Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-07-23

This monument stands in conspic-
uous place in the court house square,
and has been already described. 1t
IS an ornament to the place and a
credit to the county. This is the
first county monument in the Union
to the memory of the patriot dead.
INSTITUTIONS.
Among the societies or orders es-
tablished here, are:
Grand Chapter No. q, Royal Arch
Masons; J. ". Blanding, IL. p
Has been organized year and a
half and has about 80 members.
Lancaster Lodge No. 20, Free and
Accepted Masons; j. Ill. Hyde, W.
III. Has about IS members.
Odd Fellows Encampment and
Odd Fellows Lodge: w. p. Dewey
chief officer of both.
Lancaster Lodge of Good Temp
lars No. 292; about 100 members.
G. ID. Shrader w. c.. Il.
There is also weekly or sennight'
Reading Club, which meets for lite
rary exercises during the long even
ings.
PROFESSIONAL.
Among the professions rendered
necessary and useful by the sins of
the people, | begin with that which
attends them at their birth and death.
without whom it is neither pleasant
nor fashionable to live or to die viz;
THE DOCTORS
}. ii. Hyde, j. ID. Wood, G. Nc
Fadden and 9. Rapke-Allopaths
J. W. Angel, Homeopath.
Geo. 2. Newell is the only resident
dentist.
LAWYERS.
j. L. Mills, now Judge of the 9Th
Judicial Circuit.
J. Allen Barber.
A. r. Bushnell.
VIM. Pitt Dewey.
John G.. Clark.
Mr.. Bushnell was partner of j. II.
Mills until the latter went on to the
bench.
HISTORICAL CHARACTERS,
Messrs. Barber and Mills are histor-
zeal, not only in Grant County. but
throughout the state they and J. C.
Cover have made Grant County raids
cal in politics. Mr.. Barber has been
for many years member of one or
the other branch Of the Legislature,
and was noted for voting pretty uni
formly against ali doubtful appro-
priations. Has been speaker Of the
Assembly. He and ex Governor
Nelson Dewey were among the first
settlers, and for many years were the
| principal law firm in Grant County,
and though the standing joke was
that thoy were like the two blades of
shears, cutting every thing that came
between them without injuring each
other, the general testimony is that
they have done moro than any other
two men to promote the settlement
and prosperity of the county. They
are now among the wealthiest, if not
the wealthiest men in the county.
Judge Mills came to Prairie du
Chen from Illinois College, Jackson
vile, in 1887, to teach the children
of Zachary Taylor and other officers
at Fort Crawford; and though he
had an easy time and fine salary, he
dld1't like to stay. He could eat al
most anything, but he couldn't quite
stand Taylor's fare-old pork rind
with the bristles on. In few
days Taylor got him q clerkship in
the Quarter Masters Department
''oLD sARTINTY."
The first settler on the village site
of Lancaster was an original charac>
ter named Reed, but usually called
sold sartinty," from his constant
repetition of the phrase ito sartin-
ty." On one occasion he had engag-
cd to take Judge Mills and a sliogh
load on the ice from Prairie du Chen
to Cassville, for which hereceived pay
in advance. The company had been
drinking freely, the ice was rotten,
and they had gone but about 200
yards, when the ice broke and they
all went in. Though high enough
before they went in, they were l0u
enough before they came out. The
Judge recollects hearing a soldier
say, just as he was sinking for the
last time, "There, we can save Mills
He was taken with his cloths freezing
upon him, to the nearest house. and
rubbed to warmth and life again with
the remainder Of the whiskey that
was not drank up But the only
consolation they received for the loss
of their ride and money was the ex,
clamation Of Old Reed. "This is q
dreadful accident to a Sdrtiatu."
J Judge Mills came to Lancaster in
May, lS43, and has been, ever since. a
hard student and industrious LAWYER
Altho' of southern birth, he has been
a radical abolitionist, and, in connec-
ton with J. c. Cover and J. Allen
Barber, has done much to form the
: present political character Of Grant
county.
: CHATS THE VERY Hoss."
; Ia 1887 or 8, Mr.. Mills was pres
ent, when Gen. Dodge made treaty
with the Indians, at Fort Winnebago
The General was armed with pistols
and towie knife bristling in his belt
till he looked like walking arsenal.
While making speech to the In
dams in his most pompous manner
; he said to the interpreter, "Tell them
: I'm as brave as Julius Caesar" The
circle of chiefs recoied, sprane tC
their feet, with EXPLANATIONS of"Urh
: ughl'-tried in vain to pronounce The
name, and finally asked rho ,JyIiu,
} Caesar 'oas. This nonplused the Gen
: eral, his classical knowledge not ena
bling him to answer.
, He turned to his aid-de- camp
Van Dorm, an ignorant Kentucky
backwoodsman, and in a whisper
asked for information. Thus fal
Judge Mills vouches that he saw anc
heard, but the West Pointers pres
ent, who disliked the General fol
out ranking them, affirmed that thc
aid-de-camp informed him that the