Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06

creased school in the future.
Nix. PETER CAMERON. left Monday
for his new home in Iowa Mr.. Cam
cron has long been a resident of Grant
county and has been counted rs one of
its best citizens and substantial farmers.
His many friends here will wish him UNI
bounded success in his new departure.
BoSCoBEL was treated to violent
rain and hail storm accompanied by
severe lightning early Monday morning.
During the storm the school house was
struck, but tho fire was fortunately
quickly eNtinguiShed. The water fall
is spoken of as the heaviest known for
long time
TnE store of Ivey Il Webb has been
much improved the past week by the
substitution of large lighted windows
and doors in the front for the many
lighted sash which have heretofore di-
vided daylight in minute sections. This,
with new coat of paint, has added much
TO the appearance of this popular store
IHE attention of the numerous West
Grant Subscribers to THE HERALD is
osllcd "a the advertisement Of Frank L.
Greer Of Bloomington which appears in
4ppt bar column (rnnr n lur,ra
and well selected stock Being live
business man they will make il To the
interest of farmers to give him call
4 MEETING Of the old board Of super
yisors, for the town of Lancaster. was
held last Friday afternoon to audit all
accounts against the town and prepare
u report for submission Ia the electors
of the town. The meeting was called
for several days earlier but owing 70
Mr. Rylsnd' scnfurced absence at Madi-
son il WAS thought best to defer it until
he was able to represent
I'm Chicago journal says. speaking
e. the coming change in the guage Of
the Lancaster and Galcna road The
work ot widening the Galcna, Platte
vile, Lancaster and Noodman narrow
gauge branch Of the Chicago and North.
western railroad will begin ON Monday,
and trains will be running at standard
gauge track 20 those points early in july
The steel rails to he used in perfectina
the change arrived ~ Montfort. Wis
cousin. Yesterday The contract fol
Widening the tunnel north of Galcna ha.
been completed
RErLAw writes from Mt Hope tina
the types have been knocking sever
kinds Of sense out of some recent poctrl
sandwichcd in the body Of communi
cation, Instead of managing" il
one placc:it should have read .'wrang
ling" and the Bridal Veil was dock
cd OF caps and quotations We ar,
sorry for Retlaw. but he must rememhe
that the preparation Of poetry is one Q
thu objectionable sins; and. as a conse
quence, the compositor and proof reade
make the would he intelligent type
commit queer blunders OCCASIONAL,
when wrestling with the tinkling verse
LAST Thursday night Dr. Pickard. O
Fennimore, was SO unfortunate rs {,
suffer from the depredationS of horse
thief who got safely away with = horse
valued ut SIj0 or $500. The horse wa.
about fifteen and a half hands high,
coal black in color, good traveller and
weighs LOO pounds. The loss was
discovered in the morning and officers
were at once started in every direction
in hopes Of catching the thief before he
escaped from the county, hut at last ac-
counts he remained outside of pair of
handouts A reward of S25 is offered
for the return of the horse and $50 adj
ditional for the arrest and conviction of
the thief