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General County News
LIVINGSTON
>. and Mrs. R. S. Jacobs left on
Wflnesday for Barneveld and
Miesville, to visit their daughter,
JS. Wm. Pryor and son George
J jobs.
?aul Fisher and Lee Andrew are
Emending the Lancaster high school.
I*s. Fisher returned from Lancaster
' a Thursday.
The Big Badger Fair was the at
•action this week and our town was
'ell represented.
Orin Laughton and family are
□siting in Platteville.
Mrs. James Watson is visiting
ner sister, Mrs. Grunor, in Mifflin.
J. C. Livingston transacted busi
ness in Platteville Tuesday.
Mrs. John Dale and children of
Platteville, are visiting with Mrs.
Dale’s mother, Mrs. Bourntt.
Miss Della Cocklin left on Friday
for Platteville, where she will teach
tn the high school.
Miss Ollie Eustice has accepted
position as teacher of the seventh
and eighth grades in the public
school at Biair, Wig. She left for
that place Monday.
Miss Nella Schmitt, cf Milwaukee,
and Miss Irma King, of Berlin, are
visiting at the Schmitt home.
Gay Rawson, formerly assistant
cashier of our bank has been visit
ing here with friends. Mr. Rawson
h.-s just recently recovered from a
severe attack of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Len Miller and Thilma are
visiting relatives in Dubuque this
Jack Graham returned from Mil
waukee Saturday evening.
Mrc. James Alton is entertaining
her neice, Miss Grunwood or Web
ster City, la.
Mr. Finney, a blind gentlemen,
gave-a. musical concert in the hall
Wednesday evening.
Mies Purl Nicholas left on Friday
morning for Albany, Wis., where
she will attend school the ensuing
year.
John Aicott and family spent
Saturday and-Sunday in Arthur.
Mrs. Alxin Stener and Mrs. B.
B ird spent Thursday here with
friends.
Sheriff Bud-worth of Lancaster,
w£ie here on Wednesday.
Carl Wilkinson spent Fiiday and
Saturday in Platteville.
Mabie and Marie Livingston will
trend Montfort High school, com
mencing on Monday Sept 9th, going
ip and returning on the train each
lay.
Capt. Vaughn of Platteville was
business caller Monday.
Sever Knutson and Miss Edith
toughten spent Thursday in Platte
ille.
Mrs. Joe Livingston and Irene
isited with Mattie Watson at Lan
aster Tuesday.
Quick and Devoe are shingling
he ohurch.
James Alton is remodling the
evidence he purchased from Mrs.
iankle; it will soon be ready for
jcupancy.
Frank Watson, student at the U.
7. Madison is visitirg with his
arents. Robt. Watson and wife.
The skating rink has been opened
p for the season.
Jim Dale of Montfort was in our
arg Wednesday.
Mrs. Ed. Olson and baby have
een visiting with her parents at
ancaster.
Mrs. Jennie M. Alcott is repre
9n ting the Netzon Manufacturing
’•o., of Milwaukee, for piano®,organs
nd sewing machines and has now
n disposal at her home a high
xade Cabinit Grand piano for sale.
Is an advertisement the first three
)ianos will be sold»at a reduced
iriee-. any one thinking of purchas
ng will do well to call and see Mrs.
Mcott before purchasing elsewhere.
Misses Shyrle Nicholson, Verda
Prideaux and O'Dowd spent Friday
a Platteville.
Mrs. Ellen Nicholson is on the
sick list.
Everything Going Up.
Owing to the exhorbitant prices
barged for print paper and for
very thing going into the makeup
: a newspaper, some newspapers
re suspending publication, while!
rany others are raising the price of ■
heir subscription, simply being!
>rced to do so.
Grant County Herald
POTOSI
Mns. F. B. Geisen and daughter
Hilda are visiting with relatives in
Dubuque, lowa.
Mrs. Wasley and daughter Mrs.
Geo. Franklin and little son of La-
Crosse visited a few days at the
home of their mother Mrs. Sarah
Greene.
