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pfyvd i The strawberry season is about at an end in this vicinity. —EL E Pitts, of Platteville, was a Lancaster caller Sunday. —J. C. Chapman, of Platteville, *was in the city on business Friday. —Miss Clara Bass visited a couple of days last week at her home in Stitzer. Airs. Jane Ward went to Rewey Mondav morning, for a visit with relatives. —F. A Stitzer and daughter Lillian went to Freeport, 111., Mon day morning. —J. C. Brockert and family returned Saturday from their visit at Sioux Falls, S. D. —Amos Smith and family, of Rewey, spent the Fourth in this city at the Benedict home. Mrs. Chas. Horton and baby, of Fennimore, visited last week with her sister, Mrs. K. F. Orton. —Clarence E. McMahon returned Thursday from a business trip to Min nesota and North Dakota. —Mrs. Houston returned to Mont fort Monday after a few days spent here with friends and relatives. —Mrs. H E. Borah and children, of Patch Grove, spent the Fourth at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Place. —Miss Maud Carthew left Monday morning for Deleven, Wis., whero she will spend a week with her friend, Miss Barker. —Mrs. Trentzsch and daughter, Miss Katherine, left for Chicago Sat urday morning, to make an extended visit with relatives. —M. H. Jacka of Mineral Point returned home Saturday morning after spending a few days with his daugh ter Mrs. Albert Siebert. —The Brooker Bros have fixed up the postoffice base nent for their plumbing shop and have moved there from tne old Mitchell building. —Sheriff Hymer went to Preston Saturday to take Ollie Nehls, who was judged insane Saturday morning, to the state asylum at Mendota. Terry’s Uncle Tern’s Cabin show, which has visited Lancaster a number of times in toe past, will again exhibit here on Monday evening, July 22. —Prof. F. W. Trar-ier returned to Platteville Saturday afternoon, hav ing spetT the fourth at home. He is a member cf the summer school facutly. —Mrs W. J. McCoy and daughter, Mrs. B. C. Parkinsun and baby re turned to their home in Madison, Fri day after a couple of weeks spent with relatives here, —Miss Myrl Bennett, who fininshed a course of bookkeeping at the Monroe Business College this spring, has ac cepted a position at the Battling Meat Market, in Platteville. —T. H. Corfield and wife, of Fen nimore. wbo have been making a visit to England, returned home last week. Their r turn was hastened somewhat by the death of Mrs Corfield’s mother, Mrs. R. Newman, Mr. and Mrs N. N. Blood, of Chicago, who had been guests in the Lou Fischer home for several days and who had also been visiting Mr, and Mrs. John Divall, near Liberty, returned home Sunday. Win. McMahon and family visited a few days last week at the dam Kemper home east of Stitzer. On the fourth they drove over to Pine Knob where H. \V. Brown has his cottage, and had a picnic dinner under the trees on heights, where it was cool. --‘ Altitude 11,666 ft! Top of the earth ’ Highest point on Moffat road ! 66 miles out of Denver' Snowing and blowing hard! Party all O. K. ” How does that sound to .you, reader, when you are sweltering with the thermometer registering up in the nineties? It is the wording of a post card received by The Herald Satur day, wriiten at Corona, Colorado by John IL Howe on July 4th. —Dr. G. E. Budd and his sister, M iss Clara Budd, both of Minneapolis, arrived in Lancaster on July 4, via Potosi, for a visit with their mother, Mrs. Helen Budd. Dr. Budd has ap parently entirely recovered from the terrible automobile accident he was mixed up in last year and which it was feared would leave him a helpless cripple. He has no visible injuries and only a slight limp as a reminder of what he passed through. He re mained here only over Sunday but Clara will stay with her mother throughout the summer. —The ice melts away these days as rapidly as a candidate’s hopes. —Edward Arthur went to Dubuque Wednesday to spend the fourth. Mr. and Mrs. W. W Ward spent the Fourth with friends at Dodgeville. —The Lancaster Lumber Co. are placing a new stone wall under their office building Harry and John McMahon visited at the Levi Garner home in Madison over the Fourth —Elmer Garner, cf Caputa, S. D., arrived Thursday for a visit with relatives and friends. —Leo Wetter, of Stitzer. called on his parents Mr and Mrs. L. Wetter Wednesday, between trains. —Earl Lane and Miss Gertrude Drinkwater spent a few days last week at Lone Rock and Muscoda. —A number of Lancaster people at tended the big Ringling circus at Madison cn Wednesday of last week. —Farmers have been taking full advantage of the recent favorable weather to work in their hay and corn fields. Mr. and Mrs. Al Budworth