Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-06-07
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TOWN AND COUNTY,:

Postmaster of Galena. lie was L. nj. OF Ga
lena under President Lincoln and until the end
of Grants first term.
The building burned down last night was
tic one in which the HERALD was first printed
over 90 years ago. It was then near the old
B ice hotel and the big spring
= The ladies of the Congregational church
in bloomington viii give strawberry and ice
c-eam Festival on Friday evening, June 10Th
Music will constitute part of the entertain
meut.
Mt. Hope is also going to celebrate, az
W learn from Mr. Proudfoot. They will have
basket pie mic in the grove, with music
speeches and other accomplishments OF
Fourth Of july celebration by patriotic people
The graduating exercises Of the class OF
1877 IL the Lancaster High Sch 'ol will take
pace June 18th, beginning at 10 O'Clock A.
NJ Al the High School chapel All friends Of
education are cordially invited to attend.
We hear that the smallpox has again
broken out in Highland. At a house half mile
out Of the village a sign is put up, "Small pox
here" aud few other cases are reported IN
the neghbeihood.
We ike the Dubuque Times. We liked it
last summer when it was four-psge paper
We Fixed it better when it changed to an eight
page paper Now it bas dress e new type.
has turned back to a four-pagc and We like it
better still It Is newsy. well edited and
nearly always right
A. r. Mccartney, ESD deals in Coal at
Storm Lake. Iow., and is in partnership with
j. +. Doty il the sale Of farm machinery Mr.
Mccartney deserves the greatest success but
we've been almost hoping that his success
would he such as to send him back to Grant
County.
The Beetown Amateur Dramatic Club
gave an entertainment at Beetown last week
which wax in every way successful and anoth-
err will be given next week, on Friday evening
The leading drama on that evening will be
"The Stranger" play in five acts, and it
will be followed by the very amusing farce,
The Irish Tutor James Hayden and john
Buns are the star performers and those who
have seen speak very highly of them.
The June meeting of the Wisconsin State
Horticultur Society viii be held at James
Vile on the a6th and 9th inst. Papers pre-
pared by competent writer's will be read on
various subjects connected with Horticulture.
M ~ 49, H., q oon.not;t;,a a~h;I,;t;on ~
Strawberries, with dozen premiums on each,
ranging from from fifty cents to IS. Any one
desiring particulars should address F.W. Case,
Secretary.
= Bectown is preparing for big cold FASH
Toned" celebration on the Fourth, and in the
''old fashioned" way Beetown is celebrated
for out doing the rest of the world. Com
mittees are at work on the music toasts, din
ner fire works speaker, etc, and they are de-
termined to do the best that can be done to
make the performance attractive, the display
grand and the day heroic. There will no
doubt be an overflow of fun, scntim ent and
glory
Wo woro permitted by Ne VIM. b. Wiki
nson, Of Ellenboro, to peruse letter from
his nephew, William, who has spent the wins
tor at Deadwood City in the Black Hills. This
letter, like all Others that we now, speaks
of the prospects there and adj
yises people not to so there unless they have
plenty of capital to start with. Russia offers
better opportunities for wealth than the Black
Hills at present Mr.. Wilkinson is 2o-years
reader of the HERALD.
W. II. Bennett, Deputy Collector of this
L. $. District, has been displaced TO max e
room for Francis Campbell, of Lafayette
County No complaint was made against Mr.
Bennett either for malfaasance or misfeasance
in office and therefore we do not understand
why lie has been removed We presume it is
owing to IL little twitch in the civil service re
form business that has not been explained to
Us Mr. Campbell, as his successor is highly
spoken Of Honors and emoluments are heap
oil d, IN him with exquisite facility.
Our old friend Mr. Jacob Nathan, father
of the popular merchants of that name start
ell on Monday to make six weeks visit with
his brother and sisters in New York and Phil
adeluhia He has not seen them for over
thirty wears not since they came to America.
Mr.. Nathan has host of friends in this county
who heartily wish him happy recreation
with the relatives and friends of his younger
DAYS From small beginning in business he
has grown to be one of our most distinguished
business. men. In his advancing years his
WAYS are WAYS fpleaslntness and peace. lie
sees his sons and his sons-iu-law following
his example and, aid cd materially bv him, en-
loving as great prosperity as he could wish
and in scriptural phraseology his children rise
up and call him blessed. This community as
well as the family has gre at deal oflove for
Jacob Nathan.
A Stable belonging TO Mr. Anthony
Sweeuy took fire last night at midnight
When the Ere alarm was heard it was burning
in a big blaze that lighted up the town like
moou>light. The fremen were soon out and
had their engine down by the WOODEN factory
when it being apparent mainly Tor want cf wa-
ter, that the engine would be useless, the men
abandoned ii and ran on TO the fire, which is on
tho east side of the village and well removed
from other buildings. BY this time there
must have been a hundred and fifty
persons there but they could do nothing but
look on and so the building was permitted to
burn to the ground. 1t was well built stable
Of dressed logs-fOrmerly dwelling house
and worth over $500 A load Of hay, load
Of corn and a Sc of double harness were con-
sumed with it, Mr. Sweeney was at Dubuque
With valuable horse which if at home might
have also been lost. How the fire originated
can ouly be guessed-by fre-erackers, tramps
or spontaneous combustion. Fortunately the
strong wind was = direction to carry the
flames away from the house or il also probab.
" would have been burned
Spiritualist exposure at the N. E. Church
Er.Iev Dirht Good music Satisfaction