Miss Ida Beiterman returned to
her home in Bagley, Monday after
an extended visit with her friend,
Miss Ethel Schumacher.
Misses Bertha and Martha Ohde,
of Dubuque, lowa, are the guests
of their friend Miss Esther Schu
macher.
Go’deu Bell of California arrived
Monday morning for an extended
visit with his aunt Mrs. Geo. Lewis.
The wedding of Miss Susie Dave
of this place and Mr. Sylvester
Braudt, of Keiler, will be solemniz
ed at St. Andrew’s church, Septem
ber 18, 1907; Rev. Father Pape will
preform the ceremony.
; Miss Florence began
> teaching school at Rigsby Hollow
Tuesday morning and Miss Sophia
■ Koeller at Willow Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Alderson returned
■to their home in Dubuque after a
■ few days visit with their sister, Mrs.
i Peter Roeser.
Mrs. Robert Glennon and little
son Joseph returned home Sunday
after a week’s visit with relatives
' in Lancaster.
James Scjillon, of Lancaster,
transacted business here Monday
and vi’ited with his sisters, Misses
Mary and Jane Scullon.
Mr- and Mrs. S. Hoffman and
daughter-in-law Mrs. Ed. Hoffman
and little son Lewis visited at the
; home of Mrs. Ed.Hoffmans parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Schneider at
Cassville last Sunday.
Nicholas Schumacher transacted
business in .uaCrosse Tuesday.
Arch Hurst, one of the rural mail
carriers returned to work Monday
morning after a two weeks’ vaca
tion. Mr. Will Wunderlin acted as
substitute.
Will Dawson took a trip to Du
buque last Sunday and spent Labor
day there.
Mrs. George Ragatz, Sr., and
' daughter Julia of Dubuque, visited
at the home of their son and brother
Charles and wife here a few days.
Geo. Schumacher of Dubuqde,
transacted business here last Tues
day and Wednesday.
i Mr. Miller, of Bagley, is visiting
j with friends here a few days.
m/ and Mrs. Haas, cf Dickey
ville, visited at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Gus Myers here
Wednesday.
Mrs. P. Bausch, of Cassville, is
visiting a few days at the home of
her mother, Mrs. Vondrum.
Simon Langstaff of British Hol
low is <?n the sick list.
Mrs. Davis of British Hollow.
: visited with her sister, Mrs. S.
. Greene Wednesday who is on the
sick list.
Use Wide Tires.
Farmers and teamsters will find
that tne new law passed relative to
wide tires ou wagon is largely in
their favor.
The statute relates to the regula
tion of the width of tires on wagons
used for hauling loads exceeding
1000 pounds in weight. It states
that every person, who, during the
year ending June 1, 1908, and each
succeeding j ear, shall use on wagons:
hauling heavy loads a tire not less
than three inches in width, shall
receive a rebate of one-half of his
assessed town, city or village high
way tax for each year, providing
the rebate does not exceed <B, in
case the tires are more than three
inches wide.
In order to secure this rebate, the
farmer must file an affidavit show*
ing that he has complied with the
provisions of the act during the
year. The superintendent of the
highways for the road district in
which be is assessed then credits
him with the amount. The affidavits
can be made before any superin
tendent of highways or any town,
city or village treasurer.
—Mrs. Carrie Hudson and daugh
ter Miss Josephine will soon take
their departure for Madison, where
Miss Josephine will take up music
in the Universary. Miss Grace
Morse will take charge of her music
class during the winter.
PUBLISHED AT LANCASTER. WISCONSIN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907.
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I Oh, johnny D., with your hard fate, /
, E'en might an angel quarrel.
For judges cruel will, epite your plea
Of “don’t know." tap your barl.
—Thorndike in Baltimore American.
MANY LICENSES ISSUED.
Hunting Season Began Sunday and
Hunters Are Many.
The bunting season opened Sun
day and County Clerk Tuffley has
already issued 108 licenses to those
who wished to get in the woods
early. Game is said to be abundant
in many localities and it is expected
that the season will be a good one
for squirrels and rabbits and hunters
are enthusiastic over the prospects
of plenty of game.
