Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-12
TOWN AND COUNTY:
DISTRICT. COUNTY AND LOCAL PAIRS.
-Cassville has voted a school tax of -, 900.

-tassVllle mas voted schooi tax oil 1Z,OUO.
1t IS now lawful to shoot prairie chickens.
With most men life is like backgammon,
half skill and half luck.
WIN. E. Bell, of Platteville, has just re-
ceived patent on a car coupler.
Forty for one dollar At Burr's store
further information will be givca
On Tuesday the Sun shined, it was warm,
it rained, it was cloudy, the wind blew, and it
was chilly.
One entire table of the Phelps house was
occupied at dinner last Sunday by young men
of Lancaster.
Mr. Fletcher Kdd's garden was destroyed
by cows few nights since, and now he has to
buy his vegetables
Fifty cent counterfeit notes are in circu-
lntiou. They can be detected by the absence
Of the interviewer lines.
The workmen are busy on the school
house, cleaning up and painting it preparatory
to the opening next month.
night were more peaceful and quiet than they
have been for some time. It's well
Messrs 'Sut" Flagg, now of Yankton,
and Erred" Durand, of Beloit, are whiting
relatives and friends at their old home in
Lancaster.
Rev o. w. Cummings, of the Methodist
church, will not be absent from Lancaster as
heretofore announced, but services will be
held as usual next Sunday
-Messrs Hough & Co. have greatly inn
proved the appearance of the old stone build
ing which they now occupy and will soon have
frst-class business quarters.
1t is to be hoped that the Board of Super
visors at their next meeting, will make an
appropriation for the purpose of painting the
wood work about the court house.
Any person pronouncng marriage eere-
mony and not reporting the same to the Reg
is or Of Deeds in the county where the mar
rilec il performed, is liable to fine Of $50.
The worlds memory is short 1t will
forget you if you do not jog it frequently.
Therefore, advertise in the best paper YOU can
find. and use your own judgment as to which is
the best.
The river is still going down; very much
find it tedious enough to follow the crooked
eh lnnel and consequently the arrivals OF
steamers are very uncertain.
Pour hundred and fifty dollars will be
given in premiums at the Grant County Fair
next month to the fastest horses brought ont
This surely is an Involvement, being considera-
bly, larger than that of last year.
1t was nice little party, and the young
sters had fine time, and the printed card:
read: Aug. 10, 1868; Aug. 10. is75-Frank
and Lou Cover Request the pleasure your
company on Tuesday, Aug. 10th, from to 1
o'clock p. ~"
Give a boy market basket Of groceries
TO carry home and he viii swing It across hi
spine, bend half way to the ground and groar
with agony, but give him that weight of has,
ball bats and he viii skip along as merry as
potato bug in : ten-acre lot.
Mr. Edward Eaton will lead the youn.
folks PRAYER meeting next Friday evening a
the church, and as this will nrobsbly be tn,
last meeting Of the kind Mr.. Eaton will presd
over in this place for, perhaps. long time
this opportunity will not be forgotten.
The dedication Of the Boscobel Baptis
cb,rsh will occur rext SUNDAY. August lis
upoa which occasion the sermon will be deliv
cred bv Rev W. H. Brisbane, D. D., at hal
past 10 o'c'oek a. m. In the evening tn
Congreeationalists Methodists and Baptist wi
hold union service, and will be addressed b
Rev. w. Stoddart and J. c. Aspiawall an
the pastor
The Agricultural Society OF Joe Dayit
county. III, had displayed very poor manage
ment in sending to a Cineinatti firm to get il
bills printed, the result Of which is that th
bills are neither handsome nor attractive, br
show throughout very bad taste and the poster
consist principly of an exceedingly gaudy Dor
der and numerous pictures of ill-shape
horses, cows, etc. Brown, of the Gazette, "
are satisfied, could have produced niue
better piece Of printing, and it would hay
been IN better taste for the Society 10 nav
had the work done at home. The Cincinnati
house is not liable 70 give the Society sever.
columns OF reading matter devoted to th
interests of the Fair and its works.