Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-04-14

Thomas H. Williams was over
from Cassville, last Friday, and went
from here to Prairie du CHEN.
Mrs. Diana Gilbery, widow of the
late Hugh Gilbery, died at her home on
south Jefferson street, Monday night,
at an advanced age, about 80. Deceas-
ed has lived in this city a number of
years.
Out in north Beetown there is
quite bit of winter wheat to be
seen. On the Grimes place, north
west of the house, is field of per-
haps six acres. Henry Mankel has
eight acres, and it is as green now as
1t was last fall.
In their zeal for the "wets" or
the "drys," nobody can tell which,
five electors of Lancaster put in each
a blank ballot on the license question.
Those who are still holding post
mortems on the recent election may
take up the matter of these five
blanks and settle it, if they can.
Rock is piled along the Bee
town Bloomington road west of Lam
caster which is to be used in extend
ing the macadam on that thorough
fare. There has been some macadam
on that road, but it has got out of
repair, and now is quite rough in
places. 1t is expected that macadam
at the right places on this road will
help matters during wet periods.
The old council held a meeting
last night, for the purpose of can
wasting the votes of the late election.
The new council will hold its first
meeting next week Tuesday, when it
is expected that an organization will
be perfected. The official canvass
shows the dry majority to be 155,
instead of 154, as was thought to be
the fact when The Herald went to
press last week.
After losing two teachers, it..
Dist, No. IA, South Lancaster, seems
to be finishing in good form. The
Herald man was by the school one
fine day last week, at the noon hour,
and he counted II children playing
in the ample yard. 1t may be that
Miss May Boyle, the present teacher,
was counted as an unchin, for the
modern teacher has way of max
ing herself a leader in the play
ground, as we'll as in the school
room.
Sam Kitto, Bloomington, brought
over to Lancaster, last Sunday, a
company of relatives to inquire after
his daughter Miss Rema, who recent
ly underwent an operation in the
hospital of the Drs. Doolittle. In
the company were |. D. Kitto, wife
and daughter, Hawarden, Iowa. They
remained over Sunday night, taking
the train out Monday morning for
home. Mrs. Sam Kitto has been in
Lancaster with her daughter since the
operation.
While going from his home in
Little Grant to the Grimes auction,
last Thursday, Henry Mankel shot a
big sand owl. 1t is said of Henry,
out in that section, that he never
goes away from home without a gun
over his shoulder. On this occasion
he was carrying a short 22-calibre
rifle, and seeing Mr.. owls about so
yards ahead took a shot at him, and
sure-enough tumbled him down. Poor
old owl had seen a hard winter, for
he was desperately lean. Although
he had mighty frame, as large as
the average horned owl, he would
not have weighed more than two
pounds.
Pupils in it. Dist. No. 7, Wing
vile, presided over by Miss Eva
Gundlach, of Livingston are giving
much attention to birds. During the
winter they had a table in the school
yard, on which birds were regularly
fed and their habits studied as much
as possible. The result, one result,
is that those children are becoming
real students of bird life and during
the last week in March some of them
reported to Miss Gundlach nest
near the school house in which were
young birds. Miss Gundlach followed
the children to the nest and for herself
saw the young birds. The nest was
on earth. Miss Gundlach reported the
case to Superintendent E. C. Brick.
Unless one rides about the coun-
try quite bit, he is about certain to
forget that there ever was such
thing as a saw log, and if he should
happen to hear the subject mentioned
he may not be able to recall what
saw log looks like in real life.
Out on the Beetown- Bloomington
road, on the fine farm of the Schuster
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