Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-05-12

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communities in Grant county. Send
IN a sample lot Of items, and let US
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Chris. Hartman and Charles
Steiger, Waterloo. are now riding in
Overland cars. Chris. has been
looking around for several months,
but seemed to be hard to please.
Will Carmody settled the matter,
last week. These two farmers are as
prosperous as any in that section of
Grant comfy.
j. E. BYington, who installed
the pipe organ in the local Methodist
church, will be in Lancaster again to
put in the new organ in the Catholic
church. He expects to begin work
Thursday. The new instrument is to
cost $4,000, and is made at the big
organ factory at Dixon. Ill. Dedica-
tion will come a week or two later on.
There has been just two kinds of
weather the past week, pleasant and
unpleasant. On the score of utility,
the weather has been good; while il
rained the crops were smiling; when
the sun shone the crops were hump
ing themselves. A good part of last
week was drizzly, but beginning on
Sunday the weather has been as fine
and handsome as one could wish to
see.
Irene Recht, who won the coun-
ty prize in writing at the recent
contest, is the daughter of the pastor
of the Evangelica church of Liberty,
and has been in America only two
years. That simply shows the pos
sIbilities of this glorious republic.
If her people had stayed in Germany,
she would never have won such a
prize-in Grant county, America.
She is a bright Miss, just the same.
Saturday was a good day for
trade in Lancaster. although there
did not seem to be a large crowd in
town. One merchant said it was his
best day since the HOLIDAYS; another
said 1T was away above the average
for Saturday. Farmers were very
busy getting ready for complaining.
Of course many have already painted,
but the percentage of such is small.
Other of our merchants say that the
week as a whole was a good one, and
there you have it. Lancaster is not
a regulation Saturday town; it has
more all-week trade than almost any
other town of its size in this section.
One who drives west Of town by
either Of the roads that lead out in
that general direction, is bound to be
impressed by the number of fields
of alfalfa he sees. On the north
side of the Beetown road are two,
one of which evidently belongs to
/ Frank Smith. These are beauties,
and unless something untoward
occurs they will be ready for the
mower within two weeks. We are
no alfalfa editor, but we are a Judge
Of handsome shades in green, and
there is nothing in all the green of
nature hereabouts that excels those
alfalfa fields for beauty. And there
is in them a something that sug-
gests ready money.
George Peterson, Beetown, has
been having the time of his life of
late, an experience that would have
made the Vikings Of old tremble. He
really never wanted to be a member
of the county board of education
never was a-thirst. But the voters
of Grant had notions Of their own and
they put MIN on the job, willv-nilly.
Then the board elected him secretary.
And there were those of Mr.. Peter
sons friends who thought the whole
board of education business was bosh,
and urged George to quit, and he was
disposed to do this very thing. At
the meeting, last week Tuesday, he
brought the thing to a focus and
wrote, signed and filed his resigna-
tion to the board, also his resigna-
tion as secretary. 1t was 2 good
day for designations, thought George,
so he made a complete job of it.
Then his fellow members of the board
gathered about him and insisted that
he stay by the ship, and being some
thing of a Viking, he still sticks,
although he is a reluctant sticker.
The Rev. Father Kleist S.. j.,
of Campion college, Prairie du Chen,
oficiated at St. Clements church,
last Sunday, in the absence of the
pastor, the Rev. F. A. Wambold,
who was in Sun Prairie attending the
burial of his aged father. Father