Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-05-13

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Carl Brandemuhl bought a fine
style 3, Gram Richsteig, piano of the
Gross music house last week.
The family of Ed Austin went
by auto to Dubuque and back, last
Friday, having a very enjoyable trip.
Miss Florence Drinkwater went
to Galesburg, ILL.,, Monday where she
will visit her cousin, Mrs. Arthur
Huberty.
Mrs. O'Hara and daughter, of
Fennimore, returned home to Fenni-
more Monday after a brief visit here
with friends.
The w. C. T. U. will meet in
the M. E. church Thursday, May
18th, at 2:3O p. m. 1t will be a
memorial to the late Mrs. Lillian
Stevens, late national president.
Misses Saloma Mccoy, Elva UT
and Eliza Kinzell, who are attending
the Platteville Normal, came home
Friday to be in attendance at the
Judge Mills contest and to spend a
couple of days with the home folks.
They returned to Platteville Monday
morning.
Miss Sarah Olson, an employee at
the asylum went to her home at
Klevenville Monday in response to a
telegram stating that her sister,
Caroline, an employe at the asylum
at Verona, had been dangerously in
jured. 1t later developed that Miss
Olson was in the laundry which was
blown down at the asylum at Verona
by the terrific windstorm in that Sec
ton Monday morning, and was killed.
There will soon be need of repair
work on the macadam road leading
south from this city. Already there
are depressions in which water stands
after rain, and unless these are filled
they will quickly develop into real
holes in the road. Even when macadam
is made of quartzite, as it is at Bara-
boo, there is little security of road
for more than eight years, without
yearly repairing. And quartzite is
very rebellion" rock, many times
harder than the limestone or sandstone
found in this vicinity.
One who rides through the
country these days is certain to be
impressed with the splendid outlook
for crops in Grant county. The
rather cool weather so far has been
good for oats and grass, and both are
looking their very best. A drive of
nearly 40 miles did not disclose one
field in which the oats were yellow
they are uniformly dark, rich green.
And grass is coming on excellently.
Clover and blue grass look equally
we'll. The two patches of alfalfa we
saw had the look of ready money.
Grant county is t'garden spot' all
right enough; it is more, it is one
great big fertile farm.
No doubt Lancaster had many
readers of the old Chicago Inter Ocean !;
it's circulation was almost entirely
in small cities, country towns and
villages. Beginning last Monday it
ceased to be an entity. On that day
it became merged into the Record
Herald, or they were merged together.
AS the organ of stalwart republican
ism it has ceased to be, and it is
doubtful if it's place in the political
field will ever be filled in Chicago.
The editor of the combined papers,
James Kelley, is one of the most
gifted newspaper men in the world.
He, more than any other man, made
the Chicago Tribune the great modern
purveyor of news that it is. He was
editor for many years,
although he is still a man in middle
life. AS the manager of a great
modern newspaper, covering the
world with service, Mr.. Kelley is
regarded as nothing short of a genius.
Chicago is now due to have another
great newspaper. Neither the Inter
Ocean nor the Record Herald was
great, as Mr.. Kelley counts greatness
in journalism.
Two week ago Robert 1. Dugdale
put in many hours of toll, so he says,
over an editorial on the subject of
taxation. He pulled his very soul
out-or poured it out, we don't quite
remember which, and when it was
done and polished down finely he gave
it type expression in the editorial
column of his excellent paper, The
Grant County News. And then
Bob was just as proud as boy
with a new red wagon, as he had a
right to be, because, from his view
point, he had done a good thing. He
had made an honest expression of his
convictions on the troublesome ques-
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