Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-05-21

-btAl6F N draper are making
number of Improvements in the in
terror of their store.
Mrs Geo. Muender and children,
of Montfort, spent Sunday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Grebe.
The rains and cold weather are
greatly delaying the farmers in their
corn planting and other spring work.
Tt is agitation and publicity
that accomplish reforms. Judge
Mutchlau in John Eearem g Conver,
sion.
The annual financial report Of
the city of Lancaster, as compiled by
the city clerk and approved by the
city, is published on page seven of
this issue of The Herald
-Theo Wenzel has been making
many alterations and improvements
in the harness and horse furnishings
store of Ressmeyer & Kasper, which
add greatly to its attractiveness.
The law gives the finder no
title to lost property until he has
made a reasonable effort to find the
owner. !" The reasonable effort is to
advertise it in the Lost and Found
and Want column. Try it.
New mission furniture has been
placed in the Office of the Hotel Far
we'll by Landlord Croker, who has
been making constant Improvement in
the hotel and its surroundings ever
since he took possession of it.
Mrs. Margaret Finnegan left
Thursday afternoon for Mcintosh, So.
Oak where she will spend the
summer with her two sons, Thomas
and Leo On her way she will visit
friends at Sheldon and Mitchell, So.
Oak.
John H. Retallick will have an
auction sale ersonal property at
his residence l. lis city next Sat.
urday and expects to return soon
thereafter to Clinton, Ia, where he
has been spending the winter with
relatives.
DIR. j. H Fowler went to Liberty
Monday morning to operate upon
Arthur, the three year old son of
Geo. Flesch, to remove pus from the
right side of the chest, following
pneumonia which the child had a
month age.
Auto owners who have subscribed
to the fund for dragging the roads
extending out in various directions
from Lancaster are requested by the
treasurer Of the organization, v L.
Showalter, to hand in the amount of
their subscriptions.
Ned Winskill, Geo. Clark. Yves
Cooley, Ernest Lane and Paul
Richardson, autoed to Prairie du
Chen en- Sunday to witness the ball
game between the Indians and the
Sacred Heard College team which
resulted in score Of 3 to in favor
Of the latter.
An ordinance appearing upon
another page of this issue of The
Herald provides for regulation of
the speed of automobiles and other
motor vehicles upon the streets of
Lancaster. also concerning lights,
exhaust muffiers, etc. No more
'scorching'' upon the city streets.
Conductor VIM. Marquette. of
Baraboo, is working on the Lancaster
Galena division in the place of MIR.
Helberg. who left for Chicago Wed
nesday afternoon. Mr.. Helberg's
new run will be between Chicago and
Sparta with headquarters at Chicago.
Mrs. Helberg and daughter expect to
remain here until fall.
W. Howard Collins, on the road
for large cotton mandatory in the
east, was Lancaster visitor on We'd
nesday, this town being one of those
he visit annually in his business trips
from coast to coast. For a number
of years he resided in the same town
in Michigan as did the Publisher Of
The Herald in the by gone days.
While assisting in the construc-
tion of fence on his fathers farm
last Friday. Leonard Schwantes, the
fourteen year old son of Herman
Schwantes, living about eight and a
half miles southwest of here, had the
index finger on his left hand crushed
so badly with sledge hammer as to
necessitate the amputating of the
finger.
The state law prescribing that
all berry and fruit boxes, crates and
barrels shall be of standard sizes, con.
tanning full measures in pints, quarts,