Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-10-02
TOWN AND COUNTY:


co,oHw. Wright at POtosi, for cheap
boots and shoes.
c,o,he. cleaned and dyed -oyercoats a
.oe.i,l,s-at Geo. Gibbs barber shop. II
4 n Gould, having spent the summer at
c,o,r, Lake. lows, is sgain in Mt. Ida
az dollars will take you to see the Chica>
p,nosition. via, the Platteville Excursion.
rev J. b. Msuer, Of Sherrilrs Mound,
Iva "a. seeing his friends in this county
lat month.
The Methodist church at Boscobel will
,,inae to be supplied with preaching by the
Ry Johl Allison.
-Eey. G. W. Case, for the past three
,.,,. he NJ Z. pastor at Platteville, is made
r., .ling Elder in the Portage District
~ rare opportunity for the purchase Of
bl,oi,d stock cattle, pigs and horses is
,arrrd BY Mr. Howde Read the advertise,
mem.
pr Newell, Dentist, s now red to
rsr Nitrous oxide for the painless extraction
If pe,h At his office over jones' Drugstore,
Lancaster
q, reference to the Premiums awarded at
,ie Country Fair, the list being the careful
no,k Of Postmaster Burr. you will see who
,o,h premiums
W p Baxter, for some two weeks has
breo browsing around his ancient stamping
J oanl in eastern New York He is expected
home next week.
Little Lester Mccoy son Of the ex- Sheriff
who vas often seen as very little boy play
ing on the streets Of Lancaster died last
s.auday of diphIheria.
The hog trade has been apparently quite
bIisk in Lancaster the past week, and fine
drove Of steers were taken through town on
Monday by Mr. Chapman, OF Platteyile
Only three cents for postage, with your
address, will bring you double number of
the excellent old american AgrielatDrist, full
of good things. Send for it, as per adver-
tjsement
-Fong4te your houses b. burning sulphur
The sulphur cure of diphtheria often publish,
cd il this paper Is good one. You can keep
diphtberia and scarlet fever at bay with clean
liicss aud sulphur.
Mr.. John Hale, while taking comfort at
his home in Monmouthshire, England thinks
OF Bloomington and other places ia good old
Grant, and sends papers published in England
aud Wales to the HERALD.
1t il well enon h 10 tlk about the
coming elections, and the return OF Grant,
but he things to look at and purchase are
those handsome new style cloakings and dress
goods just received by IL. W. Wright, of Po-
to,i
Go to IL W. Wright at Potosi, for cheap
groceries
A table given herewith shows how many
horses, cattle, mules, sheep swine, vehicles
watches, pianos and melodeons, bank sha. es
and other personal, property, and how many
acres Of land and the value thereof, the asses
sors found in Grant County in 1879. Grant
County is pretty rich but Vanderbilt could
carry 1t IN hls lett vest pocket
Rev O. Cook, the newly appointed Pas
tor of Lancaster Methodist church is expected
TO BE- in town and preach in that church on
next Sunday morning and evening and also
AZ Boice Prairie School House on Sunday af-
teTuoon. MI. Cook having been pastor of
this charge before, will De- very cordially re-
crived by his many old friend
Those who want to lay aw a paper con
tang he unredeemed land list h al better do
it nov II takes so much Of on, pace, and
Ne are liable to shove it out Of the way. The
IltEALp has spread so extensively il to the
loracs Of those who make money and spend
ID that it is in much greater demand III n tor>
moriy Tor advertising Since this tax list has
been in We have refused more than half the
yduc OF is legal rates. -
"A phiologist says the word afraid is a
contraction of after aid The old "Anglos"
in thcr diiicul! and dangerous undertakings
a.cd often - 20 after aid" An expression
h,bitully used was understood without re-
fined ATTENUATION, and when one was seen
daI4iog about something he hardly dare ur 8
dar,ake otl ors said he was afr aid" Finally
we have the word raid, the full meaning Of
which Is only understood by tracing it 20 its
ougm
the Mineral Point Democrat, the Du-
0uqc Times and some other papers have
copied An item of news about the man pass
II
Woodward In Wyalusing, for 500 bill, aud
credited the item to the Putteville Witness
The Witness stole that news from the HERALD
after il was a week old. The democrat, Times,
ct III could therefore have had the news a
week earlier by more diligent perusal of the
HERALp columns, bu, the fac. Of their giving
credit shows them moro honest than the other
fellow
REV. 6 L. Brown, whose pastoral
work tor the past two years here has been so
successful, i' located for the ensuing year at
Maust,n Although Mr.. Cook will be well
coined % bis old charge there is not an at
irndmt upon Mr.. Browns church who will
no' regret lis going and will be sorry not to
meet him on his daily walks He is man
whose heart is in every good work and who la
bor' both lealously and prudently in his Yine-
y'rd That Prosperity may attend him and
bis family is the wish Of his neighbors and the
lock BE- turns OYER to the care Of another
pa,,or
so to Il W Wright, at Potosi, for cheap
hats, gloves and mit,ens.
The Boscobel fair was a great triumph
fer The enterprising citizens OF BoscObel
They nj, Joined in the work and made it a
credit to their city, as well as source Of
Nasincss profit The fair brought ten thou
sand people to Boscobel, who expended at
least 100000 among the hotels ard business
h'D,'s The Catrdl House kept by Mr.. Bobel