Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-08
LOCAL NEWS NOTES


j. P. Miller Jr., of BoscobeI, was
| in Lancaster Saturday on business.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Schreiner
are spending few days in Chicago.
John Joyce and Oscar Henkel,
of Beetown, had business here Mon
day.
E. J. Reseltine came down from
Montfort to transact business, Fri
day.
Ten marriage licenses were is
sued during March. I5 was a dull
month.
DIR and Mrs. J. w. Gibson and
child visited with Potosi relatives
Sunday.
David Eastman and daughter,
Arminda. left yesterday noon for
Montfort.
Peter Esser, of Cassville, was in
Lancaster on business the latter part
of last week.
Wesley Wenzel is the new clerk
at the Phillips House. which is again
in running order.
Grant and Neal Ballantyne,
both of Bloomington. greeted Club"
friends, Friday,
Earl, the four year old son, of
Tony Cranes, has been seriously i'll
with pneumonia.
If you are rich enough, or &C.
centric enough to keep the things
you no longer NJ ed, then our For
Sale columns will not interest YOU.
Otherwise they will,
Three cars of horses were ship
ped Out of this station Nc day. An
drew Lewis sent one car to Chicago,
Joe Mccoy sent one to Madison and
Ira Murphey sent one to Galena.
-It it can be sold, an ad III onr
want column will sell it; If it can be
had, an ad will get it; if it can be
done an adj will do it; if it can be
found, an ad will find it. One cent
word.
George Verdon resumed service
this week as passenger brakeman on
the Galena- Lancaster run, after an
extended lay off. George is a vet
eran in the service of the North
western.
If the old saying that the first
Friday and Saturday of each month
may be taken as an index of the
weather that will prevail through
out that month, we certainly ought
to have fine weather during this
month.
"A moving picture show is book
ed for Reeds opera house for this
evening. 1t is said to be a high
class entertainment and comes here
from Galena where it showed last
evening. Admission will be Is and
% cents
The store of Schreiner & Sons
is greatly improved by the changes
that haye recently taken place in
the interior arrangements. The Of
flee is now located IN the rear of the
dry goods department., where an
abundance of light is obtained and
it is now inclosed with "a tasty iron
rail and grating, in bank style. The
show windows have also been i'm
proved.
Last summer the school board
of District No. 10, town of Fenni-
more, bull. new school and Install
ed a furnace. Now they are anxious
to receive state aid, as school Of
the first class, and are planning to
put in a system of ventilation,
which they neglected to install with
the furnace. Today they will con-
suit with Supt. Brockert, on their
plans.
-Supt Brockert has been sending
out letters to parents in which he
outlines his duties in regard to the
new truancy lay. In cases where
the regular attendance of the child
or children is doubtful, the parents
receive these letters which ask for
valid excuse for each non atten-
dance. In this way the superinten-
dent will avoid many misunder-
standings which would occur if
these names were handed to the
sheriff without further investiga-
ton. These letters all call for a re-
ply and as a result the superinten-
dent is kept busy these days.
The baseball season in Lancas-
ter was opened last Saturday by a
rather tame game between the see-
ond teams of Bloomington and Ian
caster high schools, resulting in a
score of to 0 in favor of the form