Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-02
L lei E I'LL ER A L d.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

Wells drilled by w. Ketner, of Lancaster
Orders solicited by mail. 1stf
The peanu. crop is "thin" this year. Gu
bcrs win be high
"A special term Of the Circuit Court began
at Prairie du Chen last Monday.
Ten cents per lineal foot is the price
paid in some cities for street sprinkling.
The Pacific Hotel at Msscaubge has a
new landlordess Miss Allinsworth, Mrs.
Coombs, Mrs. Stephens now, who is it?
Mr. J. w. Graves, Of Bloomington, has
purchased residence of S. E. Haynes, in
Prairie du Chen and the papers of that old
fogy city are Boosting that he is going to live
there.
The teachers of the Boscobel schools en-
ployed for the next term are, John Brindley,
Samuel Willoughlby, Carrie Sylvester, Annie
Proudft, AIDA Willis, Cora Anderson, Ella
Ford and Matte Barnett.
"A little child of Shoemaker Buckmiller
while romping in play on Tuesday, fell and
broke Its arm and dislocated its wrist joint.
1t was attended by DR.. Barber.
In 3eetown this year are grown 554t acres
of wheat, 1856 acres Of corn, 2S96 Of oats, 20
of barley, 50 of rye, 40 of fax, IlO2 of cult
waited grasses, II of potatoes, GOT of apples
and 20 bushels of clover seed.
The town of Harrison grows this year
1873 acres of wheat, 1908 of corn 1l76 of oats,
80 of barley, 76 of rye, l1s of fax, 1858 of
cultivated grasses, l26 Of potatoes, 124 of ap,
pies and 1876 of timber
"A large black bear escaped out of Fore
paugh's show at Galena, and after frightening
the boys, women, and children who had OUT
side tickets, was finally lassoed on his way to
the bluff and returned to his cage.
John Sens, near Hurricane Corners, has
built him new frame house worth ten or
twelve hundred dollars Also Henry Brihahn
in the east part OF the Hurricane is building
new house and VIM Irwin in the west part of
the Hurricane is building large addition to
his house.
Nineteen marriages, ten births and one
solitary DEATH is the sum Of the report made
20 Register Durley for the month of July II
one death among forty thousand people does
not show that we have splendid lot of phys
icians in Grant County, then where will you
20 to find good doctors?
The philanthropists Of the village of Nus
calunge are organizing a secret society, called
an Anti Treating Society. It's members are
put under obligation neither to treat or be
treated They propose to make the ceremony
as impressive and the pledge as binding as
that of any secret society. The object is good
and the charter members have the ability and
stick to-ativeness to carry it out.
Mr.. John Bidwell, of Patch Grove, did
not cut some of his Odessa wheat last year,
because it was too poor to cut What there
was was tangled and down and he left it on
the ground to see what it would come to as
winter wheat 1t came up nicely in the Fall
and again in the Spring came on WELL He
has harvested that wheat and it was one OF
the best crops of wheat grown on Blake's
Prairie.
-Buggies and wagons bought of our home
manufacturers will last twice as long as ma
chine made articles, nd goods bought of our
always present merchants are worth twice as
much as those cried off at any price by bank
rupt tramps. Besides when you buy of strag-
CLING auctioneers or of "pack" men, hall or
three-fourths If what you buy you don't
want and Ben Franklin said that what you
don't want is dear at any price.
That advent stuff is spreading more
and more. We opened our columns that it
might have an airing because so few people
1eallg know what the Adventists do believe
Our readers now know all about them and
hereafter we give them very limited space
This week father Bruuson has a very long let
ter, much longer we thiuk then it should be
favoring the Christian Sabbath. We could
not refuse space to father Brunson. Mr..
Hitchcock is good writer and his letter is
interesting to those who care anything about
the subject considered
r J. Shipcy, of Cloverdale, Cal, favors
lections and which contains a thrilling temper
ance lecture. A man named w. Moyle, when
drunk, was out driving in carriage with
three ladies'. He whipped the horses up hill
and down hill and ran the carriage against q
ledge OF rocks where all were thrown out, one
of the ladies, Miss Lizzie Fancher, instantly
killed, the other two nearly killed and perma-
nently injured, and Mr.. Moyle himself died
from his injuries, after two days. He was a
man OF property. This is brief of the
lecture.
We we're out yesterday to see the work
progressing on the bridge over Grant, on the
Prairie du Chen road. Col. Clark, as chair
man of the town, is rushing the work along
and hopes to have the bridge ready for use by
the middle of August 1t will be a handsome
wrought iron structure, rs feet span, and war
ranted to carry 5000 pounds. The abutt-
.sent on the north side will be laid on the firm
oek if any can be found, below the bed of the
riYer. and will be built about l9 feet upward
to receive the bridge. When completed the
bridge will be the best one in the County, and
even if another Nosh's flood should come j.
will stand till Elder Sanborn's judgement day
comes round.
4 brick dwelling, with plenty of ground,