Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-20
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relatives.
Dave Johnson's painters are al
work fixing up the interior OF Henry
Ressmyer's harness shop.
The frequent rains have kept
the ground In soaked condition of
late and farm work is considerably
delayed thereby.
Harry Basford anu Scott Eggers
played with the Beetown team
against Burton on the grounds OF
the latter last Sunday.
Miss Claudia Jordan, " no is at
tending the Platteville Normal, Wis
tied at her home in this city the first
OF the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Rowe of
Platteville visited this week at the
home of their niece, Mrs. w. E.
Webb in this city.
&C. w. Knapp and Son are hav-
ing a new sign painted on the west
and south sides of their building.
Geo. Sykes is the artist employed
to do the work.
Misses Berde and Pearl Cal
loway spent Saturday and Sunday
with their parents. The former is
teaching at North Andover and the
latter is student in the Platteville
Normal.
An exchange states that chef
has come to this country who can
cook eggs IT'S different WAYS, but
the humble and unassumiEg hen
has him buffaloed when it GENES to
preparing them raw.
Alfred Warren, the monument
dealer and marble cutter, has been
setting up some more of his work
and doing some special lettering at
Hillside cemetery during the past
week. This is a desirable time for
having such work done-just before
Memorial Day.
Last year the trout season
opened on May 1; this year it opened
two weeks earlier, Oh April 10. The
legislature also changed the date
for opening of the bass season and
it will begin this year on June, 10,
about two weeks later than last
year.
The extreme heat last Sunday
caused an exodus of Lancaster people
TO the woods and fields. Quite a
number went to Muench's pasture
down on the Pigeon, while others
sscommuned with Nature" at Schrei
ner's Park, the Klondike spring and
the other places of interest about
the city.
The senior class plays, Bar
bara" and IAN Interrupted PrOpOs-
al" were presented Friday night to
a small bnt apprec1ative audience.
The plays while short were well
suited for amateur presentation. The
different parts were all we'll render
ed and taken altogether the plays
reflected great credit on the class OF
1908.
Another telephone company is
headed this way. The Plattevllle
Witness is authority for the state
nent that a company has COM
menced construction work on a line
to run from Dodgeville to Mineral
Point, Shullsburg, Darlington and
Dubuque, and that second line
will start from Galena. coming up
through Hazel Green, Benton,
Platteville, Cuba City, Lancaster
and Boscobel. Side lines will also
be built to Linden, Mif1in, Cobb,
Highland, Montfort, ReweY and
Livingston. One of the principal
purposes of these lines will be to
accommodate the ore traffic for the
Southwestern Wisconsin district.
The Lancaster second team de-
feated team representing Boscobel
high school at the fair grounds In
this city last Saturday, by the score
of 10 to 8. There was but small
sized crowd present although the
day was ideal for a game. The
score was 9 to in favor of the Wis
itors IN the eighth inning when
Lancaster tied the score. In the
last inning with three men on bases,
the Boscobel pitcher walked a man
in this way causing the winning
score. The Lancaster boys played
much better than they have in the
previous games.
Perhaps it is not too late to tell
of of an occurrence which took place
during last Mondays wlnd-storm.
One of the mail carriers had occas-
ion to get out of his rig when his
hat blew off. The storm at that
time was raging furiously and it