Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-07-31

a business caller Friday.
-Delos Edwards was a business
caller at Beetown Tuesday.
). Fl. Cnombs of Potosi, was a
business caller here Friday.
Miss Mabel Livens is visiting at
the farm home Of Mr.. a. Mrs. D.
Spaith
Robert Draper and FRANK Ten.
nant went to Fennimore Thursday
evening on business
Miss Bessie Hyde. who had spent
the past month here with friends,
left yesterday morning for CINCINNATI.
-Lost-Between STATIONS green
house and the pcstofice in Lancaster
a child's gold cross and chain. Re-
ward If returned to Herald Office.
Miss Ada Mattern, of Milwaukee,
who spent the past week at the j. F.
Croot home, the guest of Miss Reyes,
returned home Monday afternoon.
&C. Fl. Meyers, one of Platteville's
plumbers, made business trip to this
city Friday. Groceryman Fl. Johans
was also here on business, Friday.
Mrs Francis Durni and little
daughter left Thursday afternoon for
Frederick, Wis, where they will
spend about three weeks with rela-
tives and friends
The Herald prints a couple of
extra pages this week to accommodate
the unusual advertising demands made
upon its columns at this time without
curtailing the amount of reading
matter.
A. nj. Laird, of Prairie du
Chen, has card in our political an
nouncement column, making known
his candidacy for the republican
nomination for state senator in this
district.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Dixon and
family, of Muscoda, and Mrs. Dixon S
sister, Miss Maud Snyder, of Green
wood, are guests of Mrs. Budd Duncan.
this week Mr.. Dixon is the owner
of the Muscoda Democrat, which is
now conduted by his former partner,
H. G. Craig.
DIR. j. H. Fowler and family,
Miss Alma Wagner and Max Royal,
of Chicago, left week ago yesterday,
by auto, for Merengo, Iowa. They
are visiting Mrs. Fuwler's relatives at
that place and have been camping part
of the time. They are expected home
the last of this week. Mr.. Royal will
spend the summer here at the Fowler
home.
II To clean rooms of flies use carbo-
lie acid, heating a shovel and pour on
it twenty drops of the poison. The va
lpor that rises will kill the flies You
might use another method by burn
ing pyrethrum powder in the room
The flies will fall to the floor and may
be swept up and burned. The powder
should be moistened and placed upon
a dish and lighted at the top. 1t Will
burn slowly.
Tine last gap IN the Mississippi
Power Company's dam across the river
at Keokuk was closed Saturday and
for the first in it's history the Missls-
sippi is throttled at one of it's widest
points. The last crit for the foundation
of the cement work was completed to-
day against the Iowa side of the pro.
j4ct. The engineers state that the dam
will be completed and electrical eneT-
gy distributed from it IN less than a
years time. -Galena Gazette.
Complaints of the ravages of the
grub worm are being heard from var
ious parts of Grant and other counties
in this section of the state. as we'll as
from Northern Illinois and Iowa. Corn
and pastures, or hay, seem to be the
most seriously affected. This condition
it is claimed is directly due to the
killing of the birds, other than spar
rows, which kill the beetles that lay
the eggs that hatch the grubworms.
The sparrows do not bother the
beetles. The grubworms gnaw at the
roots of the young hay and corn kill
) ing the stalk and the farmers are en-.
deavoring to find some way to destroy
these pests The damage so far has
) not caused much loss but unless there
is some way to exterminate the bugs
} the loss will total thousands Of dol
lars.
The Herald last week announced
the commitment of Mrs. Andreas
Boesser, of Sitter, to the asylum at
Mendoza, where she was taken by
Deputy Sheriff Hymer on the Friday
previous. The unfortunate woman
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