Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-10-26

makes one think or autumn.
Got your calendars for 1908
yet2 we have dandy line.
October will be over when next
Thursday rolls around. And 1t
wasn't bad month after all.
Miss Matte Napp of Fennimore,
spent Saturday and Sunday in
Lancaster with her cousin, Miss
Nell Jeide.
The ladies of the N. E church
VIII serve their regular monthly
tea next Wednesday, Oct. 30th;
from five until all are served.
There is no occasion to worry
about Indian summer. We can
have that any time the neighbors
get it into their heads to burn the
falleu leaves.
-Stanley's Metropolitan Stock
company which comes to the opera
house next week has the reputation
of being one of the best shows on
the road of its kind.
Henry Stell of Lou Starts force
is now full fledged barber, having
taken and successfully passed the
examination held by the state board
of barber examiners at Madison
first of the week.
Miss Pearl A. Stanley who
heads the company which plays at
the opera house next week, has just
returned from a most successful
tour of England and Australia.
Seats at Benefits.
The Woman's Club will meet
with Mrs. A. @. Knapp. Monday,
October 90. at 2:30 o'clock. Pro
gram: Responses-Current events;
reading Mrs. S. R. Greene; sketch;
paper-Evolution of the house,
Mrs. Austin Sec.
The Trip to the Sum-" which
will be shown at the opera house
on Tuesday evening next is the
largest and most gorgeous moving
picture in the world. 1t is the only
one IN America, and is over 1900
feet long. 1t cost Miss Stanley $3.50
to have it made III Paris.
-Messrs. John Joyce and Ct. L.
Eversoll of Waterloo township
have gone to Los. Vegas, N. NJ,
where Will Joyce has been located
some time for his health. The ex-
pected improvement in his condi-
ton has failed to develop and they
will accompany him and his family
| back TO Wisconsin.
Miss Carrie Wenzel became the
bride of Otto Nemitz at Fairbanks,
Alaska, on the 18th inst. Miss
Wenzel went there to meet her
afianced The Herald voice3 the
wishes of the entire community in
extending congratulations to the
happy couple in their far, away new
home.
The Wisconsin exhibitors at the
national corn exposition in Chicago
carried away many prizes, and the
| judges speak highly of the showing.
made. Clyde Atkins of Warren, was
first carrying off prize of $50, and
John Bradford of Wlnslow, second
with prize of $40. John ,Detwiler
of Monroe got fifth with prize of
$50. 94rAce
Mrs. Ann Evans of Belmont
dropped dead on the platform of
the st. Paul depot at Belmont on
Friday morning Mrs. Evans was
at the station waiting FOR the. ar
rival of the early morning train
from Platteville, which she expected
to take to Chicago. where she had
planned to visit her two,sons and
daughters. ~I sV
As in the last four years the
state tax for general purposes will
be remitted this. year. This was
definitely decided upon by the state
board of assessment last Saturday.
The mill tax for school purposes
will be levied as usual but this will
be returned the counties according
to their school population The
taxes for the support of the schools,
including the university, normal,
high, graded and common schools
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will be about 50, $780, 900.
Peter Kleese, the giant police
magistrate of Aurora, ILL.,, has re-
turned from Battle Creek a happy
man. He has lost sixty seven
pounds, and his clothes fit him too
much. When Kleese went away
he weighed 527 pounds. Now he
sends the beam up to 400 when he
mounts the scales. 1t was reported
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