Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-09-04
Local Matters:

Local Matters:
Nj h,s cool and pleasant.
Where's your boy at night?
Notice the new advertisements.
-Muscoda has a grain elevator.
Lazy men tremble in their boots.
Court wi last about three weeks.
Attend to business and you'll prosper.
1t is good TO have friends everywhere
The nights are growing long on both
ends.
business among the merchants is pick
ing up.
Watch our columns for bargains Of eve
~ kind.
- Come to the HERALD office for your job
printing.
Cows are now nightly rough painting the
sidewalks.
Beans without pork are dished up on the
fourth page.
The Muscoda public schools will open on
Monday next.
= Nor murder, no suicides, no mad dog
nothing sensational.
The Phelps House is as neat and ii dy as
a milliner's window.
considerable sickness at Mt. Hope
among the children.
Sickness is preveling to cOnside rable
extent in this county.
Mr. III. Johnson will establish trout
pond IN Belmont soon.
The fall term of Circuit Court will com
mence on Tuesday next.
Wheat on Fennimore prairie averages
about 10 bushels to the acre.
Jacob Creagor is pntting machinery for
working iron into his mill at Millvil'e.
1T is criminal tor heads of families to de-
prive their children Of the local paper.
Hired girls can't be had for love or mon
ey just now. They are all picking hops.
The latest and handsomsst styles of job
type will be found at the HERALD Office.
"A citizen complains that there is no or
dinance forbidding hoop driving on the side
walks.
"A great deal OF sickness is now reported
at Milville, prevailing mainly with the
young.
Corn on the praries will be about half
crop. On the barreus it is almost total
failure.
Mr. c. d, Smith, of Fennimore, sold the
vther day three year old steer weighing l.
200 pounds.
C. T. Foster, Lewis Eaton and John
Holloway resume their studies at Beloit Col
lege this week.
f. p Johnson, Of Wyausing, sold s75
worth ofraspberries this season at ~ cents
and half quar- e
Mr.. Giltz Of Wyalusing, is said to have
harvested 100 bushels Of "Golden Chat"
wheat from four acres.
All prudent, careful people who become
identified with Lancaster permanently, will
never regret it pecuniarily.
Samuel Goan Of Millville, from one acre
Of land worth $50, raised 500 worth Of po-
atoes.and beans. last year.
Housewives should clip the article pub
lished on fourth page headed tomatoes"
Paste II in the receipt book.
Don't pasture hogs in your orchard. 1t
renders the trees liable TO widter-kill. So
say those who ought TO know.
The ladies' Of the Congregational church
in this place will provide bountful tables on
the fair grounds, next week.
"A Dubuque topper being requested to de-
6neshard drinking said at was sitting on q
rock andssipping cold water"
The hop crop in Wyausing though Of
superior quality, is but about half an average,
as the vines were badly winter-klled.
No appeals to the reason and feeling of a
child will be as efec tive as they might be,
unless we can al so appeal to the imagin alton.
Fairs will be held--at Lancaster Sept
10, II ard -, at Hazel Green Sept. IL, Is
10. and at Platteville Sept %, 25, % and 81
nicked at Deacon Reynolds in Cassvile las
Thursday. They report a very pleasant time
y. w. Stone, Of Bakes Prairie, lost 80
head Of hogs one day last week, and is now
satisfied that pork brine is not good fatten-
er.
A Galena witness in the case Of assault
and battery, when asked what he said, re-
piled, Il sed to him wild the toe Of my boot
go home"
Dan Campbell Of Patch Grove has RAISED
aeyerai hundred bushels of white club wheat
The aour from it is said to equal that Of tn,
best winter wheat
On the oak openings of Wyalusing
Millvi lie and NJ. Hope wheat will averag,
about 20 bushels per acre. Oats will average
so bushels per acre.
Wheat on Blake's Prairie will averag,
IS bushels per acre. Oats vary greatly in tn,
same localities the average YIELD being about
30 bushels per acre
The sblsy (Iowa) Gazette has chang
ed hands, the proprietors, Chas. Brown an
Capt. d. L. Riley, having Melted handsome.
ly Young journalist, 90 west.
Lost on Sabbath afternoon between n
residence Of George Howe and the Congrega
tional church, pair Of gold bowed specta
ces. The finder will leave the same at tn
Herald Office aud be rewarded.
Kidd Brothers Of Milyille are improun
the water power Of their grist-mill. A ne
dam is to be built, and hume 900 feet
length The improvements will be compile
ed Oct. st. The expense rs estimated I
$1,000.
Lancaster will be represented at IN
state University by the following other son