Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-25
TIE HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

Mercury doan TO twelve below zero les
Sunday.
Tomorrow evening at the Congregation
al social room-go.
Cigar makers wanted-to make til,
belle" cigar FOR Baxter. ssw4
Attend the union Thanksgiving services
at the Congregational church this morning.
See prospeotuses in another column o.
G9deys La9ys Boot aud the New York Of
sarsr.
The stores close to-day from ten a. N
to two p m. Bus Jour turkeys before these
hours.
-I7s r. Z. Marphey and son Lintner re-
turned last Saturday from long visit with
relatives in New York.
Among the claims allowed By the Crsw.
ford county Board Of Supervisors is ons OF
1852 for Grant county.
DIR. Brown viii be in his Office No,
yember 24Jh to December lat, and Decem-
Der 10Th and 18th TO 3ls,.
Belle cigara, only 1925 box at 5ax,
ter's drug store. Equal to the best Eve cent
cigars and better than most tens 36s4
-Tharksgiviug evening (to-nigbt) Potosi
folks will enjoy a concert and supper. for the
benefit Of the Congregational church Of that
place
There win be meeting of the citizens
Of Hurricane Corners and vicinity on Nom
day evening, December s, 1880, for the pur-
pose % discussing the question of cheap
transportation
-Ihs Lancaster sohool-ysrd has new
aud novel gate, made from posts set in two
rows Gas to afford room for person to pass
but not enough space between the posts to
let in large animals.
The Litta Concert Company, which was
e have performed at Platteville last Friday
evening. we're delayed at Galveston, Texas,
aad the time Of their performances in Platte-
vile Is not yet known
Mr.. c. Chilson, of Bloomington, was in
Green county recently ard while there pur.
chased fine blooded bull which he brought
home with him, passing on his way through
Lancaster. The animal will be kept on his
stock farm At Bloomington.
The hogs are dying off by the hun dreds
on Boice prairie, about six miles south Of
Lancaster. Mr.. J. p Cox has lost eighty
hogs; John Cox nearly a hundred Mrs.
Judge Cox seventy or eighty, and S. J. Girls.
void number Other neghbors are also
large sufferers from the prevalent hog disease.
--Weaton Miner Co have concluded to
close out their lumber business in Grant coun-
ty They offer for sale by advertisements in
this paper the stock, yards, and buildings in
number Of places. The lumber business is
generally paying business and these sales
offer rare opportunities for gentlemen to en-.
gage themselves independently
A fellow in Prairie du Chen vas max,
lag q business Of stealing overcosts, satchels,
etc, ont Of cars while passengers were at
meals ii the Railway House Last week
Harrington, the city Marshal was put on the
track Of the thief. He found most of the
missing .rticles and arrested stranger stop
ping at another hotel, on suspicion.
The new depot is completed, painted,
and AZ psesent is occupied By station agent
i. =. Phelps and his active clerk Ms, Abbe.
Taa aew quarters are very comfortable COM
par i with the balliag previously occupied
depot aud now used for q Toulouse.
Taings are nyciy AZ the depot nov. large
engine-hou5e is also rapidly approaching
compile ion.
The'regular annual meeting Of the Lam
caster Library Association will be held at the
Office Of Judge McGonigal on Monday eve,
Nov goth, 1880 at 80 p. NJ. At this meet
ing the accounts Of the past year arc to be
examihed and officers for the ensuing year
elected let all Stockholders be present
Dated Nov Sta 1883
r. A. WATKINS.
S7w2 SECRETARY.
- BuckmiIler, who used to be 30 mGch Of
the time drunk il Lancaster aud who finally,
through the assistance Of Lancaster ladies.
was Set up ia business ia Patch Gtoye, under
the obiis atoms of a temperance pledge is
dad. ga a Sunday morning few weeks
aeo, in DodgeyiIle, he WAS seen sober and
sid he would drink % mare Two bours
thereafter the Marehai found him ,ps in
th erect drunk TIE officer removed him
- comfortable spot in The public square.
At.-r another hour or 20 he was touu3 10 be
a'5i,ss lie died in drunken stupor. He
letves helpless family OF little children.
P.rhaps il had been better FOR them If his
taajug OF had come sooner.
w IL. Druen, formerly OF this county,
aad whoss card appears in the HEGA1p as a
prfcdeng attorney and pension agent at
philadelphia, is managing a case 10 court win
Witch , connected piece Of romance. His
ciens i 90 years old aGd is veteran Of the
wa Of 1872. fila mare is Robert Walcott.
lie is-she hers vho shot aud killed General
d ocs, commander Of the Dri;.h force. At he
b4aia % Queenstown, November is, 1872,
anj TOR shieh services be was pgemo-ed to a
captaiaeT. In 1851, when the Know. Moth
ing excitement was running high in Phila,
delphia, Wslcott went % New York and de
posted in the living 8auk the sum Of al, 700,
receiving from the bank pass book. After
wards be was told thai the bank had failed
aud believing bis money was therefore al lost
he paid no more attention TO il. Recently
he learned that The story # the failure was
tal,a aud - he bank refused to recognize
his claim, because Of Tue lapse Of ,i.ne, he cot
Mr Druen TO bring sait tor him. Xr Drucn
Wast win that suit The romance would be
imperfect without success
About The best joke 81 the season is one
thar has been eonyulsiug the clerks Of Lam
easter tor the last week or two. 1t seems
the store 10 which an attentive and goute-
maaly clerk measures on various commodi.
It's was infested with mice 50 much 50 that
itgas thought necessary q, I'D i resp 70 catch
she pests. 4 trap eas SET aish good egfec,,
too. Somehow that trap cas,bt from eight
to twenty mice a day, 0h.sa As ia, as
cauch. were thrown into ;he street For a
week an slmos. unlimited aamhsr Of mice
maf au uu nelly eul ID cur bs.a's trap, aud