are receiving a visit from their daughter, Mrs. ‘A. O. Lee. and children, us Clarion, lowa. —Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Morse and children and Mrs. E. Bolzell went to Montfort Wednesday afternoon to spend the Fourth. —Miss Sarah Narvason an at tendant in the county hospital, went to Whitson Junction Saturday to spend a short vacation with relatives. Beginning with this week The Orpheum Theater will be open only on Friday and Saturday evenings until the hot weather cf summer is past. —Chas. M. Klarman has not con tracted for a Cartercar, as was stated in last week’s issue of the Herald. Our information in the matter was wrong. —Miss Marcia Lange returned home Friday noon from Waterloo, lowa, where she has been visiting with Miss Edith Strunk, the past three weeks. --Miss Florence McNamara, who is attending Platteville summer school spent the fourth at her home in Bloomington. She passed through here Wednesday evening. Conductor Gus Grager, of Bara boo, is substituting for Conductor G. 8. Heiberg on the Lancaster-Galena run, during the latter’s s summer vacation, which began last Sunday. —The cement approaches to several of the alley crossings have been im proved during the past few days by having sluice ways built in the gutters with heavy concrete upon either side of same, so that heavy loads may be more readily driven across them. —Aulger Bros.’ show, playing the western comedy-drama “In Ariz3na,’’ written by one of the proprietors of the show, exhibited under canvas in Lancaster last Friday evening. July o. They gave a very creditable per formance to a large audience. Their band concert on the street in the even ing was al-o well enjoyed. —Conductor G. 8. Heiberg and family started Sunday for Chetek. Wis., where they have a commodious cottage and all accessories located upon the shores cf a a beautiful lake. Gus says he has a fine launch and a 14-fi. row boat there and he intends getting about all the pleasure out cf this trip that such an outing can yield. This is the seventh summer that Mr. and Mrs. Heiberg have spent their va cation at Chetek. They expect to re main until the.lst of September. Parke Knapp has been busy dur ing the past week repairing his auto which was wrecked last week while temporarily loaned, by the driver running into a post while “looping the loop’’ at the residence of Al Hunsaker, in the south part of the city. He had to send to the factory for some repair parts but has done most of the ‘‘fixing’’ himself and ex pects that the machine will be as good as new within a few days. This is the second instance within the past month in which local cars have come to grief while being handled by inex perienced drivers. —Arthur A. Knapp came home from Chicago Thursday to spend the Fourth under the parental roof and visit a few days with Lancaster friends, tie has given up cartom work, temporarily, and is now en gaged in magazine illustrating, being engaged at present in making draw ings to illustrate the stories for one of the big magazines. Arthur did his first work of a public nature in a series of cartoons published in The Herald, four years ago and the originality and skill displayed even at that time, before he had taken any schooling in the art, gave promise of excellent results later. We are glad to learn of his success. Upon his return to Chicago he will become the roommate of Major “Ted” Lowry also of Lancaster, whois new located in Chicago. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, JULY 10. 1912. —Mrs. Jubn Decker visited in Montfort a few days last week. Will Alcorn, of Louisburg, visit ed last week at the Jos. Casper home. —Miss Miriam Ivey accompanied the G S. Heiberg family to Chetek on their camping trip, Sunday. Miss Jennie Ferrand visited several days last week with Platte ville triends. LOST—On Sunday, July 7, plain gold band bracelet. Leave at Herald office. Reward. —W. J. fc'chade and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Weber and family autoed to Boscobel Sunday. Mrs. A. J. Howell returned from Bridgeport Friday morning, after a short visit there with relatives. Fred P. Meyer came over from Chicago early Thursday morning, to spend aLw days with his family. Miss Elva Utt returned home Sat urday evening from Platteville, where she has been visiting the past three weeks. Mrs. Verne Clanton returned from Fennimore Saturday evening, after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mis. S. Steinhover. —John Utt, of Springfield, HL, arrived here Saturday evening for a visit with his sister, Mis. Everett Utt and family. Prof. F. W. Tran nr came over from Platteville on the Fourth to make a brief stay here. He is teach ing in the summer