Many inquiries are reacnitgthe
office of the state game warden re
garding the open season for the
hunting of prairie chickens and
other upland birds. The last legisla
ture considerably changed this sec
tion of the game laws, cutting down
the number of counties in which
this class of game may be hunted
and changing the open season until
later in the year. This latter change
is not to the convenience of the
hunters so much as for the advant
rge of the game, for it will allow
the young birds time to be reared
and will prevent destruction of
whole coveys the game. The
openjseason for woodcock, partridge,
plover add snipe is the months of
September, October and November.
The killing of any Mongolian,
Chinese or English pheasant or
quail is prohibited by the law until
October Ist, LS&S. The penalty for
violation of any feature of this law
is a fine of twenty to fifty dollars or
jail sentence of twenty to sixty days.
State Eair Attractions.
A tremendous attendance of Wis
consin people is expected at the
Wisconsin State Fair, to be held at
Milwaukee, opening Monday, Sep
tember 3 and closing Sept. 13. The
Wisconsin State Board of Agri
culture has made unusual plans to
provide an allround exhibit for the
benefit of the people of the state,
and they are looking, for a larger
attendance from each county in
W isconsin than ever before.
There will fee new things to see
on every hand and wonderfully at
tractive special events, including
the famous Strebel airship, which
made such a fine record at the state
fair a year ago. “The Destruction
of Moscow,” in .fireworks, requires
233 people to perfect the scene.
Every day will be a banner day,
and one highly enjoyed by all who
; attend.
Our Household Recipes.
t HOW TO MAKE CURRENT TAM
—Go out. and catch hold of an
electric light wire with currents on
it, then jam your head against a
brick wall.
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EGG MARMALADE—Catch a hen
(female gender, of course,) and
name it Harma. Then induce it to
lay a nice, round egg. EGG, not
aig. Hold it up and say: “This is
the egg Marma laid.”
JAM ROLL —Get a jar of nice?
jam, then take it to the top of a hill, i
Let go of it and say: “Jam, roll.”
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“Life is short
And very fleeting—
Make the best
Of it by eating.”
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—Mr. and Mrs. H. R. King took .
in the fair at Platteville this week.
THE COURT GAVEL AS A BUMS STARTER.
LICENSED TOWED.
Cupid’s Prauks as Recorded by’ County '
Clerk Tuffley.
Fredie Liscomb and Christena i
Weist, both of Cassville.
J. L. Gillespie and Emetine;
Kreul, both of Woodman.
A Symphony on “Empties”
The humble beer keg has at last,
been vindicated. For years the'
popular opinion regarding a beer!
keg, when it is empty, is that it is
only fit to be launched on the river
and sent sailing toward Lake
Michigan and the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. Another view of the
use of an empty beer keg was that
it was only fit for use as a chair.
For years the brewers have been
trying to create a different impres
sion regarding these empty kegs.
While it was not argued that an
empty beer keg is as valuable as a
keg filled with beer, still the brewers
have sought to impress on the public
that even an etnpty keg costs money.
But the public refused to listen.
Probably one reason was that bv
the time the keg was emptied the
persons who bought it were not m
condition to listen to arguments. *
Yesterday, however, the brewers
"landed.” A Sheboygan man was
caught sawing a beer keg up into
a pail, and he was arrested and
fined. This ought to convince the
1 public that an empty beer keg is an
empty keg—not a pail or a boat,
or a stool.
—
The Big Badger Fair.
The Big Eadger Fair held at
Platteville this week was a roanrg
success. Perfect weather was en
joyed by the fair association and on
Wednesday 200 more people attend
ed then ever before. On Thursday
a slight accident occurred when one
of the trotting horses tipped his
bike and himself over backwards,
and then got up and ran around the
track three times. Neither horse,
driver, or bike were hurt.
Foreign Postage Lowered.
