Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-04-28

may hear the song of the lawn mower
these days.
Former Sheriff w. b. Dyer is
very much improving his home on
north Monroe street. He is finishing
a splendid barn on the rear of the lot.
Last Saturday the personal
effects of the late Barbara Schloesser
were sold at auction at the cottage
on east Cherry street where she died,
Justice c. w. Burrows acting as auc-
tioneer. They brought $119.
Entries by boys and girls for
the corn and potato growing contest,
for the prizes offered by the county
fair association, are coming in fast
now. As many as 100 will he on
file for the corn contest alone by the
end of this week.
Union. services were held at the
Methodist church, last Sunday even
ing, and the Rev. w. A. Weyhrauch
preached. The choir was composed
of singers from the Congregational,
Baptist and Methodist churches. 1t
was accounted an interesting service.
As might be expected, forest
fires were raging few miles north
west of Montfort, last Saturday.
Continued drouth put the old leaves
in condition to burn, and somebody
set the fire. Vast clouds of smoke
were visible from the train between
Lancaster and Madison.
Miss Leila Goble, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George P. Goble, of
Lancaster, attended an informal tea
dansant given Saturday afternoon by
Pan Hellenic, an organization which
is made up of all the sororities at
Lawrence college, where Miss Goble
is stu 'ent. The party was held in
the Masonic ball room at Appleton,
only girls attending. Miss Goble is
a member of the Lawrence college
chapter of Phi Mu.
Much interest is already mani
fest in the gentle game of tennis.
The grounds (court, If you please
near the Northwestern station are
we'll taken of afternoons, when the
weather is agreeable. The court
back of the Episcopal church is be-
coming popular, and the nigh school
grounds are occupied pleasant after
Moons. Besides these there are a
number of more private courts, and
these seem to be engaged afternoons.
Evidently the game is becoming in
creasingly popular.
"A crew is at work on the tracks
few miles north of Lancaster, try
ing to make travel on the stub bit
more certain. The rails on this line
are said to be rather tender and
gentle, as compared with the steel
on the main line, so that jerk, or
quick move, is liable to put car
out of the running. But, praise be
our good luck, we never get hurt in
any of these rolling stock tragedies.
Nothing is ever hurt but our feelings;
nothing suffers but our religion.
w. j. Carmody had narrow
escape from a collision with a Mil
waukee freight train at Bridgeport
one day last week. AS he approached
the railroad crossing from the north,
near the toll bridge, the alarm bell
was ringing for an approaching train,
but the switchman, thinking some
boys were trifiing with it, signalled
the car to come on across. This was
done at a lively pace, on second
speed, and just as the car got safely
across the rails the freight train
came laundering along around the
curve just behind it. No harm was
done but it was little too close a
call for comfort.
Mayor William ]. Bailie has a
wide reputation as fioriculturist,
but we have not heard much Of him
as a grower of sour food. Those
specimens of lemons that were last
week in the show window at j. D.
Hatch's drug store seem to prove that
Mr.. Bailie knows how to produce
other things than flowers. They are
of dwarf variety, we take it, for
no normal lemon tree could con
veniently be grown IN the house to
the size and age necessary to produce
such fruit The fruit has look all
its own, but it smells like lemon and
James D. Hatch says it is lemon.
He ought to know, and knowing would
not try to fool simple newspaper
man. Perhaps this fruit is not of the
lemonade variety, but who is to
know?
Those war pictures in the window
at the H. C. Orion Co. store, are
still exciting lot of interest,
although spring activities here at