schoul there, at the Njrmal. Mrs. J. C. Reagan, of Chicago, who with her baby has been visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Mcßrien, returned home last Wednesday. - Bert King, of The Herald’s typographical force, has moved into the house owned by and formerly occupied by Samuel Duncalf, in the eastern part of the city. —Mrs Ruby Holt Ray, of Madison, wbo is attending Platteville summer school, returned to Platteville Sun day after a few days visit at the C. E. Borah home, in this city. Mrs. Hugh Orton is expected home tomorrow from Hibbing, Minn., for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brooker and her husband’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Orton. —J. M. Allen, ot Charlotte, Mich., arrived in Lancaster Friday evening to rejoin his wife and babies who are here for a visit with Mrs Alien’s parents, the publisher of The Herald and wife. —Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Hassell start ed last Thursday noon for another delightful visit on the Pacific coast, similar to the one they had last year. They will be gone six or eight weeks and their time will be mainly spent with relatives and friends at Seattle and Everett, Washington. Mrs. Carrie - Hudson, of Madison, is here and will have charge cf the Hassell home during their absence the same as she had last year. Robert Glenn and son Ralph drove from Lancaster to their home in Wyalusing during the cool hours of the evening, last Wednesday. Mr. Glenn says bis deal transferring his lands to the state for a state park is now fully completed and the deeds all on record. He is not fully decid ed as to his plans but will continue to reside on the old farm for awhile, at least. His health is not good and be thinks he may take a vacation and spend a few weeks somewhere in the mountains of the west. According to the ruling of the state tax commission the lodge ‘‘goat’’ is subject to taxation. As sessors have received instructions from the commission, that the property of lodges and fraternal societies, both real and personal must be taxed. In the opinion of the com mission, the ordinary modern lodge is maintained for the entertainment and convenience of its members, and not primarily fcr benevolent work, and htnee its property is not exempt from taxation. — Richland Center Observer. —Announcements have been fur nished from The Herald office during the past week for the marriage of Miss Mabel Madelyn Judd to Bruce R. Kester, of Vale, Oregon, which will take place at the borne of Mrs. Helen Judd, in this city tomorrow, Thursday, evening, July IL Miss Judd, who has spent the major por tion of her life in Lancaster where she is very highly esteemed, has made a reputation for herself out through the state since graduating from the University, as a teacher and lecturer. Last September she went to Oregon, where she became a teacher in the high school at Vale, a small city in the southeast portion of the state. She resigned this position last April and came back to Wisconsin at the urgent request of the committee in charge of the woman’s suffrage work, to resume lecturing for that cause with which she had formerly been prominently identified. Mr. Kester is a rising young attorney of Vale and is in charge of the U. S. land office for eastern Oregon. Del Morrissey, of Bigley, was in this city, on business yesterday. —Miss Alvina Funk, of Dubuque is visiting relatives in Lancaster. —The Congregational Ladies’ Aid will meet on Fricay at the church. —The Gro-s orchestra played at Platteville the evening of the Fourth. ■—Mrs. Ed. Lind and family, of Stitzer, spent Sunday at the Frawley home. —Mrs. Schuppner, of Fennimore, attended the funeral of Mrs. Newman held here Monday afternoon. Miss Hill, of Cincinnati, who visited here last week with Miss Bessie Hyde, returned Sunday. —John Kilby of Dubuque, visited last week and part of this with relatives hero and at Hurricane. —The Ladies’ Ju ior Aid cf the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. W. E. Lathrop Friday afternoon. —Joe Brewer, of Platteville, is here visiting his sisters, Mrs A. Breithaupt and Miss Wilma Brickner. —The Misses Kent and Stiles, of Beloit, and Miss Lillian Sabin, of Portland, Ore., are guests of Mrs. S. Greene. —John Campbell, of Dodgeville, was in the city on business Monday. He went from here to Bloomington yesterday. —F. P. Barnett and daughter Florence went to Milwaukee Monday afternoon to attend the State Jewelers’ convention. —The Ladies of the M. E. church will serve tea tonight. July 10, from five o’clock until all are served. Everybody come. Mr. and Mrs. P. Bartley and Mrs. Cecelia Garthwaite, of Bloomington, were over Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Barbara Newman. Mr. and Mr?. S. E. Reid and two daughters, of Homer, accompanied Miss Ellen Watkins, who has been visiting them, home by auto Sunday. Mrs. Robert Watchorn and son and Miss Edith Thomas, of Chicago, arrived Friday evening for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Boyd and family. —Miss Lottie Zimmerman, of Chi cago, who has been visiting her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wise for the past two weeks, returned to her home Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dahl, of Westby Wis., called on O. W. Wright and wife, Monday, while on their way home from Platteville, where Mrs. Dahl formerly lived. —Mr. and Mrs. Chris Roberts, of Lincoln, Nebraska, arrived Monday noon for a visit with Mrs. Roberts’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Burris, and sister Mrs. C. S. Moore. Mrs. E. Meader and liHle daugh ter, of Galena, who have been visit ing for the past three weeks with her sister Mrs Adolph Bergheger, re turned to her home Monday morning. Win. Barrows drove to Potosi Saturday with John Graham and family, wbo will spend a week with their son Archie, before returning to their home in Dubuque. The Grahams have spent the past weeks here with relatives. A special permit was issued by Judge Goodsell Saturday nocn to Fred Albert Ricks and Berdie Helena Streeter, of Boscobel, who were mar ried by Justice C. W. Burrows at the court house Saturday afternoon. The young couple returned to Boscobel on the afternoon train Saturday. Bitner Stephens, a former well known Grant county resident, having for years owned and lived upon a big farm south of Beetown. died on Sun day of las* - week at his home at Huron S. D. His remains were brought back to Be ae for burial, the funeral being ueld at the Dodge chuch last Wednesday afternoon. He was 77 years old and the last surviv ing member of fourteen brothers and sisters comprising his father’s fam ily. —We have had soma warm days— corn and hay weather the farmers say, during the past two weeks, but they have not reached anything like the torrid spell through, which we passed about this t'tne last year. W. R. Walker kept a record taken at 1:30 p. m. each day last year through the hottest period, from which we note that on June 20 (last year) the thermometer showed 97 in the shade; on the 21st, 96; on the 22d, 99; on the 23d, 98; on the 25th, 91; on the 26th, 89; on the 27th, 71; on the 28th, 78 ;on the 29th, 82 ;on the 30th 98 ; July 1, 100; July 2, 102; July 3, 102; July 4, 104; July 5, 105. The hottest day we have had so far this summer was yesterday, when the thermometer registered 99, and the next hattest was on June 30, when it read 98, exactly what it showed on the same date last year; on the 29th it was 94. Last Thursday, July 4, was a sweltering, humid day, but the mercury only went up to 95. W 7 e have been wish ing tor just this kind of weather and it is what the farmers need to mature tbeir crops. —Mrs*. M. E. Mett, of Beetown, was a Herald caller Monday. Mrs. Erank Weise, cf Madison, is visiting friends and relatives in this city. Miss Letha Prideaux, of Boise, Idaho, is a guest cf John Blackbourn, Sr., and family. Mrs. Wm. Benn returned yester day from Prairie du Chien, where she has been visiting the past two weeks. Messrs. Frank Orton, I. M. Abernethy and S. Giesel attended the motorcycle races at Dubuque Sunday. —Leo Meysembourg went to Prairie du Chien Saturday, to attend retreat ar the Sacred Heart College, and re turned Monday night. —Ned Winskill and Miss Leia Obershaw, of Cassville, visited at the home of C. W. Burrows Monday even ing, returning yesterday morning. —Mrs. Walter Starkweather and little son, of Madison, who have been visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Cornwall, returned home yesterday afternoon. —The Herald last week overlooked making a mention of the marriage of Carl F. Alt, a member of the well known firm of L. Alt & Sons, of this city, to Miss Sadie Fisher, of Livings ton, which took place so quietly upon Wednesday of the previous week as to escape everybody’s knowledge for a few days afterward, the young couple slipping over to Dubuque to have the ceremony performed. Mr. Alt and his young b' de both graduated from the Lancaster high school at the same time in 1906. They began housekeeping this week, having rented the Carter home in the 4th ward, near the south school. —The funeral services of Mrs. Barbara Newman were held at the Emmanuel Episcopal church at 12 :30 p m. last Sunday and the remains were interred in Little Grant ceme tery by the side of her husband. Mrs. Newman’s death occurred on June 15, and the body was embalmed to await the