Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-01

Mis- Claudia Jordan wished with
Platteville friends few days ago.
Miss Sylvia Wheeler attended
the PlatteviIle ChaUtauqua this week.
Tom Holmes returned home
Thursday evening from Madison.
William Barrows and wife visited
this week in Cassville, with relatives.
DIR. G. c. NARROW will return
home next Monday from his vacation.
Arch Gibson, of Montfort. was
visitor in Lancaster on Thursday of
this week.
Elk sheriff Jack Watson, of Liv-
iugston, greeted his many county seat
friends Thursday.
Bert Shipley and family returned
home Thursday evening from visit
with Boscobel relatives.
Earl Ivey and Harry Carthew wit
messed the ball game and attended
the Chautauqua at Platteville Thurs
day.
Miss Florence Welsh. of this city
is visiting In Cassville at the home
of her sister, Mrs. p j. Schnorren-
berg.
Reese Gillespie, formerly of this
city and who is now located at Lake
Park, Iowa, is visiting friends in Lam
caster
M. Mcdonald returned home from
Madison Thursday evening. He at
tended Ringing Brothers Circus in
that city last Tuesday.
The big July clearance sale at the
Boston store is still in progress, and
will be fCI a few days more. 1t has
attracted a great crowd of buyers.
See advertisement.
Philip Hottenstein. of Harrison
township. who is one of the candi-
dates for the republican nomination
for county clerk, was in the city a
day or two this week.
w. G. Livingston, Arch Living
ston, Walter Molland, Asa Wiley.
and Ed Jenkins were over from Liv-
ingston Thursday evening billing the
town for the Livingston base ball
tournament. which will be held next
week. Pins states that this will
be the best ever held in that village
The party came over in two seated
high wheeled auto.
W. j. Eberhardt, of the Hub, re-
turned last Saturday from his two
weeks vacation near Minneapolis.
He says he caught more fine fish this
trip than upon any outing he ever
took and that the only trouble with
the trip was that it ended too soon.'
Mrs. Eberhardt has been spending this
week with her parents. in Platteville,
where she has also been attending the
Chautauqua.
Spontaneous combustion of clover
hay happens under the following con-
ditions Hay fifteen or twenty feet
deep, center of NOW packed hard,
sides loose. NOW much open to che
weather. Prevention: Keep hay even
ly distributed over the NOW while
being stored, and regulate the ventila-
, tion if possible. so as to have the air
circulate over the top Of the hay
rather than through Tx.
Fred BrandemuehI, Of Blooming
ton. was nearly killed few days ago
in a runaway, the team being hitched
to a farm wagon. His injuries are
very painful, one arm being broken
and the bone protruding through the
flesh. Besides this he is badly bruised
both about the body and the head.
Notwithstanding the pain that he
suffered it is thought that he will
recover. His escape from death is
thought by many to be miraculous.
Prof Slothower will start Mon
4 Udy I'll a Lh1OO WOOho NoCQblOAs pm
tion of which he will devote to fish
ing and general good time. Mr..
Slothower takes much interest in the
preparation of magic lantern views,
which he uses in illustrating talks
! made to his classes in the school and
expects to spend few days at The
DolIs oottin0 Kodak Dictur0S for this
purpose. He will alse visit at Madi
son, Lodi, Poynette and Kilbourne,
Wis, and at Warren, III.
According to an order recently
issued and received from the postoffice
department at Washington, rural
carriers are required to take their
vacation between July 1 and Nov
ember | The order is as follows ::