Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-07

= Miss Minnie Wright is assisting
Mrs. F. G. Burr in her millinel y
store.
The adjourned February term
of circuit court will convene next
Monday, March 9.
Mrs. Myron Sabin, of Boscobel,
who has been visiting with Chas.
Burrows and family, left for her
home Thursday.
"A very pleasant birthday sur
prise party was given Mrs. Joe Nc
Coy, at her residence in the first
ward, last evening.
Attorney A: r. Bushnell went
to Madison Wednesday morning.
He has business in the United States
bankruptcy courts there.
Otto FuerstenbHrg, who has
been visiting here tor a couple Of
months. starts today on his return
to Hoodoo, Saskatchewan, Canada.
DIR. J. 81. Reed left yesterday
for California, where he will visit
his son Frank. Mrs. Reed will visit
their daughter, Mrs. Chas. Mayne
at Council Bluffs, Iowa, until his
return.
Anderson and Monroe shipped
two cars of cattle to Leslie out of
here Wednesday. Joe Mccoy sent
car of horses the same day. On
Thursday George Moore shipped a
car of hogs.
The Union State Bank is now
comfortably located again in their
old time quarters, on the corner
west of the Wright House, which
has been occupied by Mrs. Burr's
millinery store.
The teachers of the Lancaster
schools and the members of the
school board we're pleasantly enter
tanned at the home of R. Meyer
Jr. last evening. Mrs. Meyer and
Miss Abbie Phelps we're the host
esses.
"A man by the name of Theodore
Spellam was arraigned before JUS
rice Moses on the third of March.
The charge of peddling without a
license, was preferred against him
by special treasury agent Burne
Pollock. Mr.. Pollock claims that
Spellam in connection with his bust
ness of enlarging pictures, sells
picture frames The hearing was
confined until the ninth, when the
district attorney will be present.
twas She to Blame?' will be
one of the guaranteed attractions at
the opera house, Wednesday, March
II, and the manager is to be con-
graduated on engaging an attrac-
ton of this class. An exchange says,
"Was She to Blame?" is the best
company visiting this section this
season. witnessing performance
by this company carries you back
to the time of Maggie Mitchell's
''Fanchon," Joseph Jefferson's RIP
Van Winkle," and Denman Thomp-
sons "Old Homestead" 1t is a
dramatic treat to the masses, en-
dorsed by the press, public and
pulpit at large. Sam Jones says it
is a sermon that should be heard
and seen by every man, woman and
child in America, Rev. Abe Mulkey
says it is one of those plays that
make everyone that sees it feel that
they ought to live a better life.
The comedy is pure and simple and
plenty of it, all the way through the
bill from the sublime to the rid1cul-
Gus. A beautiful blending of pathOs
and comedy once seen never for
gotten. We think that our manager
is lucky in securing an attraction
like this one. We are sure that he
will meet with the approval and
patronage of all our people.
The editor of one of our ex-
changes sagely remarks: Don't
advertise if you believe you are
wasting money. Let your compel
itor waste money on advertising and
perhaps in this way you'll soon put
him out of business. Fix his clock
works for him! Just stand back
and laugh at him when you see him
squandering his money for printers
ink. Once there was boy named
John-we think his last name was
| Wanamaker or may be it was
Moneymaker, anyhow, his name
was John, with some sort of a
maker attached to his last name.
He owned so yards of calico, three
pairs of jeans, half dozen pairs of
home made socks and five pair of
boots. He called this a dry goods
store through a Philadelphia news
paLer and offered to sell G. pair of