Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-12-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
- December mud is tough.
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Look out for freeze.up.
-Babbage has gone to Europe.
-Yssterdsy's rain quite filed many Of the
cisterns.
Twins this time, and Fiddler Joe is the
happy man.
A religious revival is IN progress at the
Nj. f. Church.
Wages Of all kinds, except those Of sin,
have been reduced.
The embers of the dyiSg year-Noyem-
Der and December.
The windows in the stores begin TO put
on holiday appearance.
Circuit Court for Lafayette County is ia
session at Darlington this week.
The Good Templars Of Bloomington are
making another attempt TO organize.
--Muscoda is The best hoop-pOe market on
the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen X. r.
- Rev d. w. Couch. Of Madison preached
IN the NJ. f. Church on Sabbath MOI ming
last
Pay up your subscription and begin the
next year square with your God and your
printer.
-Ex- Senator NJ. X. Young OF Glen Haven,
has received letters patent on a newly invent
ed harrow.
The Presidents Message in full appears
in this issue. It was delivered at II, noon,
on Tuesday.
Good advice for parents during the pam
&c "Husband your resources, and, if posi-
bic, your daughters.
-"They say" thunder and lighing in De-
cember is "sgn'' Of cold weather. The
sign was out last night.
III. Clay Evans, who formerly resided at
this place has been showered with Alderman
ic honors at Chattanooga.
-Plattevile is now connected with the
rest Of the world Oy telegraph. The office
is to be located in the new depot.
Rockville was known by the name of
Gretua Green until the year 1850, when the
the village received its present title.
The fellow who sang Crock Me to Sleep
on the Billowy Ocean, never took ride over
the Crooked Creek road after a hard rain.
- Some correspondence, much news and
number Of locals are crowded out of this ia
sue 20 make room for the Presidents mes
sage.
The insurance men propose to compel
those dealing in burning oils, to keep only
such as stand the required test-that is, if
they want 10 insure.
1T is pretty certain that the first thing our
reformed legislature will do, VIII be to re-
peal the Graham temperance law, and posi-
bly, the Sunday law.
School District Treasurer David, OF Wa
tertown, the other day lost sl25 public mon
sy aud $50 Of his private fund. II was sto-
len FROM bureau drawer.
This weather is fine Tor replacing brok-
ed window panes, fastening weather strips on
loose doors and windows. and making gsner'
al preparation for the approach Of winter.
4 - The GAINESVILLE TINES says the Supreme
Court Of this State has decided that a liquor
dealer s no; obliged to TO take city license +,
if he has taken tn. U. 5. government license.
Rev. Jas. Anderson has accepted d call
from the Congregational chusch in Marion,
Iowa, and Kew. NJ McPhail has been APP
pointed to succeed him IN the P. NJ. church in
Dubuque.
-Supt Holford expects 10 hold Teach
ers' Institute OF one weeks duration begin
ming Dee 22nd, in Lancaster Nothing post
tive yet, but decisive notice will be given
next week.
Had the man who wrote "Jordan's a Hard
Road 70 Travel" come over Crooked Greek
Road Yesterday morning before daylight, he
would compose another song and set it to the
tune of Crooked Greek mud
a meeting Of County Superintendent
will be held al the office OF Superintendent Of
Public Instruction, Monday evening, Dec.
90. The incoming as well as outgoing Super
iniendents are invited to be present
I'll am weary of life-bury me deep OF
the hillsde,n wrote young man in Dubu-
que, but they pumped him out and thar sam'
nigh, he went to the circus and laughed I'll
he cried al the antics Of the trick mules.
: The holiday season is approaching, an,
: it's high time that business men should Sc
to it that their arrivals are properly sprea,
before the people. Nothing so speedily an
80 surely returns back 10 one he cost as lib
r. eral advertising.
On May IS, 1887, block lO-the publ
I. square at Lancaster-waS Sin considerable
Of the sum Of 1902 decided 10 the Count
r Commissioners of Grant County by Glendow
er NJ. Price and wife, the block having bee
5 plated few days before.
Warden Anderson, the old settler an
L popular merchant at Jamestown, is still j
trade, both at jamestown and Fairplay. MI
A. does business on the safe plan Of "quic
- sales ana small profits" and has built up a
" enwable reputation as a merchan, and deale
\ The lIER,LD printers deserve credit +,
ID, setting up the message in time for this issu
The copy thereof " as received at the Hera
r. Office AZ noon yesterday, the bearer having
4 Quill through so miles Of December mud, Viii,
: tough. you know. At one o'clock this NOR
] ing the type was p form; thus enabling on,
J., half Of the readers Of the Herald to read q
+: message within 80 hours after its delivery b
IN fore Congress.
-Cassvie was first settled in 1920.
had in 1928 several dwellings, a store, lu
mace and warehouse. The warehouse "
IN built BY Hodges & Stanley, both OF who
A. shortly aiterward; moved on farm near Il
= present site Of Lancaster. Mr.. Shanley s.
. lives. as also Mr.. A. D. Ramsay who W
IL one of the frs, settlers at Csssville. Tno'
!. zee halievs. are the only survivors among I