Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-05
LOCAL NEWS NOTES
Lee Wright is in Baraboo visit

more Tuesday morning.
VIM. Livingston went to Liv-
ingston Monday morning.
H. Fosbinder, of Fennimore, was
business visitor SATURDAY.
Edmund Totman returned home
Saturday from Platteville.
r. Kreul and family, of Fenni-
more. were in Lancaster Monday.
Will Mccormick returned to his
home in Arizona Friday morning.
Lee Eastman was a passenger on
the morning train Monday mornin g.
Deputy sheriff EIwell returned
home Monday noon from Fennimore.
The Dressmakers Association met
on Saturday with Miss Magnetic
Rogers.
George Hannaford visited couple
of days last week with Liberty
friends.
Lawrence Clark is attending the
base ball tournament at Livingston
this week.
Professor Slothower and family
started Monday morning on vaca-
ton trip of several weeks.
p. j. Blindert, the British
Hollow merchant, made a business
trip to the county seat Monday.
Mrs. ]. H. Fowler and baby left
yesterday afternoon for Marengo,
Iowa, for visit with relatievs.
The ladies of st. Clements church
will again conduct the dining hall
the Grant County Fair this year.
Mrs. Roy Cornwall was pas
senger on Monday mornings train
en- route for her home in Wonewoc.
Mrs. Alice Bradbury returned
home Monday evening after pleasant
visit with relatives and friends in
Platteville.
M. Rech. of this city has ac-
copied a position as night clerk in the
Prairie du Chen sanitarium conduct
ed by Rathbun and Kluss.
Roy Bennett, of the high school
team, played with Sitter against Liv-
ingston in the opening game of the
basebll tournament Monday.
The stairway leading to the
second floor of the new cheese factory
was torn away last week to make way
for The new cement walk that is being
constructed on the east side of the
building.
"A camping party left Saturday
for Harry Browns Pine Knob lodge to
spend few days. The following are
those who responded to the "call of the
Wild" Harry Brown, Lee Eastman,
J. T. Bennett. Judge Goodsell, Fred
Barnett, Tom Haley, NJ. Mcdonald.
Farmers who have grain and hay
crops to harvest all at once are find
ing that farming is not as easy as it
was when they came at different
times, says an exchange. However
they are not saying anything and
they can lay awake nights and hear
the corn grow.
Three autos, Basford's. Godfrey s
and clyde Ellis's conveyed loads to
Sundays game at Galena. The fol-
lowing were among those who at
tended: Harry and L. P. Basford,
Chris Wiesen, Clyde Ellis, Leslie
Clark, Fred DAILY, Pete Wenzel, Fred
Godfrey. George Angus, Bert Shipley
and DR.. Moore.
For about three weeks Supt.
Brockert has been just as busy as any
man in the county. He has held
teachers examinations at Lancaster,
Boscobel, Fennimore, Cuba City and
Platteville. This week he is busy
at Bloomington, Cassville and Potosi.
These examinations came right on the
heels of the teachers institute and
have given our superintendent just
about as much work as he can attend
to.
Judging from exchanges, sleeping
in tents is becoming quite a fad in
many of the towns about Lancaster.
1t is becoming generally recognize as
beneficial and health giving and is.
withall, so sensible a fad that it
seems strange that more of our citi-
zens do not adopt it. One exchange
goes so far as to say that in a few
years we shall doubtless see every
lawn decorated with the white sleep
ing tent while the finely appointed
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