Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-29
Neighboring Notes.
BLOOMINGTON.

The elements have dealt harshly with
us in these parts. Bridges are washed
away, roads torn up, fields washed out,
and crops ruined. Fences. also, are
washed away, so that there is general
demand for barbed wire. AT North An
dover the bridge was taken away and
the Wilson black smith shop wiped out
as clean as if there had never been a
shop on the spot. Mr.. Anderson, the
merchant of the place, had one hundred
tubs of butter in the cellar when the
freshet came and filled the cellar with
mud and water, thus destroying the
butter besides the goods stored away
there. The damage done to Mr.. Alder
sons stock is estimated at over thous-
and dollars. The damage done to par
ties in and about Bloomington is esti-
mated in some cases as high as five
hundred dollars. John SANKEY'S loss is
estimated at over five hundred dollars.
VIM. Heiner as much. Hale, Stanley
and Heiner are also seriously damaged
Most of the damage done in and around
Bloomington was in the fences. The
Blake's Prairie Fair Grounds are dam
aged considerably. Sam Woodhouse's
onions were left high and dry, the earth
being all washed away. Many gardens
in the village were damaged. Ourroads
which we're in splendid condition before
the storm, are badly torn up. Five
hundred dollars will not put them back
as they were before the rain. But still
there is one feature that we may be very
thankful for, and that is that no lives
were lost by means of the storm though
word comes from the north of us that an
old man was killed by reason of the
storm. 1t seems from this report, that
Michael Boyle, an old man, who was
boarding with Mr. p. Conroy, who lives
adjoining Capt II. F. Young's farm on
the north, was sitting in a shed Saturday
after the rain, sewing a vest, when the
shed fell on him, killing him instantly
He was buried last Sunday at the Cath
Ollie church in Patch Grove. Mr.. Boyle
was quiet, inoffensive man who never
did harmful act to any one either by
word or deed, and he leaves a character
on which there is not blemish so far
as honesty and integrity goes. Although
in the neighborhood of eighty years of
age he was of Il bouyant disposition and
as lively as boy. Peace to his memo
ry
Our mill property in this place has
changed hands once more and will soon
be grinding away as it was wont to
when Messrs. Woodhouse & Thomas
owned it and twenty-five dollars a day
was the clear profit to those thrifty mill
ers. The gentlemen who have purchased
the mill are experienced millers. full of
enterprise and pluck, as well rs being
thorough business men. They have
made good purchase, one in which
there is big money with proper manage
ment.
The Fourth of July celebration is
abandoned this year for various reasons.
Some of our neighboring towns are go
ing to celebrate, and in as much as we
had celebration last year it was
thought best, in Difference to these towns
to abandon it, so that the average in
habitant of Bloomington will celebrate
where il is the most convenient for him
to do SO, and we all think it is well that
it is thus. Many will 90 to Mt. Hope,
others to Cassville, and many to Wya-
lusing.
Mr.. X. &. Ballantine, who for many
years has been among the Kansas JAY
hawkers, is again in our midst Mr.. b
has large farm in Sedgwick county,
| Kansas, and he is one of the solid men
in that county, but with all the advan-
tages that country possesses he thinks
that Wisconsin is as good as Kansas and
he would stay with us were his property
sold in Kansas. Mr.. looks as if the
climate of Kansas agreed with him.
Mrs. Woodhouse has returned from
her trip to Iowa.
Mr.. M. Hadley and wife have return.
ed from q trip to Nebraska.
Mr.. ellis has returned from visit &c
his boys at Sibley, Iowa.
I. j. Brooks. of Boscobel, has been
visiting a few days here.
G. j. Glazicr, of Breckenridge Mime.
sofa, gave us flying visit.
Miss Clara Wheeler, of Chicago, i.
here visiting.
Miss Emma Wheeler, who has beer
attending school at Beaver Dam, is AT
home on vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. W. b. Clark have re-
turned from Chicago.
Slime is busy taking care of his garden
what is left of it.
n. L. Wattriss has put up new
fence
The population of our town is on the
increase. Four or five babies a week is
the common rate. Mother Winslow's
syrup at premium.
FENNIMORE.
Mr. A. c. Morse was thrown from .