Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-09-22
BLOOMINGTON.
Special Correspondence to the Herald.

The Cassville Record last week
discovered the Chicago Construction
Co. in the act of building an
imaginary railroad from Lancaster,
Wis, to Dyersville, Iowa, via Cass-
Vile. This project and several other
air lines have been projected since
the recent talk about a railroad from
Fennimore to Bloomington via Mt
Hope and Patch Grove, with the
evident intention of destroying our
prospects. Possibly the officials of
the Milwaukee and Burlington roads
can make a guess as to the origin of
the hot-air lines. Any company mean
ing business will not begin by
advertising its proposed road in the
newspapers. Our projected road got
into the papers entirely by mistake.
Ed. Welsh carried off the blue
ribbon for the best team of roadsters
at the Lancaster fair. Ed. was just
~ proud of the recognition, as he had
a good team and knew it all the time.
In fact, Ed. always has good team
or two of drivers on his farm. DR..
Marlow's carriage horse carried off
second prize in ring of ten horses.
Horsemen said he would have taken
first had he been in a little better
flesh.
On Saturday, October 18th, the
Woodhouse & BARLEY Bank of this
place will have seed corn contest
in the city hall. when they will give
fifty dollars in prizes for the best
corn. Each exhibitor must bring
ten ears, but each will receive in re-
turn pint of pure bred corn from
the College of Agriculture. Prof. r.
A. Moore. the great corn expert of
the University College of Agriculture,
will be present to judge the corn.
and in the afternoon he will deliver
a lecture on 'The Breeding and
Dissemination of Pure Bred Corn.
For list of prizes see adv in another
column of this issue.
j. E. Kenyon of Hannibal, Mis-
souri,, has been visiting his sister,
Postmistress ]. E. Kevins, and other
relatives in this vicinity.
Ernest Pennock. wife and daughter
returned to Cascade Locks. Oregon,
Saturday, after pleasant visit at the
John Pennock home. On the fol-
lowing Monday the sister. Miss
Edith Pennock. went to Appleton
to attend Lawrence University.
We are getting our share of shows.
The Quaker Medicine Co. is here on a
three weeks campaign, healing the
afflicted. They give quite lively
entertainment.
Capt. G. j. Woodward who died
at the home of his married daughter
Nell in Neosho, Missouri. last week.
was for many years resident of this
place, and with his family lived in
the house now occupied by Fred Riese
at the end of the street. Mr.. Wood.
ward worked as a stone mason and
served as justice of the peace, and he
had fair knowledge of law. The
ladies conducted a millinery store.
They moved from here to Lancaster.
He was IS years of age.
The party who reported to a county
paper that our races at the fair were
poor is informed that horsemen are
agreed that when horses are running
a we'll punched race on a half mile
track in 81 seconds they are supplying
good sport. And when they run five-
eighths of mile in :04. and another
nearly through at the rate of :O1,
they are doing as we'll as they do
or the great metropolitan tracks.
Our fair had one of the best lunches
of running horses ever brought to-
gether in Southwest Wisconsin.
Another thing, while we agree that
l.. o. Pennock is one of the best ball
players in the county, yet it is giving
him too much credit to say that he
won the game between our boys and
FenniI ore. The fly that he knocked
into the field landed nice and easy
squarely into the hands of the right
fielder. but another fielder ran into
him and he dropped it, thus permit
ing Pennock to reach first on a very
bad error, and also permitting the
two runners ahead of him eventually
to get home. This is only the truth,
and the truth will harm nobody.
Edgar Marshall has rented the
Roberts Pearson place now owned by
Mr.. Wegmann of Dyersville, Iowa.
Harry Tornowske rented the Thos
Harper place of the man from Dy-
ersviIle who bought it recently.
VIM. Betz, wife and son Paul were