Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-10
TOWN AND COUNTY:
Great sale Of short-horn cattle at Galena


Rev. P. S. Mather has bought farm near
lincoln, Nebraska, and is going there to live.
Three Sheriff sales appear as ''ncwn this
week because Of a change in the DAYS of
sales
Next Sunday is Easter-oelebrated all
over Christendom, with flowers, song and joy
Gus sermons.
This is Maundy Thursday, signslized in
England by the annua. distribution of royal
aims at Whitehall
Our Lancaster schools opened again this
week for the final pull before the class of '7s
is launched upon the sea Of life.
The ladies' are inquiring why Lodge
meetings" are more frequent since the mer-
chants close their stores at o'clock.
Part of the business Of Assessors this
year is to assess dogs. They rate $500 for
male dogs and $500 for females.
MIR o. w. Graves, of Bloomington, has
exchanged his farm in a trade with Mr.. G. r.
Walker for the land in Iowa lately advertised
by the last named gentleman.
"A desirable position IN the Milwaukee
High School has been offered TO Miss Sadie
Burr who now holds the place as FIRST assistant
in the High School of this city.
Tie ten cent entertainments at the NJ. +.
church will BIO resumed next week, Friday
evening. The principal exercise that evening
will be lecture by J. VI. Mills, subject, Slang.
Not long since Juneau county paper
contained aattering account Of the condition
Of the New Lisbon schools, which are prosper
ing finely under the superintendent Of Mr.. G.
T. Foster.
Jeffrey Kee, two miles south Of Hurricane
Grove, in Waterloo, will have an auction next
Thursday, April l7th, TO sell COW, heifer,
fam and carpenter tools and fine lot of
nearly new household furniture.
Gus Reifsteck is luxuriating at the Clifton
House in Mankato, MINI where the dinner
bill of fare has as many items as there ere
verses in the new testament, and as hard to
understand, to say nothing of digestion.
john Cover is at present "your most
obedient" at the County Clerks office. He
succeeds Mr.. J. NJ. Altizer in attending to the
duties OF the Office until Mr. Kidd is sufficient-
ly restored to take personal charge. Mr.
Kidd's health is steadily improving.
Those new Millinery goods for Misses
Crosby & Reynolds, selected in Chicago by
Miss Crosby with the aid of the best profess
SIGNALS in chat line in Chicago, have arrived
Call, ladies', and have your heads decorated in
the latest and most attractive styles.
A telegram summoned Dr. Kanouse to
Columbus two weeks ago, to attend his father
in a serious ILLNESS. Doubts were at first
cntertaine of his recovery, but recent &C,
counts are more favorable; so that it is ex-
pected that the son will soon be released to
return to work in Lancaster
was a very animated one-over the question
whether the sale of their railroad bonds,
which had been effected by the outgoing
Board, should be approved. The sale was
ratified by re-electng the old Board by Civ.
ing them more than two.thirds Of the votes.
"A Leadville letter in the Chicago Tribune
has this: Nearly every one of the mine own
ers in Leadville is poor man, or was when
ne went into mining. Tapor, Rische, Fryer;
Finerty, the billions and i. zen others are
specimens Of the seccessful eruh-worms who
have been overtaken by sudden p. nsperity. "The
billions referred to are JEFF and I'iay Dillon,
formerly of Lancaster.
-UAder the new law it is understo d that
whskey license money cannot be used after
the present year to build sidewalks. As res
marked by speaker at the Methodist church
Sunday night, the law was made on the theory
that selling whiskey makes poor people and
the money obtained for leave to sell it should
90 to the sustenance Of the poor. License
money will be pauper money, and sidewalks
and other improvements will have to be built
with the aid Of taxes.
A serious accident occurred in North
Lancaster last Sunday. Two little boys
named Ellis were playing with an AK, when
one accidentally brought down the sharp
implement on his brothers wris:, completely
severing the hand from the arm. The chid's
mother grasped his wrist tightly, thus check
ing the hemorrhage, and DR.. Barber was sum
moned in all haste to give the necessary sur
gical aid. The mother had for two hours held
the wrist so closely grasped that she was un-
able to relax her fingers, and they had TO be
forciblv removed. The little sufferer is now
doing we'll
We announced in our las issue two
lectures for this week by the Rev. J. L. Jones,
of Janesvie. It is thought now that he may
not have time TO lecture more than once. At
any rate, lie will lecture on 1.-THE Cost of an
Idea" at the Methodist Church, this evening
If this should be his only lecture here an ads
mission OF twenty-five cents win be charged
If he can deliver two lectures, the one this
evening will be free, and an admission will be
charged toAmorrow night. Mr.. Jones has
been here before, is said to be an eloquent
speaker, and will Doubt ess abundan,ly enter.
tain a fu Il audience.
Recently the state Of Connec leut sent
an agent to Europe to study the subject of
tree planting Now it is not necessary for us
to go &c any such expense, but like result
can be obtained by a concerted effort Of our
citizens. Some time ago young shade trees
we're set out in the Court House yard, but
were not properly guarded, and part of them
fell a prey 10 the >mallboy that wasteth at
MONDAY. Now Is the time for planting trees
and Il all would take hold together, much
might be accomplished. The public souare
needs more shade as protection for the
crowds that often gather there on public
holidays. Also some Of the new streets need
nothing but trees to perfect them. Lancaster
Is said to look much like New England town.
Let us complete the likeness BY lining all
streets with shade trees, for the delight of
ourselves and our defendants, as was done
in the last century in so many towns ON the
Atlantic sea board and in the Southern
states