Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-04-21

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meeting this "Wednesday, afternoon,
3 o. clock, at the domestic science
rooms.
Mrs. VIM. Barrows is able to
sit up after four weeks illness and
it is hoped that she will be COM
pleteiy recovered soon.
Maurice Ziegler returned Mon
day from Quincy, H., where he is
employed, called here by the death
Of his grandfather. NJ. NJ. Ziegler.
The one year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lloyd Fry died Friday morning
and was buried from the home on
Monday afternoon. Services were
conducted by Rev. James Edgerton,
and burial was made at Hillside
cemetery.
In honor of the memory of the
late M. M. ZiegIer, one of Lancas-
ter's oldest pioneer merchants, whose
funeral will occur today, the business
men of Lancaster have agreed to
close their stores from two to three
clock this afternoon.
L. A. Clark and DR.. A. B. Cook
drove through to Dubuque, last Sat-
urday evening, and witnessed play
in which Maude Adams enacted the
leading role. They had dinner and
then drove home. They said it was
all very nice, except the dinner.
Last Sunday was a perfect day,
except for the dust. Roads were as
good as could be, the sun was hot,
the wind was balmy, great numbers
of birds were on the wing, and wild
flowers are beginning to appear in
wood and pasture. Surely, spring
has arrived.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Wright and
children, accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. George Q. Sykes, drove to
Platteville on Sunday to see Ned
Ivey, but he had gone into the
country, not expecting them. They
had dinner at the Columbia hotel
before returning.
There was a convention of town.
ship, village and city tax assessors
held in the court room, last Monday.
Nearly every assessor in the county
was present and answered to the roll
call. When the session finally broke
loose County Treasurer w. c. Liv-
lngston paid them off. Each receiv
ed his pay and milage, so the sums
ran from $4.09 to $40.
Some one has advanced the
opinion that the letter "e" is the
most unfortunate character in the
English alphabet, because it Is
always out of cash, forever in debt,
never out of danger, and in hell all
the time. However, he overlooked
some fortunate things of the letter, so
we will call his attention to the fact
that "e'' is never in war and always
in peace. 1t is the beginning of ex-
istence, the commencement OF ease
and the end of trouble. Without 1T
there would be, no meat, no life and
no heaven. 1t is the center of
honesty, make love perfect and with
out it there would be no editors,
devils, nor news. And it is at the
hind end of booze; the entire middle
of beer. 1t is no part of man Or
woman, and has nothing TO do with
boys, girls, cows. pigs and dogs.
And q lot of othar thinOs
DIR. j. FL. Reed has obtained a
patent upon a chart which shows in
"a unique manner the principles in the
formation of letters and characters in
penmanship, and is preparing. to have
quantity OF them made up and
placed upon the market. Educators
who have seen the working models of
these charts pronounce them to be
fine thing and predict large sale
for them. DIR. Reed has a very in
ventive turn of mind and at frequent
intervals obtains patents upon artl-
cles, some of which prove valuable.
A number of years ago he got up
penmanship chart in some respects
similar to, but much more complicat-
ed and expensive to manufacture than
the present one. He cleaned up eight
or ten thousand dollars out Of it,
which money he invested in the build
ing of the opera house, now Hatch 8,
in this city, which he owned for
several years.
While driving his new Buick car
from Cuba City to Patteville, last
Monday, Sheriff Frank He'll and
daughter, Miss Beth, had narrow
escape from serious injury, or possible
!, death. South of Platteville, near
; Ipswich, the highway runs down a
step grade to the tracks of the North
western railway. Mr.. He'll was
driving leisurely, but could not see