Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-03-20

Clements congregation, has been
spending a few days with the former
pastor, Rev. Geo. g. Schleicher at
Mansion, Wis. It Will be recalled
} that these two popular priests ex-
changed locations. sometnlng more
than a year ago.
"A pretty wedding took place at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs Geo. Bud
worth, in the town of Beetown, on
Tuesday of last week, when their
daughter, Mae E. Budworth, was
united in marriage to Leo r Vogt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Vogt, also
OF Beetown. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Taylor, Of Bloom
ington. Both of these young people
have grown up in that community
where they are much thought of.
old home and make that their place
of residence.
E. Norwood. who has been IN
Lancaster for several months past at
tempting to obtain sufficient financial
assistance to build The Air Line rail
road. has returned to his home in
Winona, MINI, to find some other
work to do. His surveyors have
Jumped the job and the promoter
has given up the project at least
temporarily. However he is still of
the opinion that the road as he now
has it laid out in his mind will be
put through successfully at some
future time
Mrs, George Garthwaite, of Little
J Grant, Harry Billings, of Buckwheat
Ridge, John Shipley, of Boscobel,
and MS Archie Hampton, of PUtosi,
are among those who have returned to
their respective homes during the
past week after having undergone
successful operations at the Doolittle
Bros. hospital Rhoda Tuck wood
was operated upon yesterday and Miss
Florence Barnett undergoes an
operation today. DIR. S. w. Doolittle
performed five operations at Living
ston last Thursday Clyde Aupperle
and Donald Mackey were operated
upon here the same day.
= It is said that the ''robins' re-
ported hereabouts of late are not
robins at all. Someone who has made
a study of birds and their habits
claims that this is the time of year
when the pine grosbeak, or buIlfnch,
driven by stress of winter from the
Arctic or near Arctic forests. migrates
south to this country. The bird is a
trifie smaller than the robin but SO
nearly the same color aud marking
that it is hard to distinguish one from
the other. Naturalists claim that the
pine grosbeak masquerades annually
as the first robin. Possibly this
explains the appearance of Uncle
George" Ishams mid winter robin.
Platteville Journal.
Maj E. P. Lowry, whose recent
return from military duty in Persia
was narrated at some length IN The
Herald two weeks ago, has consented
to give a talk about that unhappy
country, at Reeds opera house. next
Monday evening, for the benefit of
St Martha's guild of Emmanuel
Episcopal church. ''Ted' had some
interesting experiences in the land Of
the Shah, at one of the critical periods
of its history-the expulsion of its
American treasurer general, W. Nor
gan Schuster from his position at the
demand of Russia, and his talk will
be we'll worth hearing, Tickets will
be on sale tomorrow at Benefits
drug store Admission 25c and 35c.
The 14th annual Judge Mills
Contest will be held at the Congre-
gational church Friday evening,
March 22nd at p. LII. There will be
four speakers this year who, with the
subjects of their orations, are as
follows: The Plea of Humanity"
Miss Gladys Lisherness Giuseppe
Carl baldi,' Miss Katherine Meyer;
"The Awakening of China, Miss
Mary Webb; Cecil Rhodes. I"
Maurice ziegler. All the con testants
have worked hard and have spent
much time in the preparation of their
orations and good attendance should
be present to enjoy the work put forth
by our high school pupils. The same
rules as usual will govern the contest.
An incident to show how efficient
Sheriff Hymer is in looking after the
duties pertaining to his Office hap
paned Sunday morning at about 2
o'clock. The evening train blockaded
by heavy snow did not arrive until
nearly 2 a. m. and there were a mum
Der of passengers who had to find a
place to spend the remainder of the
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