Beginning October 1, the new
foreign postal rate adopted at the
meeting of the last universal postal
convention in Rome m April, will
become effective. The new rate
makes the charge for foreign post
age 5 cents for the first half ounce
and 3 cents for each additional half
ounce instead of 10 cents for each
ounce, as the present rate pre
scribes. This applies to all mail
sent to foreign countries, except
Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. To
these countries the domestic rate of
2 cents for each half ounce still
holds.
—Because of a new rule which
prohibits the placing of advertise
ments upon cars in which their
goods are shipped merchants and
manufacturers throughout the
northwest are raising a protest.
According to the advance notices
which have been sent out the new
rule will go into effect on Septem
ber first. However some of the
roads—notably the Northwestern
are already enforcing it. The en
forcing of the new provision will
hit the smaller concerns much hard- :
er than the big corporations which ,
either own their own cars or have |
them on long leases.
When Seasons Change
The old school bell is sure to ring,
the poets all arise and sing, the
frost will soon displace the dew, and
the wind jamb through the peek-a
boo, Untortured youth with tears of
brine, returneth sadly to the mine,
and the new schoolma’am prepares
to whack the bad boys where their
pants are slack.
The football player lets his hair
Fall into autumn unrepair.
And the more athletic college cops
Tx.e students with the largest
mops.
The moon will be full on the 21st,
and the password for the month
will be “Soak Standard Oil. Every
body will run a little harder for
president. Mr. Bryan’s smoke will
continue an interesting spectacle.
Mr. Roosevelt will drop a wasp
into the hip pocket of Mr. Taft, and
the laggard will move up a couple
of places in the race. Mr. Fair
banns will continue to pass the
grand stand every seven seconds
sucking buttermilk with a nipple,
out of his pneumatic shirt front.
The war with Japan will sleep
fretfully, and Uncle Sam will set by
the crade crooning soft lullabyes
and giving paregoric with a funnel.
The coming countoy fair is billed.
The big prize hog is corned and
swilled
The pumpkin that will, lift the
prize
Is watched with proud and hope
ful eyes, , |
And the family mare to win the
pot
Is training for the county trot.
The autumnal equinox will come
in on time on the 24th, and Mr.
Harriman will absorb all water that
falls, to use in floating stocks for
development of our great natural
resources. The Standard Oil com
pany will place a twenty-year 4 per
eent mortgage upon the earth and
will pay the $29,400,000 fine im
posed by Judge Landis. Senator
Beveride will send his honey abroad
and return to the affairs of the
Republic, which will restore that
feeling of security.
The Summer girl—romantic thing!
—will homeward come upon the
wing, and show her neighbors for a
week, where some man bit her on
the cheek. The freckles on her
■ arms (and legs?) resemble those Qij
I turkey eggs, and the neighborhood
i will bet ten per the men were only
joshing her.
The lucky wives of millionaires
Will put up jam and pickle pears,
But the most of us denied these
1 boons,
■ Will pass thewinter full of prunes,
i Some red-hot seeling wax, alack,
! will fly down Nancy’s tender back,
■ exploring where the flesh is bare,
: and three sshill screams will pierce
. the air. The men, a-washing at the
pump, will hasten thither on the
jilmp, but Nancy, mid the fruit
DYNAMITE BLAST AND FIRE
Practically Wipes Out the Business
Section of an Indiana Town,
with Heavy Boss.
Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 6. Fire
caused by an explosion of dynamite
broke out at 11 p. m. in the W. O.
Sessline hardware store at Topeka,
LaGrange county, and practically the
entire business section o_ the town
was wiped out. Among the buildings
destroyed were the Sessline hardware
store, the A. Gerby drug store, the
Goering bakery and the Miller drug
store. The loss is heavy.
Topeka is located twenty miles north
of Fort Wayne. At 1 a. m. the fire
was under control. On account of the
excitement prevailing in the town no
statement of the probable loss could
be obtained.
Illness of Charles H. Deere.
Chicago, Sept. 6.—Charles H. Deere,
wealthy plow manufacturer of Moline,
111., is seriously ill with a case of per
nicious anaemia at. the John W. Street
er hospital. While it is said there is no
immediate danger, Deere’s age, 70
years,is said to make intimate recovery
questionable. It was said at thp hos
pital that the patient was showing
some improvement. The members of
his immediate family are within call.
