Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-01-28

Arthur Bailey was here from
Madison, Monday.
&C. H Vesperman was in Fenni-
more on business, Monday.
Mr., and Mrs Jos. Bsndolf spent
the afternoon at Fennimore Friday.
Miss Emma Miller was here
from Livingston between trains Fri
day.
L D. Totman and son Curtis, are
attending the auto show IN Chicago
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lorenz went to
COBB Friday to visit at the Jno.
Martineck home.
Miss Julia Sweeney is spending
two or three weeks in Livingston and
Platteville with relatives.
There will be a carpet rag social
at the Pleasant Ridge school, Friday,
Feb 6 Miss Ruby Poland, teacher
Med Willis spent a couple of
days the first Of the week with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs r. G. Willis.
w. q. Knox and daughter Elva,
Phil Goldstein ard~Dr. Jos. Godfrey
are attending the auto show in Chi,
cago this week.
Leo Glennon. of Dell Rapids.
South Dakota, is visiting at the home
of his aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs
Leo Meysembourg.
An avalanche of correspondence
bulged in on us Tuesday and we were
unable to handle it all this week.
Such as was left over will appear
next week
Postmaster Webb is out with
fine table that shows all about the
operation Of parcel post, and the rates.
We shall try to cover the subject next
week in these columns.
Pat McLaugblin, living just
north of the Potosi creamery, has
sold his farm and will have a big
auction on Wednesday, Feb. II. A
lot of stock, grain feed. household
goods and machinery will go to the
highest bidder.
Last Sunday acted very much
like an old fashioned snow storm day,
but the symptoms did not last long
enough. Looks as if the weather man
has lost his nerve-he just can't stack
up the real winter article Less than
two inches of the beautiful fell on
Sunday. And the ground under that
was good and rough, As we go to
press the backbone of winter" is
broken again.
-TAn oyster supper was given to rs
farmers at the Wright Houss on last
Monday night, the purpose of the
gathering being to prove that steel
fence posts are good buy for the
farm. The American steel & Wire
company was back of the entertain
ment, and speaker was on hand,
with lantern and 90 slides, to con-
vice the farmer that without steel
posts there is no salvation. During
the evening 100 of these posts were
sold.
"A gang of three men was in the
city last week tinkering the local
telephone apparatus Among other
special jobs was one known to the pro-
fession. as clipping the cables,
which, as we understand it. amounts
to fixing the supports of the cables so
that they will not come down on the
heads of innocent oot-passengers
The crew reported the physical
property of the telephone company TO
be in good condition. These men
were all expert wire men.
TO make the farmers feel better
about it, the state convention Of
threshermen that met in Madison last
week proposed to advance the rate for
threshing wheat and rye to five cents
per bushel. 1t was claimed that the
present schedule for threshing has
been in force since the time when
help about the machine worked for
glory in part. Now it takes money,
and lot of it to hire a gang of
threshers lat least that is the substance
of the argument in favor of advancing
the rates.
Last Thursday night the Wood
men held the annual ball of Sylvan
camp at Knapp's rink. A large COM
pany participated and the universal
verdict is that the affair was a success
in every feature. Music was furnish
ed by the Imperial orchestra of Madi'
son, and seldom Is better dance music
heard in Lancaster. Although the