Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-08-07

Miss May Boyle is visiting rela.
tives and friends in Mt. Hope this
week.
The Congregational Ladies' Aid
Will meet on Friday with Mrs. j.
q. Reed
Miss Winner and niece, little
Miss Bergheger left for Chicago Mon
day afternoon.
H. A. ingalls,, of Chicago. spent
Sunday IN Lancaster, guest of Mr..
and Mrs. j. Harold Pugh.
Miss Marion Scanlan, of Prairie
du Chen, arrived Monday noon for a
few days visit with old school mates
Miss Jessie Ziegler who visited
relatives at Galesburg, Ill. the past
two weeks returned home Saturday.
The Misses lockwood returned to
their home in GAINESVILLE Saturday,
after a two weeks visit with relatives
here.
Mrs. W. Curtis, of Madison, who
has been visiting her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. R. Willis, returned home We'd
nesday.
Mrs. R. M. Carter and two chill
dren, OF Livingston, came Wednesday
evening for visit with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Z. Dickinson.
Mr.. AMI Mrs. Jno. Blackburn,
of Flora, returned Saturday from In
dependence, Iowa, where they had
been visiting relatives and old friends.
The Misses Rachel and LaVon
Jacka, of Mineral Point. arrived
Saturday noon for a few day visit
with their sister Mrs. A. Siebert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bell, of Washing
ton, D. c., who have been spending
the past six weeks in this city, left
for their home Wednesday afternoon.
Frank Kpfer, the tailor, was sick
three or four days last week with
symptoms of appendicitis but is able
to be at his place of business again
as usual.
Alt & Sons second car load of
peaches. which they had expected to
receive last Wednesday, went astray
and did not arrive until Saturday
evening. The deliveries were made
on Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Anna PeIechek, of Wing
Vile, was brought to Lancaster last
Wednesday, examined for insanity
and taken by deputies H. Hymer and
W. Carmody. to Mendoza, where she
was confined in the State Insane
asylum for insane.
Mrs. j. A. Trautwein and daugh-
ter Bessie and Mrs. Beth Bowers, of
this city, joined party of Dubuque
and Prairie du CHEN people who left
Dubuque yesterday, on special
excursion to western Texas. This
excursion is conducted by E Wolfe,
of Dubuque, representing the Vaughan
Land Company, which owns
several large tracts of land for home
seekers in Texas. The party will
be gone just week.
The total insane population of
the state. including persons in the
hospital for the insane and the
county hospitals, for the fiscal year
ending the last day of June was
g. SOB as against 6. 703 last year, an
increase of 100. On the basis of these
statistics compiled by the state board
of control there is one insane person
out of approximately levery $50 of
the states total population. Forty.
two per cent of the increase are
women and SO per cent are men.
Geo. E. Taylor, residing at Hur-
ricane sends to The Herald, with his
compliments, a quart jar of most ex-
celIent strained honey whit we have
sampled with much pleasure and
satisfaction. Mar. Taylor is an
apiarist of years of successful expert
ence and has about 20 stands of bees
from which he has this year taken
off nearly three tons of honey and
will take off considerable more before
the season ends He is a member of
the National Bee Keepers Associa-
tion and all honey put up by it's mem
bers has stamp pasted across the
top of the can containing $50
guarantee of the purity of the honey
therein.
The list of candidates for con.
sideration at the September primary,
for county and legislative Offices, as
published in The Herald last week,