Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-20
TIL E IL E r A L D.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

The Boscobel Fair comes oil next week
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Wells drilled by W. Ketner Of Lancaste
Orders solicited by mail. IStf
-Ellenboro continues to sober off. We
are glad Of it. It's moral support will encour-
age Plattevlle not to backsIide.
IT H. Calvert has gone back to Louisville
and sends US the Courier Journal as "concil-
iator,n missile.
Ressmeyer the harnessmaker is married.
He is happy man and she should be happy
woman.
MIR. Saith Curry and Capt. Limbocker of
Boseobel, were welcome callers at our sane
tum last evening
Mrs. W. H. CLARK, relative OF Mr..
Tanqneiy and Mr.. Avery, of Springfield, H.,
came to town yesterday.
The new machinery for R1dolfs Mill was
delivered At our depot iAst ueek-Ths Nus
COLI Nees.
The Leayitt troupe Of Swiss Bell Ring
ers-At the old NJ. E. Church tomorrow even
ing.
Call al the store Of W. H. Haines for first
quality ladies' French Kid button boots, just
received Nothing like them in town.
Mr.. John schreiner, of Nathan, schrei-
ner e Co, is home again and the new goods
are some Of them here ami more coming.
Go and see for yourselves.
MIR. W. S. Shears has fitted up and open
ed tie hotel at Fennimore formerly kept BY
Mr. Byerly, and proposes TO run it in good
style d the 'Fenpimore House,
a forty-acre tract OF mineral land, thirty
acres Of which is tillable, will be sold at
auction October 10, by John Maseingill,
Al miles south cast of Potosi. He viii also
sell farm and household property.
N. II. Virgin and Jas. w. Seaton wer
Yesterday, chosen by the Senatorial Conven-
ton, delegates 10 the Democ ratio State Con-
vention TO be held at Fon Du Lac, September
o.
r. G. Humphrey has something to say
else here, on the finance question but wen
be hanged if We can make out from it wheth
er he is a Greenbacker or Resumptionist,
though he appears to be both
Among the many other things laid over
because of the crowded condition of our col
umns is paper BY d. P. Walker, of Kansas,
now III Lancaster. He aud his neighbors
whipped out the grosshoppers the past season
and he wants all the world 10 know how.
Geo. IT, Greer Of Bloomington and Mel,
son Dewey Of casssale, are the Delegates
from this Assembly District, to the Demo>
cratic Convention at Fon du Lac. Don't go,
gentlemen, stay at home and vote for Vim.
r. Smith, ike good christians.
We have not room to say much concerns
ing the Fair Of The Grant County Agricultural
Society. In truth as a Fair it was not much
o. an affair. Ono hundred dollars judicously
expended would have improved the show FIVE
hundred per cent and probably doubled the
receipts.
Shipped BY rail from Muscoda during the
month Of August Butter, 4.4so ID Eggs,
1850; Wheat, $50, 500 Miscellaneous, 49,
$40; Cattle, $4,000 Hides, ALICE; Rye,
$500; Hogs, $4,000; Agricultural nipple
ments, 900 Hoops, 20,ooo,-7He Mtscoaa
Neps.
Joseph Heinrich, near Dickeyvile, offers
60 hives Of bees at private sale He puts
tie price at $40 hive and says he never
fails e make from ST TO s25 per hive every
year With his bees. lie furnishes small
pamphlet telling how be succeeds. Applica-
ton should be made soon as he has determin-
Ell to dispose Of them before starting west
We have for years enjoyed the acqu amt.
ance Of Miss Emma Watkins, recently of
Bellevue, Iowa and now the wife of
Mr.. Francis Witcomb, of Bloomington. She
i a graduate OF Rockford Seminary and the
ladies' Of Bloomington, if she makes her home
there will find her in every way an estmable
adv.
Charles II. Darlington has revived the
Muscoda Ns5es 1t is smaller than it was be
fore but il is all printed at home and man
who knows his Ps and Qs would rather have
six inch home paper than forty cords of "pat>
ents' Muscoda will have to double itself up
two three times before it needs better
editor sban Mr.. Darlington. IL the people
there care for paper at all they should give
him all the support they can.
There was a wedding with little romance
70 It at the residence and in the family of Mr..
4. II. Bonham, last Thursday. Friends were
invited in to witness the ceremony in which
Afs 4
ana hearts but they were utterly surprised
and amused when they discovered that at the
same moment Mr. Baldwin and Miss Nora were
made man and wife. II was a joyful party
and JOY be with them always. The names
connected with the marital contract will be
seen in our list Of Marriages. At this wed.
ding the last Of the children Of our good cid
friend +. Il. Bopham knit the knot which dis
solves The parental family.
-IIough Co. had on exhibition at the
Fair last week six vehicles Two were beau-
tiful phaetons, one Of which has been pur-
chased By Mr. j. c. Holloway and the other
By Mrs, ]. II. Sarles, of Boscobel Another
WIS handsome Dexter buggy which received
= Stt4t acai 81 attention by visitors. Another
was finely finished two>seated, farmers
carriagc. Another was two-seated piano
box buggy, cxquisitely polished and the last
a farm wagon, made for strength and darabi-
ity and finished il their superior style They
probably had the best show Of vehicles ever
made On that gorund. BY the way they are
having splendid success. In one week the
past season they sold six of their finely fin
ished bugsies, Al prices from tso to three
hundred dollars. One OF their buggies will be
boxed and shipped TO California aud another
is nuder negotiation for the same State.
Temperance at EIlenboro.
To the Eiitor:-Sundsy was day