Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-27
HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY:
MIR. Samuel Harrison has newly wealth

Mr.. Samuel Harrison has newly wealth
erboarded bis house.
Mr.. L. Hoskin is quite i'll with inter-
intent fever.
Ladies' Cloaks, Hoods and overshoes, at
n. w. wrights, Potosi, Wis. 1914
Call and examine stock and prices at the
ore Of Wo ,lstenhoIme d Nathan. If
Blanks for teachers contracts, new
form, can be procured at this Office.
Ladies, don't forget those bargains in
REYNOLDS fine shoes at D. WEBER's. S7w2
For the best violin and guitar strings,
al-musical merchandise, bows, cases, etc !,
70 10 MURrHEY's. II
Geo. Beckett, late hard working man
oi Lancaster, has moved to Middlebury, Iowa
County.
The reliable Rockford Quick Train
Waeh-none better for accurate time, for
ste a MUkPHEY's. Il
Howe 4 Benedict open this week new
iac q Dress Goods, Ladies Cloaks, Hoods.
Ne6a,, Scaris, Ties, Sc--Call and see them.
Mr. Isaac Shepherd finds no difficulty in
cling his wood, for he gives such coed
measure and has such good wood. The
-eeenty cords he has left viii not last long.
Rev Eaton will preach Thanksgiving
sermon at the NJ. f. Church, Lancaster, this
morning at II O'Clock. II will be the Union
,ersice of the Congregational and Metho Is
j.. churches
Grea; bargains at the Beehive Go 70
NE Beehive ard see the great bargains,
ladies cloaEs, fars, anil dress goods.
agency Of the largest silk house
ia Chicago. Call ana see samples Of dress
silks a. the Beehive still run by C. ].
liYAe.
The regular annual meeting Of the Ian
e;sier Library Association will be held Nov.
2hb, 1919, a; the library room. A; this
Jnseiins The accounts Of the library are ex-
AHMED and the officers for the ensuing year
elected All are requested to attend.
37w2. A. ii. BARBER, Secy.
-Th. odd Fellows new Hall over Oswald's
store Is nearly completed and viii be publice
ly dedicated December 18th. Some of the
prominent grand officers of the State are ex.
pected to be here and there will be supper
AMI interesting ceremonies. Provision will
be made for dancing and such amusements as
visitors desire to participate in. Programme
next week
Don't die till you get Van De Wall to
take your picture If you are not going to
die then get pictures of your wife or babies
hri0ro they die. II YOU are all going to live
then you want some Of those beautiful stere-
oscopic views OF romantic, historic or noted
places, with which to set off your parlor
table and entertain company Call at Van
De Walls photograph gallery.
-Wingyile people were very joyful on
Sunday. On that day the first train of cars
went to Montfort over the Chicago To-
nah Railroad. Now the farmers are ship
ping their grain and stock without hauling
from ten TO twenty-five miles. We congrat-
nIate the people of Wingville and rejoice
that they are brought nearer to US through
direct railroad connection with Lancaster.
DR.. Vivian, who is member OF the State
Board Of Charities, was in town week before
last; As stated IN the county Board proceed
ings, he visited the Jail and made some whole>
some suggestions That the jail should have
stool 50 long with its cesspools so constructed
that their gases could escape only through
the apartments of the occutants seems re-
markablc. The Doctor also risi',d she county
mouse and hos some Suggestions make con-
cerrira hat institution
--"Nc regret TO chronicle the f,ct that
Brother Jake UoOfstitler,' the noted tenn
aereu. s6yocote and rclormer, has + len.
and has agaia been stupidity drank IT, at
tsul9i The Grant reception in Chicago last
week ana willis there, vas tempted to par>
Ike 81 liquor, which he soon drank to ex-
es-, and was soon IN drunken condition,
aad never became sober until he arrived Mt
hi4home in Sterling He was summoned be
fore the Reform Club, in Sterling, where he
" ent in- saok and ashes TO confess his
guilt and ask to be forgiven. The Club re-
cejyed him into its bosom again, and is now
tr,iag to reform the raformer. Brother Jake
lacks stability of character" This we find
in the Bellevue Gowa) Leader, and its edi-
tors scalp hangs in Jake Hoofsttlers belt as
"ae~of the ten thousand millions Jake has
reformed" since he started out as item,
peraace evangelist" Shouldn't we temper
anee people Of Lancaster subscribe another
hundred dollars to have Jacob come and
hhclguarj self.dependent sober people be-
cause they will not he counted his followers?
81 tesire 10 say to the good people of
Lancaster aod vicinity, through the columns
of the HERALD, not 10 be alarmed, for the
heariess fend who has been and will con.
tinue TO harrass Bailie Will not ininre "a
much as a Gr Of their heads y This is the
beginning - letter purporting TO have been
written 1.-THE burner of Mr., Bailie's barn.
The letter then goes on TO charge Mr.. Bal.
lie with crimes too terrible TO put in print
without some visible foundation, and ends
with these sentences: "Doubiless many
viii as, when and where did he do all this.
and Why was he not looked up before.
may some day tell you in the courthouse
The letter is signed, can enemy TO yiolators
of the 9th Commandment" We will saw 10
the writer of this letter and of the others
that have been addressed to Mr.. Bailie and
his neiehbors that we DO not believe he is
the man who is perpetraiing the incendiar.
ism against Mr.. Bailje. If he is and will
give as, exclusively, legal proof of the fact,
within reasonable time, we promise when
he dies 10 erect over his tomb 5000 monu.
ment with Mandatory inscriptions More
over if his letter contains truth we will helm
him TO legitimate revenge. Ne mans repu.
tation in this community stands fsirer than
Mr. Joseph Balie's, and the In. king at.
tcmpts made against him only endesr him to
the friendship and sympathy of the people.
-fe give this week list Of the claims
allowed By the late county board They
foot up to over $4,000. People anticipated
considerable fright over the Sheriff's bill bat