Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-05-25
TOWN AND COUNTY:

Fresh strawberries at Utts store.
Bring flowers with YOU on decoration day.
Blaine and Bristow That ticket would
win
See that your yards are rid Of all disease
engendering filth.
Wisconsin IS the only State in the Union
that has not ''favorite SON"
lancaster business men can afford to
have the main streets sprinked.
The plank walk, need immediate repair
in many of the streets Of our village.
Rev. j. D. Eaton will occupy his fathers
pulpit next Sunday morning and evening
Counterfeit $1,000 bills are in circulation
and country editors should be on their guard
The Pigeon dggings must afford some
mineral, as some Of the liners are daily in
town buying something.
A special communication of Lancaster
Lodge No 30, F. A. NJ, will be held on Satur-
day evening of this week.
Bishop Weles will preach and administer
confirmation at Emmanuel Church, in Lancas-
ter on Thursday evening, June LIST.
Corn planting is skill the order of the day,
which although diligently pursued IS yet far
short of being finished,
The chinch bugs have escaped the heavy
rains, and are appearing in multitudes, active
and destructive to our small grain prospects.
Hon. ]. Allen Barber left for the Cen
tennial Yesterday He will take in Washing
ton and New York on his trip to the East
The citizens Of Boscobel propose to have
an artesian we'll They have already subscribe
ed $4,000 for this purpose, and will raise more
Unnecessary.
The rails around the court house square
should be Immediately built. The old rails
are unsafe hitchug places, besides presenting
an unseemy appearance.
The bridge across Pigeon creek on the
Hurricane road is not crossable, and the APP
proach Of the stream renders the fording diff
cult and dangerous.
Rev. Tunison will preach in the Baptilt
church next Sunday at 1880 a. m. and $50 p
m. Meeting to organize Sunday school at
2p. m All are invited
Miss Louise Schmitt has the agency for
the sale of BItricks patterns. She has re-
ceiyed another invoice of millinery goods
which will be sold out at the lowest price.
-Isit true that there is young lady in
town who when she says her prayers, begins
"Our Father, Holloway-d be my name ?"
Another young lady says there is.
The work on the new Methodist church
and the Episcopal parsonage is progressing
as rapidly as could DO expected in such wealth
er and with such roads as we have had for
some time past.
lift takes all sorts of people 10 make a
world. how could the world be complete
without Jchiel HYDE ?-is what they say who
have frs, got mad and then laughed at him
for sticking his finger through their hats
a very large mineral sheet was recently
discovered near Shullsburg. We hear that
100 600 lbs. were taken out last week. The
sheet is perpendicular and promises to yield
a fortune to the proprietors.
More interest is exhibited throughout the
country in anticipation of Decoration Day
than has been shown for several years. Should
the day be suspicious the attendance will
doubtless be large and the ceremonies inter-
esting.
The hou Sc on the old Oliver farm in the
south part of this town was wholly consumed
with it's contents few days since. 1t was
occupied by Mrs Palmer, widow, who was
absent ut the time of the fire aud lost 'all she
had"
On Friday last David Davis, laborer for
Thomas Hore. while returning home late in
the night fell from his wagon and received a
very severe injury of the spine, causing com
plete paralysis Of the body and limbs below the
neck. lie will probably die.
Several Of the county papers have re
ported that Hon Geo G. Hazeltou would de-
liver the address at Lancaster on Decoration
dty. This i mistake We hear that his
business before the Prairie du Chen Court
prccludes the possibility even Of his attendance
on that day,
Bloomington will celebrate. The citizens
have raised $3.50 towards detrayiag the ex-
pcnses of grand celebration on the Fourth
Prof CLARK will crate, and Mr. Z. n Holford
will read Centennial poem, Of his own pro-
duction In the evening there will be large
display Of fireworks.
The dandelion with yellow flowers, and
which abounds In every field and on every
roadside is the taraxacum of the drug stores.
The extract, IS we'll as the leaves eaten as
greens" is regarded By the medical profess
sion IS 4 superior remedy for the bilious AT
feetions Of this climate
On Saturday last three year old son Of
Levi Glider came up behind the father while
chopping and received an ugly cash on hi:
check from she axe Dr. Barber was called
and made the cheek whole The little fel,
lows wound is curing. but the scar will be =
lifetime reminder of his infant adventure.
THE voice of the great lights" the edi
tor Of the .Adeocate saws, lis good" An error
of fancy brushes the editors heart more thar
an error Of fact, but this criticism is slightly
cut Of his lie lie shonld oonhne himself to
ouch gucstiuus as what forms are best adapted
to pali-backs. the measurement of distance:
from bust to hustle, and TO fsasting his sou
on backyard scenery where clothes line.
stretch 'heir laden lengths along.