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

Many of the farmers are raising large
fields of wheat which now look very promis-
ing. They SOW II bushels of wheat Ter acre,
and bushel of fax, claiming that the fax will
by shading the ground protect the wheat from
the chinch bugs. Many claim to have raised
last year from l2 to Is bushels of wheat and
from to of fax, making from I6 to 20
bushels OF grain.
| Mr.. Alcorn, an old gentleman of 73 years
is very seriously afflicted with dropsy. For 6
months he has been unable to lie down. He
sits upon his bed with his feet resting on
chair and huge bolster at his back, his
limbs are very badly swollen from which a
watery fluid continually oozes. Pen can not
describe his sufferings, yet he endures them
with heroic fortitude, saying Goods will not
mine be DONE" His wife of about his own
age is blessed with good health and patiently
cares for him night and day.
The fruit along Grant river bottom is very
| generally ruined. A. Mink has a beautiful
| apple orchard which promised abundance but
jack frost to use slang phrase J was too
many for it and he has the finest harvest of
"wind falp blossoms we ever saw. However
the rost did not injure any of the fruit on
Waterloo Ridge. Grapes, of which there is
an abundance, are looking splendid" and the
| apple crop is very fattering. Also one sees
large felds.of rye, which the farmers claim is
the best they ever raised, it will average fully
SIX feet in height and is extra heavy.
The young people of the Okey and Elwell
school district have established Lyceum with
Miss Nellie Garner for President. Nellie
though blind received a good education at
GAINESVILLE and makes first class President.
They meet every Thursday evening A string
band of two violins and one guitar furnishes
the music, which far more experienced players
might be proud Of On the evening of the 80
inst. poem, "The Battle Field" by Bentley,
was very creditably recited by the President.
Lille Warden's recitation "The Family Sew
ing Machine" which has "curly hair" wears
"gloves and patent boots" brought down the
house. She advises call boys to capture one."
The question Resolved "That christianity has
done more than education for the welfare of
humanity" will be discussed Thursday, the 9th
instant.
"A calf belonging to Mr.. G. S johnson
strayed into his apiary and attempted to form
an intimate acquaintance with the bees They
did not reciprocate its friendly attention, but
attempted to drive out the intruder No
sooner did they attack it than it dropped to
the ground in the immediate vicinity of sever
al hives Many thousand of the enraged in
sects issued forth to the battle. A daughter
of Mr. Johnson's who was at home alone, heard
the plaintive means of the tortured beast and
boldly ran to its rescue, dragged it away from
the hives and had partially succeeded in driving
off the bees when Adam Mink drove pp to the
gate and stopped to assist her. As soon as he
| stopped however the insects attacked his team
| which dashed down the road in very lively
manner. Strange to say the girl escaped un.
injured. The calf presented pitiable aspect,
its head and ears swollen to twice their natural
SIZE and its limbs so stiffened that it could not
stand.