Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-07

work has nothing dauby about it,
and will stand wePr and weather we'll
enough. VIM. McClay is the timer,
and deals in stoves. He has been
here long time. Mr.. Eastman runs
harness shop and does first-rate
work. r. G. Mayor has good stock
of dry goods in his newly opened es-
adjustment. He offers fair "bar-
gains" Joseph Jackson, the present
town clerk, keeps general variety
and grocery store. Mr.. Gribble has
something similar in lower town, not
far from Joe Mason's picture gallery,
and not many removes from Glenn
entson & Sehabacker's old red, re-
nowned, and ready bob-sled, wagon,
carriage and cutter mandatory.
The town has two or three MILL
ner shops, brace of shoemakers,
two merchant tailors-Mr. Thompson
and Mr.. Moon-and a carpet-weaver
or so. This is all very well, but
there are men, and men of pretty
good common sense too, who don't
90 much on carpets. Now, Prof
fyndall, for instance, will not hear
of such thing as carpet, because,
as he states, it makes so much ur-
wholesome dust, which gets into the
air, thence into the lungs, thence into
the system, where it becomes exceed
ingly troublesome, causing bad dis
eases, cutting us off even in our
prime, and turning us into "demd,
moist, disagreeable bodies"
Hazel Green has a good public
school. Mr.. Roche is the present
principal Tessie Parkinson, Mary
Ann Roberts, and Mary Powers, the
accomplished and fair-featured assist
ants.
The Rev. G. Cummings breaches
in the NJ. 4. Church, and the Rev
James Anderson in the Primitive.
There is German Presbyterian
meeting house, and recently repair
cd church set apart for Catholic wor-
ship.
There is an Odd Fellows Lodge, a
Masonic and a Good Templars'. rhe
last is a decided success; it has
great many young members, frisky
boys and pretty girls, who are all, to
an individual. heart, soul, moustache
and chignon in the glorious cause. If
we had as deep-rooted an interest in
the work of temperance reformation
as have some of the eminen ,ly plous
and highly cultivated literary driv-
ellers of whom We have lately read
and heard, we might now go on and
give the world some much needed
though sadly indigestible advice.
Hazel Green is justly proud of
of, and even brags about, it's good
looking girls. Beats anything, the
number of pretty fayre maydes"
that the place contains. Quite be-
wilderingl Reminds us of the fol-
lowing quotation, which was origin
ally published in McGuffey's old fifth
reader. We don't know its author.
but have an inkling that it was that
odious and malicious old cabbage who
wrote Hamlet" and a raft or two of
equally barbarous rubbish. Here are
the lines:
''The maids that here do congregate
Are ev'ry one, I'll bet your pate,
About as lovely, good and 'swate,"
As maidsns can become-ah me!
Aud not be whoy-dnnt you seeg
Well, tweedledum or tweedledee
Some have black eyes, some have blue.
Some look old and some look neU;
But all are witty, wise and true"
With which remarkable eruption we |
close the purely business part of our |
lengthening letter.
This Winter, "Sociables" are the
successful thing, with townspeople
all, both young and old. These are
held every Tuesday evening, now at
this house, now at that Persons at
tending pay each five cents, which
sum is added to the accommodating
pile of funds wherewith, when the
Winter Is over and gone, some pulpit
furniture, Bible, sofa, etc, is to be
purchased for the ~ e Church. The
merry assent lage usually resolves it.
self into three distinct classes-tbe
little folks, the young" ESQ called
and the old. The first and second
sing, from everlasting to everlasting.
ABOUT "the little miller that lived in
mill, do an infinite deal of the
most promiscuous kissing, aud feel,
generally speaking, about as happy
as whole garden full of big supflow-
ers. The Older people, always includ-
ing some OF the younger. chat unre-
servedly, hunt the key" aud figure
out to small fraction, the true state
Of everybody's health, purse, and
prospects for Paradise. And so runs
the time away.
James Gates Percival, the we'll
known poet, geologist and scholar,