Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-03
L he HERALD.
WIN AND COUNTY:

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Gaena, guest of Miss Abbie VI. Brown.
w. b. Baxter is replacing The wooden
Sidewalk in front of his drug store with a
stone one, the first in the city.
-0swalds building will soon begin to
smile 1t the brick row on the other side of
the street.
IL you want to live long and die happy
smoke only the G. & n. W. brand of cigars
l7s2E
Musk -eat,you! The Fourth Of July
crowd will think they do down on Green riv-
er to morrow.
A postal tells US that Mr.. c. A. Alexan-
der's present address formerly Bloomington
is Canton, Lincoln Co., Dakota
Go to Mr.. Witcomb, Bloomington and
get .ix photos for dollar before his thirty
DAYS are up. Hurry
A few farmers in this county begin win
ter wheat harvest this week. Il will be all
harvested next week. The crop is good.
Every one calls for one of Kendall d
Purycs Beloit cigars. Gear Havana filters.
Found only at Geo. D. TIT Il Co.'S 2~#
We wonder that all the inhabitants three
milcs from Woodman on Green river, dom.
90 ctazy and leave during this mosquito sea.
son.
Mrs. Nellie Durand, Of Usage, Iowa is at
her fllhess Mr. J. J. Barber, to spend part
ol the summer. Her babe was quite i'll two
DAYS ago but has recovered.
Mrs w. H. elise and Miss Laura elise,
Of Denver, came to La caster last week for a
Saamer's vsi, among old friends. The for
meris at her mothers Mrs. Judge Cox.
A paper with pudding stick for its title
is started in Whitewater. Before recon-
mcndng it we must wait aud see whether its
pudding proves to be wholesome. Hasty, Ell I?
Better late than never" is poor conso-
htion after the train is gone, but it is all
those excursionis Is can get who don't secure
seats for the Wooiman trip tomorrow be-
fore il is too late.
DR. Geo. A. Newman, Dentist, of Prairie
da Chen makes regular tips the 10th of
each moath to Bloomington, remaining one
week This month he will visit Patch GROVE
from the 10th to the 10th.
We forgot to tell our readers of the
first mess of early potatoes TINS year. They
we're brought by Mr.. D. Weaver, over two
weeks ago-about the middle of June They
averaged at that time nearly as large as hens
eggs. Mr.. Weaver has new potatoes in any
quantities, for sale
1t il more than twenty years since we
had the pleasure of grasping the warm hands
of our good friends Mr.. & Mrs. CD. Mutt of
Cassville, until Tuesday last when they made
US a call at the HERALD office, Thirty years
ago they came to Grant county and they
have progressed with the country.
Tomorrow the Fourth of July spirit will
boom in many localities in this county Po-
tos Beetown, Fennimore, Mt. Hope, Sitter,
Boscobel, Woodman, Hazel Green, Wing and
we can't remember how man, other places
will celebrate. Lancaster alone will be
nearly deserted. Business places will close
and the citizens will go with the iremen or
to the other places.
The commencement of cI Z B, of the
Normal School of Philadelphia, at Seven
tcenth and Spring Garden Streets. consisting
of l5l young ladies, took place on ne goth
of June. Among the number was Miss Ida
B. Ddrand known to mos. of the people of
Lancaster. She graduated with distinguished
honor, and was the recipient of many cieg mt
Rul costly presents on the occasion.
The little iour-year-old gtand-chiId of B
Corneliscn, Of Hazel Green accidentally fell
into an old well about fourteen feet deep, on
Thursday last, and was rescued from drown-
ing by the heroic mother, daughter of Mr.C.
who jumped into the well, and clinging to the
rocks with one hand, succeeded in pulling her
little boy out Of the water and holding him
until assistance came.-Galena Gazette.
The 0watonna Reoie,O, of which l.. Blk
by is labeled Editor and S. c. Harris Asso,
ciate Editor, has the following "'Gus. Ref
stock, the Wisconsin literary Teller referred
to in these columns last week, now taketh his
gentle ease at the Arnold House. He will
lend helping hand pro lem. on the Revieo
until order has been evolved out of chaos and
everything is once more in what is popularity
called apple-pie condition."
last Saturday evening the Lancaster
City Marshal took up or attempted to, a
woman running about the streets with a child
about two years old in her arms. 1t took
the strength of several men to hold her and
take her to the county jail which was done,
however, and she is now there waiting for
the result fan application by her husband
for admittance to the insane asylum. Her
name is Mrs Dufhar, and she lives on Green
river about three miles from Woodman.
Last Friday morning she wandered away from
her home with her youngest child just before
heavy rain, and it was thought that she
was drowned, but she followed the railroad
track in search of her mother as she says
The HERALD cautions its local writer's to
guard against terms that may displease. Elk
pressing disapprobation of matters that are
public wrong may be proper enough, but ills
unnecessary to observe bemishes that are
mere accidents and hold them up to public
gaze. Last week writer Of Potosi referred
to "dilapidated" and -"dogeared" houses III
that village, He did it for the purpose Of
making more foicible his expressions OF adj
miration for the people, as they proved TO him
to be, in refinement and other good qualities
far ahead OF outward indications Yet the
terms were TO them somewhat offensive.
True they are hardly justifable in taking Of
fence, for those old buildings are relics of
the past. They tell OF people who came at
avery early day and lived in small and hastily
constructed houses. They give to the wills
lage history and glory that new towns
ike Lancaster, Fennimore or Boscobel cans
not boast, aud to uncover their whole past
would be as interesting to some Of us as the
story of the buried ruins now being uncovered
on the eastern continent If these stories
were told in connection with such terms as
tumble -down houses" fused in British Hol-
low notes this week. the deuizens of these