Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-01
Prepare for the fair.
All 90 to the tent meetings.

tomorrow.
The only newspaper printed in Lancaster
is the Grant County HERALD.
Charley Murphey, who has been in New
York for year, is at home.
bordeaux (the wine color) and pale blue
are to be the fashionable colors
-lrhos. Watson, esq of Clifton, was lately
out TO see the sands OF Dakota
Mrs. Ollie McCarn and children, Of Mus
coda, are at Judge McGonigals.
Heavy rains over the north part of Grant
county Tuesday night, No rain here that
night
Green corn is more plentiful now than
green-backs. Both are good but too much of
either is unhealthy.
Two new advertisements of farms for sale
appear in this paper. Prices are low and it is
good time to buy
1t pays to walk eighteen miles to catch
six fish. So thinks a young college student
home on a vacation.
Thanks to Mr. T. J. Brooks for compl>
mcntary to the Boscobel Fair which viii be
held October 2, 3. 4.
Mr.. j. d. Hoffman, druggist Of Galena,
with his lady, are visiting her parents, few
miles west of Lancaster
Go to the Temperance Tent Meeting,
west Of the Episcopal Church First meeting
Friday (to>morrow) afternoon, at 8 o'clock.
"A bunch of keys and a small button hook
found by Mr. Quincy at bathing place on
Mr. J A. Jones's land on Grant, are at this
Office
Everybody should attend the temperance
tent meeting west Of the Episcopal church
First meeting tomorrow afternoon at three
o'clock.
Hon. Geo. C. Hazelton was about town
yesterday. There is another man King of the
track just now but Mr. Hexpects to be King at
the end of the walk
Monday, August II, is the one hundredth
anniversary of the founding of the Turner So
ciety by Ludwig jain. Galena is preparing to
make it great gala day.
Another poet assures US that Jasper "
did not know the whole of the story Of john
and the Dragon, and he tells the rest in ready
rhyme. 1t lies over until another week.
The eclipse was so near total here as to
be interesting. Much of the time the inter
vening clouds were just dense enough to help
the view without the use of smoked glass.
The rolling stock of the Galena & Platte
vile Narrow Gauge, consisting of seventeen
cars and two engines, was sold at Sheriff sale
last week D. Smith Harris was the pnr-
chaser.
The reader may count the marriages,
deaths and births for himself. According to
the statistics in Register Durley's Office many
more are born than die in Grant County. It's
a healthy district
There are many people, aged about 40,
who If they were, like the editor, to accident
ly discover what help pair of good glasses
will give to the eyes, would 50 straight to
Marphey'a aud buy pair.
Lawyer Beebe, of Plattevie, has tele-
phone from his house to his office. Singing,
playing, laughing, nursery talk and crying can
all be heard il he wants. Not every man
would want such a telephone.
Notice is published that Grant County
Teachers Institute will be held 10 Lancaster,
beginning August 9Th and continuing two
weeks Professors d. McGregor and A. R.
C,vor,,,o oro 20, no tho couduptOra
Woodward d, Carter have been active in
the farm machinery trade The season is
near its close but anything in the line can
still be had of them, and any time of year
will do to buy Slower wind>mill.
Gran. county, Wisconsin, holds her 2Sd
Agricultural Fair at Lancaster on the 4th, 9TH
and 9Th of September. As it always has been
one Of the best agricultural counties in the
great Northwest, her Fairs are generally of
unusual interest, and this one is expected to
eclipse all preceding ones Dubuque Times.
The advertisement of the Town Clerk of
Lancaster for buyers of bonds still appears
Lancaster credit has always been good. The
bonds are to run a long time. They will be
Absolutely safe. Whoever has money to lend
cannot find safer investment The bonds
ought to be taken at per cent, and we think
there will be bidders at this rate.
The lien laws of Wisconsin give to every
person who has as contractor or sub-contrac-
tor claim upon the premises upon which he
works, in building or repairing, if he first goes
through the forms of law to fix his claim
Levi NJ. Comstock, Milwaukee, Wis, has pub
lished in concise form all the laws on the sub
iect of lien and with them forms for applying
the laws lie sells this little work at % cents
per copy or Sl.50 per dozen.
Mr. VIM. Rothschd placed upon our ia
bic. the other day, a sample of the Snyder
blackberry II is o variety kno Sn to be finely
suited to our northern winters. Never having
been known to winter.kll it can safely be
called an ironclad variety The berries are
large, round sweet, juicy and have a healthy
look. The plants are very productive, and
easily grown. Mr.. Rothschild has tie roots
of "The Snyder" for-sale.
The Telegraph, of Aurora, Nebraska,
comes to us with the names of J. w, Sheppard
and Geo. Fritz as editors and proprietors.
The former proprietor speaks of the latter
gentleman as a "young man of sterling quail
ties, an industrious newspaper man, first
class printer, and gentleman who, we feel
safe in saying will be liked by all wh1 come
90 know him." These compliments are true
of George here, and they win be true of him
in Aurora. He viii deserve and obtain the
good viii of the people wherever he lives,
The success that follows the treatment of
Drs. Price & Brewer, has in part been the re-
suit of the peculiar practice, as we'll as from
their having devoted so much time to the ex-
elusive treatment of chronic diseases. 1t is
said that persons come 10 Drs Price Il Brew
er from ali parts of the country, and never in
vain If there is any stamina of constitution
left Do not linger trusting to an uncertainty
let Drs. Price 4 Brewer be consulted on their