Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-09-25
TIE HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

Clothes cleaned aud dyed -overcoats
specialty--at Geo. Gibbs barber shop. If
Mr. Herman Cooks public sale of fur
ni,gre, &c takes place mex. Saturday.
AT trial in Piss,yille Tuesday Capt Beebe
cane of cham! ion glass ball shooters so
Casselman says
-Rindskopfs distilIers in Milwaukee that
u--u 10 Weld such large contributions to Boss
Kc,e-, was burned down last week. Es,i-
mated value $50, 900.
The Wisconsin Congregational Coaven-
ton holds its Annual meeting at Ripon. Mr..
Eaton and wife have gone to attend the meet.
.ny. aud will be absent two weeks.
Hon. John Brindley is candidate for re.
election 70 the Assembly from the srd Dis
,ric,. We knox Of no other person seeking
the place and Mr Brindley made good
member.
Il bunch of KEYS connected with a ring
on which is the name Lewis Holloway, was
lo,. or the Fair Grounds last week. The
hader !, requested TO return them 10 Thos
Dluealf or 70 this office
MIR A. duntemer's business has grown 70
~ach proportions tina, he can make money by
D. ST.. close to the railroad and has moved into
aes shop near the depot. lie now wants
100000 hoops and hoop poles
The st premium OIL TIE irot at the Fair
~. won by Dyer's Star Bashaw the End by
] k Hough's groy. Hurley's horse WIS no.
rnt,red A race between two Norman stall
lon. AS won by Devendo;fs horse
The Penberthy Va Plattevle judgment
d 800 in favor OF the plaintiff carries with
IL SIS ia full against the town. So we un.
jerstaEd by inquiry of Mr. Buehner, Clerk OF
tn Court The costs are between 5000 and
$3.50.
Battericks Deline0tor for October is at
hand II has more of style" than we could
read ia two days and more than We could IN.
detslaud in year, but the ladies seem to ap
preciate and digest il better than bread and |
butter
john Drinkwater won the IS prize. Elmer Sto I
we'll was second best Ia the one hours travel I!
"any gait you please" John Govier took the I
first money and Matthew Harris the second. |
The prizes were $40 and s5-not SO and
tl0 COVERS distance was 81 miles.
Nr Costley living near the Blue river
mill, town OF Castle Rock, had his house and
all the contents burned on Friday evening
last, about o'clock. No one was at home
nj The tins but the old folks. and they were
abb To DO but little towards saving anything
Il the house Loss about 81 10000. So w
learn from Mr.. 7. A. Daggett, FIRE insurance
agent At Muscoda.
Mr. W. Murphcy, law student in the /
Office Of A. w Bell, Plattevie, was admitted
. The Bar as an Attorney, at the late term of
The Circuit Court His examination was in !
open court, an ordeal that very few young at
torncys in this county have had to pass. He !
wa in this public manner questioned on the |
rudments Of law, common law practice and |
r'minal law by Judge Cothren; on equity, |
real estate law, and evidence by Mr. Geo. /
Clementson, and on the law Of contracts and /
constitutional law by Mr.. A r. Bushnell The |
questioncrs also ranged to other special heads /
and Mr.. Clementson for the committee report /
cd Mr. Murphey AS having passed IN excep- |
tonally good examination especially consid-
crrs the brevity of the period within which
he h,l been entered IA Inv student Those
who witnessed this puolic eAaeipaion think |
Mr. Murphey's head is we'll p ted in legal |
sprouts and gives promise ofa1 eS '.i'ent crop. |
The hotel man at Beetown q hi4 Gus,
toners good dinners, but thus far hi. been /
taken by surprise when Republican crnyen-
lions are held in Beetown. At the June CON
,eL.ion be frightened some Of the del git.s
AMY by saying he was not aware Of the con-
veflou and was out Of meat. The fright |
en'j delegates occupied barrel heads and ate |
crackers and cheese On last Wednesdays /
convention day the landlord was in the same
box he didn't know there was to be con
vcu'inn until Mr. Ynger told him the dele /
gates were coming then he posted a boy on
gone nv Of town, and forty delegates were
MT seat away meat hungry Through the in
ictposition of Frank Barr this surprise VIII
Hot occur again He has advised the District
Chairman that it il necessary to advertise
tn Convention in the Boston INVESTIGATOR or
Pomcroy's Democrat. But Mr.. Hampton re-
ay gives the delegates good dinners notNith- |
standing bis being taken unawares
The proceedings of the conventions at
Bectowu and at Platte7ille, published in this
paper, will show who are the Republican can
didaes for the Assembly in the LIST and I'd /
districts. John A. Klndt, of Cassville, is a
merchant About fourteen years ago, we
think il was, he came to Cassyille from Ger |
many. youth without means. He soon found /.
sctive employment and so acquitted himself
as 70 be steadily promoted by those who EN-.
ployed him, But short time ago he had
small clerkship in the store Of John Geiger,
deceased, Now his name is first in the firm
k1ndt, Geiger Co. His advancement shows
what close attention to business and strict in
'rg'iiy mas do. Chas Watson is an indus,
tr2d' farmer OF Lima. His experience in
business connected with the administration of
Is" II considerable lie will be better than an
average member. lie may not be able to make
as big speeches as his brother Tom would
's' he will be full as good looking member
Success to both Of these gentlemen We be.
ieye their distric.s will give them success
-Plateville will have new paper next
week, edited and published by German
named Fred. Reinshagen, OF Milwaukee The
press and material are already there and the
otNce viii be in the building lately occupied
by c. Bell. The paper is to be independent
in politics. A great many people in and
around Plaueville have told us lately that
they would soon have paper there which
would rot "he a saint aud league with dew
lis hut Ne dill not know that German pa
ger vas IN contemplation. Success to merit
--Paueye allowing for distance, did
mcre rptly than Lancaster at the county
Far We IoH's kuos what is the cause but
faievllie seems 10 be coming closer 10 u.s.