Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-07-19
TIL E I'll E R A Id.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

-Platteville will have the luxury of a
noisy railroad meeting tomorrow.
Wells drilled by w. Ketner, Of Lancaster.
Orders solicited by mail. lStf
Gen. Calls has for some time been confined
to his house with severe rheumatic pains.
heavy hail storm on Tuesday night de-
stroyed corn and other growing crops around
Postville, Iowa.
Charley orion with brush and paint has
has made Mr.. John Wright's residence look
Pike new.
Mrs Andrew, of Port Andrew, sister of
Mrs. Judge Mills, with her daughter, is visit
ing at the Judges
A Friendly Request; Win Ed. A. n.
Hitchcock define the term ''Adventist." And
Obige Mrs. HATTIE E. SAEBoRs
R W. G. T. Kanouse will lecture in Lam
caster the Sd week in August. Several other
prominent Good Templars will be present.
The Witness says Mr. Burris has seventy deer
enclosed in fifty acre park near the Platte
Mounds, and viii soon purchase some elk.
Miss Emma Shrader started on Tuesday
to spend few weeks with her brother Charles
D. in Nebraska
Miss Emma Bingham, daughter of L. r.
Bingham, left Platteyille last Tuesday bound
for her fathers home in Omaha.
Miss Helen Halbert and Mrs. Judge Cox
started Monday for visit with friends in.
Denver, and will see the sights in other parts
Of Colorado
Prof D. Gray Purman, Of Plattevile, has
been appointed clerk in the Patent office in
Westinghouse man worthy of any good thing
that may be bestowed upon him.
A brother of j. w David was drowned
in the Wisconsin river at Nuseoda on Satur-
day last. The body was recovered on the
10th The particulars are not received.
The notes which friends Of the Lancaster
band contributed to its establishment are, on
pleasant evenings, being returned in musical
notes The notes of the Lancaster band are
above par and command a high interest.
TO E. w. and whom it may concern
No; We do not publish marriage notices unless
they are sent to US for that purpose. We will
not take them from the Registers Office nor
from other papers. Those who want to see
them in the HERALD must send them to US.
The Advocate man calls himself tiger
and thinks we have no sport in hunting him.
If you were tiger, Reifstick, we would give
YOU more attention than we do, but you are
a great nasty skunk and we confess we do
hate to have you switching your tail at US
etcrnally.
Mrs. Allen Hyde has in her possession
$765 which belonged to the Woman's Tenn
perance Alliance. That society has gone out
of existence and unless objections are made
before the close of this week she intends hands
ing over the money to the Good Templars to
be used in organizing a Juvenile Temple.
We call attention to the advertisement of
thc La Crosse Business College, in our col
umns to>day. This reduction makes it the
cheapest college in the Northwest, which in
ahese hard times viii be appreciated. Prof.
Wallace has struck the right key, and will re-
ceive his reward in increased patronage.
1T is not becoming in Griefstack to twit
Burke for copying patriotic sentences from
Ridpaths History. Three-Gfths OF his locals
ae sentences from Martin Chuzzewit, mi
cawber," Warrington" or whatever novel he
happens to be reading and his ''cOstliest edi-
torial pearls are generally taken from some
down east paper not much seen around here.
Mr. Burke says he has for sometime acted
with the Democratic party and as he is
naturally liberal he would have been giving
share Of dis money to Mr.. Reifsteck if he had
had any, but as he has none he can't respond
to the editors urgent appeals in this weeks
Advocate. lie thinks some Of Mr.. Reifsteck's
Republican friends may be appealed to more
successfully.
Ordinarily one would think q man would
feel hsmiliated after paming off the spiciest
item in his local column as one of his own, to
find the same item printed on the ''patent"
per thousand miles away, but if people are
willing to be fooled with papers printed in
Chicago and called County" papers their ed
5tors we suppose viii rather enjoy being
called smart writer's, for printing what they
have stolen.
DR. DePew, who at Platteville, Darling
ton aud other points, has recently successfully
treated chronic diseases, will be at the Phelps
House in Lancaster next Monday July %, and
remain until the 9th of August. In the treats
ment of Rheumatism, paralysis, neuralgia, and
all nervous diseases his circulars say he has no
equal Consumption, asthma, bronchitis, ca
tarrh, epilepsy and especially diseases of wo-
men are successfully treated. He employs
hygienic agencics-baths, electricity, exercise,
mechanical applieanees. Persons afflicted
with diopsy, kidney and bladder diseases,
gravel, piles. liver complaint, and other troub-
les of long standing should give him a call