return of her daughter, Mrs. T. H. Corfield, of Fennimore, who with her husband was in England at the time and they started for home at once on receipt of the cabled an nouncement of Mrs. Newman's death, reaching Fennimore last Saturday. Deceased leaves two sons and one daughter, Davis R Newman, of this city, Mrs I’. H. Corfield, of Fenni more and Frank Newman, of Browns ville, Texas. —L A. Clark and John Henkel met with an unusual experience dur ing their recent auto trip to Chicago. While coming down one of the principal thoroughfares a big police man stopped the boys and informed them that they were under arrest. “What for?’’ asked Leslie. ‘‘For smoking,’’ said the cop. The Badger citizens had not learned that it was unlawful to smoke in Chicago, but being law abiding citizens they promptly threw their perfectos into the street. The cop laughed and told them that the complaint was for the smoke emanating from tbeif auto, which left a trail of blue burned gasoline trailing behind it, con trary to the statutes made and provid ed for the peace and comfoit of that commonwealth. A fine of $lO and costs was the penalty imposed and the ‘‘man from home’’ settled. Your Banking Business is Solicited by The Union State Bank OF LANCASTER WIS. Capital $50,000 TRY OUR 5-Year Deposit PLAN and see what it means to you. Call and let us explain it in detail. C. H. Baxter, Pres. V. L. Showalter, Vice Pres. Richard Meyer, Jr., Cashier W. B. Carter, Ass’t Cashier. Misses Ida Hersch and Hilda Tanner, of Stitzer. were in town be tween trains yesterday. —D. Crichton & Co. Louis. W’eber and O. Heberlein all have special sales in progress. Big opportunity now for bargains. Day’s Land Agency announces in an advertisement upon another page of The Herald that it represents the Franklin Fire Insurance Co. and Fire Association and solicits business therefor. —Lancaster failed to receive its daily papers and other mail last Sun dae, floods between Madison and Chi cago preventing tne arrival of the Chicago train in time to connect with the tram for Lancaster. WANTED—Boy io learn the printer’s trade, at The Herald office. Good opportunity for an intelligent and earnest boy who can board at home. LOST—In Lancaster on school com mencement day or the day following, lady’s hunting case gold watch, with initials L. T. ’’ in case. Reward, if returned to Herald office. ISctf Outdoor Game. A splendid way to get children out of doors is to get them interested in playing “architect.” A stony vacant lot or an open field is the playground, and the children vie with one another in gathering large pebbles, with them making “life-size” bungalow plans up on the ground. This done, the neb ble plans become make-believe houses for the lutle folks to play in. Children seem to keep up interest this sim ple game for months. Better Thar. Counting Ten, Poke Eazley and lletcher Henstep got into a fight Tuesday morning. Poke rushed away after a fence rail, but he was so long in finding one that he was in a good humor by the time he got bad. —Hcgwallow Kentuckian. Wedding stationery—printed or en graved. at The Herald office, JUST TOO CUTE for anything is . y- the general ver- .J diet regarding i 'J °ur S PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHILDREN. We have the knack of making them feel at ease, and of getting them so interest ed they forget to Ms c I;.. look any other H JLIJI® wa y t^iau natur- J ah Hence the • WW”:-- lifelike portraits JHOBn I we P r °duce. Lit '^ s - I ns prove our skill L X. I and your child’s eliarm by naak iQg a photo. Orton’s Studio Lancaster Stories of Success SIR THOMAS LIPTON With si xt y London stores, /Sa thousands in his '■****■ Or employ, and fcCl agencies in al- X. ’>// most every part feJjRsSjS. > of the world, % th© millionaire w/y MT tea merchant I an< t yachtsman. v’’-*K Thomas A. Lip- ton > was obliged to < l uit school at ‘eSW ;W t '#» ten and go to w> IT | W W work as a mes- V TTv Af] 7 senger boy at 'J., 1 w A ' sixty cents a week. He was ambitious and at tended night school, where he got his education, and that he maa® good use of it, his success proves. Once, in New York, when at fif teen he had to borrow five cents to send a letter to the old folks at Glasgow, his courage faltered, but he never gave up. The tide turned when with th® savings of years his father starteot him in a Glasgow grocery. It made money, and was the real beginning of a career ir > possible by a fru gal and savin o xather. Saving is a habit, like any other habit, good cr bad. Every dollar saved make,, it easier to save the next. Open a savings account with this bank, add to it regularly, and you will take the keenest delight in see ing it grow. PAGE FIVE