Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-02-21


Fred Philbrick is now employed
in the J. 7. Bennett drug store.
&C E. Tuffley and wife are here
from Marion to attend tho Farmers
Institute.
There will be an auction sale of
household goods in front of G. W.
Burrows store on Saturday afternoon,
February "a.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Creamy enter
tanned a number of friends at their
home west of town Saturday evening.
All present enjoyed fine time.
The big feature pictures at the
Orpheum theatre next week will be
Cinderella. They are said to
be good and will be worth seeing.
In Harvey Hurlburt's special sale
last week, prizes to the persons MAX
ing the largest purchases we're: 1st
prize, jardiniere, Mrs. Irwin Hale,
Bloomington 2ud china cup and
saucer, Tom Flesch, Hurricane; 3rd
meat cleaver. Alex. Croft, city.
1t is one of the traditions that
nave come down from times prehistoric
that a cold winter with heavy SHOWS
means big crops for the season fol-
lowing. It is a not mere guess that
severe winters assure better farm
yields, it is theory based upon the
results Of long experience. Hard
freezing is apparently part of a
chemical process that makes many
soil clements available as plant food.
A hard winter also destroys in the
larva or egg stage many bugs and
worms that feed On food plants. And
the heavy SHOWS as they gradually
melt send down nitrogen to the
roots Of wheat, rye and the forage
grasses and nourishment to the roots
of vines and fruit trees. Winter is
natures great chemical factory and
the factory is working up to it's full
capacity when the temperature is
down to zero.
"A change of firm has taken place at
Hoffman Bros. during the past week,
in which Clement Hoffman, who re-
Gently purchased his brother Joe s
interest in the business bakery,
restaurant and wholesale and retail
ice cream-purchased the remaining
half of the business from his brother
Jake. and two or three days later sold
a half interest to Charles Tiedeman,
who has been in charge of the bakery
department for the past three years.
Exactly what Jake will do now has
not yet been decided but be may re-
main in Lancaster For the present
Joe is giving the new firm the benefit
Of his assistance and experience and
may continue to do so for few
months. The business of this firm
has been on the gain for several
years and their bakery and ice cream
products have large sale in other
nearby towns.
Another Leap Year party was
held Friday evening. Five young
ladies made the necessary arrange
ments for the occasion and at eight
O'Clock five young men were called
from their respective homes and were
packed snugIy into bob-sled.
Then for nearly three hours the young
people drove around the city singing.
joking and especially enjoying the
volleys of snow balls. tin cans and
other missiles which were hurled at
them from the dark corners along
side the road by a number Of the
small fry who are always present
on such occasions. Finally the
driver was ordered to take the load
out TO the R. A. Draper home where
they were introduced to an excellent
'spread" which had been prepared
and was then served by Mrs. R. A.
Draper and Mrs. j. NJ Stone. To
all the eatables which were
laid out before the jolly crowd would
be too ~uch Of task but it is
sufficient to say that everyone had his
fill. AS this was a Leap Year party
things were somewhat reversed. The
young men instead of being polite
and giving the ladies first chance
each helped himself first. After the
feast was over the guests adjourned
TO the parlors where games were
played, also several musical selections
were rendered by mem bers of the
party. In the small hours of the
morning the guests departed. each hav
ing enjoyed himself immensely and
the young men declare the young
ladies are very capable of carrying
out such an event and can handle
their leap year advantages very sue
cessfully.