Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-20

Urban Smith was down from
Fennimore over Sunday.
-Adolph Wepking made business
trip to Woodman Monday. 80
The old year 1911 only has ten
Gays more until the finish
Miss Gladys Muffiey, of Boscobel,
spent Sunday with friends here.
Who is Smith, Find out at
Reeds opera house Jan 1st and End.
Get your handouts ready, Smith
is coming to Reeds opera house, Jan.
1st and 2nd 1912.
No jail can hold Smith. Smith
will be at the opera house with his
vaudeville on Jan. 1st. and End.
Judge Clementson went to
Dubuque Thursday to see his sister
who was sick at her home in that
city.
The Ladies' Aid of the Congrega-
tional church will meet with Mrs.
Hannaford at the parsonage Friday
afternoon.
The time for renewing subscrip-
tions is here and many are doing this
every day. We wish to start out the
new year with clean, paid up lists.
The Boscobel saloon keepers who
were arrested and brought to Lancas-
ter last week charged with selling
liquor illegally, signed bonds to
appear Jan. LIST.
H. w. Brown went to Chicago
Monday. His son Dick came home
with him from the Interlaken school
at LaPorte, Ind, and will spend two
weeks vacation at home.
Rule Bros, of Edmund recently
purchased registered Duroc- Jersey
hog of Ira Murphy. They saw his
advertisement in The Herald which
shows that our advertisements pay.
Mysterious Smith is coming to
Reed opera house on the evenings of
Jan. 1st and End III the new year
1912. Ladies free with each 80 cent
reserved seat ticket purchased before
o'clock the first day Monday Jan.
1st
Miss Alma May Taylor spent
Sunday with relatives in Lancaster
where she has given entertain
ments on different occas ions. She left
Monday for Reedsburg to entertain
the people OF that city on Monday
evening
The popular saying that Nobody
loves fat man., is easily disproven
at this time. The little boys and
girls have great deal of love at this
season for a fat, elderly, jolly looking
old man with big whiskers aud
pack on his back
The Presbyterian G. E. Society
held an envelope social at the home of
Henry Holsinger Friday evening.
The social was similar to a basket
social in that 10 envelopes were put
up for sale and they went at good
prices The total receipts of the
social were $40 60 and everyone had
good time.
"A card received by E. M. Lowry,
Monday, from his son, Major Ted"
Lowry, announces that he had then
reached Resht, Persian port on the
Caspian Sea, having travelled across
Russia to reach there Russian troops
are stationed in the mountains back
of Resht, awaiting further develop.
ments in the trouble between Russia
and Persia.
Belmont has had great deal of
excitement recently John Bartels
had streak of hatred toward Streeter,
the marshal of the village, and ex-
pressed his desire to see the marshal
licked. Thomas Shaw then agreed to
do the job for $50 for which amount
Bartels gave Shaw a check Shaw
accomplished his task but was arrested
and given a sentence of months IN
the county Jail. Perhaps Shaw now
thinks he took the job too cheap.
The first match game of basket
ball was played in the opera house
Friday evening when the seniors of
the high school played against team
picked from the lower classes, the
game resulting in a score of 1916 in
favor Of the lower c1assman Pv the
rules of the game score must be
made of two points above the opposing
side in order to close the game. AS
the time passed quickly and it was
getting late the game was called
a draw.
Last Saturday brought an I'M