Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-07-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Pat May and
family went to Madison Friday for a
visit with relatives.
Miss Leta Doan, of Fennimore,
spent Thursday here as a guest of
Miss Ruby Benedict.
Miss L linda Diesel went to Rich
land Center on Friday for visit
with friends and relatives.
-Myrl Hagen, of Hibbing, Mimi,
is visiting here at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hagen.
Marie Weber returned to her
home in Fennimore on Monday noon
after brief visit with relatives here.
George Morgans has moved from
the Libbie Cow house, north of the
Teller Office, to rooms in the Nye
house.
H. j. Bremmer, telephone man.
ager at Fennimore, attended the
funeral of Mrs. Otto Gulke here on
Monday.
Rudy" Hokanson, of Madison,
state distributor of the Buick
auto, was here on business several
days last week.
Miss Alta Bark came home from
the summer school at Platteville on
Thursday evening to attend the fun
eral of Ed Oates.
Gordon Smith, whose late ter
ritory has been Oklahoma and Kansas
surprised his parents Sunday morning
by his homecoming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Strother, two mis-
sionaries from China, lectured to a
good sized audience at the Congrega-
tional church on Thursday evening.
Mrs. Al Hunsaker and son
Frank returned from their Chicago
trip on Thursday evening. While
there they were guests of her bro
Their, Frank Van Dusen.
The personal property of the late
Frank Martin will be sold at auction
by the administrator on Tuesday,
July Ia. See auction bulletin on
page ten,
Miss Carrie Nackezak, milliner,
at Baxter & Draper s, left by way of
Potosi, Friday, for her home in Gales
burg, ILL.,, where she will visit
friends and relatives for few days.
DIR. j. C. Doolittle and wife and
DR.. S. w. were called to Brodhead
Sunday on account of the death of
their mother at that place. The
deceased had been i'll for many weeks.
Ora Bowan, residing west of
town near Grant river, had his hand
badly crushed on Monday by hay
fork. He came at once to Lancaster
and had the injured member dressed
by DR.. j. H. Fowler.
Haley & Edwards announce big
reductions in prices of fine clothes
for men and boys, in a special clear
ance sale of summer stocks. Sale
begins Friday, July 10, and last is
until Saturday, July 25. See their
bis advertisement on page two of this
week Herald.
W. E. Lathrop and family en-
joyed few days the past week at
their farm near Sitter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lathrop and son went last
week and were joined Sunday by
their two girls who had been visit
ing at Fennimore. They all return
ed home on the noon train Monday.
1t is a good thing to have strong
convictions and to stand by them
with tenacity. But there is no need
to be pugnacious about them.
"Many men of many minds" is
very old saying, and well describes
the diversity of humanity. No two
men will ever think exactly alike.
Be charitable in your thoughts of
others.
Quit your looking at ugly things
and thinking about them. The very
fact that they are displeasing teaches
you they are to be avoided as much
as possible. The reason for their
existence is to enhance your joy in
the beautiful Some of us are so
blind to the beautiful things about US
that they have to be forced upon US
by the ever generous hand of nature.
If a man is down on his luck
and thinks he is tired of farming be-
cause he cannot lay up much year
by year just let him remember that
there are thousands of men, as honest
as he, who are working in the cities
and villages at day or week labor,
and who eat up every cent they make,
so that if they get out of work for
day they must go in debt for their
food, and let him be thankful that he
has a hearth and home of his own, and
a roof to cover him and his family,