but 1t cannot be published
without cost and sent free to sub
scribers. This IS no joke.
The much talked of beauty con-
test which las filled the columns of
the leading dailies for several
months past, Is settled at last, first
prize going to Denver belle of 10
summers who is sad to be a tall
blonde. Milwaukee Sentiners choice.