Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-01-08
TOWN AND COUNTY:
Parents, visit the Schools.

home dealers.
There are 10000 bushels of wheat il
store at Cassville.
-Coasting on the sidewalk, is prohibited
by law in some places.
DIR. Deffenbacher will spend a week in
Lancaster soon to repair muzzles.
"A communication from Fennmore is re-
'ceived too late to appear in this issue.
Weak eyes are one of the consequences
Of using the green glazed lamp shades.
The Winter Term of the State Normal
School at Platteville, opened on Monday last.
Mr.. Frank Grant and wife, of Blooming
ION, registered at tie Phelps House yester-
day.
The first of the year is good time 10 pay
debts Printers debts are regarded as debts
IN law.
Go to the lecture this evening at the NJ.
Z. Church. Learn and follow "The Road
70 Success
New Years was duler time throughout
the village and the town generally than any
ordinary day.
The Changers are insisting that railroad
property shall be taxed upon the same basis
as forming lands.
-Whae shall ii profit man if he plow all
summer and then let his crop of corn lie out
doors and rotlR the winter.
Accidental shooting is becoming alarm
ingIy common. WIZ will not sporting men
and boys learn to be careful.
We sh the school hell was in order.
Being very convenient time monitor its
,siugiags are missed by many.
1t cCsss only eight cents 10 register lei
ter now instead OF the old rate of fifteen cents.
The change took place January Ist.
The Cassyille grain buyers too in last
week an average of 1000 bushels of wheat
per day-prices paid, Sl.O0 to Sl.06.
In Pennsylvania, Iowa and Illinois, wo men
are eligible TO any school office. Why net
Wisconsin allow them the same PRIVILEGE
Tax receipts ought to show he amount
oftaxes apPortioned respectively BY the state,
county, town, village or city, and school DIS
riot.
The friend of Rev. Clapp, in Prairie du
Chen, Surprised" him on New Years day
with fine oyercoat, hat, and $25 in green
backs
Nothing sensational this week but mar
rlages. These are the only accidents we can
record with horror, for the parties are the
y sufferers.
The La ncaster Public Schools opened on
Monday last, with full corps Of competent
teachers, and we learn with an unusual large
attendance OF scholars.
The HERALD Carrier returns thanks to
The village subscribers for pecuniary favors on
New Years day lie will make his weekly
visits during the year 1874.
A thorough cleaning of the plans walks
through the village would ;ost but little times
labor or expense and would greatly enhance
the ease and safety of pedestrians
Did you attend the last annual school
meeting? If you did or did not, why charge
tina, your taxes just paid were 10 defray the
expenses of the general government?
Those indebted to Mr. D. II. Budd or
Dr. P A. Clarke should read Bushnell &
Clark's advertisement in this issue, and call
around al he Colonel's office and settle.
Miss Mary Bellows and Addie Farrar
we're judged 10 have made the greatest i'm
proyement in writing, at Mr.. Reeds course,
and received the prop osed reward Of merit.
a Donation party will be held at the NJ
+. Church this evening for the benefit OF tht
resident pastor Rev: D. w. Couch, of Madi
son, will deliver short lecture during the eve
ming.
Calico balls, calico fesh' ais and calico
church dresses have become quite common
and fashionable Will not some of our enter
prising young ladies now introduce a calico
wedding
All our poor are not employed, and Their
are families in our midst who have not enough
Of the comforts Of life, and yet festivities ant
feasts come of as numerous as in the winters
Of better years.
Parker and Timms will be here Jan. 81
ana 10th 10 buy mares and geldings sound
kind ant sleek None Of the scrubby kin
wanted, but the sizeable. we'll propcrtione
and good conditioned Onos are the kind the
want.
Petitions TO the Legislature are circulatin
n Green County 10 change the form Of Cour
~ government back to The old COMMISSIONS
system, ana to amend the Constitution so tina
.he legislature will meet only once in tvs
years.
The WITNESS says that al the recei
election held at PlatteNllle, the proposition
give Mr.. Beecher hye-ninths of the Iailroi
,,ock was voted down. Hon. J. c. SPUR
vas elected agent 10 control the railroad sto'
held BY the town.
A correspondent informs Us thai the lo'
srs in the vicinity of Hurricane Grove are
comiEg thinned out and moralized. That i
lie church in the grove is occasionally VI
warmed. we'll lighted and filled, and nj
have something 10 do with this inproyeme
in the morals Of theCorners.
are TO those who habitually sit around the
productive Of numerous dissgreeable sym
toms They contain arsenic and sugar
lead The heat reduces the poison TO pc,
der which is inhaled into the lungs, and
At once conveyed inc the circulation.