Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-02-12

Fennimore visited here over Saturday
and Sunday.
Everybody come to the Valentine
social at NJ. E. church, Friday night,
at eight colck Admission 10 cents
L, P. BARLEY. Geo. f. johnson
and Miss Gladys johnson, of Bloom
ington, spent Sunday here with
friends.
Rev. and Mrs. Schmidt and son.
Rev. Edward Schmidt, spent Monday
afternoon with Rev. Recht and family
at Liberty.
M. Casey, of Bloomington, was
here yesterday in probate court rela-
tive to the appointment of guardian
for Jas. Churchill.
To-day, Feb. 10 is Lincoln's birth
day, it being the 1O4th anniversary Of
the birth one of the greatest men in
American history
Miss Hattie Webber returned to
her home in Dubuque, Sunday hav-
ing spent couple of weeks here with
relatives and friends.
Miss Dorothy Lisherness, who is
teaching at Beetown spent Saturday
and Sunday here at the home of her
mother, Mrs Chas. Lisherness.
M. w. Metcalf drove over from
Glen Haven yesterday to attend
meeting of the building committee for
the new asylum, which was in session
here.
Martin Mcdonald, who had an
option on the Frank Tebo farm, near
the Five Points cheese factory, has
sold the place to Drs S. ". and ].
G. Doolittle
Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips, Of
Mineral Point are here again; Mr..
Phillips having had considerable
trouble with his throat is taking
treatments here.
The Herald has again secured a
regular correspondent in South Ian
caster, who will furnish the news of
that locality each week The first
installment appears in this issue.
Dan Healy, the horse buyer from
Wausau left yesterday afternoon for
that city with two car loads of fine
draft horses twenty six in all, bought |
at Bloomington, Fennnimore and Ian
caster by himself and Joe Mccoy.
John Mcmahon started yesterday |
morning for Peoria and LaSalle, ILL.,.
where be expects to purchase a num-
Der of fine pure bred swine to add to
his herd of Poland Chinas and Durocs.
He will be absent about week.
Martin Mcdonald and L. e.
Stevens have sold to Ed Mclean the
farm known as the Ed Kiley farm of
$50 acres, which they recently pur-
chased, several miles west of Lancas.
ter on the Bloomington road, at a
satisfactory advance over what it cost
them.
While amusing a younger brother
with coin tricks, the fourteen year old
son of John Ellis living on e. Cherry
St., late Sunday afternoon, accident
ally swallowed two silver half dollars,
They lodged about three and one half
inches below the boys throat, and
upon consulting DR.. S. w. Doolittle
found it impossible to remove them, so
pushed them down into his stomach,
He is suffering no i'll effects from the
accident and the movement of the
coins, which remain always together,
is being watched carefully by means
of the X.ray. On Monday the coins
had passed out of the stomach and it
is thought they will give no further
trouble.
The regular statements required
from State and National banks as to
their condition at the close of business
on Tuesday, February appear in this
issue of The Herald from the Union
State. First National and PEOPLES
State banks, of this CITY, and the
PotOsi State Bank of Potosi Great
gains in the amount of business done
by each of these four banks is shown
by these reports. The Union State |
Bank, the largest in Grant county,
leads with total of $780, 18, gain
of S52 900 since Lhe Dacamhar stota
ment, The First Naiontal has made
a gain of $50, 900 in the same period.
the Peoples $31. 900, and the Potosi ,
bank $24. 900. A mighty good show,
ing.
Advertising is the life of any
legitimate business and the man or
woman who fails to advertise because ,
they think they cannot afford it,
are pursuing a mistaken policy.
They are saving pennies and losing