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h e y'/a fey —A. E Lewis went to Chicago Monday. —Miss Rose Pennock went to Rewey Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rundell, of Madison spent Sunday here. —Carl Hayden, of Platteville, spent Sunday at the James Hayden home. —Miss Cora Smith, of Highland, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Beck. —Frank Schreiner made a business trip to Milwaukee and Chicago Mon day. —Miss Florence Harrower, of Plattteville visited relatives here last week. —Mrs. Harvey Abrams went to Platteville Wednesday for a short visit. —The Mississippi river is now frozen over and teams can again cross upon the ice. Mrs. L S. Bennett, of Fennimore spent a few days here last week on business and visiting. —John Hamilton, of North Lan caster, is planning to hold an auction sale on his farm some time in Feb. —Dra. Godfrey and Kinney per formed an operation upon Mrs. Sprague at her home near Beetown last week. —Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tiller went to Fennimore Monday to visit Mr. Tiller, b brother who is there from South Dakota. —A new stove has been placed in the C. & N. W. depot and the passengers may now ke°n warm while waiting for their trains. —Maye Boyle has changed the date of the basket social at her school. It will be on Monday night January 19. Big entertainment. Come. —The Ben Petty place of 200 acres at Hurricane was sold last week, through the Wayne Land Agency to Joseph E. Bailie, of this city. —Miss Gladys Jordan was so far recovered from her recent sickness that she was able to return Wednesday to her duties in the State Normal school at Milwaukee. Gigantic Clearing Sale = Of our Entire Winter Stock X • First clearing sale of the season. $25,000 worth of fall and winter merchandise to be sold at less than cost. A terrific sweeping cut. Bargains in every corner. A slashing reduction; all previous sales sink into insignificance as compared with this colossal event. Don’t wait, don’t delay, buy while they last. Sale is already in full swing and ———— Lasts until Saturday, Jan. 27th -— ■1 Backward Season that has left us with an overloaded stock—That is the rea son for this astonishing cut in prices. We have positively got to get the mer chandise off our hands before the new spring line comes in. The Big Knife has been used in every department. Each and every article has got to be sacrificed regardless of cost. No attention has been paid to profit or loss. Our chief desire being to get rid of this stock at once. We are determined that at the close of this sale there will not be one single item of winter goods on our shelves, because next year they will not be marketable as new stock; styles change, damage occurs —there are 20 reasons why this stock has got to go. Remember this is a bona fide public sale of brand new, this season’s goods. Don’t overlook the chance. © You will find the most daring attack on prices ever attempted. The biggest chance you ever had to buy at less than wholesale prices. MTF What’s the use of shiver- TH ing with cold when the Boston Store offers winter goods at less than cost. —E. L. McCoy made a business trip to Linden yesterday. —Mrs. Clay Chapman, of Platte ville, visited relatives here last week. —Wm. McCormick is going to have a large auction sale at hie farm Feb. 13. —Jay Harcleroad left \ esterday to attend the big auto show in Milwau kee His wife is visiting in Platte ville. —The Ladies’ Aid of the Congrega tional church will meet at the home of Mrs. E L. McCoy Friday after noon. —The Pythian Sisters installation will be held Wednesday evening, that is tonight, at the K. P. hall. All members are urged to be present. Hear Edward Amterst Ott. who is to entertain the people of Lancas ter, as the third number on the Star Lyceum Course Saturday evening, Jan. 20. —Funeral services for the late Casper Buehl, who died at the Grant county asylum last Friday, were held at the St. Clement’s church Monday morning. Mrs. Rose Lacke, of Highland, visited with her father, Joseph Nagel and his sister Mrs. Fred Cox and family last week She returned home Tuesday morning. —The Wisconsin Telephone Com pany is planning to install several lines of rural bell phones in the spring. The line will probably be extended through to Stitzer. —Mrs. Henry Marburger held a large sale at the farm home near Lioerty Friday, Jan. 12th. A good crowd of bidders were present and everything went at good prices —W. E. Lathrop went to Milwau kee Monday to attend a meeting of the Wisconsin Association of Real Estate Brokers, of which he is a member. Mis. Lathrop, meanwhile is visiting at Boscobel. —James Allen who was committed to the Grant County Aysiura Jan. 3, 1912 died at the Asylum Thursday Jan. 11th. Burial services were held at the Hillside Cemetery Saturday Rev. W. H. Hannaford officiated. A dissolution of partnership in the firm of Goldstein & Tuckwood, general