Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-08-02

Miss Gladys Jordan is visiting
friends in Dubuque.
Several columns of additional To-
cal news appear upon other pages Of
The Herald today.
Miss Doris Schreiner went to
Madison Saturday for a short visit
with friends and relatives.
The Woman's Missionary Society
of the Congregational church. will
meet with Mrs. William Baxter Fri
day afternoon at 100
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the pageant of all nations
will be one Of the night features of
the State fair. 1t is intended that
this spectacle shall be illustrated by
fifteen magnifcently Illuminated
floats, each float to be drawn by four
or six horses and from 100 to $50
representatives Of tie fifteen nations
will take part in the pageant. The
same company who built the Hudson
Fulton celebration and New Orleans
Mardi Gras floats and decorations, the
Chicago sane Fourth Of July pageant
and the Philadelphia BY Centennial.
are planning the night spectacle.
Sheriff Hymer will begin, this
week. to enforce the school com
pulsury attendance law Ali parents
who neglected to keep their children
in school last year. will be required
to pay a fine Of not less than $5 and
costs Greater strictness IN this
matter Will be shown next year. The
state Will require the county super
intendents to make monthly reports
to the commissioner Of labor. This
being the case, the sympathy and
leniency which the county officials
are apt to show, will be done away
with and the parents must keep their
children, under 20 years OF age. in
school.
Bud Fisher, who is famous
throughout the country as the creator
of Mutt & jeff, the sporting page
feature of Heartst papers, was at>one
time a fireman on the Galena division
Of the North western and visited Ian
caster in that capacity number of
years ago. In his railroadng days
he drew pictures all over the interior
of his cab for the amusement of him
self and the engineer. At that time
nobody dreamed that he would be
drawing $3.50 par week for doing
this same stunt daily for the amuse-
ment of many million newspaper
readers in all portions of the country.
1t is long jump from locomotive
fireman to famous cartoonist.
jams J. Nelson, Amherst, A.
W. Prehn, Wausau and William Mac
Laren, Milwaukee, the special at
traction committee of the State fair,
have engaged two of Glen 3 Curtiss
aeroplanes for daily exhibitions dur
ing the fair. The committee is en-
deavoring to secure Lincoln Beachey,
who recently flew over Niagara Falls,
and J. A. c. McCurdY who flew from
Key West to Havana. The contract
for these aviators calls for three
flights of not less than fifteen minutes
duration, every afternoon, and that
they will also co operate with the
military authorities in the war
maneuvers on Saturday, September
10th. when detachments Of artillery,
cavalry and infantry from Eft. Sheri-
dan and Ft. Smelling will battle with
the three arms Of the Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard in the sham battle.
When the last car of the endur
ance tourists was taking it's leave
Friday morning some of its occupants
threw handfuls of cigarettes across
the street to the assembly of spectators.
Many of the crowd scrambled after
them as if they were silver dollars.
The above appeared in The Teller
last week as the text of sermonette
which, in so many words. placed an
extremely low estimate upon the man
hood Of Lancaster young people. The
fact is, that what The Teller's editor
thought were cigarettes we're advertis-
ing badges given away as souveniers
by the automobile company. Each
one was wrapped in tissue paper and
to person, not inclined to Investigate
carefully, might have borne vague
resemblance to loosely rolled pill. =
Once more the Teller editor s
imagination was stronger than his
eyesight
Lancaster is prominently repre-
sented in both of the suffrage associa-
lions of the state. Miss Linda Rhodes,
is county president and member of the
state central committee, of the Wis
consin Womans Suffrage association