Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-22
LOCAL NEWS NOTES
LANCASTER is a good town.


day.
Farmers have mostly got their
oats sown in this vicinity.
Lee Eastman was a Platteville
visitor Monday of this week.
Miss Bessie McNair visited In
Fennimore Sunday and Monday.
The loafng boy who never at
tends school don't enjoy the vaca
ton.
M C. Gettenge, of Monroe,
Wisconsin, was Lancaster visitor
last Thursday.
Clay Adkins, of Platteville,
called on friends at the county seat
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Ivey visited
at the home of Mrs Fannie Massey
in POtosi last Sunday.
To make some men succeed,
fortune has to stop knocking at
their doors, and break in.
w, A L1lgequist, of Freeport,
ILL.,, was business visitor here the
latter part of last week.
William Rose, of Boscobel, visit
ed here this week with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Harvey Schmidt,
Mrs. N. J. Tiedeman returned
Monday noon from Pearl City, ILL.,,
where she has been visiting rela-
fives, for the past week.
MIR. and Mrs. F. M. Eastman
and daughter Laura. returned last
Friday evening from three
weeks visit at Pottsvilie. Pa.
Doctors Mark and A B Bailey,
of Fennimore, visited at the Nc
Nair home in this city Sunday.
They made the trip in their auto
mobile.
There will be meeting of Nc
KinleY Circle this "wednesday
afternoon at three o'clock at the K
p. hall ALI members are requested
to be present.
Good, clean and we'll executed
job printing can always be obtained
at the Herald's printery. We carry
all grades and qualities of stock and
have the facilities for furnishing
strictly high class work.
This is house cleaning week at
the court house. JanitOr Garner and
assistants have been hard at work,
making the interior and exterior
appear to the best possible advant-
age after the long winter months.
The agricultural department IS
advising farmers to test seed oats
this spring. The impression seems
to prevail that they will not germ
mate as they should to insure a
good stand. One writer advises
sowing an increased quantity of
seed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Place and
John Chisholm started Monday, via
PotOsi, for visit of six or eight
weeks in the west. They will first
60 TO Giltner, Nebraska, then visit
relatives In northern Kansas and
later in western Nebraska before
their return home.
The man who cannot stand up
for the community in which he
lives should move out and thus
make room for the person who
does believe in home enterprise.
The community that is good enough
in which to live is certainly good
enough to boost to the front.
Ten pounds of blue vitriol and
barrel of water applied in spray
will kill 90 per cent of the cookie
burr and mustard on an acre of
land. It takes about fifteen minutes
to spray an acre with a machine.
You can spray an acre of potatoes
in about the same length OF time.
DIR. Geo. A. Stratton and bride
of Oshkosh arrived here Saturday
on their honeymoon trip and spent
Sunday and Monday with his
brother, g. d. Stratton, and wife.
They were married last Wednesday
in Oshkosh, the bride formerly be-
ing Miss Fannie Thompson, step
daughter of DR.. Johnson, one of the
we'll known physicians of that city.
L. Brownfield, a bachelor farm
er of Beetown, lost his house and
much of its contents by fire one day
last week. Workmen were just
completing the wall for new house
in which he was assisting, when the
fire broke out shortly after dinner
in the old house. He now has his
bed and his kitchen in the granary
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