Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-19
Pr0tracted moctIue7 arc n pro-

village OF Lancaster Apply 20 ~
Il Tel Herald office. 70
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Pr1tracted meetings are in pro
grsss SbaIlsburg, Very good.
"A PaiIadelphiaa entertainment
al Patteville, is announced far Dec
2l
The Witness reports business
lively 10 PlatteyiIle during the last
two weeks
Union sociables by the Episcopal
prd Methodist churches Of PlatteTille
are iu oider.
Burta' Shingia machines, manu-
fpc'urcd at Dunieith, are used in
many of the Southern States
Owing to a case or two of scarlet
fever 40 Annaton, The school at that
place has been temporarily closed.
The last eclipse ol "a year came
rf 10 the equatorial part ~ he East
eru hemisphere, last Monday, Dec. II.
Partridges, qaails, pLeasants and
of her delectable wild fowls, abound
IN the ncgLnornooi of RIchland Cen
ere.
Upward u Two thousand dollars,
II il said have been cmbezzcd by J.
Eahuf the late County Clerk of
Crawford Co.
"A FREQ New Years dance at Ja-
ob Vauderveden's is one OF he holl
I.y attractions for the opening of
1872 AZ jamestown,
Mr. JAS. + Sheffield, Of James,
Town, was al the last session Of court
4. darlington, admitted 10 practice
50 tie bar in this circuit
The Atheue Society connected
with the PlattoyiIlo Normal School
III entertain the public in Normal
Hall tomorrow, Wed, evening
Thanksgiving day this year, it
seems, was not o bad day for fires,
o number Of which occurred In this
STATE and those that ncighbor it.
Oliver Optics Almanac for 70 ia
good one, fall Of choice reading
md fino pictures, some of them by
Mast. Published by Lee q Shepard,
Boston
The farmers Or Liberty town
have organized an insurance COM
pany Of their own. A good move,
since the rottenness OF 50 many pro-
Icssouial insurance concerns Is daily
coming TO light.
We learn BY Esqr Rocketellow
ot Beetown that Doctor Nichols, for
many years popular physician in
this county, is pleasantly located IN
the hourishing village OF Atlantic
in South. western Iowa
The railroad election at Hazel
Green last Saturday for the purpose
ot raising TAX Of S3O0 GOO 20 aid il
building The Dabuquc and Monroe
railway. resulted favorably by ma
jority of 60 or 20 votes.
-Thore wil be aa anniversary en-
tcrtaiument ia "Proyidence Church"
near Hp2ol Green on Christmas day.
Mr. Samuo White teacher 10 the
jefferson school. il one Of the persons
having charge Of the affair
The horses and cutter belonging
to James 4. Owen of Mineral Point,
and lately stolen from a hitchiDg post
il the streets of Belmont, have been
uund al Highland, the thief however
lyry prudently keeping out Of sight
and reach.
Mr. Kraener, OF Annatoo, has
manufactured a number Of first class
cutters, " hioh those in want OF some
hing neat and at the same time dura-
u.oin thatlino, will do well to examine.
kramor's factory turns out work
that ts not often excellcd.
Sufficient snow has fallen during
.no past fcw day and nights to make
8 ,1ierablo Show OK 8leighing. The
O. yular cold weather continues, high
winds prevail, and snow is driven into
heaps aud drifts in places where it
can not be utilized at all.
Mr.. Geo. p. Wjntersteen, former
Is employed in the store of Clayton
a. Woodward, Annst0n, returned
from The West on Saturday. lie
passed The summer at Fillmore. Ne.
uyaska. whore he. busted himself
taking up aud improving a claim,
and breaking ground for . porma-'
mont future home George ia an enc
uprising youth and will on
Mr.. + f. Newton, Of the Platte
v,le powder mills. informs us that
the WORKS are etill in operation, and
THAT they viii probably bo kept run
uIug AL winter. The demand for the
powder made there is greater than
the supply, heavy shipments being
made 90 points whore extensive
mining and railway building oper-
atiOns are carried on.
lit Is reported that some OF tho en-
thusiasuc Gaieuiaus who attended
thc recent railway meeting Of Haze
Green. did. 1t the conclusion of the
speaking, ln The language Of Bre
Hlrte) "smile o sort Of ,ickly smile.
aod-we.l seeing the way the mar
row guage seemed determined K
twinc-"tho subsequent proceeding:
i, { .restcd them no mere Viii h 10
body can deny, Dubuque, on the 9th
or hand feels "like . circus over III,
same result, as Professor Barnett
would say.
Last Saturday forenoon theF,
was excitement In the Herald ofic,
and prass room, in tho business places
contiguous and even in the streets
Ona OF The chimneys IN the Rylaud
q Holloway building caught fire, anC
asa very high wind was blowing a
the Time The gravest fears and appre
"eusions were manifested by oal
townsfolk No harm. however, re
suited from the threatened confagra
uon,other than convertingthe HerdlC
7"ht tum into an editorial smoke-hous,