Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-03-14

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The village election in Platteville last
Monday was carried by the anti-license ticket
composed of George Beck, President; George
/ Dyson, Richard Straw, L. j. Washburn. ]. p.
Sampson, +. y. Nehls, +. NJ Draper, Trustees.
ard George Carter, County Supervisor. The
license ticket was, Thomas jenkins, President.
4. r. Friedrich, H. J. Traber, John Kemler.
| 0. F. Griswold, ii. G. Miller, ]. c Penn, Trus-
tees. and Il. Robbins, County Supervisor.
From birdseye view we should Judge that
one of these tickets would put down w...iskey
| as vigorously as the other
Every paper except the HERALD in this
Congressional District and some out of it has
published statement started in the Madison
Journal month ago to the effect that a tramp
in Muscoda asked the Marshal to put him in
jail, when the Marshal told him to 90 and steal
frat, which he did by carrying away rack Of
clothing boots, &c, from a merchants store
door, and successfully escaped with them
There was way that any close observing ed
itor conld have known the statement was false
but they we're all taken in" and gave the item
to their readers as reliable news
John Hooks, one of the parties who took
keg OF whiskey out of McClurg's saloon in
Washburn, presented himself to Judge McGon-
igal last Friday and plead guilty to the charge
OF burglary. He was sentenced to prison for
one year, the shortest term allowed by law.
He is but seventeen years old and the eircum-
stances are such that if he can show com
mendable habits and general character he need
| not be long in prison. If he is made to learn
a useful trade there the prison may be his
fortune, and the associations cannot be much
worse than those that led him to the whiskev
theft McClurg sold him whisky ON which
ne got drunk; when drunk he stole the balance
of Meetings. whiskey.
Mr.. /. M. Young is at present established
at Glen Haven as District agent for Western
railroad lands. There never was SO great n
stampede for these Western lands as there is
now. BY far the greater part of Iowa. Ne
braska and Kansas is fertile prairie. Farms
are opened with but little labor and at once
become remuneratve. Failure of crops in the
long settled countries and stagnat.on in other
employments is driving people to those beau
tiiul lands. Some would like to secure them
selves 40s, $685. quarter sections and sections
Of land while the opportunity is still Open
Such persons would do we'll to see or cores
pond with Mr.. Young. The lands will soon be
all taken. Those who cannot go may make
safe investments on the recommendations of
the r. r. companies and their agents See
Mr.. Young's advertisement. He is well known
in this county. His statements may be re-
lied upon
Next week on Friday evening, March %,
we shall have the grandest exhibition of mu.
steal talent ever enjoyed in Lancaster. The
Harmonic Band, the most talented and accom-.
plished band of ms trumental musicians in
Southwest Wisconsin, will, on that evening,
give concert of quartettes, duets, whole band
pieces, glees and comic and sentimental songs.
1t will be rare treat to those who appreciate
good music. The Band is full, consisting of
twelve members. They have spent great
deal of time in practice. They can play any
piece at sight. Their programme for this oc-
casion will consist of the very best selections,
and will keep an audience delighted for a
whole evening. Besides the instrumental
pieces the songs will be highly entertaining.
There are single members Of this band who
alone could amuse an audience for a whole
evening. If you love music, CO. If you en-
joy comic songs, be on hand If the soothing
influences of sentiment are desirable, then, in
the capacious school house hall, obligingly
opened by the school Board for this occasion,
is the place to satisfy the desire. Tickets only
25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children,
sold at Bakers Drug Store.
Here now is another invention of labor
saving machine. The inventor is Postmaster
Burr. BEFORE yesterday he was asked from
fifty to a hundred times a day as the -
mail in ?" and fifty to hundred times, as an
oblgng P. NJ, he had to answer All this is
stopped. No one has to ask the question and
no answering has to be done. The information
is given by "machinery." You do not even
have to go in; you can see for yourself the
moment you open the door. For the benefit of
other postofices we explain: Mr. Burr has
placed over his desk, facing the outer door,
tablet about l6 inches wide. On the middle
of this tablet are slides movable right and left
on which are the names by which the several
mails are known, as "Platteville," "Boscobel,"
"Potosi," "Pr du Chen" and "Mineral Point.
On the left, opposite each of these is the word
"0ut." When mail arrives, as the P. NJ
takes in the mail bag, he moves the slide to
the left, covering the word "Out," and on the
right there appears the word"In." This he
does as each mail arrives. A caller can al
ways know at a glance just what mails are in
and which are "out." Without joking it is
truly labor-saving and satisfactory machine
to callers as we'll as to the Postmaster