Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
If what man can do woman can, what is
the use of making side-saddes?

Nv" Va sHS 6oou-ioOhiiiS chuerS on the
HERALD yesterday we're Miss Hannah Zeller Of
Potos and Miss Lizzie Schreiner Of City
The improvements on car streets, made
under the supervision Of Street Commission
er John Stephens, are apparent everywhere.
Mr.. wB. Ziegler left Lancaster last Mon
day for Galeshurg, H., thence home to Hun
tingdon, Pa.
Rev. G. w. L. Brown will preach at the
Dyer School House on Sunday afternoon at
half-past two o'clock
The next Of the series Of temperance mass
meetings in Lancaster will be at the Method
ist church next Sunday evening
Miss Lissie Winners, who is lady of SUI
perior musical culture, having passed few
days with the Misses Schreiner, returned yes.
terday TO her home in Potosi.
-Chas Chesley, in jail for stealing whiskey
broke out the other day, by removing one Of
the iron bars in the corridor, and then pick
ing hole through the brick wall. The Sher-
if is looking for him.
A rich farmer in Illinois went east and
offered young man two hundred acre farm
and $4,000 in money TO come west and marry
his daughter. If only the daughters in Lam
caster had such generous papas Whats
Charles Slocum and wife, his sister Alice
and her husband. all of Iowa, are visiting their
old home in Waterloo. Their coming was I'M
looked for and created happy surprise to
their many friends and relatives.
-Thos Harper of the Corners is the faith
er of bouncing girl. The mother and child
are doing well and Tom is happy, though he
occasionally feels tinge of regret as he thinAs
of that extensive stock of boys clothing"
Mr.. II. NJ. Page, wife and daughter left
Lancaster, yesterday. Though all Lancaster
would like to hear and see Mrs. Page and her
little girl in her operetta Little Red Riding Hood
we have to forego the pleasure for want of a
hall
Conrad Brunke, who has. for three years
been making home in Nebraska, will next
Monday, June II, sell off his furniture, farming
implements. work horses, mich cows, hogs &C.
will take his family with him to Nebraska.
The Doctors Of Grant County are to meet
in Lancaster next Thursday. See DR.. Bar
ber's notice. An official paper received from
Or. Pickard indicates that some are under the
impression that the 9th is the day for meet
ing Next Thursday will be the Third Thurs
day in June and that is the day for the physi>
clans to hold their annual meeting.
Who was it borrowed our new umbrella
at Mr.. and Mrs. Ziegler's party? The name
of its proprietor printed in pale letters can on
examination be found inside near the edge of
cover. We borrowed one just like it and
want to make exchange. When we get our
own wen put large American flag to its mast
hang long yellow streamers TO each rib and
riyet steel devil-fish to the handle.
Not like the "proverbial'rich man are the
men who are selling cloth to the farmers Of
old Grant. They are generous free hearted
and kind, and whether man be rich or poor,
high or low they open their bundle and stake
him in" As a consequence of their liberal
ity it is rumored that Messers Harper, Duncan
Go. are about to open Wholesale and re-
tail clothing store in the Hurricane.
DIR. o. P. Ssla. of Bloomington, who has
not been away from his practice for ten years,
is absent at present, in Iowa, having two
weeks recreation. At the end of that time
he will be home again and ready for calls as
ha lotc nfh nos
we don't mean it as equivalent to saying, May
Bloomington have lots of sickness One can't
wish physician success without mental reser-
walton.
this term will do to apply to the testimony
of some of the parties)was continued until last
Monday Chas. Woods examination lasted
three days and he was discharged. Thos
Rands trial lasted four days and he was or
dered to appear for trial by Circuit Court. He
is committed until he furnishes 81 900 bail.
Enoch Adkins was discharged without exam
ination.
On Decoration Day while Mr. Henry Suck
was in town his house took fire. Mrs. Suck
was there but in alarm ran to neighbors. Be-
fore assistance could be obt aimed the fire had
made such progress that it was not safe to go
into the house. The building aud all its con-
tents were destroyed. The house was new
frame building of size suitable for small
family. 1t was insured in "The American"
The property was mile and a quarter north
West of Lancaster
The officers of the County Agricultural
Sociely haye had we'll sunk on the Fair
grounds. Water was struck at the depth of
46 feet and the boring was continued to the
depth of 81 feet 4 inches, giving over SIS feet
of water. The supply is greater than can be
pumped away by one man. A windmill will be
put on and in running condition before fair
time. This was an Improvement much needed
aud will be appreciated by those who attend
the Fairs hereafter.
There is report that John Mcpherson
formerly teacher in this county resident at
EllenbOro and taught near Animation last VIM
ter-got into a drunken scrape in Utah or
somewhere out West and killed man by stab
DluS anu tuAt nc WAS lOE ihc
last Friday. A letter was received from him
desiring his friends to go and see him before
the execution and hear his warning against
drinking-that brought him to ruin before
his execution. Although the report comes
pretty direct it looks like hoax and may be
. mistake. Mcpherson was young man of
some talent and of generous nature but lacked
balance.
Every neighborhood boasts of its poets.
However plentiful they may be elsewhere
Grant County has more than all the rest of
the world. We have several barrels of poems
recently written by Grant County poets. They
are all exquisitely fine in poetic thought and
elegantly expressed. We have assured the
writers that our neglect to publish them is be-
cause the mass of our readers. though very in
tellectual are not entirely capable of appreci-
ating the sublimity of these productions and
we have urged the sending of them to the