Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-07-06
Neighboring Notes.
BLOOMINGTON.

Mr.. r. j. Schell has taken well
earned vacation from business, the first
in many years, and has gone to visit his
son, who is in business at Spring Valley,
MINI. We say to our friend "bon
voyage
David Ballantine is making some inn
proYements on his house. He is one of
those men who keep things moving.
Max Kolb intends laying down the
hammer which he has yielded for many
year so successfully. In fact he has
hammered an ample fortune out of iron
and now, like sensible man, in his de-
clining years, he proposes to take the
world little easier. 1t is we'll
Mr.. Stockard, the proprietor of the
Bloomington mills, will commence work
on them Immediately. He proposes to
give them general overhauling before
he attempts to grind anything.
Herman Euke, our enterprising har-
ness maker, has gone into the onion
business. Herman is an industrious
man, full of enterprise. He and Sam
WoodhOuse are the onion men of
Blake's Prairie.
Mr.. John Ennor takes up the ham
mer which Mr. Kolb laid down and
continues business at the old stand.
George Maker has changed his bust
ness so that instead of q saloon he has
choice lot of canned fruits and Yankee
notions and such other things as will
please the people.
THE boys say that Alfred Hale is
going to put in an organ SO that he will
have a concert saloon. OF this we know
nothing, but we know that Alfred has
an ear for music, but we did not think
it an organ ear.
Hay fields on the prairie are ripening
for the harvest This crop promises
well on the uplands this year. Corn
seems to be coming on as well as usual
notwithstanding the season was so
backward. Rye, oats and barley are
promising well and they will be good
crops. Flax is booming, SO that there
is nothing of which our farmers need
complain rs to prospects. The potato
crop never looked better in these parts
at this time of the year than it does now.
Miss Melissa Thomas takes Miss
Wings place at the grange store.
Mr.. l.. c. Cobb, Of the firm of Osborn
Il Cobb, is the happy father of n bounc-
ing boy, weight eleven pounds. Mr..
c. steps little more lofty since the
new arrival. The baby business, like
other businesses in Bloomington, is
ADJOINING.
We were gladdened by seeing George
Ketner on our streets again. Mr. X.
had his leg badly fractured last fall and
it has been the means of keeping him
in the house since that time. He walks
with crutches
Master Seward Garthwait is home
from the blind school on his summer
vacation. He makes the hills and val
leys of Brooklyn echo with his music.
Master John Wilson is also home from
the same school. These are two bright
lads although shut out from the light
of day.
The politicians are at work setting
up pegs for the fall campaign. Senator
Meflret of Arena, Iowa county, has
been in our midst in the interest of some
Dane county man for Congress. The
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bit
Bridge building and fence repairing
seems to be the principal employment
of many of our people.
The ladies of the Methodist church
had lawn festival Mt which a general
good time was had by young and old.
Those Methodist ladies deserve credit
for their untiring efforts to keep up
their church.