Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-03
TIL + II RAID.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

Charley Bakers, on the ne xt street.
Mr. Robert Brooker is building brick
residence on the southwest corner Of the old
Trv propcrly-near to Mrs.J. G. Covers.
After taking in the bountiful dish of solid
food by Mr. Barry palatable dish in the
shape story,by Bret Harte may be found on
fourth page.
The Fourth and annual exhibition of the
Boscobei Agricultural and Driving Park Asso-
citation viii be held this year on the 9Th, iii
and sth Of September
-Ridpaths l. 5. History, elsewhere re-
viewed in this paper may be seen at the HER
AID Office or a copy may be obtained by appii-
cation to Mr. A. L. Burke
&c. W. Wheeler is building $4,000 or
$4,000 dwelling in Bloomington on the site OF
his former residence. Geo. Benn Of Lancas~
,eris the contractor and has already begun the
work.
The Wisconsin Sunday School Associa-
ti3a viii be held in the city Of Oshkosh, May
22d, Esd and 24tk Sunday Schools are en-
,it!ed to one delegate for each fifty scholars
besides Pastor and Superintendent.
Mr.. George Stanley having bought the
OH Taft property in Bloomington is repairing
il Or IN fine style lie has expended several
hundred dollars thereon and the improvements
fully demonstrate the fact that George has ex-
celleut taste.
We are requested to say that the Town
Board Of Lancaster will soon let the contract
for building the bridge across Grant, on the
Rad 70 Praire du CHEN They will adopt
plan next Saturday Bridge builders can then
have al opportunity to bid.
The Good Templars OF Lancaster are making
preparations and expect to have jolly social
time At their Hail to morrow friday evening.
Refreshments and music are on the pro-
gramme and ali people are invited TO attend.
What the guests pay for their repast will be
expended in furnishing their new Hall.
That old building west Of Tonowskis
blacksmith shop, Bloomington, has been pur>
chased by Messrs Messmore & Hazard
and under the new coat of clapboards and
paint with other improvements makes very
respectable appearance. They expect to raise
the breeze by manufacturing Wind Mills
therein.
James Ballantine has begun the building
OF fine residence in the village Of Blooming
ton near the grounds Of the old Academy
one that viii cost probably $4,000. 1t VIII
be Of brick and he has contracted with par
ties at Prairie du Chen and Wyalusing to start
a brickyard at Bloomington and burn the brick
for him
A new bridge will be built across the hol~
low, continuation Of Canal street, east con
Meeting tho main village of Bloomington with
brooklyn" Messrs. C. NJ. Morse and W. V.
BENEFITS will have charge of its erection. It
will be about l75 feet long and great con,
yenience not only to the village but to the
people at large.
There are very many who call themselves
knowing ones, whom the world calls damned
fools" and the tallest one we know Of in this
meek Of woods IS the poor, poverty striker,
pennyless, debt-berilden sham, the editor OF
the Alcocq'e, who if printing Offices were SELL
ing at ten cents a hundred couldn't in his own
name buy thin space.
The Herald did not criticisc Mrs. New
combs poem at all 1t said there were thirty
OF forty variations in the poem as given By the
Chicago patents from the MS as furnis he'd by
Mrs Ncwcomb We said truth and the vari
uticns are not in punctuation but in the words
aud their arrangement When you are talking
about this WORLD aud the t'other, for instance,
there il a wide difference between being left
''here" aud being left 'there" Wen take the
'herc" every time whether the brave" goes
or stays
Three young ladies' Of Lancaster net Will
!, runaway adventure last week, in which they
narrowly escaped serious injury. They are
ehe Misses Annie and Fannie Carter and Mis-:
Georgia elise Their team became frightened
while diving through the village and ran
along The east side Of The public square until
they struck the hitehing rails when the horses
got loose and preeiptated the three ladies out
and over the railing Only Miss Fannie wa.
hurt and We are glad to state that she was
not so badly hurt but that she is now able II
enjoy herself as usual.
Lancaster, both town and village, is fortu
nate in having Mr.. Aug. Mchaelis as Clerk
We venture the opinion that no town in the
State has its records in a more orderly and
presentabie shape thar Lancaster's record.
made by Mr. Mchaelis. Nor does he stop
when he has done all the law requires. lie
draws out maps in his elegant style of very
mans farm in the town and has one suspended
in his office for public reference and has made
various other Improvements in the Office for
the benefit Of The public. Such are the kind
81 men We like 10 see in office.
NAY Day has come and gone, and We now
venture to assert that the spring time has
come gentle Annie The modest blae-jay and
the musical bull frog hurl their wealth oil
meiody upon the summer scented air, and the
Granger pokcs around among the old corn
stalks, looking up the chances for lively
crop Of chineh bugs the coming season. The
melodeous hen arises from protracted effort
to hatch nest Of winter.kiled eggs, ana
struts proudly through the barn yard with one
poor little chick, the result of her toll. Her
bosom swells with Pride as she sings to hei
,ifge lord
Lord Chaniiclcer, come here and see
Ny little chick; the world can't match Il.
warmed its little she'll TO life
did il with my little hatchit
Rev. 4. {. Barry's address, delivered il
Lancaster last Thursday before the two lodge
Of Odd Fellows, and a public audience, is pub
iished ia full on our first and fourth pages. |
was well received and is an excellent docu
iaeut II is veyy long but one will not grow
tired ia reading il. In connection with it, a
We presume Il will be placed among the arch