Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-01-12

Father Schleicher arrived home
Friday from a visit with his mother
in Watertown.
All persons indebted to Mrs. F. c..
Burr are hereby requested to call and
settle their accounts
ia Prof. and Mrs Albert J. HenkeI
left Saturday for Wauzeka after
spending the school vacation in this
CITY ,s7 s-s.a. C-7s 1879 .. 90: --.ss -
.ssssssss- Mrs Arthur Huberty, of .Daven-
port, Iowa, arrived last week for a
visit with Lancaster relatives and
friends.
The lost belt buckle ornamented
with red holly berries, has been found
by Joseph Bendorf and left at this
Office for i is owner.
Henry Pagenkopf has again in
stalled his. saw mill at its old loca-
Etisn, south of Baxter & Draper's
creamery and is prepared to do custom
saving of all.kinds.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy HorsfaIl passed away Saturday.
The child was little over a week old.
Burial took place Monday at Hillside
cemetery.
Hubert Alt started Monday for a
two weeks trip to st. Louis, going via
Milwaukee, where he intended visit
ing his sister-and ''others. :" A
man certainly has courage who starts
out on journey during this season of
snow bluckades.
"A number OF the Lancaster stu.
dents, who were home for the holi-
dcys, were forced to miss several days
work at the various institutions they
were attending because of the block
AIDE last week. Several started on
the ill-starred Tuesday morning train
and were forced to return to this city
on Barnetts Overland Special.
The Herald gives a little less
than its usual amount of reading mat
ter this week, by an unexpected demand
made upon its space by advertisers at
a time too late to provide extra pages
of reading. This is the season of
clearing sales, and the bargain columns
of the advertising pages make interest
ing as we'll as profitable reading
-Bryh IN. Roth & lockwood COM
prise the new machinery firm in Lam
caster succeeding TO the business of
Belscamper & Bryhan. who in turn
succeeded the late A. J. Hyde.
Henry and Oscar Belscamper recently
decided to retire from the business,
their interests being purchased by Carl
Roth and George lockwood. The
new firm is capable one and will,
without doubt, carry on the bust
ness successfully.
i 50 Wallace's Farmer IL well con-
sideIed editorial speaks Of the sure
disappointment that is bound to come
to farmers and Others who rush off to
distant parts of thu country and part
with their good money for land they
know nothing about. Down in Texas,
the paper says. they call such people
"home suckers, and they expect the
supply to keep up on the old principle
that "a sucker is born ve~y minute. !"
viroqua Censor.
The hunting party at Fl. W.
Brown Pine Knob lodge returned
home Wednesday, having had what
they pronounce thoroughly enjoyable
time. Tom Haley says the involuntary
dip in the creek he met with didn t
hurt him bit. He has been sleep
ing in a tent all summer and fall
and part Of the winter, and he and
Sykes have supplemented their cold
baths by turning the hose upon each
other while scantily clad, SO he's
used to it. Talk of appetites, say
Tom. You'd ought to have seen Fred
Barnett eat =
The circular giving the rules.
OICs VI luO SOCOAu
educational exhibition to be held in
connection with the Big Badger Fair
has been received by Supt. Brockert
and will shortly be circulated among
the rural and graded school pupils of
Grant and Lafayette county. The
prizes are large and varied enough to
insure numerous entries. The rural
scnool having the largest exhibit will
be given s.. CO. The county superin-
tepdent will. as last year, act as
superintendent of this department.
The educational exhibition is certain
ly one of the best features of the Big
Badger FAIR and the managers deserve
credit for having originated it,
In the current number of the
Wisconsin Engineer, a magazine