Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-03-16
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.
F. H. Fallon, of Mineral Point
was in this city Wednesday.

+. ii. Fallon, or Mineral Point,
was in this city Wednesday.
Hugh Wilson. of Darlington, was
here on business Wednesday.
g. A. Stevens, of Cassville was
a county seat caller Saturday.
q IS. T. Osborne, of Dodgeville, had
business in Lancaster Friday.
The Partlow family have moved
from Patch Grove to farm west of
town.
The local dealers are already
reporting large sales of seeds. Still
another sign of spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Voigts of
Belmont visited relatives in this
vicinity during the past week..
Henry Pagenkopf has been saving
lumber on the Chas. Jeidy farm in
Little Grant the past few days.
Everybody come to G. A. R. hall
at s 100 p M, March IS and enjoy
real st. Patrick's entertainment.
Local news items and county cor
resdoDdence will be found upon sever
al different pages of today's Herald.
Expeditions in search of water
cress are quite popular this year and
will be no doubt, until the first of
April.
Chris Grebe hauled lum Der from
Lancaster the past week to his home
in Flora. He expects to build an
addition ON his house this summer.
John A. Haggerty, a prominent
citizen of Crawford Co., and we'll
known here. passed away last Thurs
day noon, after an illness of several
weeks.
Something over one hundred
registered in the short course in Agri-
culture at the state university.
Several progressive farmers of this
vicinity awaited themselves of the OPP
portunity to add to their knowledge
of agriculture.
Last Sunday was observed as
Passion Sunday by Lancaster church
members. Other March holidays
most of them being observed 10y the
church-are 17th-St. Patrick's day;
2Oth-Palm Sunday; 25th Good Fri
day; 27th-Easter.
Several cases of small pox recent
ly developed among the students in
Sacred Heart College in Prairie du
Chen but as strict quaratine has
been maintained no futher danger is
feared. Evans Barnett, of this city,
is a student IN Sacred Heart.
The Bloomington library associa-
tion recently prepared two large boxes
of reading material for the Grant
County home. The kindness of the
Bloomington ladies and other friends
of the unfortunate inmates of the
Home is awaYs appreciated.
The Bloomington high school boys
arrived here from Platteville Satur-
day evening. They lost their basket
ball game with the Platteville high
schol team and threw out vague hints
charging dirty playing on the part Of
the latter aggregation.
Business mems associations have
been organized during the past few
weeks in several of the towns here
abouts and all are actively engaged in
advancing the community's interests
in various ways. Lancaster's Com
mercial Club should arouse and get
busy also.
Within the coming week or two
we expect to see many automobiles
spinning around the streets of Lancas-
ter on their spring tryouts. The roads
are drying rapidly about town.
Several new machines will make their
first appearance here this spring. The
local agents anticipate making more
sales than last season.
"A card received from Herman
Buchner, Monday, announces that he
has been making a visit to Hot
Springs and Fordyce Ark, and for the
next two or three weeks will be at
Millville, Ark. He says they are
having real summer weather there
now and within few weeks he ex-
poets to return to Lancaster.
Those wishing thoroughly en-
joyable, evening will make no mistake
if they come t. G. A. r. hall on the
eve of March 18th and let Eva Camp.
Royal Neighbors entertain them. A
pleasing program has been prepared
including an Irish play and this to-
gether with the name the Royal
Neigh bors have of doing things" is