Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-05-05

~ Roy Peacock of Glen Haven ar
rived yesterday for visit.
w. E. Hayward, OF Fennimore,
was in Lancaster on business yester-
day.
Undersheriff Jay HarcIeroad had
business in Shullsburg the fore part
of the week.
DIR. NARROW went to Sitter yes
terday morning to attend to his dental
practice there.
Governor Ryland is gradually
recovering his strength and is now
able to be out of doors nearly every
day.
J Mrs. R. M. Lee and son of Chi
cago are visiting at the c. W. Bur
rows home Mrs Lee is a cousin of
Mrs. Burrows.
The excellent music furnished by
the Country Club orchestra was a
feature of the Minstrel show Thursday
and Friday evenings.
Herman Buchner expects to start
for Wisconsin from Crossett, Ark,
today. He will visit in Milwaukee
before coming to Lancaster.
Geo. A. Moore's next shipping
day of veal calves, hogs, cattle and
sheep will be Wednesday, May IL.
All stock should be in by 10 O'Clock.
On account of the big surplus of
cream received since last Wednesday
at the Lancaster Pasteurizing Plant,
the proprietors have had to keep their
churns running every day.
Henry Mckee, of Morris Mimi,
visited here during the past week
with relatives. He was called to
this county by the serious illness of
his mother living in Fennimore.
Richard j. Sweeney and Alex. A.
Sweene of Darlington and Dodge
Vile, respectively were visitors home
last week to see their mother who
for some time has been seriously i'll.
"A couple Of carloads of round
gravel have been received here this
week and will be used in constructing
the new covering for the west side
aseptic tank. This covering will be
of concrete. Will Mcmahon was
awarded the contract for building 1t.
The Mckinley circle has received
the bronze plate bearing upon it
Lincolns Gettysburg address, which
they will present to the high school.
This plate is quite large and is a fine
piece of bronze work. It will indeed
be appreciated by the students, teach
ers and all interested III the school.
"A number of our citizens thought
the new depot was coming surely last
Friday morning when three work-men
appeared and started what were
evidently razing operations at the
north end of the station platform. It
was soon discovered, however. that
these operations would not extend to
tie venerable building itself and con-
sisted only of replacing few de-
cayed timbers with more substantial
lumber.
Rev. G. w. Harter left Monday
to enjoy the sessions of the Dodge
Baptist Association with which he
was formerly connected. The meet
ings occur at Beaver Dam, the home
of Wayland Academy, the Baptist
school of Wisconsin. He will visit
his former field of labor also, and will
return next week. Next Sundays
worship here will be in charge of the
Young Peoples Society as elsewhere
announced.
The family of Beebe, town of
Redwood, has been famous these
many years for maple syrup, having
one of the best sugar camps in the
state. They tap soft maple trees
in the bottoms of Knapps Creek and
the Wisconsin river. They marketed
many gallon cans of syrup last week,
some of which went to Baraboo for
family use. 1t is excellent for
lubricating pancakes and hot biscuits.
-Boscobel Dial Enterprise.
The unprecedented late spring
has put many farmers in the vicinity
of Lancaster in bad way for stock
feed. Usually at TIL lime of the
year stock can pick good reed in the
pastures, but this year the cold
weather has stunted the grass so that
the little that has grown is short and
contains little nutriment. The farm
ers living in those parts that were
struck by the violent hail and win !