Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-10

saloons for we have not a bum in
town. There is not any buns in our
town. Why didn't you answer Rev.
Recht's letter.
The big spiel that you blow off
you can shut places of business
on Sunday, but you can't shut up
woman. Look at the great changes
in laws. The old oath you had to take
when you got married was to love,
honor and obey, and that is substi-
tuted now. Now it is stop, look and
listen" If Columbus had not have
discovered America someone else
would have. That is just as sure as
]. d. is the king of the oil, and that is
why your lights are so dim and cause
you to be near-sighted that you can't
tell a fashion plate from a boxcar.
Why don't you come up and see the
old town. Maybe you have not been
here since July 1, 1915.
Was you ever to an undertaker's
convention. If you have then you
heard them sing that old song entitled
"You May Run Along for Little
While, But Will Nail you in the End"
Remember the Maine and don't for
get Jeidy wishes you the best of sue
cess in any of your undertakings and
hopes to hear from you soon.
Tom Pettitt from Fennimore was
here last Saturday.
The show last Saturday evening had
packed house.
Mr.. and Idrs. Ben Kirk are visit
ing relatives at Hazel Green.
Miss Hazel Woolstenholme is visit
ing friends in Milwaukee.
George Edge from Ellenboro, was
here one day last week.
j. H. Anderson was here last week
and bought a new spreader of w. H..
Finnegan.
Mrs. George Lawrence from Mo-
line, ILL.,, is here visiting her mother,
Mrs. H. L. Fischer.
Henry Tanner took the contract to
build new barn for E. Gilbertson Of
Preston.
Sam Pettitt was here Sunday from
Rockville AMI Fred Speas from Po-
tosi.
Frank Elsie our barber, hands the
right cut, and also he can give you
the right cut.
Our stores have nice new line Of
spring hats and shoes of all the lat
est styles.
Ben Ward, Walter Snyder, Mr.. and
Mrs. Con Winsor, Miss Florence Yes
perman, Miss Mabel Holzinger were in
Lancaster last Sunday.
John Henkel is going to build a new
hay shed this spring, 40x68, with a
leanto on the side. Henry Tanner and
his crew will do the carpenter work.
Mrs. Ernest Schmidt from Living
ston, called on her cousin, Mrs. Hur
burt Schuppener, between trains one
day last week.
Mrs. o. Dixon from Livingston, spent
few days at her parents home last
week, Mr.. and Mrs. James Woolsten-
holme.
Erna Hahn is right in the chicken
business and he has the right kind
of chickens. He has twelve hens that
laid IL eggs one day.
Miss Maggie Lind returned to Chi
cago last Saturday after spending
two weeks at her home with her
mother, Mrs. Joe Lind.
Ben Whiting has new kind of seed
oats-oats that you can sow till the
goth of May or the first of June and
have boomer of crop. Ben is still
in the field sowing
The dance last Friday evening was
we'll attended for the threatening
weather we had, and the bills will
soon be out for another.
Mrs. Louis Smith was called to
Cassville, Tuesday on account of the
serious illness of her father, George
w. Chase, he having suffered a stroke
of paralysis.
Ben Ward, Walter Snyder, Mr.. and
Mrs. Con Winsor were Lancaster call
ers last Sunday, and Miss Florence
Vesperman, Miss Mabel Holzinger at
home, Sunday.
w. H. Finnegan received postal
card from George Keyes of Mt. Ida,
with Mr.. Keyes' photo of him and
team and the Litchfield spreader, ma
tural as life. He is the agent for this
spreader here and he is going to send
photo to the company to have them
take cut of it for their new cata-
logue.
While Amel Kopp was fixing fence
along the road this side of William
Schuppener's his team ran away and
turned around on a place 8X0 and
started for Sitter as fast as they
could hit the pike, and never broke
strap or got a scratch. All the team
wanted was to come to Sitter.
Mr.. Anderson and Miss Marie Liv-
/ ingston and Miss Gundlach from Liv
/ iOpStOn had IN tia IN here at orr hO-