Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-15

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Henry Fisher, an aged inmate
of the Grant County Asylum, died
Sunday.
w. G. T. U. meets with Mrs.
Ellen Morgans, Thursday, Jan. 18th,
at 2:30 p. ~.
Mrs. r. A. Draper entertained
the sewing society of which she is a
member, last evening.
Vim. Richardson, an old resident
of this city, is seriously i'll at his
home in the first ward.
Jacob Hoehn died at his home
in South Lancaster last Friday. He
had been i'll for some time.
John Muesse, of Vancouver, B.
e., is visiting with his father, Henry
Muesse, in the second ward.
Master Walter Brun, of Sitter.
visited this week at the home of his
aunt, Mrs. Chas. Brandemuehl.
Harry Barnett is making up
his annual stock of wood at his
yards in the north part of the city.
Misses Hilta Smith and Florence
Rudersdorf, of Fennimore, visited
this week with Miss Nellie Fin
negan.
w. E, Hayward returned Tues
day from a trip through Fennimore,
Boscobel, Prairie du CHEN and
Wauzeka.
Walter Treloar, who is employ
ed by w. r Bailey, of Potosl town
ship, is quite sick with an attack of
pneumonia.
Mrs. H. BarstOw, who resides
in the south part of the city, has
been III during the past week but is
now recovering.
Seventy five persons were burn
ed to death in a theater fire at Boyer
town, Pa, place of about $500
During panic caused by tank ex
plosion, the coal oil footlights wers
upturned and in an instant the
building was in flames.
If you didn't hear from your
tinselled postal card sent out as a
Christmas greeting don't expect to
it was held up by the folks in some
post office as it is contrary TO postal
regulations to carry tinselled greet
ings, not enclosed IN envelopes
through the mail.
DIR. and Mrs. j. A. Gault and
son Harry returned Saturday ever
ing from Fond dr Lac where they
we're in attendance at the funeral of
Mrs. Gault's mother, Mrs M. Nc
IntOsh. Mrs. Mcintosh died on
New Years day at the age of IS, af-
ter an illness extending over three
years.
John Yellneck, of Fennimore,
a fireman on'the Northwestern road
met with a very painful accident
Sunday. He was caught between
the door of a Milwaukee round
house and an incoming locomotive.
Both collar bones were broken and
his body was badly bruised and it is
feared that he met with internal IN
juries as we'll. He is now in the
Emergency hospital in Milwaukee
"A statement just issued by an
authority on lead and zinc matters
shows that the Wisconsin district
produced during the first eleven
months of 1902 over three million
dollars worth of zinc concentrates
and lead, the total production being
about one fourth of that of the
Missouri district. Wisconsin did
well considering that the lead and
zinc interests are in their infancy,
while Missouri's have been full
grown for years.
The old railroad problem is
again attracting attention: 1.-TWO
railroad stations, A and B, are five
miles apart. A train one mile long
starts from station A. The Lrake-
man waits till the caboose comes
along and gets aboard. AS the
train proceeds toward B the brake
man walks in the direction of the
head of the train. When the en-
CINE reaches station B he gets off.
What was the total distance he
travelled? How far did he walk?
How far did he ride?
The Scientific American gives a
recipe the whole world ought to
know. At the first indication of
diphtheria in the throat of child
make the room close, take a tea cup
and put into it quantity of tar and
turpentine, equal parts. The patti
emit on inhaling the fumes will cough
o-1 emit kI1a