Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-03-04

Walter Kuox made a trip tc
! Platteville Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 7. Spuk re-
turned home to st. Paul Friday.
after short visit here with relatives.
Misses Marie and Alma Kratch
mann, of Fennimore, were visiting in
Lancaster and Potosi the past two
weeks
Miss Pena hamburger returned
home to Liberty Sunday. after a visit
here with her brother, Vim. Mar
burger.
Belt Schreiner and Clement
Hoffman returned Friday noon from
their southern trip. They were in
Bay Minnstte. where Mr.. Hoffman
had business and then on to New
Orleans where they witnessed in the
Msdri Gras pageant
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Nauman en-
tertained at dinner, Sunday. Mr..
and Mrs. D. Q. Johnson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Schwartz. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Casper and family. Berna,
Emma and Ed Knoble, Mr.. Smith and
Miss Emma Waldman and her brother,
Otto
Earl Gibbs. Madison, an installer
of telephones for the Bell company.
was in Lancaster last week making
some changes in individual phones.
1t is the present plan of Mr.. Come.
ford, the local manager, to replace
ever phone in Lancaster with a new
one. These old instruments will be
packed up and shipped to Madison,
where they will be worked over.
I. Alt & Sons announce in a
large advertisement in this issue of
The Herald their annual sale of
'Sunkist" oranges and lemons, be-
ginning next Saturday. March Z, and
ending March IA. Half a carload of
this fruit, of excellent size and
quality, has been received by this
firm and will be placed on sale at
prices ranging from lac to 19c per
dozen.
No sooner was the verdict render
ed against II. r. French on the
murder charge, last Friday, than
metropolitan papers all over the west
began to telephone in to get the
particulars Lacrosse, naturally,
was very anxious to learn the out
come, because that is the home of
French and his crew. But CassvilIe
caught the infection and tried to
rival Chicago and Milwaukee in it's
demand for the very latest in the then
celebrated murder trial. As many
as five long reports went out of Lam
caster by telegraph, besides the mes
sages that we're transmitted by phon g.
1t was red letter day for the wire
transmission of news out Of Laucas
ter, at least it was so for the present.
No sooner had the spring sun
begun TO warm things up a bit,
than Chief of Police Mccarthy loosen
ed on such little items of news as he
has created during the winter that
broke On us with the unfortunate APP
pearance of the grounding, February
2. And while there was mighty
little to it, waiting and anxious
world will be glad to know what that
liGtle is. Here it is: Since the fall
session of the county board, last
November. there have been enter
tanned in the local Hobo's Paradise,
of which Chief Mccarthy is managing
director, only 80 specimens of the
genus tramp. And Mr.. Mccarthy
thinks this is nj ghty light crop.
He says that Muscoda or Blue River
can beat US at that game, hands down,
while BUsGobel is liable to get that
number of honored guests at single
throw. A year ago Lancaster had
shaken hands in the receiving line
with as many as 100 Of thesa 'angels
unawares. and two years ago our
hospitality was stretched to accom-
nodate 1870. There was not real ly
and truly police court case during
the month of February. which sho VS.
that any city is liable to lose it's
l character without notice or warming.
Not even a fist fght-what do you
think of that?