Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-22

I mrs ralfaIl, ~ OLD abu mucn respected
resident of Po,osi, mother~in-law of Mr..
George Kinney, died last Sunday.
Mrs. Phelps. venerable lady Of Lam
caster, aged over 80 years, died at the resi-
dence of her daughter, Mrs. r. II. Parsons,
| last Sunday.
Mrs. Lot Pepper, of Boscobel was in
Lancaster day or so this week. Also Lou
Lester was up to vote for our railroad but by
mistake came day too soon. Boscobelians
are often ahead of time.
The Mineral PIT District Ministerial Asso-
citation of the NJ. E. church held its semi-an-
| nual session last week in Plattevle It's next
session is to be held in the Methodist church,
Lancaster, Tuesday, November 10th. The
District includes the counties of Grant, Iowa,
Lafayette, and parts of Green and Crawford.
It numbers about twenty-five pastoral charges
and aggregates membership OF about $500.
IT. NJ. Young Is again out with his at
tempts to get our people to 60 west, by offer
ing cheap fare on railroads aud steamboats,,
and the chance . see State Fair and to buy
lands cheap. Our advice to fathers and moth
ers and grown-up sons and girls is to stay at
home and tend their Grant County farms.
When we can raise 20 TO 40 bushels of wheat
per acre and other crops in proportion. why
go west ? Read Mr.. Young's advertisement,
however.
"A bundle Of pieces of small hemp rope
matted together with pitch into a ball larger
than mans stovepipe hat, was found by
Treasurer Ivey yesterday concealed in the
grass under his Office window at the court
house. The query is, Who put it there, and
what for? Was it intended for an ineendiary
torch, or had some boys prepared it as a fire.
ball to use in touching off the cannon /? II
the latter the boys should report the fact; if
the former the incendiary is hereby Informed
that nothing worth stealing is kept in the
courthouse.
In publishing the list of teachers with
their postoffce addresses and their number of
month s experience in teaching, we undertake
considerable amount of gratuitous advertis-
ing. Districts wanting teachers can see by
the lis. who is probably open for engagement
The Lancaster list, of course, embraces num-
Der OF young persons who do not intend teach.
ing. We did not dare publish the ages of all.
No hiding-place for safety from so great q
crowd of school-ma'ams could be found And
to give the ages of the younger teachers only
would be Partially
The winners in the election last Tuesday
had big joli6caton. AT dusk they gathered
on the most public corners and built bonfire.
The Band took central position and played
airs in harmon with the rejoicing party. At
Bushnell, Bushnell, Mayor Bushnell" He
was trotted out, helped upon a barrel and
made speech. The Band played and then
Col. Clark was loudly called for He respond
ed happily and again the Band played. The
crowd then made lnsty calls for Cementson
and he was led to the barrel by Bushnell and
spoke to the point. The speakers were all
heartily cheered. The jo!ifcation was kept up
to late hour and great deal of fuel was
wasted, but three was nothing disorderly and
nothing tanspired during all the evening
that could in the least have offended any op-
poser of the tax
-Patronizing papers printed in the cities,
that are called by home names is, as we have
frequently said, a form of patronizing cloth
package men. 1t is way to gather up the
money of the country and send it to the cities
for work done in the cities, while if the same
work were done at home the pay for it expen-
ded at home would benefit ALL But there is
another way where these papers are frauds
upon home patrons. They have their adver-
tislng rates which are about the same as the
rates of home printed and well established
papers, the average of which is 81 for one
inch down column and 10 cents per line for
locals. While home patrons would have 10
pay these prices or something near them that
might be agreed upon, city advertising agents
offer to procure the insertion of ten inches of
advertisements and one hundred lines of adj
vertislng in these papers all for one dollar
where the advertiser takes 500 papers at a
time. The Vibrator thresher for instance, is
advertised in 500 of these "patents" by adver-
tislng agents They get it in one insertion tor
about 40 cents, while if Messrs. Woodward &
Carter, doing local business, want to adver-
tise in one paper one time they would have to
pay $3.50 to So for the same advertising. And
that isn't all; the printer and people at home
do not even have the benefit of the little 40
cents 1t goes to the city printer who prints
the patents. The most useless middleman,
the biggest sponge used to soak up and carry
away country peoples substance, is the dis
tributor of city printed patents" They
ought not to be patronized by men who pro-
fcss to favor home industry