Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-06

-Horatio Tiel, of Cherokee county, Iowa,
is again around town, receiving warm greet
ings Of friends.
Mrs. Judge McGonigal, for the first time
in months, was able yesterday to walk over
ard see her neighbOr Mrs. Tine Hyde.
The story, "For Loves Sake,' is well
adapted to Decoration Day reading. If the
readers heart does not melt at the reading, the
heart is stony.
To-day is the last day for the Spring
races at Dubuque. James Klbourn, the Iiv-
cry man, aud some other Lancasterians are
there.
The Good Templar festival held last Fri
day evening was brisk party and after liberia
expenditures netted the Lodge over $1,000
cash.
Philip Reih, of Missouri, an old citizen
of Lancaster, is here again, thinks this the me-
est rlace in the world, and proposes to stay
all summer.
Any Grant County friends happening in
Clear Lake, Iowa, this summer, will have the
pleasure of seeing DR.. VIM. R. Clack there,
who will be glad to see them.
The Adventists held protracted meet
ng in camp near Madison, which terminals
last Monday. Some parties drove their teams
there, taking their families, .all the way from
Waterloo in this county.
If your corn has been destroyed by the
fross or the floods remember it is not yet too
late to plant Some Of the best yields Of corn
in this county were from seed planted as late
as the 10th and 18th of June.
One of the decorations of our Of
hce, contributed by this extraordinary year, is
bunch of rye that stands six feet ten inches
high. taken from the field of Thomas McNa-
mara, four miles west of Lancaster.
Mrs. S. Mufley, of Cassville, and Mrs.
Clara Newberry, of Minneapolis, are visiting
in Lancaster with their sister, Mrs. F. S.
Kidd, wife of the county Clerk. These three
ladies are daughters of Hon. Alexander Ram
sey, the oldest citizen of Western Grant.
-Woodman is still Misunderstanding 10
the courts Two or three Of the Enoch Adj
kns party are under examination again,
before Justice Keene. The Woodman fire
bids fair to be like the tabled Phoenix.
As often az ii burns, out of the ashes comes
another fire.
MIR. John Wright had well bored to the
depth Of SO feet near the Phelps House stable
few weeks ago. He found water in abund-
ance but the sand pumped as freely as the
water. He covered this we'll with his Ice
house and is now sinking another some twenty
feet off in the hope.of lodging the sand crew
ice.
Nathan, Schreiner s. Co., Howe & Bax-
ter and John P. Lewis are all paying higher
prices for wool than the market warrants.
They seem eager to buy but their complex
ions become perceptibly blue when a seller
after running from one to the other several
times, finally says to one of them, ''It's your
WOOL"
Several accounts are published in this
paper of the heavy rains of Saturday night
and Sunday NOR ming. On Grant and Green
rivers great damage was done IN the destruc-
ton, of fences and washing out and covering
up of spring crops. The bridges, except
those put up to beat the great flood of two
years ago, are mostly gone.
Mr.. G. d. UT had at dinner last Sunday
a mess of his new Alpha potatoes, grown in
his garden. June ID for new potatoes will
"beat the Oldest inhabtant." An average
sample of these potatoes, handed us by Mr.
UT, Is So by 4 inches in circumference. He
says after three years trial he is convinced
they are at least two weeks earlier than any
other potato.
ANY one desiring 10 buy an eighty-acre
farm within one and a half miles of Lam
caster, sixty acres improved and the remain.
der partly pasture and partly timber, with
story and half house, pretty good stable and
other out-buidings and good orchard and
small fruits, all for $4,000, may apply to the
editor of the HERALD. The property is out
of the reach of floods and not in a cyclone
belt.
MIR. E. I. Kidd, of Millville, writes to
his brother, Mr.. F. s. Kidd, that the flood
there on Saturday night was as great as any
they ever had except that of two years ago.
Much damage was done TO farmers. Fhe
Kidd Mill sustained $25 damage in the break
of an embankment, but the injury is not
enough to stop the mil. Mr.. Horsfalps fac
tory was not injured this Ii me. The mill is
in good running order and he is prepared for
all the wool the farmers will take to him.
Mr.. VIM. Ziegler, of Huntingdon, Pa, is
in Lancaster on visit with his brother, NJ. M.
Ziegler. He was in Lancaster twenty-four
years ago. He knows what our little village
was then and being a citizen of the editors
native county, AMI all old acquaintance, be-
sides being a pleasant conversationalist, the
HERALD office claims and enjoys his presence
part of the time. Huntingdon is crowded
with good people. II might spare Mr.. VIM.
Ziegler and let him stay here.
One day too late for last HERALD we re-
celved short letter from Mr. r. L. Hoskin,
written on board the steamer Scythia, out on
the Atlantic Ocean. Mr.. Hoskin was on the
way home after few months stay in his ma
tive England. He shows where his heart is
in the close of his letter, when as the steamer
came in sight of land and the stars and stripes
were noisted, ne eXclelmS II love Inc grand
Old flag it is the flag of my country foreSer."
AS will be seen in new advertisements Mr..
Hoskin will come home ready for business. He
is competent and prompt in every undertaking.
Bridge building or mason work entrusted 10
him will be in responsible hands.
We looked in upon the city council the
other evening. They show interest IN the
work before them and are as deliberate as a
Supreme Court or. State Senate. There are
numerous applications for side. walks. OF
course some will have to be rejected, but
there is determination to repair and make all
the walks the means at hand viii allow.
There is prevalent mistake in the minds of
some citizens to the effect that the council
will order a large amount of Matchmaking
on the streets. Col. Clark, as chairman of
the Town Board, asked the council if there
was any funds that could be spared, to con-