Judge Was Some Fastidious..
Evansville, Ind., Sept. 6. Mrs. I
Anna Brush appeared in the police j
court as a witness. When she took ;
the stand she was chewing gum. ‘’Take j
that gum out of your mouth or go to i
jail,” commanded the police judge, I. :
G. Winfrey. The woman obeyed.
—Miss Josephine Winters arrived ■
here Thursday evening to take her ;
old place at Miss Roseleip’s mil- i
linery department as manager.
VOL. 64, NO. 71
o’turned, will not divulge where sh e
is burned.
President Roosevelt, fresh from
Oyster Bay will issue on the 20th a
oyster season. Turnips and foot
ball players will run to tops. White
duck trousers will begin to migrate.
A comet will make one night stands
in the northeast sky. The weather
and politicians will become very
agreeable.
Nature, which has been in the
nude for the outdoor summer plant
ing season, will put on a thin
gossamer, the Corn Huskers union
will promulgate a new wage scale
by which they will get the corn and
the farmer the husks.
The boys on Saturday are loose
To stain their hands with walnut
juice,
The cider swollen apples drip,
The pig squeals for a morning
nip,
And the Billy goat by Autumn
cheered
Lets cool winds frolic with his
beard.
Summer excursion tourists will
come home in a chair car with their
skull grass full of carbon mites, the
aisle full ot braided legs, and the
saw-tooth chair back embossing the.
name of the railroad on their spines.
The Big Dipper will appear iu the
j heavens upside down, which will
i encourage Prohibition to resume
= his war paint and extend the booze
* drough John Barleycorn will return
| to his guns with a Booker Washing
ton tint under both eyes and his
. pants torn, and the Kentucky
! Colonel will toss .in his mint bed
I while Carrie Nation rides a night
■ mare through the windows of his
boudoir.
The cotton fields with boll and
stem
Are beckoning to the dusky men,
And soon from cotton seed we’ll
boil
The pure imported olive oil.
The Greeks began their year in
September. Our Labor Day was
their New Year’s Day. They did
this because their families spent the
summer at the seashore at cod
able expense, while the mc 4
poker at home at e Inore ex
panse. This left (he Greeks badly'
in the the only way they
coul.Gr gut was to have the new
year begin September Ist and swear'
off drinking and smoking at that
time. This enabled them to save in
September what we save in Janu
ary, and was a much better plan
than ours.
Cheer up, cheer up, the summer’s
o’er the piping quail is up at 4, Sep
tember sweet is on the job, and the
green corn ripens on the cob.
October will soon be here
With softly-falling leaf and sere,
With frosty morn and hunter,s
moon
And pumpkin pie. not y.et, but
soon.
Tickets For Bloomington Fair.
At the Blakes Prairie Fair to be
' held at Bloomington next week, the
Herald will have a representative,
who will give a ticket of admission
free to any and all who pay either
, two years back subscription, or new
, subscribers who pay for two years
in advance. The regular price for
• the Herald for two years is $3.00,
less the price of admission which is
35 cents which leaves the price for
two years but $2.65 Do not turn
down this offer. Our representative
C. F. Dickenson, will be located at
;J. B. Ludden’s store from 9to 11
, o’clock on Thursday and Friday.
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Clock Fund.
The Ladies of the St. Clement’s
congregation haye taken charge of
the dining hall at the fair grounds,
and have voted the proceeds for the
benefit of the clock fund. Every
assistance offered, and patronage
extended to them from the generous
public will be highly appreciated.
All parries intending to have their
names on the donation list of the
clock fund are respectfully invited
to do so soon. We are in fond hopes
to hear the clock announce tne
hours before we write 1908.
—The McKinley monument at
Canton, Ohio, will be dedicated
Sept. 30th, President Roosevelt as
the orator. Canton people are rais
ing a fund of SIIO,OOO to entertain
visitors to the event. Several Lan
caster people contributed to the
monriment fund.
FIGHT PASES
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