Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-10
TOWN AND COUNTY:

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Town Committee.
Mr.. F. S. Kidd and wife are in Mime
eota visiting relatives.
Try the C. & N. W., the champion nick
Il o;g,r NJ the town. w2*
Miss Elida Birchard, Of Platteville, is
visiting Miss Charlotte Bellows at the Phelps
House and other friends.
Yesterday the prisoners in the county
Jail seemed to be very happy-at least one
would Judge so by their loud and joyous sing
ing.
Miss Elizabeth Hernemann was standing
und-r large poplar tree in Burlington,
Caeine county, last Thursday, and was killed
b, lightning.
-lluckle berries now ripe. Those in want
Of any can be supplied by sending their orr
ders to JOHNSON VAN BUEES, Montfort. or
Castle Rock, Wis.
1T may be proper to remark that we have
not much confidence in the antiquities of the
ataCrosse Cave" We think Cardiff Giant"
whenever we read Of il.
"A division of the Adyentsts set last
Sunday as the day for great fire to destroy
the world Guess the big rain came just in
the nick Of time and put the fire out.
COLI. A. Watrous, ofFond du Lac, a well
known aud able journalist, and chiefofficer of
the Wisconsin Temple of Honor, has pur-
chased an interest in the Milwaukee Sunday
7slegraph and will be one of its editors, resi-
dent at Fond du Lac.
DR.. J. J. Lcavitt, Of Fennimore is about
t1 change his place Of residence to West
Salem, La Crosse county, where he owns a
valuable farm. The former place will lose
good citizen and an excellent physician. He
will follow his profession in West Salem.
--IIuckeberries are a luxury that don't
grow around Lancaster or in any but the
northeastern part of Grant county. As else
whore noticed they can be had by applying to
Messrs johnson & Van Buren,, at either Castle
Rock or Montfort, by applying before the
season past.
MIR. J. o. Bartlett, two doors north of
Howe & Benedict's corner, has ice cream,
good ice cream and sells two sizes of dishes
OF that deectabe luxury, one five cents and
the other ten. He also makes candies and
keeps lemonade and all other articles in the
confectionery line.
There is only one local scIibbler in hun.
dred whose education has brought him to
the knowledge of the fact that when you add
the syllable ing TO the word picnic you must
splice it on with K. The rules of orthoepy
would require you to pronounce it picnissing
ifyou spell it without the k.
Farm lands are offered for sale around
Lancaster and in other parts Of Grant county.
Now is the the time to buy. The chances
are that lands are as low in price now as they
ever will be, except with few who have not
been able to come down to hard-pan facts
This is especially the case at Lancaster where
every one feels that the hard times are over
aud that the leven is working which must
bring things to rise.
Mr.. John Schreiner, Clerk, gives notice
that the annual meeting of schnrl district No
g. which is Lancaster, will be held at the
school house on Monday evening, July IA, at
o'clock The meeting for the free high
school, for cecting officers and other business
will be at same time and place. The present
school officers, as well as other parents and
tax payers are anxious to have good schools
aud to have the business of the district con-
Quoted satisfactorily and they desire full ats
tendance of those interested.
A hail storm passed over Lancaster on
Sunday which may have done some damage
in the country but we have heard of nothing
serious in this county. 1t was accompanied
by very heavy clouds so obscuring the sun as
to cause t. darkness. This storm was
much more severe in other portions of the
state. In Madison it was so dark that the
people lighted the gas tor half an hour.
Five miles west of Madison the hail totally
destroyed whole fields Of grain and killed
pigs and chickens. One man reported hail
stones as large as his fist.
Why so many Of Chicago's, or of any 9th
ers cty's criminals are mere youths as stated
in letter in this paper, is a question that
parents should seriously consider There is
another fact not noted in the letter referred
to. A large proportion of those young men
are the children of ''praying mothers"-very
pious parents and parents who labor zcalously
to have the public remove temptation from the
eyes and lips of their children. "Hardened
criminals" are made everywhere. Hardened
morality to defy public temptation
is not the fruit of public tea ching either in
weekday schools or sunday schools. The
home is the place to harden the heart and
the head against vice,
Col j. G. Clark. after Grating at Bara>
boo on the Fourth, though he had high APP
probation Of the people OF that city and
Sank county before, comes home with his
esteem for them quite advanced. Their
preparations for the exercises were superb
and the attendance very large. Baraboo is
a large, thrifty, wide.awake business county
capital, with It's full quota of resorts for re-
past or amusement and yet on that day of all
the year for Americans, no disorder or
drunkenness was to be seen. Its hotel
where he was entertained he thought elegant
and good enough for any mans enjoyment.
He was driven out to survey the beauties and
romantic scenes of Devils Lake, near by, a
fayorite and lovely resort of pcnickers and
other pleasure seekers. The Colonel will
doubtless remember his trip to Baraboo with
much satisfaction.
If you want to live long and die happy
smoke only the G. an. W. brand of cigars,
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