merchandise, has taken place, going into effect last Monday, Jan. 15 Mr. Tuckwood retiring. His future plans are not at present an nouced. Mr. Goldstein will continue the business and is now in Chicago buying a large stock of -/new ‘.goods. WK/NT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, .JANUARY 17, 1912. ■ THE— BOSTON STORE Lancaster, Wis. —J. P. Williams went to Platte ville yesterday. —Col. Clarke is very sick at his home in this city. Mrs C. F. Dickinson came home Monday from an extended visit in Appleton. FOR SALE—Pure-bred Jersey calf, three weeks’ old. Inquire of C. F. Dickinson, Lancaster. John Mankel and Fred Day are at Mauston, Wis., this week for the purpose of closing up a good sized land deal for Chicago parties. —Mies Maude Van Buren was here last week looking over the public library She is a member of the Library commission staff for the state of Wisconsin. Harry Mackey went to Platteville Wednesday to see his brother Fred who is very ill. Fred and his wife have been visting in Platteville since New Years day. Miss Marcellette E. Sapiro, of Richland Center, who has been a guest at the Sam Levin home for a part of the holiday vacation, returned to her home Wednesday. —The high school girls have be gun basket-ball practices in Reed’s opera house. There will probably be a match game between a picked city i team and the high school boy’s team —Mrs. Wm. Hodge an aged resi dent of Cuba City died Wednesday at the age of 93 years. She was a sister of Henry Thomas of this city. Funeral services were held at Cuba City Saturday. —Chris Schenk left Monday on a trip through Madisou, Janesville and Monroe. Mr. Schenk is a dairy inspector and makes several trips each month about the state or that part of it in which he has his business to look after. —The local coal dealers are very short on coal at present and many residents of the city are in need of a new supply. There are several car loads on the road but if they are not received soon some people will be very much inconvenienced by the cold weather. Miss Etta Eddy writes to friends in Lancaster that she is enjoying Kansas life to the full extent. She has just returned to her school duties from a visit in Larned with Edith and Elva Miles, formerly of Lancas ter. Etta says that they have about 20 inches of snow there at present, which is a very rare occurrence for Kansas. —On Thursday last the workmen for the city were occupied most of of the day in thawing out the over flow pipe which leads from the city watering fountain. A sleigh load of young people from Lancaster attended the annual Woodman ball held at Ellenboro, Friday evening, Jan. 12th All report a fine time. The Gross orchestra furnished the music for the dance. Fred B. Avery has sold his share in the Overland Automobile Co. to the other partners, Jay Harcleroad and Ed Bennett. Mr. Avery will now take charge of the E. M. F. garage which is owned by W. G. Knox. Up to this time no one has taken his place in the Overland garage. —Clyde Roesch, who resides on a farm in South Lincaster, is slowly recovering from a several weeks attack of rheumatism which has kept him in bed most of the time and has caused him a great deal of trouble and inconvenience. - • Wes Scheulter, of St. Paul, spent Sunday at the Henry Hoffman home, leaving Monday for Burton where he is making an extended visit at Henry Schaal’s. Mr. Scheulter is an ele ctrician who has completely mastered his trade and has won for himself an excellent; business. —The trains on the Lancaster division of the C. &N. W. have not come up to their regular schedule as yet and none can tell whether the in coming or out-going trains will be on time or not. The cold weather and drifting snow seem to be the main causes for delay and irregularity in travel. —The fast running mare Lady Waddell, owned by Fred Lambert of Mt. Hope and Chas O’Neill of Chicago, broke a leg a few days ago while running in the pasture at Mt. Hope and had to be shot. The mare was well known here having been seen a number of times in running races at the fair in Lancaster. —Oswald Larson of Wingville, was a business caller here Monday. The most important part of his business was confined to the county clerk’s office where he obtained a license to wed Miss Hannah Gunderson of Fen nimore. It will be remembered that Miss Gunderson formerly worked in the Register of Deed’s office at the court house in Lancaster and is well known in this city. We do not know whether the marriage has taken place as yet, but Mr. Larson obtain ed a special permit from Judge Gfebdsell so he does not have to wait. A hundred bargains in our Clothing Department—all this season’s styles and fabrics. Ladies’ Misses’ and Children's Coats—Sweeping re ductions and all are this season’s styles. Thousands of yards of Dress Goods in all the late fall and winter weaves and colors. Vv e have every kind of material and sacrifice it alb at less than cost. You