Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-02
Local Matters !:
will celebrate.

AND still the Mississippi il on the
ebb.
The State Fair will be held at
Milwaukee during the last week in
September.
-FRoM the premise cucumber the
conclusion cholera morbus is not
hard to derive.
-CoMMENC EMENT exercises at
Lawrence University, Appleton,
takes place tomorrow.
Now that the sickle is about to
start we may look for the usual har-
vest Of legs, arms and scalps.
NEITHER mortgages, deeds, con.
tracts, leases, or notes are required
to be stamped after Oct. 1st next.
-BRIDGEPORT was hailed upon not
long ago, and the growing things
around it were somewhat injured.
-PosrAGE on newspapers as well
as all other printed matter has been
reduced to one cent for two ounces.
"A little private picnic party
won't from Lancaster to Pine Knob
to-day. Trust they had some fun.
Iris rumored that the Lancaster
Wooden Mills are to be started afresh
in few weeks. Encouraging pros
pect.
"A fine new town clock building
is to be built in Dubuque on the site
Of the old one that went to ruin not
long ago.
-CRoP reports from all parts of
the county are now in order. Send
to this Office in time for publication
in our next issue.
IT is altogether likely that
railway will soon be built from Port
age to Mineral Point. Good men
are canvassing the enterprise.
Ma. Q. V. Roche, of Hazel
Green, who has been for two years
Principal Of the public school in that
town, is spending q few days in our
village.
The Dubuque Times says that
boats going up the river arc literally
packed with tourists fleeing from the
hot wrath Ct the Southern summer
to cooler fields above.
-REv FRANcIs MOORE, late pastor
of Emanuel Church, is expected to
visit this parish next week. He will
preach in that Church on Sunday
July 18th.
LAST Sunday tho corner stone of
the Sisters Convent to be built in
Prairie du Chen was laid with inter.
esting ceremonies and in the pres
euce of many citizens.
Tue Advent Tent meeting which
began at Miflin on the 28th of June
will continue over next Sabbath
Mr.. VIM. Sheldon and other able
speakers will be in attendance.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Lou
Lester, of Boscobel, was thrown
from carriage not long since and
quite badly hurt by the fall. He is
recovering, however, and will soon
be able to go about.
OLD "Gregoire," the well known
ferry boat which has for so many
years been moving between Dun
leith and Dubuque, has been sold to
the company owning the bridge con-
Meeting those two cities. The fare
is to be greatly reduced.
WHENEVER extra copies of the
Herald are wanted in any considera-
bic number, orders therefor should
be sent il time to reach us by Fri
day preceding publication day, or
otherwise half sheets only can be fur
nished.
We regret the announcement
made by many country editors that
they will issue no papers this week
on account of the Fourth. The Her.
all has made its regular weekly APP
pearance, year in and year out. since
the day of its birth in 1s43.
Tue oldest settler in all this re-
gion is probably Captain d. S. Har-
rs, OF Dubuque, who came TO the
lead mines of the upper Mississippi 40
years ago To great and wonderful
changes truly has this gentleman
been witness during the last half
century OF his life time.
-MoRE care should be taken in
the direction of letters. Nearly 81
600, 900 letters went to the dead let
ter Office last year Four hundred
thousand of them had no stamps and
5000 had no address. They con.
tanned $4,000 in cash, 81, OOO,O 600 in
drafts and checks, and 5000, O26
photographs.
AR the 10Th annual session of the
Wisconsin, Teachers Association to
be held at Madison Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday of next week,
those Of the educational men Of cur
country viii deliver addresses. Prof.
G. IL Alien will talk about kernel
Of corn, Prot Geo. Beck upon fire.
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