Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-10
Apple dumpIings arc ripe so are re

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-Backbcrries are plentiful and there's
boy in the woods for every blackberry
Thursday and Friday, Sept. 81 and %.
the days fixed for. the Blakes Prairie fair.
If the heavens don't sprinkle the streets
tp-day Woolstenholme promises to do the job.
Thursday and Friday, Sept. 81 and %
the days fixed for the Blake's Prairie fair
Literally wo' OUT was the usual excla-
nation Of the excursiorjsts yesterday morning.
About seventy teachers are attending the
Institute now in progress at this place. 1t will
continue until the end of next week
Those large Campaign posters bearing
the imprint Of tho AdOocate Office were not
printed at that Office The prstence is
another sham.
Rev. C. Cook will preach at the NJ.
Church in Lancaster on Saturday evening and
Sunday forenoon during the Quarterly meets
ing services held there.
-Rumor hath it that DR.. Lewis of POtOsi,
may remove to Dubuque to practice, and that
Dr. Falley, of Lancaster, will go to POtosi in
the event OF the change. Lancaster and PotO
81 enters protest.
Landlord HOrstman is about to enlarge his
hotel-the Horstman House. A brick addi-
ton 80 by "a feet, is proposed to join the pres
ent main brick structure on the north, Work
will begin at once.
--Erdenberg Sauce have started in thu
cooper business in Grifith's building next south
Of the Mansion House. They are experienced
workman and have located here with view TO
permanence. See advertisement.
A radical Republican weekly newspaper
will bO run at Muscoda during the campaign
entitled Tie SkirmisAer, at 80 cents for the
campaign, by Charles II. Darlington. It viii
be quite small in size but we have no doub'
,Nill be spicy and robust.
About 10 citizens of Potosi and Lancas-
Ter gave Prairie du- Chen visit on uesday
and we're most pleasingly entertained by the
citizens there The artesan well was the
chief point of attraction
potatoes will yield five bushels instead OF one
hushel 10 the pound Of seed. He who has
enc bushel planted may IN the Fall "strike
lead" iii his potato patch.
There are sixty-four teachers enrolled at
the Institute now holding in Lancaster. with
Professors D. McGregor and A. +. North as
Conductors The session began Monday and
will hold two weeks. We shall endeavOr to
give full report in one issue of the HERALD.
-Fennimore will organize Hayes and
Wheeler club on Saturday of this week. Mr..
Johu D. Wilson, of the law firm of COthern
Wilson, will adress the meeting. 1t will be
held at the school house in "tho Center and
all Republicans are requested to be present.
Waterloo loses one of its oldest and
which occurred on the oath inst. He was a
town officer for many years, and was faithful
IN his public duties as he was faithful and
honorable in his private life. He died aged
81 years.
The Prairie du Chen Courier labors
through column or so to whitewash one of
its employees 1t is sufficient to know that
bis present name is Harris Nobody really
cares whether he was a soldier in the rebel
or the loyal army, but many do care because
he i Captain in the army of dead beats.
Under the Wisconsin game laws you can
do your shooting as follows Woodcock July
ath to November 18th Prairie Chickens OF
Grouse, August 18th to November 10th; Quail
EuifeI Grouse and Pheasant, September 10th
TO Januarylst; Ducks. September LIST to Febru'
AIRY lst; Beer, August 18th 20 December
18th
The editor Of the Adeocate is for sale
We should have made this announcement las
Fall when he wrote to the Democratic STATE
Central Committee, Money must have i
you don't furnish it other parties will :" bu
We had no inclination to NEEDLE with his at
fairs. His presses are not for sale because h
don. own them.
Drew and Whitney, the accomplces o
Crotty in the Platteyille safe burglary, hav
made an attempt to break Jail. They b
some means wrested an iron threshold iron
under one of the cell doors. With this the
undertook to dislocate aniron bar which
have been as good to them as a crowbar
Their attempt was discovered and frustrated
We enjoyed a long social chat the othe
day. in our Office, with the remarkable 1r
Brunson, of Mt. Hope. Like some of tht
"isest men Of old, Solomon for instance, h
has been reluctantly following after idols, bu
he now prOnOunces unbrotherly invective:
az INST ShAmmy Tlden. and in a little Will
mll DC again nobly serving the Lord an
Hayes.