Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-08-15
Local Matters !:


Sweet potatoes at Schmitts.
Van 30 wall makes shadow pic
lures.
A Union Church Festival and
Barbecue at DckeyyiIls, Aug. 81,
being Thursday.
We hear many accounts of dam
age done by the lightning in all parts
ct the county.
-Kite-fying has of late been the
prevailing epidemic among the Lam
caster Juveniles
"A tremendous big plate Of ice
cream for ten cents at Moore's res
taurant in Plattevilio.
Those Hub hats" sold by the
Elder" will make you look immacu-
late, even if you aren't no saint"
AT Ziegler and Dllons were pur-
chased the hardware trimmings for
Mrs Sherman's elegant new house
Docs Mr.. Thomas Il. Seaton, of
Bosco bel know that we have his
memorandum book, ETC., in our Of
ice
We want every body to read
the 'Eduor's Guests" on the fourth
page OF this HerdH. 'Tis true, and q
pity It's It's true.
-Messrs Fields, Scott aud others,
Of Boscobel are this year shipping
large quantities Of water melons to
the eastern markets.
That exodus Of Lancastertes to
Potosi last Sunday took nearly all
the horses and vehicles that our liv-
cry stables contain.
Yves Wier will make a practica
demonstration Of what he knows
about clerkism for another year in
tho largo salesroom OF Nathan, Shrei.
ner 4 Co.
The corner stone for the new
Congregational church edifiee was
not laid yesterday, but is to be next
Saturday afternoon, weather etc
permitting.
The Golden Age - actually one
Of the brightest papers published in
this country. The best writer's and
boldest thinkers Of the time have
hearing in its pages.
"A gentleman of our Acquaintance
has never n word against ce-water
in the abstract, but in the concrete,
well mot (any) for"-the name
sake Of him who wore a coat of many
cOlOrs.
"A pleasant party that, last
Thursday evening at the residence
Of the Hon J Allen Barber. Ditto
the one at Judge Mills the same eve
ming, and that at Mrs. Blanding's
Saturday night.
Upward of thousand Of our
German fellow citizens attended the
picnic at Specht city on Sunday last.
They were mostly from Dubuque,
whence they were conveyed in cars
on the new railway.
The particular person now read
ing this local is respectfully requested |
to send us any items of interest that
the course of human and other events
may have lately brought to pass in
his or her nsighborhOod.
The house Of Mr.. John Perkins
In Fennimore was struck by light
ming last Thursday afternoon. A part
OF one gable end was was torn away,
and the building in general consider
ably shattered.
-Abnor S. Flagg, formerly Her
AID type, has exchanged the printers
osticlx" for the yard measure, the
case" for the counter,-that is he
has taken clerkship in the store of
Messrs. A. e. 7. A. Burr, Ian caster.
Yesterday morning the light
ninp struck at Rockville house oc~
cupied by Mr.. Redenbaeh, using it
MP to an almost irreparable extent,
and frightening tho twelve inmates
thereof TO a degree not many removes
from utter distraction.
When the terrific storm of last
Thursday afternoon had spent its
fury, a dismal heap of smoking ashes
marked the spot whore Mr.. Peter Fin
negan had stacked his wheat (somo
fifteen acres) on his farm in the town
of Liberty. Lightning did the job.
That Terrible Temptation" has
made it's appearance in book form,
publishod by Jas. II. Osgood X Co,
Boston price 80 cts. paper. Many
will be disappointed in its termination
inasmuch as the temptation is not
hall as terrible as the initial chapt-
ers of the powerful story had led the
reader to infer.
Very oppressive was the atmos-
phere last Sunday evening and most
imminent thunder storm, and yet
did great many people assemble in
theCongregational church to hear the
members of that Aourishing Sunday
School sing songs, read original es-
saws and deliver declarations. The
little listeners were very much edited
indeed. as were also those possessing
older brains.
We learn from the Prairie du
Cbien Union that two little girls,
dsugbters of the late Goo. ID. Clark,
livinrat Seneca in Crawford Co. were
recently burned to death by the ex-
pIosion OF some kerosene wherewlth
their little brother was trying &c KIM
de a fire. The mother was milking
whom the accident occurred, and could
not reach her children in time TO save
them.
rm-The public we'll on the corner
onnosita the Herald office is being
deepened for larger supply OF wa
ter. Mr.. VIM. Ketner has contract
ed with tho town to do the work, we
believe with the understanding that
he is TO bore till water or China is
reached. This well was sunk in lS42
to the depth of near go feet, by John
Bsnfil and Bill Buckinhorn, since
which it has been one of theprominent
village landmarks, but at different