Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-03-13
TOWN AND COUNTY:
-Next Monday win be s.. Patrick,s aay.

= Miss Lizzie Sykes closed her school north
of town. last week.
Mr.. A. P. Thompson is prepared to wait
upon pension applicants.
The Plattevile and Galena narrow gauge
is to be sold under mortgage.
MIR. James A. Kilbourn, of Glen Haven,
is reported to be seriously i'll.
George Goldsmith, one of ''the boys" of
the HERALD Office is in Iowa visiting friends
and relatives.
&C. II. Baxter recently bought one hun.
dred bushels of peas of Leroy Kilbourn, of
Cassville.
In few days more the sun will go to bed
square 10 the West, when the days and nights
will be equal.
Miss Kate Spathe, popular dress>maker
in Lancaster, has opened shop in the rooms
over Iyey Webb's store.
There it is. Look at our market reports.
Yon will find among them the prices paid at
Lancaster for grain of all kinds.
j. o. Bartlett, beside his confectionery
aud shoe making business. makes and keeps
on hand diamond" brackets of all kinds.
-Goodhue's story, "Struck Lead" will
begin in the HERALD as soon as the changes
now IN preparation are Effected few weeks.
The Sketch of the Mines to appear next
week will have az its sub-tit "a Duel on the
lee" II is well told and reads like romance
--ReE. VIM. Hamilton, Presiding Elder of
this District, preached a good sermon TO a full
house in the Methodist church last Sunday
night.
Attention Is called to the sale Of short
horn cattle which takes place April l6 at the
Hazelwood Stock farm, Galena Ill. See adj
vertisement in another column.
Parties going from Grant County across
the Mississippi are notified by Mr.. Adam Keen,
by advertisement, Of the advantages of cross
ing a, his ferry at Clayton. Read
One day last week, about fifteen "furin.
ers'' came at one time from Platteyle to Cir
cult Court Clerk Buchner to be naturalized
preparatory to voting at the village election.
All the small boys in town have tcle-
phones now. They are tin cans with holes in
the bottom and connected by linen thread.
They are almost as good as ready made ones.
The snow went off suddenly and gave
place to mud, and now the mud in few days
h.. ri toll bix Iry y
seems now as ifSpring was here for all suns
mer.
DR.. Geo. Newell, our Lancaster Dentist,
will be in his office in Bloomington ON the
cath Of March for one 0eek Always first class
work, best materials, and satisfaction warrant
ed. lws
Farmers will be interested in a new adj
yertisement in this paper by Messrs. Brown
& Morton OF Galena. Marchl6th they will
sell at auction sxty-fve head of short horn
cattle.
TO buy square Of ground near the cen.
ter Of Chicago to grow cabbages OH we do
not think would be judicious investment;
nevertheless square thus located can be
found decorated with last Summers cabbage
stocks
The grain warehouse Of Strong & Berger
at the depot is finished aud il al ready to re-
ceive grain. The prices paid ;nsy be learned |
by reference to our markets Nj Strong will |
move his family here, and will live in Mrs. |
Farrar's house.
-Plattegille has German Literary Society |
oilccred as follows: President, Fred Hrser |
Vice President, John Reige; Secretar, II |
HinneTs; Treasurer, august Geyer Chaplain,
Francis Schmidt Directors, +. C. Nchls Mary |
Sphinx, John Nehls.
The fame of Waterloo is growing and |
among others of is leading citizens Mr.. Geo. |
' s. Johnson is prospecting His advertisements |
show hat his mercantile interests call for 30
much attention that he wishes to dispose of
interests in other business.
The c. st. r. Rs track between here
and Woodman. part of it having been laid
after the ground was frozen, during the late
thaw, got "out of lne," considerably, enough
IN delay the train a little, but not enough to
prevent its coming through.
In Chicago, the other lay, we made a lay
out for Improvements in the HERALD which Will
be apparent in few weeks. If our friends
viii call around with $40o or $500 to add to
'his layout we will make the HERALD the
handsomest as well as the best paper in the
S'ate
If the editors pencil is lacking in this pas
per it is chargeable TO his absence most of the
past week. Not only he but the foreman
printer is off on visit and we are at present
without the scholarly and efficient editorial
help rendered the past few months BY Mr..
Lewis Eaton.
Some weeks ago the Dubuque Herald
published a sensational scandal about Rev
Allen Curr, who for three or four years was
Baptist preacher in Dubuque. Mr. Curr, at
the cine, was in California. He has returned
70 Dubuque and has sued the Herald claiming
100000 for libel.
You would not think that such a hard
Tunes looking gentleman as friend Darnall
would construct the graceful sentences of the
essay on economy in this paper. Read it. and
II You act as it advises you will, like him, al
ways b: able to swim with your head above
water, in hard times as well as good times.
Our list Of names Of sgners to the call on
Judge Cole, published last week. was taken
from the Madison Journal. In that list Judge
Millss name appears as J. T. Wilt. Very
iikely the Journal copied from the original
paper, and the typographer has thus given the
Judge an idea of what his ychirography may do
with him.
The telephones connecting Messrs Bush
nell Clarks' Office with their respective resi-,
dences, are complete successes. Talking in
an ordinary tone, singing, whistling, etc. can
be heard very plainly. A person standing in
the centre Of the office, and talking somewhat
above ordinary voice can be heard at the
examinations of both telephones We learn
that, among others in prospective, George
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