can’t get values like these when they are gone. Underwear at less than wholesale prices. Undershirts and Overshirts at give-away prices. Blankets and Comforters at less than cost prices. —Au interesting but lengthy obituary notice for Wm. Gates Sr. a pioneer resident of Beetowu, whose death was announced in The Herald last week, has been placed in type for this week’s paper but is unavoid crowed out. It will appear next week. —The State Superintendent has been giving out the institute fund apportionments during the past few days. Grant county is second in line and is entitled to $313.60. Dane county receives the largest amount which is $317.19 but this is divided into two districts. —Miss Stella Frankland, of Mont fort who was operated upon by Drs. Godfrey and Kinney one day last week was able to return to her home Sunday. Her father, Ed Frankland, came down from Montfort Saturday and accompanied his daughter home. Miss Bessie Shearer, of Madison, came to Lancaster as a nurse in the case. —A pirty of Lancaster people took the morning train yesterday for Stitzer where they went to the home of Grandma Whaler, who is now 80 years old. The day was spent in celebrating the good old lady’s birth day and the best of all it was a sur prise which did her much good. Those in the party were: Mrs. J. P. Williams, Mrs. C. W. Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. King, Mrs. Robt. Bell, Mrs. Frye and daughter Pearl and Mrs. W. F. Bayman. —The Frank Winninger Dramatic Co. which played a two nights’ en gagement at Reed’s opera house Mon day and Tuesday, were late iu getting started Monday evening, as the train on which they arrived from Oshkosh was nearly an hour late. They were greeted by very fair sized audiences, considering the extremely cold weather, and gave a couple of very pleasing performances. Mr. Win ninger is an actor of much merit and is surrounded by a very capable com pany. —The Library Board in Platteville have decided to open their Public Library between the hours of 3 and 5 on Sunday afternoons, at which time the men and boys of the city who are employed during the week will be given the opportunity to read the library books and to enjoy the comforts offered at the library. Children under 16 years will not be permitted in the reading rooms on Sundays and the working class will be given all the room they need. Such a plan would not be a bad thing for our own city and could be easily arranged and with very little trouble. —The marriage of Miss Katherine Wahl, of Lancaster, and Wm Carl ; Kaap. of Little Grant, took place at the home cf the bride’s father Georg* Wahi in Lancaster at 10 o’clocx Wednesday morning. Rev. Louis Schmidt, cf the Evangelical church officiated, using the ring service which was given in German The couple were attended by Miss Mae Boyle and Harry Kaap and Miss Isa Montz played the wedding march. —A company of Platteville people met together last Tuesday evening with a purpose to make some definite plans to secure a building or to erect one which may be used by the men and hoys of the city during the evening hours. The plans were not completed at this meeting but a movement is being started which if finished will make a fine improve ment for our neighbor city. The Platteville Journal complimented Lancaster on its public rest room located in the city hall building and suggested the need of such a room in that city. —Mineral Point hasn’t got any thing on Lancaster in the matter of robins in the winter time John Wilson, a farmer living about ten miles northwest of this city, in Little Grant, informs us that there is a flock of these red breasted “har bingers of spring’* that have lingered about his farm all winter. This is also vouched for by the Lancaster mechanics who have been working on Mr. Wilson’s new house and have frequently seen the birds in that vicinity during the past two weeks. How to account for the birds remain ing here during the winter season is an unsolved problem. —At 1:30 o’clock Monday afternoon fire was discovered in the office of the Platteville branch of the Galena Iron company’s building located in Platte ville. Luckily the blaze was brought under control before it had sp-ead from the office, which is an addition to the main buildings, into the main structure. However, there were many valuable papars in the office and although the particulars are not fully known it is supposed that a part of these were destroyed Thisis Platte ville’s fourth fire of importance with in a very short time and and it seems rather extraordinary that most of them have destroyed some factory or other manufacturing establishment. Some investigation as to the cause should ba taken before a great con flagration sweeps over the city and wipes out other important buildings If such a disaster can be avoidei it is worth while to make a move before it is too late You Will Always Have Money Left when You Trade with Us. PAGE FIVE