Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-04-28
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Platteville, last Thursday.
w. ]. Schade drove company
of friends to Mt. Hope, last Sunday
in his car.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Jewell
went to Edmund on Saturday, to
spend Sunday with home folk.
Lambert Groenier has a new
Buick touring car that is a fine one
He went to Madison after it, week
before last
Evans Barnett, who is finishing
Campion college this year, visited
with his parents last week. He re-
turned to Prairie du CHEN, Monday.
Mrs. E. Coombs, of Niles,
Mich, who has been visiting Miss
Genevieve Ennor, returned home Sat
urday morning. Miss EnDor accom-
panied her as far as MontfOrt.
Prof. j. G. Brockert, former
superintendent of schools, now a pro-
fessor in Platteville Normal, expects
to be in attendance at the county con-
test at the Lancaster high school
building, next Saturday. May Day.
Irwin NJ. Blackburn has moved
his barber shop from the Hyde block
to the rooms formerly occupied by
the Mcdonald Sisters as a millinery
store, on the east side of the public
square.
"A campaign of advertising was
on from house to house, telling of
JeIlo, in Lancaster, last week. If
those people would only place their
copy in a good county weekly, like
The Herald, they would get better
results.
1t is reported from Castle Rock
township that cases of small pox are
there, although it is not stated in
whose family, or families, the cases
are located. The officers of the
rural schools in Hickory Grove are
warned by the state board of health
to look out for Castle Rock small
pox. That is the story as The Herald
gets it.
That's nothing worth the men
tion-the train was real late last
Wednesday evening. Car off the
tracks? Yep, two of 'em. But they
were boxes, over near Platteville.
c. w. rockingham has been loco
motive engineer for so years. and
does not yet know how to run an
engine over, or through. a wreck of
two box cars. And ''Frothy" knows
how to run a train.
Nearly every town in this Sec
tion is setting a cleanup" day.
The commercial club at Dodgeville
is advocating the institution, and no
doubt the place needs it. As for
Lancaster, it is coming on pretty
we'll with its spring rejuvination.
although little concerted action
might dn well right now. Suppose we
put the proposition up to the city
council? If the city fathers call US
out, then We'll get busy with rake
and hoe.
There are four standing com
mittees of the city council. and they
are stacked up as follows: Board of
public works, Jos. Caspers, chairman,
w. P. Richardson and Adolph Wep-
king. Finance committee, w. A.
Austin. cha irman, Edgar Croft and
John B. Horsfall. Committee on
business, w. A. Austin, chairman,
j. A. Gault and W. B. Doll. Com
mittee on bylaws and ordinances,
Edgar Croft, chairman, j. A. Gauit
and John B. Horsfall.
Last week Friday a well dressed
person, claiming to be deaf mute,
made the rounds of the business dis
trict in Lancaster begging for funds
with which to start shoe shop. He
called at The Herald office, and was
readily recognized by the editor, who
saw him in Iowa, months ago, when
he was engaged at the same old job,
trying to get start with an imaginary
shoe cobbling shop. Any person who
has to go through life deaf mute is
entitled to sympathy, but he should
not be allowed to impose on the gener-
Gus public. This alleged deaf mute
took the afternoon train north on Fri
day.
Already we feel evidences of
dire prospects from the mosquito in
dustry- Last Friday night The Her
aid man was calmly sleeping when
he was conscious of a rude drilling
sensation in his chin. He dreamed
that zinc had been discovered some
place contiguous to his jaw bone, and
that industrious prospectors were
sinking shaft on the lower edge of
his face. Then he heard a buzzing