Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-10
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1T ia said that about $500 was expended
in Lancaster last Saturday for whisky.
Sun rises tomorrow at 422 and sets at
1926.
Rev. Clapp will be present at the Young
Folks prayer meeting Friday evening.
This Thur iday) afternoon the Ladies'
Episcopal Society will meet at the house OF
Mrs. Joseph Book.
Improvements are still progressing in the
Phelps house Bellows intends to make it
comfortable for his guests.
Lesson for next Sunday at Congregational
King Desired, | Samuel viii, 10. Col
den text, Psalms CIV ii, O.
Each week new subscribers are added to
the mailing list of the HERALD, and thus the
good work goes bravely on.
Lay readings in the Episcopal church
every Sunday morning, Immediately after
which Sunday school is held.
Summer begins on the afternoon of the
2lst of this month, and steps down and out for
Autumn on the morning of September 23
Rev. Cummings, of the Methodist church,
was III last Sunday, and therefore disappointed
some who were on nand to hear him preach
The Glen Haven butchery reported last
week was ONLY in the imagination. The Iowa
brother was not in the county at the time
stated.
The rains Of last week demolished several
social gatherings, at which jolly good time
was anticipated Never mind, 'all il well
that ends we'll"
The Grant County Council Of Changers
will MEET in Lancaster on Wednesday, June
a. at which time very important business will
be transacted of interest to every Patron.
A practice not fully understood BY every
one is that Of registering at hotels. Every
person stopping at a hotel should by all means
register their Names for many good reasons.
A gentleman from Boscobel, while in
Lancaster few days since, remarked that he
should like to live here, that it was the neat
est contest little town he ever saw. And so
it il.
-Beetown was favored with rich treat on
Friday night. The Bloomington band visited
the town and gave the citizens nice sere-
made, which no doubt was deserved and
appreciated.
-Its healthy work, this playing croquet,
aud viii do more to give our girls health in
body. flushed cheeks, solid ankles, speckied
noses and sun Drowned hands than anything
else known.
jed Barnett was out last Saturday with a
FAST and neatly trimmed rig conveying the
spor.-loving folk to the Fair grounds. Right
this wav for the race track" was responded to
by large number of ten cent pieces.
When it comes to Marshal, Mr.. Mitchell
Is the man. Since his Inauguration he has
been in the field, actively engaged in securing
peace and quiet to the town, and in the mat
ter of new sidewalks Lancaster must feel
proud.
A great many of the good citizens OF the
nsishboring country were in town Saturday
They didn't come to the horse race-not they
but somehow they managed to work their
wav TO the track just at the time the race
camc off
The Madison street church was filed with
people both msrnng and evening last Sunday.
Ia the forenoon Rev. S. W. Eaton delivered
one of his best sermons, and in the evening a
most excellent discourse was listened to from
Edward D. Eaton.
Music and flowers are twins. Music hath
charm to soothe," etc, and beautiful flowers
cast shadow Of peace and happiness over
the troubled soul Ye Rambler of the HERALD
feels grateful 10 the lady who has kindly remem-
b,red the vase upon his table.
The two barber shops Of this place have
consolidated, and now the firm is known as
the broad gauge barber shop, under the man
Agement of Messrs Geo Gibbs and Max Nobis.
They have a neat establishment next TO Bax-
ter's drug store. and will do rushing business.
The old f. Ame building which all the live
long winter afforded meagre shelter for some
family. lust south Of the Baptist church, has
been torn down and carte, j away, and only a
few Jugs. tin cans, etc, now remain 70 remind
one Of the former presence Of a house on thi'
spot
ADJ. SchilJs, who for some months mas
been plying his vocation at Blue River, sud
denly disappeared from that place last week
with valuable borrowed gun in his posses
sion. Rumor says he has shot himself, while
it is also stated that lie has cleared out to IS
cape the liquidation Of certain debts.
The town pump needs attention Th'
labor required to secure pail OF water is too
much like 80 pound dumb-bell exercise. An(
frequently muddy and filthy water is allowed
to stand around the pump and find its wal
back to the well, thus causing the water a
times to have very impure taste, which can
not be healthy.
With regret it has been noticed tina
small gatherings of overgrown men at times
assemble on the streets, and ladies are fire
quently compelled to walk off the sidewalk il
order TO pass. This should not be gsllantr,
should be feature in the character Of ever,
gentleman, which fact it was pleasing to motto,
Marshal Mitchell endeavoring to illustrate las
Saturday.