Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-12-27
THE HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY:
"A Happy New Year.

moment he refuses to be fool for other peo-
ple.-P. du ca Courier.
There will be an Episcopal sociabIe at the
house of Mrs P. H. Parsons this evening Ev-
erybody invited
Every exchange in our basket last week
says, 1.-THE bottoms have fallen out of the
roads Not so here. there was not leak in
ours
An important feature of the Congregas
tonal Fair was the presence of the brass band,
for whose gratuitous services the ladies desire
to express their sincere thanks.
If business men patron re printing Offices
have no right to complain Of other people for
sending and going away to trade.
Citizens of Liberty and surrounding towns
will find in this paper notice relative 10 the
election of officers for the Township Insurance
Company.
Three pair of "rubbers" were stolen off
the porch at Mr. John Sehreiner's one night
last week So we shall have to take our rub
bers and mud into the house.
Little Busky heard his Papa talking of
some one dying of pneumonia. He thinksit is
''new-moonia," and that the disease comes of
seeing the new moon over the left shoulder.
just at the turn of the corner next Mon
day night the last figure of Ammo Domini will
pass from to s, and to 8 is what turned
the heads of great many people in the United
States this year.
Mr.. Alva Smith, son-in-law of Mr.. Abb
ner Dyer, is "home" with his family on
visit from Nebraska. He reports all our peo-
pie out there as doing well and they all like
Nebraska, except Charley Shrader.
WIN. Harvard, of this State, writes that,
ola ,e, new school rooms have been prepared
for the Great Mercantile College, Keokuk, Iowa,
and are being rapidly filed with students"
Half scholarships can be obtained at this office
OF a reduced price.
The HERALD has so per cent. more sub
scrbers than the defunct Advocate and the
other Chicago patent fraud both together
Their subscription books, like the papers, are
shams, covered with scores Of names that
never subscribed and never take the papers
out of the Offices.
We can boast Of at least two Christmas
presents. One was a little boquet of pansies
plucked from Anton Schmitt's garden in Lam
caster, on the morning of the 18th of Decem-
Der The other was live grasshopper brought
in by Deputy Sheriff Ora Richards. 1t was
captured by Mr. John Mclean in the woods of
Paris township, December oath, and it had
numerous companions hopping around as if
summer had come.
That ''best offer ever heard of" was made
in good faith We did not make display of it,
because we cannot well afford to furnish two
weekly papers for $500. But we now propose
to stand by it. To any subscriber in Grant
County we will give the HERALD and first rate
news and family Chicago weekly paper for one
year for $500. Subscribers out of the County
must send % cents more.
People may as well be warned and be
prepared for a sudden and severe change of
weather. In this country we sometimes pillow
the ground one day and pillow snow the next.
For eight or ten days we were without frost.
The rains were warm and at times the sun
shown down az balmy in May, but tO-mor-
row may bring billiards.
The distinguished Meteorologist and
Weather Prophet, Professor lice Of st. Louis,
has issuedh his Annual National Weather AL
m.nac for 1878, in which he toretells the
weather for every day in the year, explains
tie theory ouwhich his predictions are based,
gives directions by which the unscientifc can
foretell the weather, and other valuable mat
ter. The whole constitutes work of great
practical value TO every one and is almost in.
dispensible to farmers. For sample copy and
terms of sale send 20 cents to Thompson,
lice, & Co., st Louis, Mo.
If the party who wants to know whether
the letter we published over the signature of
Mr.. Horsiall is genuine, will take the trouble
20 write to him enclosing stamp for reply he
may find out to his satisfaction. If any man
tells you to the contrary THAT is that it is not
genuine) yon may set him down as not safe
man to receive information from. The letter
was received from Mr.. Horsfall by mail, pub
lished exactly as he wrote it. and without
our seeing him communicating word with
him on the subject.
Mr. Isaac Farnsworth who eighteen to
twenty years ago lived in Lancaster, found his
bride here, and in after years was merchant
here has purchased the GAINESVILLE Gazette. We
Il (. 4
education to become a very successful
newspaper man. At any rate we, with his
many friends here. wish him the greatest suc>
cess. The Gazette has both daily and weekly
issues. The change of possession takes place
January lst Mr. n Smith, of Prairie du
Chen, viii be political editor; H. W. Tilton,
late of the Chicago Post, city editor, and 4. S.
Covin business manager.
The Dubuque Times is a good paper The
Daily is taken in this county by the business
men of Lancaster, Potosi, Cassvile and such
other places az has daily mail communication
with Dubuque They thus ger the news later
than it is obtainable from any other source Its
dispatches and market reports are quite full
mail the daily is $40 year. The weekly Times
IS large paper, containing the most that is of
value 10 the daily. 1t gives ample space to
Legislative and commercial matters. The
price per year is $3.50. Those who think they
must have city paper may as well take the
Tunes as so farther,
Soon after the Chicago printed concern
started, the HERALD informed the pu bic that
it was twin fraud with the -AdrOcate and that
in time the two would become one. One at
first pretended to be Democratic with the
hope of catching Democratic gulls, the other
pretended 10 be Republican TO catch Repnbli-
can gulIs then they laughed up their sleeves
at how, when one concern PLAYED gu I they
would make big Subscription book" by
putting all the gals they had trapped togeth-
er. Then Sam Cary came round. The Repub.