Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-20

: .,sLt "seoths present With
s1o'her fellow, "Your generosity is large in.
sso; IT'S exceeded only by your impu.
uence.' Bro. Rindlaub puts tablets by the
hundred into the hands Of our merchants 7,
Is liberal enough to the merchants but do any
u our merchants think Of the fact that on
every one Of those little papers they circu,
late big lie for tho benefit Of Bro Rindlaub.
dis paper Is not the largest homs-p print and
Nas not the largest circulation of any paper
Ia the Third District. Bro RS wonderful
ioesaiity is exceeded only by his impudence.
Preparations for the ceremonies on
Decoration day, Monday, May sist, are not
complete. Hon. A. r. Bushnell will be
President Of The day. r. C. Orr, ESQ. will
make the principal address. Rev. Goodseil,
OF Platteyile and Rev. Stevens OF Blooming
ton will be chsplains. Lieut. II. s. Keene
will be Marshal and Martin Oswald of Fen.
nimore assistant Marshal. Five vice Prssi.
dents from different sections of the count nv
are invited, A choir of Platteville singers are
expected to furnish the vocal music and the
Lancaster Harmonic Band the instrumental
music. A company of little girls will be
trained 10 exercises in singing and to distri-
oute flowers. Programme next week.
Last winters Legislature passed law
directing the inspection and regulating the
sale of Illuminating oils. The law in full was
published in the HERALD Of April 18th. In
spectors are appointed to see to the enforce
ment of its provisions. E. 0. Lacy, of Prsi.
RE du Chen is Inspector for the towns in
Grant county north of Bloomington, Little
Grant. Lancaster, Liberty and Clifton,
and for the two northern tiers of
towns in Iowa county and the counties Of
Crawford and Richland entire. Fred Doring,
OF Darlington, is Inspector for the remainder
OF Grant county, the remainder of Iowa coun-
~ and the county Of La Fayette.
Next Wednesday is Robert Raikess day.
AS may be seen by notices in this paper the
anniversary will be celebrated at Fennnimore.
A sketch IF Robert Raikes, taken from Harper
Is given in this paper. II will be good reading
at the Sunday school convention or indeed is
instructive and entertaining reading any
where. II is worthy of note that the Sunday
school did not originate IN the church nor |
family want. 1t was established for poor and |
neglected children. With parents capable and |
able TO do their whole duty to their children |
the family is better for them than any schoo
Miss Emma Sprague will 20 to New
York in a few days as one Of four delegates
to represent this state in world. gathering
of Good Templars. The delegates from states
and territories west have arranged to meet
together at Chicago and will go in one body
from there to New York. They will be ac-
companied by numerous friends and will have
large and jogial party. Miss Sprague will
be accompanied from here by her mother
who goes to her old home at Bslston, New
York, and will make long visit with friends
she has not been among for forty years.
About $4,000 ties have arriv ed at Ga
lena, says the Gazette, for the Galena & Wis.,
conan railway. 1t is said that two trains
day will soon be run each way on the G alena
& Wisconsin and Tomah road. Six new pas
senger cars and mail car are to be trans
terred to this road from the Des Moines and
Ames narrow gauge, the latter being widened
to standard measure. The Northwestern
company have purchased four new engines,
and by the middle of mex. month will have
nine Of the iron horses ready for operation
on their narrow gauge track.
This is the time of year when ever ything
ia pleasant out of doors the time Of the
month when the moon makes the evenings
very beautiful and the Lancaster young
people are not slow to make use of the beau
ty and balm and refreshing air. Many are
the infatuated couples to be encountered on
walk down Monroe street, and now and
then you will meet with bevy of young la
dies making the clear evening ring with me-
lodious song.
The exhibition of the intermediate and
second primary departments of the public
schools of Lancaster last Thursday evening, |
was not ann 1unced and was poorly attended. |
II was intended to have been held the latter |
part of last week, but Miss Atwater's reading |
interfered. The exercises consisted of reci- |
tation, declarations and songs by the Juveniles |
Not a single failure marred the harmony and |
good taste in which the exercises were rem
dered
Lancaster property owners are bestirring
themselves in the way of Improvements this
spring. Fresh coats of paint, new roofs, new
fences, ETC., seem to be the rage. Among
those who have or will soon have new fences
are Mr.. Jacob Nathan, W. B. Baxter, Rich'd
Bennett, Jas Woodhouse and John Schrei-
ner.
Sunday night, May 9, a mare escaped
near Patch Grove, from party on the way
to Iowa. She belongs to G.. @. Hendy, of
Plattevile, and would no doubt try to get
back TO Platteville. For description, &c. see
Mr.. HQndy's advertisement in this paper.
The Mineral Point Railroad is running
on new time. Cars leave Platteville at 5:25
a. m. and 1885 p. M and meet the Mineral
Point train at Calamine at $50 and $50
Trains coming west arrive at Platteviie at
1885 a m. and $40 p m.
BY law of last winter it is the duty of
town clerks to make reports of pauperism
ana crime, to the county clerk. Town boards
of supervisors are to fix compensation there
for The law is chapter 27l, published in the
HERALD of April 29th.
The young ladies of the Methodist church
Lancaster, are preparing to tickle our palates
and delight our hearts at the first strawberry
festival of the season. II will come off
| Thursday evening of next week.
| Miss Jennie Atwater gave her reading
entertainmen. at the Congregational church
last Friday evening, to small audience. Her
performances were appreciated by those whe
heard them, very highly.
Mrs Hodges, Of Winterset, Iowa, who
was Miss Goodrich when she was the popular
assistant in the Lancaster High School, has
been visiting Mrs. John Howe for few days