Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-10-10
TOWN AND COUNTY:
Prof. r. G. Eccles
AT the Courthouse Tonight.


recruits than wisdom and truth.
Farming is business and requires bus
mess education, get it at La Cross College.
The Lone Rock Narrow Gauge is having
iron rails substituted for wooden ones
Every lsdy's bow in Lancaster has little
blue in IT, The same is true, nearly, il you
spell it, beau.
--Capt. C.. II. Baxter has returned and the
new advertisement suggests good reasons for
calling at the store of Howe & Baxter.
The name of the Principal of the public
scho i in Potosi is Mr. Carr, not LAIR as the
types made it appear in The Po,os items last
week
Jacob Scott, in Watterstown, had his
barn burned down last Saturday night. Three
horses, twenty tons of hay and some grain
were destroyed.
Michael Lawler, resident for forty years
of the town of Potosi, died Wednesday night
last week. lie was much respected and his
remains we're followed to their rest by many
friends
Twenty car loads OF tobacco grown at
Edcerlon, Wisconsin, were recently shipped
from that point WISCONSIN leaf" promises 10
become famous and source Of large income
and profit.
Muscoda's bridges will bring her tax-rate
we'll up toSards three per cent. this year.
This should all be laid to the ruinous financial
policy pursued by the Republican national
administration .-Neos.
C. w. Lumpkin sells at auction for l.. II.
Stewart, west Of Patch Grove, work horses,
COWS, Young cattle, farming machinery and
implements and household furniture next
Tuesday, October 10,
-Brown's Photographic Monthly, publish
ed by D. l., Scott.Browne, 1877 Broadway, N.
Y. is offered at $500 for the numbers from
now until the end of next year Us months) to
those who pay before December. LIST.
--'Gene Hyde at the Mansion House has one
of those curious philosophical puzzles that APP
pareDtly bids defiance to the Law of gravita> |
ton Whoever has not seen gyrose ope
should 60 and ask Gene to set il out.
Mr. Thos Wier and wife returned last |
Saturday from Nebraska where they had been !
to visit their daughter and to see the wonders |
OF the great West. They were at the Nebras- |
ka State Fair and met with many Grant |
County people.
Mr.. John Barnett, formerly of Lancaster |
lately took as partner, one of the fair daugh- |
ters of Iowa. The 'stwaIn of one flesh, }" have
been touring east and on their return passed
few days in Lancaster. They started for In |
dependence yesterday.
BY new advertisement in this paper Mr.. |
T. NJ. Barber offers two first class farms for |
sale. The advertisement itself tells precisely |
and correctly what they are. If any one
would like to move to the thriving, social, ed |
vocational, progressive city of Lancaster and |
at the same time engage in farming there is no |
better location than on these farms.
1t is many years since Mr.. Mills has APP |
peated in the Legislature aud is return will |
be hailed with pleasure BY his ,iI friends. He /
is u man of some peculiaIiti , but ranks |
among the ablest men in the State and has
made his mark in many positions ia he past,
and he will take high rank in the n.At Assem-
bly.-Madison Journal.
Saturday night 7. Carrier & Co.'s hard |
ware store in Boscobel was entered by burg
lars aud robbed to the amount of $25o The |
articles stolen were revolvers, cutlery and |
spoons. Entrance was effected through
cellar door and then by cutting panel out of |
the door up to the store. This is the third re-
cent burglary in 3oscobel where fire arms |
were stolen.
That our readers may compare prices we |
copy market report from paper handed us
by Mr. j. 2. Lewis, published at Nevada in
central Iowa, the finest new farming country |
in the West. Wheat 40 Go go. Corn, old 20 |
az zoe. Barley 80 % soc. Rye 25 "a SIC.
Oats 10 "a he. Flour 80 80 a 800 per hum
dTed. Butter "a &c. Eggs &C. Hogs, live, !
$3.50 q 500.
The Democrats at Boscobel chose Gras |
ham but they look very rye, and some at
least will bolt him. They don't take chaif
worth a cent, for The nomination goes against |
the grain of an oa.able portion Of the rank
and file, beans they can not find ont whether |
he ia hard or soft. He viii barley get his |
party vote in this corner of the district
Mtscodd News
Lovers of fiction, fun and bellies lettres win |
please be patient. Politics is wholesome diet |
now. Election is not far ahead. In the mean
time men who desire to be right in the exer-
else of the duty which makes every one
governor of his country will do well to read |
the HERALD. II will not falsify or deceive. |
There is no Wall street behind it expending |
hundreds Of thousands to mislead and then |
rob the people of millions or billions.
BY request of many citizen. DR.. COIN,
the scientific optician at the Phelps House
has consented to remain a few days longer to
give all those who have neglected to call ON I
him an opportunity TO be benefited with his
skill in fitting their eyes with his celebrated
perfected German Periscopic speetacles
After this the Doctor win visit for short
time only the following places: Beetown,
Bloomington, Rockville, British Hollow, Pc.
tosi and Fennimore. He can be consulted in
Lancaster every evening next week after z
o'clock.
About twenty-eight years ago some &C.
casion induced the teacher of the Cassyille |
public school (either Mr. A. A. Bennett or a /
Mr. Warner) to give the scholars a little
temperance lecture. When done he induced |
all the scholars who were willing to do so TO
solemnly pledge themselves never to use in,
toxicating drink. They all pledged but two.
One OF the two Johnny Hanson, the |
orphan boy. The last the writer knew of |
Johnny he was a very sober, thrifty Young
man. Of those who pledged--alas that not
one pledge is left nnbroken-sadly broken.
The temperance reyivalsts, Rowell & |
Hootstitler, came TO Lancaster last THURSDAY. |
Their first meeting was held in the Method |
list church, which was well filled. Since then |
the evening meetings have been held in the
Congregational church, where there is mare |