Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-07-02
TOWN AND COUNTY +:
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Have YOU seen tue COiHcAs
Lancaster has concluded to celebrate.
-Woodman has another mineral prospect.
-Dodgeyille Is talking about street Lamps.
cherry thieves have commenced their dep
relations.
Farmers are already engaging help for the
.5ml9g harvest
piatteyille is bound to celebrate, l'anca-
8 ~ mas a notion to.
-Muscoda is happy with its first tin root
4 tie measles and new hotel.
Tie Iowa county Fair will be held at
Dodseyine, Sept %, "A, % and &c.
Hon. ]. Allen Barber AMI daughter re-
turned from Washington on Friday last.
-Boscobel, BeetOwn and Patch Grove have
made extraordinary arrangements to celebrate
he Fourth
The steamer Gt4ssie Girdon will hereafter
run IN the place Of the Express on the Potosi
and Dubuque line.
The Rev VIM Mansell viii preach in the
Baptist Church. Lancaster, on the 18th OF July
j o'clock, P. NJ.
Register Woodhouse has received for dis
tr.huiion his supply Of session laws of 1874
Town Clerks viii take notice
Fresh Mackinaw trout and white fish-ice-
9teked from the lake-received every Thurs
a.g by Nathan, Schreiner & Co.
Tile Dial says there are greater num-
5er Of buildings being erected in Boscobel
rais season than for a number Of years.
After ali absence Of Sc years Mr.. Philip
KeIt- and wife will visit old scenes and friends
ii Central New York They will start there
l5r IA a few days.
Dewitt and Bolzell, of MOntfort, are
around looking for patrons for patent tire
fastener which should sell well. They desire
10 sen town rights.
There viii be a Good Templars' basket pic
me At Platteyille on the 4th of July. AIper-
sons Interested in the temperance movement
are invited to be present.
number Of newspapers have come to
HE conclusion lately that the people of Wis
con-in have demonstrated, by millions Of dol
lars aid, that they are not hostile to railroads.
Tile citizens of Harrison will meet at Cen
ire School House on Saturday of next week
July nth, at 8 o'clock p NJ, for the purpose
oforeanziug Farmers Fire Insurance Cons
pany
The annual commencement exercises OF
s., Clara Academy will take place at the
Mound on Tuesday next, July 9th. A fine
literary and musical enter tainment may be ex-
pected.
The village of Muscoda, on the Wiscon-
sIn river, is accustomed 10 floods and sand
storms and high winds, but the greatest ca
iazsty that ever befell that place was the APP
pearahcs some days ago of portable photo
grarh gallery.
The moonlight picnic on the grounds OF
DIR. Baxter the other night was enjoyed by a
large number of the old and young. We
learn that the proceeds of the affair increased
the fund Of the Ladies' Temperance Assocla-
ton about twenty dollars.
-Chapin's Circus Comique, which PEI
formed in this section during the latter part
Of May last, seems to have had short lease
Of life Inefficient organization and bad
management was the cause Of a breakup at
Warren some days ago.
The new act Of Congress relating to news
psper postage provides that newspapers, one
u ,k.,rr linz IN thta
county where printed, in whole or in part, go
faee through the mails The new law will go
10 elect January LIST next.
Some DAYS since Mr.. John Morgan, an
ol gentleman residing few miles south OF
II Hope, while riding horse received kick
fram an animal running loose in the road-re-
sui, very bad fracture. This is the third
ease Of the kind that has occurred in this vi
entity on account of running horses
1t seems that Dubuque cattle dealer had
much trouble with drove Of cattle near Fair
play some days ago The drove, worried and
excited by the long drive, broke and scattered
II every direction on reaching belt of timber
near that place and the drivers we're unable
z bring them together. They ran one of the
aa.mals down and he died.
jas Chandler Of Wingville, has purchased
tie right of the "Dickason's Farm Gate" fol
lie counties Of Grant, Lafayette and Iowa
THIS gate Is acknowledged to be the best TO
the purposes designed. of any yet patented. l
light. easily aud cheaply constructed. an'
ior durability is unsurpassed. Mr.. Chandle
NiIl soon visit Lancaster, set up one Of tn
estes and Ell rights for towns
Under the general law enacted last win
ter il is the duty of all guardians whethe
heretofore appointed by the County Court o
b. wills proved therein, to render annual &C
counts, and the time for rendering the first &C
count may be fixed by the Court as require,
ts the circumstances of the case. Guardian
II minors and others are referred TO the SEES
SION Laws, Chapter 267 1874
The season for sunstroke is at hand, an,
those whose work compels them to be expose
should use preeaution and guard against sud
den death from the heat of the sun. Eithe
keep the top Of the head wet with water, o
lay n the hat two layers of paper, one orang
eo'ofed AMI the other green. The philosoph
" TINS Is that the orange color arrests III
NNeA'eal ray of the sun and TIE green the hea
ray thus, an! i'll effects are prevented.