Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-23
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There were baskets of ripe strawberries
at Burr's store yesterday.
Work on the railroad, Lancaster division,
begins Tomorrow.
Green currant pies were ripe in limited
quantities and of doubtfal SAVIOR last Sunday in
Lancaster.
Rev. w. G. Bond win be the Primitive
Methodist Minister at Hazel Green and Rev.
j. Harrington at Platteville the ensuing year.
The excursion advertised by Mr.. T. NJ.
Young to take place on the 2lst is postponed
to the 9th May.
John Stephens has been appointed street
commissioner for the city of Lanca ster. The
road tax is made the same as last year-two
mills
The Misses Ellen and Lizzie Schreiner and
Mr.. Frank Nathan are spending few weeks
in Prairie Du Chen, partly for health and
partly for pleasure.
The under sides of she new strawberry
boxes hold more than the upper Chicago
Journal
Cover the tender plants in your garden,
these cool nights with GRANT COUNTY HERALDs.
Sure protection from frost.
Nathan, Schreiner & Co. are active for
railroad because hemmed in as Lancaster is
they have not elbow room for their immense
business.
--Drs. Price & Brewer, the most trustworthy
physicians who ever leave home have set the
date for their next visit at oscobel. Read
their whole advertisement.
An umbrella taken from the ante room of
the Methodist church last Sunday, belongs to
Mrs. Mitchell 1t may be returned to her or
to this Office.
Bruce Dean, charged with burglarizing
Anton Kieren's merchant tailoriry establish-
ment in Boscobel. appeared before Judge Nc
Gonigal last Thursday, plead guilty and was
sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
The Sheriff took him away on Tuesday.
John Massengill was brought up from
British Hollow last week, badly cut iu the
head and shot in the leg by the parties who
arrested him. five are correctly informed
he is not a bad man and was perhaps ill-used.
He is in Jail.
The illness of the nov deceased Addison
Burr for a long time baffled the skill of various
physicians. A post morton examination was
made by DR.. A. H. Barber, other physicians
being present, and the seat of the disease
which caused so great pain and finally pro-
duced death, was found by microscopic exam.
ination to be cancerous tumor. 1t was To-
Gated in the pelvis and left hip.
The cloth package men are around. They
display cloth or other goods. persuade the
farmer that they are selling the goods at about
half the price their home merchants ask for
them, induce the farmer to buy $50 to $3.50
swindling package men have found all the
people that can be gulled in a neighborhood
they sell the notes at big discount to some
men who have money and leave for some oths
err gullible locality. The farmer then finds he
has on hand lot of shoddy and is so in
debt that he can't pay debts due his honest
neighbors.
Mr. and Mrs. Fl n. Page are expected in
Lancaster to-day. Mr.. Page twenty years ago
edited the Platteville american. Afterwards
he was associated for awhile with Mr.. j. G.
Cover as editor of the HERALD. Then he be-
came ore of the editors OF the State Journal
where he broke down with hard work Mrs.
Page is now engaged in giving operate enter
tainments in Wisconsin cities and villages.
The press wherever she has appeared praises
her performances very highly. If Lancaster
can furnish hall one of her entertainments