Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
TOWN AND COUNTY:
-sun-dogs we're out last sunday

How doth your account stand with tbs
printer?
Don't order your straw hats and duster
yet awhile
The Plattevilc narrow gauge has com
menced running.
Small fragments ofthe back bone Of Win
ter are vet visible.
Now they have spelling schools wherein
the words are written
There are hut one or two vacant houses
IL town Build more.
At this particular time the carpets are
getting lively shaking.
In the bright lexicon Of femi inc fashion
there is such word as fae
Mr. John Sarles, Of Boscobel, registered
at he Phelps house on Sunday.
Mr.. j. L. Sherman, of Cassville, has JUS
received patent on piston packings.
To succeed in a difficult undertaking
one must have grit, grip aud gumption.
The stage drivers have had muddy seige
oft since Spring announced her coming.
The Lancaster Literary LyceuEl will hold
forth at the school house next Monday evening
Sunday school lesson for May 9; Ruth and
N.omi. Ruth 1922. Golden Text, Ruth j. To-
Report of the village treasurer and road
commissioner will be found elsewhere in this
paper.
Should any one ask YOU the latitude OF
Lancaster, speak up promptly: "Forty degrees
north"
Election ay-Monday-was SO quiet that
but a slim vote was polled. How unlike one
wear ago
DIR Baxter, in order to keep up with the
spirit of the age, viii improve his business
quarters soon.
a review of the liquor laws, together with
the result of the village election sill be found
'on second page.
We are told that the fruit buds have
maintained vitality through all the rigors Of
the winter and spring.
Hon. J. Allen Barber is now the champion
sspeller of Lancaster, and it doesn't cause him
10 "vascillate" particle.
Mr. Adolph Nathan has arrived safe in the
t0ld World, so-says cable dispatch from Lon~
don to his firm in this place.
Fall wheat locks splendidly; old farmers
say it never looked better. IfnOthing happens
it will afford bountiful harvest.
Bishop Wells will be in Lancaster next
Thursday, Nav Is, and in the evening services
will be held liz the Episcopal church.
Mccoy & Holloway this week come before
the people. with fall sails futtering te the
breeze. See their mammoth sign board
On Monday some maIiciously disposed
person injured COW belonging 70 ar. Et
Borah 50 badly that the animal had to be
killed.
: The depot at Craiglow'z is said to be th'
handsomest on the line of the narrow gaugt
road. 1t is entirely completed and ready fol-
business.
Again. at the Congregational church, this
evening A good time for all who desire tc
invest ten cents in pleasant and useful enter
,tainment
= The roads leading out Of Lancaster are
mot IN first class condition. Where art thou,
worthy road masters? Come forth, with pick
s1nd spade
The bold, flashing advertisements in thi:
yseeks issue of the HERALD tell tale that vii
ygladden The hearts of hundreds. Read then
all, fellow enortals
4 railroed delegation assembled in front
onf the Phelpsn.Ise Yesterday morning, and to
Ei,ear them talk one would imagine that the
"ssn,ol,e was visible ovsr yonder HILL"
And ss2Ts ve Rambler of the HERALD
uekees polite bov TO these pretty little girls
wto last Monday morning laid upon his table a
neataanh delicate nose gay OF Wild flowers
-Ttealades of the Episcopal church have
an organized society, and their meetings are
h,ld weekly This week the gathering will DC
held this THURSDAY afternoon at the residence
Of Mrs 5 F. elise.
The weather has not been very beautiful
lately Since the HERALD last smiled upon YOU
Il has showed, frozen, rained and now well
can't tell what it will be by the time the inl
on this paper is dry
The HERALD would gently, yet firmly, cal
the attention of business men to the fact thai
il has Just received fine stock of card board
paper and such stuff for doing job work. anC
will guarantee "a tisfaction.
Mr. VIM Acorn, living about one and
a,half miles northwest of Lancaster, came
very near having his barn burned few day:
since. caused by fire in the brush near by
Assistance being near at hand, is all that saw
ed his buildings.
1t is proposed that everybody, man
woman and child, plant an elm, oak, maple Of
some other good tree or the ground where h
lives this wear, as a Centennial offering {,
those who may come after them and sit in tn
shade Of the same
The scar which Mr.. L. +. McCoy receive,
on his face some weeks since while skirmishin
in the lungles OF bushneli Hollow mas pafu.
healed. but he viii probably bear the mari
many wears, and will no doubt point to it wit
pride when describing The fearful encounter il
Which he received ii
Last Sunday prominent banker, well
known landlord, and a newspaper man coul
be seen talking to Mr.. T. NJ Barber, standin
upon his land and viewing the depot ground
OF the railroad soon to be rattling, with rush
roar, and clatter into Lancaster. Tn
banker smiled as he saw 'money coming dow
the hill far the Kings exchequer," the landlorC
was delighted with the prospect of a ''free bus
sir, and the newspaper mans eyes sparkle,
with JOY in view of the broken limbs and man
gledbodies that would have to be written vi
for the morning paper, sir"