Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-06-11
ADDITIONAL LOCALS

Ben Beler of Potosi. was a Lam
caster visitor Yesterday.
Miss Pearl Shain left yesterday
for her home in Darlington.
John Birkett, of Hazel Green,
was in Lancaster on business yester
day.
Miss Bernice Day is visiting this
week with friends and relatives in
Bloomington.
Peter Woodhouse, of Blooming
ton, died at his home in that city yes
terday morning.
The st. Agnes Guild will meet
this Wednesday evening with Miss
Myrtle Pendleton.
There will be services both morn.
ing and evening at the Episcopal
church next Sunday.
Mrs. John McHale, formerly
Miss Theresa CaImody, arrived here
Wednesday for an extended visit with
her parents.
F. j. Burckhardt and wife re-
turned to their home in Waupaca yes
terdaY, after brief stay with reIa-
tives in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Breithaupt,
visited at the home of their daugh-
ter Mrs. John Taylor and family at
North Andover a few days last week.
Mrs. L. a. McGonigal, formerly
of this city, has been reappointed by
the state board Of control as matron
at the state tuberculosis hospital at
Wales, Wis.
-Chas. Watkins and wife, of st.
Louis, who have been visiting at the
home of Mrs. Watkins parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Vesperman, returned
to their home Saturday by way OF
Potosi.
ALI mail on rural routes is being
weighed and counted in the postoffices
during this month and report will
be made at the end of the month. A
strict account is also being made of
all parcel post business.
The dramatic picture, "Pauline
Cushman. the. Federal Spy. was pre-
sented at the Orpheum Monday and
Tuesday evenings to large crowds.
Manager Burr announces number Of
fine attractions each Monday and Tues.
day evening for several weeks to come
in films of 20O0 and 5000 feet each.
The Herald Office furnishes and
prints advertising fans as cheaply or
more so than they can be had by send
ing orders for them away from home.
Nice line Of samples to select from.
There is fully as much merit in buy
ing your printed matter from the home
printer as there is in patronizing the
home merchant.
The trottiug horse Mr. Hinmaa,
owned by Sheriff w. B. Dyer, of this
city, and Chas. E Perrin & Son Of
Beetown. was entered in the races at
Mason City. Iowa, last week, where
he carried off the money in the 2 :16
trot, trotting the mile in :164.
Messrs. Dyer and Perrin were both
there to see him win.
The farmer if he only knew it,
is little nearer the kingdom of
heaven than anyone on earth. He is
certain of three square meals day
and is the only man who can fence
himself in and live in spite of the rest
of mankind. A few cattle and sheep
and fowl provide him with food and
clothing. while his fields yield him
flour and a source of revenue. So
generous are these povisions and so
common. that hardly one farmer in
ten makes any account of them,
although the ordinary business man
thinks he has done we'll when he
reaches the end of the year and finds
that he has little more than made
ends meet.
City Assessor Richard Willis is
now engaged in taking the assess
ment of Lancaster property for pur-
poses of taxation. He is placing all
valuations about ten per cent higher
than last year in accordance with the
law and strict orders from the state
tax commission that all property must
be assessed at its full value. Real
estate must be rated at what it would
bring on sale and personal property at
its cash value. Provided the tax
commission has reason to believe the
assessed valuation is not what it
should be, it has the power to order
re. assessment, and. if necessary, send
in an outsider to Go the job at the ex-
pense of the city or town as the case
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