Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-04-02
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.
Bloomington.

ua n AAouiCy h"o 49, 49,
business and gone TO live on his farm.
Max. Kolb is repairing his shop
and intends to he prepared to finish
all his work at home.
An engagement took place in
town Last Saturday, in which one chap
had a f,w of claret from the nose.
Our merchants are filling up their
stores for the spring trade, and the
indications are favorable to good
business in their line this spring.
The Bloomington schools close
their winter term on Friday, April 8.
The spring term commences ON Mon
day, April ID, and continues two
months.
Our shoemakers are the most in
dustrious men in town night and day
they peg away; and as for good I'll
and substantial work, the world can't
beat them.
Hay is an article in considerable
demand in this vicinity, as a good
many are inquiring for it This has
been hard winter on hay, as very
few have fed any grain.
Luke Hadley has sold out his
large stock farm to Dan Weaver, OF
Mt. Hope. Mr.. w. has made a good
purchase, and nothing but sickness or
death can hinder his making money
on that farm, if well managed.
"A new business firm in town,
Witcom & Jones, who intend to carry
on a grocery and provision store in
Mr.. Witcom's building. They are
both men of enterprise and pluck, and
will no doubt succeed in the under
taking.
ALI of the sch 1ol officers in this
pant of the county are eagerly sought
after by young school mans, who wish
to try their hands at the teaching bus
ipess until they get man, when, as q
matter of course, they will drop public
and 60 into domestic life.
The farmers of this vicinity have
been anxiously waiting for weather
that will permit them TO sow wheat,
and yet it does not come. The stock
of patience on hand is nearly ex>
hausted, and they do not know where
they can get any more when it is gone.
j. VI. Grant having dissolved part.
nership in business with his son,
Frank, is going into the coffin business
on his own hook, in the upper part OF
his store building. He thinks it wi ]
serve to keep hun out of mischief and
at the same time be source Of in
come.
1t is reported that some of our
our saloon-keepers have received no.
tice from the ladies TO the effect that,
in a short time, they (the saloon men)
may expect the ladies to call on them
for the purpose of laboring with them
in the cause of temperance. Our
saloon keepers are gentlemanly fell
lows, and will no doubt treat the
ladies with due decoruin when it may
please them to call.
Our backsmiths and wagon
makers are busy in preparing the
farmers of this vicinity tor the spring
work, fixing old harrows and plows,
making new ones, &c, all of which
goes to show that the Granger can't
DO all his work within himself, and
that mechanical skill is as necessary
as any of the productions Of the farm
and our harness-makers add their mite
toward the same thing.
Last week blind boy from Brit
ish Hollow scooped some Of our
crack checker-players, among whom
was Sam Woodhouse. Sam made a
false move, and the fellow told him of
It after which Sam took the move
back, and the boy beat him hand
Sam thinks it IS time for him
10 quit playing the game of checkers
when a blind boy can beat him so
badly as on this occasion.
"A wagon and smith shop is
among the new talked of enterprises
of our town. Mr.. Jesse Weed, good
and a thorough go-ahead
business man, lately burned out in
Patch Grove, is to be the proprietor
Of the new shop. Most of the enter.
prsing business men of West Grant
gravitate toward Bloomington some
how or other, and yet there is room
for more, with better prospects for
business than ever.
The entertainment recently gwen
in this place by the Bloomington
Dramatic Troupe was success, al
though the evening was dark and the
weather urpropitlous; yet the people
OF the village turned out handsomely,
and gave the troupe crowded house.
The drama produced on that occasion
was "The Rent Day." an English play
of considerable merit, which was fol-
lowed by the augh provoking farce,
The Prosecuted Dutchman," in
which Mr.. Maker cut the principal
figures as SIDE original John Smidt,"
and right well he did his part. In the
drama TOO much can not be said of
the manner in whic! Mrs F. f. Grant
carried her part as Rachael Haywood,
and Of Miss Lille Woodhouse as Polly.