Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-02-09

MISS DOL lila 1OAS 10 FlSICluS at
Warren, Ill.
w. P. Rowder had business at
Linden this week.
Miss Jennie rockingham visited
at Baraboo portion of the week.
Lambert Gronier transacted
business in Chicago the past week.
VIM. Mcmahon will go to
Hayes county, Neb., on a business
trip next week.
The Shakespeare club meets
with Mrs. Delos Abrams Tuesday
at the usual hour
Miss Swenson Of Cresco, Ia, is
being entertained at the G. w.
rockingham domicile.
-AroF v3ampson Of the Herald
forq Lied his parents at Platte
vile portion of the past week.
Mrs. Peter Stoffel is at Madison.
al ending the State Un1versiy's de-
spartment of household instruction.
Hiss Linda Moore is also there.
Miss Mary Wafer is home
from her North Dakota farmss sor the
winter. Her many friends will ap-
preciate her presence.at local func-
lions again.
An early spring is predicted by
the weather wise-and a big crop
by the crop-wise. There is a great
amount of moisture which will leave
IN the soil much stimulation of crop
growth.
Governor Davidson signed his
first bill from the legislature last
Thursday morning No. 81 A, pro-
viding for the distribution of the
bills and records of the proceedings
of the legislature to any person
making request for same on pay
ment of twelve dollars to the secre-
tray of state.
Henry JOeckel of Winterset,
Ia, and Sam Joeckel, who has been
spending several months at PheO-
nix, Arlz., are here assisting in the
invoicing Of Joeckel Bros. They go
next week to the Lake Mills store
for the same purpose. Sam expects
to return to Phoenix as soon as the
task is completed. His family is
still there and will remain until
spring
The supreme court has handed
down a decision making it obliga-
tory on city councils to revoke the
license of saloon keepers who have
been convicted of violating any of
the city ordinances. In case the
council fails in this duty any citizen
can bring mandamus proceedings
and compel them to revoke such
license. The decision means much
to the cause of temperance.
"A lady of our city has found
sure cure for broken dishes. If the
dish to be mended can be tied to-
gether with a stout string, then
place it in boiling milk and left one
hour, you can never tell the dish
had been broken and it can after
wards be put in boiling water with
out the pieces coming apart. This
experiment has been tried and
proven and many are the broken
dishes which were thought to be.
useless which are now as good as
new.
If you know of an item or a
piece of Dews, tell us about it. That's
what we want. But a newspaper
man sometimes experiences more
difficulty in gathering news than
one would imagine. This was the
case what a reporter in a nelghbor-
ing town, who, few days ago was
sent to write up a fire in a residence.
Going to the door he inquired for
the lady of the house. The maid
said she was out. ''Are any of the
family at home?" inquired the
scribe. mo. they are all out. :"
was the reply. "Well, wasn't there
a fire here last evening" Eyes, :"
said the hired girl. '5ut that's out
too"
Keep it out of the paper" is the
cry which the local newspaper pub
Usher daily hears. To oblige often
costs considerable, though the party
who makes the request thinks the
granting scarcely worth saying
''thank you" for. A newspaper iG
a peculiar thing in the public's eye.
The news gatherer is stOrmed at
because he gets hold of one item
and is abused because he does not
get another. Young men, and often
young women, as well as older per-