Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-03-26

yesterday.
Ned Winskill, of Platteville,
came over Sunday to see his grand
mother, Mrs. Mary Hicks.
-Schuster Bros. moved yesterday
to the Belscamper farm they recently
purchased, west of the city.
Misses Elisha Kinzel and Saloma
Mccoy where home from Platteville
to spend their Easter vacation.
Mrs. w. A. johnson went to
Livingston Friday afternoon to spend
few days with relatives and friends.
Miss May Morehouse returned to
Potosi on Monday after visit of two
weeks at the home of her parents.
Mrs. A. E. Budahn and little son
went to Richland Center Saturday
morning, to visit her mother, Mrs.
CLARK.
Walter Knox and family have
moved into their new home on East
Maple ST., recently purchased of
Day Bros.
Mrs. Roy M. Carter and little
daughters, of Livingston. are visiting
here at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. @. +. Dickinson.
Don't fail to see the great In
ternationaI band at the carnival and
country fair to be given at Hatch 8
opera house next Friday evening and
on Saturday afternoon and evening.
The various store windows along
Lancaster's business streets have been
very attractlvely dressed for the
Easter season, surpassing the displays
of former years. Window dressing is
becoming fine art.
Members of the Home Department
Bible Study are kindly requested fill
out the lesson study of the first
quarterly envelope and send them in
to the superintendent and receive the
new End quarterly journal. -Box349
LAST Friday, the first day of
spring, according to the almanac, was
ushered in with about four inches of
snow. next to the heaviest, and some
say the heaviest. of the winter. By
Monday morning it was all gone
again.
The ice on the Mississippi has
very largely gone out now and spring
activities along the river will now
soon begin. Owners of launches and
other boats are now looking them over
and preparing TO put them into
service
j. M. Allen returned to Michigan
last Wednesday after spending several
weeks pleasantly in Lancaster, with
the other members of his family, in
The Herald household. Mrs. Allen
and the babies will remain a few
weeks longer
Seven or eight work trains now
have their headquarters in Cassville
and as a consequence a large number
of workmen are to be seen in the
around town. The trains will be
busy here the greater part of the
summer -Cassville Record.
Work is steadily progressing upon
the painting and decoration of the in
terror of the court house. The vast
amount of scaffolding necessary, es-
pecially in the rotunda, makes it very
slow work, but when the job is com
pleted the walls will look beautiful.
Alt & Sons had a particularly at
tractive show window at their store
for Easter week. The central feature
of the display was pen of cute fuzzy
little chicks, all scratching and
running about j. heir tiny yard, -
and they attraC much attention.
Easter Sunday was one of the
most gloomy and disag1eeable days OF
the season. being foggy and drizzling
all day, followed with thunder, light
ing and hard rain in the night.
Not much of day for new Easter
gowns wraps and hats and they were
not on display.
The Baxter mine near Cuba City,
has been sold to the Burr Mining Co..
of Connersville. Ind. and force OF
% to 80 men has been set to work
there, under SUPPLEMENTARY of John
Dinsdale, of Galena. It is expected
that the mine will turn out about
seventy to seventy five tons of ore pei
week.
There will be a basket social al
the school house in the Boice Greek
District, South Lancaster, about seven
miles south of the city, on Monday
evening, March 81. Miss Lena Block
of Lancaster is teacher. Preceding
the social and beginning at Z 80 there
he