Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
TOWN AND COUNTY :

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-Leavitt'- troupe PLAYED to full hous
Saturday evening.
-seyeral good farms are advertised 70
sale in this county
After February 1st three cents will ..pa,
letter postage to Canada
-chloroforming, burglars have been opera
thug in the vicinity Of Darlington.
-Nuscoda has produced counterfeiter
who is now lodged in Jail at Madison
Mccoy 4 Holloway shipped yesterday t
Philadelphia twenty-one tubs Of choice butter
The Parkhurst is in Boscobel He skip
about lively, spreadids music wherever h
goes
-Mr. Joel Manning, Of this place, has beer
very i'll for some weeks but IS gradually re-
covering.
The report of the German Mutual Fire
Insurance Society Of Liberty will be found
elsewhere
The Galena Gazette il responsible for the
assertion that Mt Carol marketed an $40 $50
pound hog
The narrow gauge engine was considerably
injured during "a storm, and taken to Gaena
for repairs
As this is the season of both bad and good
colds. let it be remembered that hot lemonade
~ good remedy.
a wife cannot be convicted of receiving
stolen goods when she has received them
from her husband.
Hon Hammer Robbins of Platteville, in
company with General Calls, left Lancaster
on Sunday for Madison.
Blessed are they who scatter ashes upon
slippery sidewalks for they shall slide easily
through the gates of Paradise.
Now is as good a time for storing ice as
there will be this winter It is both thick
and hard and cannot be better.
Mrs Mitchell, wife of c. w. Mitchell,
the cigar and tobacco agent of Dubuque, has
been visiting the family of Sheriff Mccoy.
FIX Sheriff Carrier frequently calls this
way, for the purpose of settling unfinished
business and seeing his many warm friends in
Lancaster.
What are our peoplc doing for the grass
hopper sufferers of the West? All the neigh
boring towns are sending out aid in liberal
proportions.
The Sunday school lesson for next Sun
day under the international series is "Jeri-
oho Taken Joshua VII. 1926. Golden text,
Hebrew xL so.
The Adelphi troupe which laid its carpet
in Borah's hall on Monday night, was a
failure NOT house enough 10 pay gas bill !;
concluded they wouldn't play the second
might
The Phelps house dining hall is cheered
at each meal BY the musical songs a merry
canary. which seems to feel its Importance so
much that Is assumes the airs Of an eight
Keyed flute
-MrF NJ Durasd, formerly Of Lancaster,
is suusly. ana we hope proftably, quartered
IN Philadelphia He has charge OF the ticket
department for the Pulmal Palace Car Com
pauy in that city.
In the village OF Lancaster it is esti-
mated that two thousand five hundred cords of
wood are consumed each year At So per
cord, it will be seen that 81, 800 are expended
annually by our citizens for FIRE wood
a donation party will be held at the res>
dence of VIM. Walker, in North Lancaster,
on Thursday afternoon and evening next, Feb
ruary 4, for the benefit of Rev. Valentine
Borah. All friends are invited to be present.
A false impression, to the effect that F.
winberg, of Platteville, purchased his boots
and shoes elsewhere, has been circulated Mr..
Winherg manufactures in Patteyille his en-
tire stock, and has no consignments from
other points.
Rev Darnell Of Hurricane, thinks that
1T is more blessed to give than to receive,
and has instructed Mr.. Burr, of this place, tc
forward a five dollar grecnbaek to the grass
hopper sufferers out West How many Dar-
neltS nave We III our must
4 rttle three year old of this town Sc
cured some matches one day last week, seere'
ted himself in a closet III which clothing wa:
deposited and there ignitei match, causing
considerable damage and aalrm. The young
stcr. a Master Edwards, escaped unscathed-
Mr. Bellows, of the Phelps, intends max
ing a valuable Improvement in that hotel. Al
the doors in the house are to be furnished
with transoms, and the upper hall with larg
stove, III which there will be a fire at all times
thus the entire house will be snug and warm.
Recently class in the Lancaster schoo
was asked who was the first president Of tn
United States One little fellow prompt,
held Up his hand, and answered sharply
,..Whv. Henry Ward Beechern You may rel
On ii. the father Of thar boy takes the pa
pers"
Strange. what wonderful discoveries som
people do make The question OF woode
rails tor the use Of railways was written up
length ana published BY the HERALD som
months ago the article in question being re
published BY various papers throughout III
State
Geo. W. Goldsmith an employee Of III
HERALD, last week received intelligence fro
M.ddletown, n Y, of the death OF his gran,
mother, Mrs Abby Goldsmith, in the eight,
third year Of her age. This IS the secon
notification he has received within two yea
Of the fact that loved ones have gone {
Youder
The friends Of Lewis Eaton will be 81
70 hear that he is in fne spirits and goo
health. He is now at Yale College, and h
recently been promoted for scholarship. II
brother, Edward D., is at the same place
1he theological depart ment, from which ms
tuition he expects to complete his studies
pext spring, when he will visit Lancaster