Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-22
TRAIN TIME at spECHTs FERRY
Local Matters:
REGIsTER this week

from PIattevile to Hazel Green.
By an act OF the last legisla~
ture all general election days are
legal holidays.
Since the recent elections the
Gteelcyites may be very properly
called Assistant Democrats.
Prepare for Winter. Now is
the time to clean out the chimneys.
Attend to it the first rainy day.
EVERY Republican who did not
vote at the last election, should see
that his name is on the Registry this
Week.
-'rHE Union says there has been
$40 600 worth Of buildings erected
in Prai rie du CHEN during the past
season
WooD Wood We will glad
~ take somo Of that wood that was
promised Us two years ago on HeraH
subscription.
GALL and sec samples Of our LETT
ter and bill heads, statements and all
kinds Of commercial printing. We
print them dirt cheap.
-QUrE number of miners are
leaving Hazol Green tor the La
Sale coal mines. High rents are
likely tie cause Of the rush.
MATILDA Fletcher is doing good
work tor The Republican cause in the
West. She will speak at Dubuque
on Thursday evening October 3lst.
The Sisters Convent at Prairie
du Chem Is about completed. 1t is
said TO be magnificent structure
and occupies commanding site over
looking the city.
Mn, IYMER, Of Potosi began
the erection Of smelling furnace
at Puckerville near FairpIay, on
Tuesday. The FairpIay mines will
give him good run.
-LosT October 18th, between FL
lenboro and Ian caster, q small plaid
shawl, plain on one side, The finder
will please return it to B4xter's drug
store. Lancaster, and be rewarded.
--TuE Paatdgrdph, issued monthly
by the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company, ut Milwaukee, is pretty
publication of recent birth. Mr. Geo.
Ii Rountree il, we learn, the editor.
We learn that several Germans,
at Gutenberg, who at first pronounc
cd for Greeley have since seen their
error, and are now outspokon fer
Grant The good work goes brave-
ly on
THIS is not a good year for sore
head candidates for Congress. The
elections thus far have aggregated a
gain Of thirteen Congressman for the
Republicans. Carry the news to
Warden.
ROCKVILLE has new school |
building-a largo two-story frame
which viii accommodate 200 to 300
scholars The building was erected
by Mcssrs AIeorn and Mucsse, of
Lancaster
-BREYEn's theatrical troupe en-
ter;aIncd fair audiences at P0llock's |
Hall on Tuesday Wednesday and |
Thursday evenings of last week
"ren nights in a Bar Room" was al
mirably rendered on the last even
ing
We are obliged to Mr. Eugene
II Lewis one OF the editors, for
copy Of the Yale Recori-one of the
several College journals published by |
the students Of Yale. The Record il
a neat publication, fuIl Of the usual
class gossip and reports Of literary |
exercises and College sports
-.r isa startling fact that fences
in The Ulitoi S,a.es are worth as (,
much as all the farm stock in the
country or IS one writer says, !
FOR every dollar invested in live
stock. auoth r dollar is required for
the construction Of dete nccs to resist
their attacks on farm productions"
-SroRrsNEv are in their glory now
Several parties have recently regis
tered their names AT the Pnelps
House, enroute for duck hunt on
the Mississippi, bottoms Mr.. Geo
W'a'herby Of Sbullsburg, and J. II
Iyack and VIM II Pricstly of Min
eraI Point, passed through town yes
tcrtSy.
-ruE Il labIicaos are Just about
equal % aamoer to their opponents
~ pl'Iet.h but considerable conf
uen'a y expressed that the disaf
i'cton among the Democrats on the
r'l '.opher's account, will enable
Tue Republicans to report a pro-
"'uhced majority for Grant in No.
yemb,r