Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-28
Local Matters /:
Bidwell's corn is big.

Last Sunday the thermometer stood a
lO3 ia the shade,
DIR. Baxter is lively engaged putting ~
"sedliiz-powders"
All Dubuque teamsiers are compelled tC
number their wagons.
Dogs in our streets, are becoming toe
numerous for comfort.
The FIRE company will parade again or
Monday evening next.
The spiritualists with a state conyen
ton at Omro, Oct. 10th.
80 Ladies claim that postal cards have nc
room on them for a "P. s."
"A heavy shower of rain visited this To-
cal,y last Monday evening
Lancaster Fire Co. No. / had parade
and drill last Monday evening.
4 The Ola Settlers meeting will be held
~ Lancaster October "a and 3d.
-Thad Mason, son Of DR.. Mason OF Dubu-
que, died in Colorado on the goth inst.
What God gives men as stepping stones,
they often make into stumbling blocks.
Sneak thieves are about, and our citizens
had better be on the lookout for them.
Our farmer friends are no boubt glad
that the seasons harvest is about gathered.
- when III news comes too late to be Of
service to your neighbor, Ike ep il to yourself.
What has happened to the tomato crop
this season There has been none in market
yet.
Dubuque has passed a salary bill where
10 $4,000 is added to the income Of her city
officials.
The hop pickers have began their work
The crop is reported light, the result Of
drought,
The Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad has
added twenty locomotives and 500 freight
cars to its stock.
GENERALLY speakin'N the corn crop as
viewed on the road from Lancaster to Marion
was never better.
-Beig feels elated over the little sensation
that was created in his family last Sunday
morning 1t was girl.
Delinquent subscribers with pocket full
of cash will find editors about the "socialisp
persons 10 the community.
The Hazel mines furnishes the GaIena
market about fifty thousand pounds Of pig
lead per day for shipment.
The Varrel House in Feunimore Center,
IS most,credi'aoly managed house, and de-
serves the large patronage it is receiving.
TO alIay the morbid thirst common to
this season, a small pebble stone held in the
mouth will accumulate saliva sufficient 10 sup
ply an demands.
The Cassyllle Graded school commences
Monday, Sept lst The teachers are L. J.
Arthur, Principal; Lester Boughton and
Miss Aggis Pollock, assistants.
Horse thieves are reported as being
abundant in the vicinity Of Dubuque, several
fine animals have been taken and hemp col
as are Freely talked Of for the thieves.
The Baptist church at Bloomington Is
undergoing repairs. The pastor, Mr.. Webb,
: man Of considerable taste, and means to
have his church look as well as any of them.
The mines il the vicinity Of Blooming
ton, since opening, have turned out fifteen
thousand pounds Of mineral which commands
higher price than any other, on account Of
its purity.
l. That was a handsome carriage Mr.. Frank
Thompson Of Hazel Groen took away from
Budds shop yesterday. Frank will make
some young damseI's heart ilutter at sight OF
his turnout
Its a noteworthy fact that the large
summer resorts are going out of fashion. "A
house for the season in some quiet place, or
trip 10 Europe, are the easiest modes Of
passing the heated term.
The ladies of the Bloomington Baptist
Church will provide refreshments upon the
fair ground during the exhibition OF the
Blake's Prairie Agricultural Society on the
ith aud 9th Of September.
In the vicinity Of Bloomington the farm
ELS are busy threshing and the hum Of the
machines can be heard in all directions.
Threshers say that wheat on Blake's Prairie
will yield from twelve to 20 bushels per acre.
The cSmetry has been enclosed with a
new fence, and the additional ground pur-
chased has been laid off into lots, Parties
desiring ground in the eemetry should make
application az once and secure choice lOca-
iions.
A Galena man surprised his wife the
her day with two hundred and fifty dolla.
bedroom set, and the balance Of the wives il
his neghborhood have laid down the fir,
shovel and are sewing buttons on their hus.
bands shirts and ehueking them under tn,
chin.
-Galena brags over its greatest General
its most successful foreign Minister and ais
lays claim to the meanest man. He recent,
went 10 the cemetery, dug up his father
grave stone, took il down town and offered
Tor sale at marble yard. Galena is entitle
TO the premium.
The party Of hunters from our ueghbor
ing village Of Bloomington, Messrs. 5, Wood
house, P. Woodhouse and John Stanley, spok
en- Of last week, have returned. and repoi
having had a good time. The reason the
Ola not ship home cargo Of chickens was be
cause they had no ice.
-Iens. o. Johnson, Of Boseobe, is gener;
agent Tor the following reliable FIRE insuranc
companies Home and Continental OF New
York, Phoenix and Hartford OF Connection
n. W. National, Of Milwaukee, German. Z
Freeport, Hekla, of Madison and Madiso
Mutual. HE will be found at all times at n
store Of Parker s. Hildebrand.