Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-07-26

the siin-spots attended to immed-
lately.
IL Is no use to tempt Providence
Cyrel Marcue covered his barn with
lightning rods, the roof bristling with
points like regiment with bayonets.
and still the lightning found a place
to get in its regular work. The shin
giles were torn up, ridge-boards split
and sllvered, and other devilment
committed, and the lightning rods
stood like lot of policemen and never
interfered. The man who put up these
rods warranted them to protect forty
acre lot or refund the money.
q 0. j. Hustled lefton the Flying Dutch
man. Monday afternoon. for his home
at White Hall. Ill. A cyclone visited
that town last week doing much dam
age. Fortunately Mr.. I'll. suffered only
the loss of one chimney on his dwelling.
Christopher NJ. Jackson has one of
the finest spring houses in the county.
1t is built over the old Watson spring
and is most elegant place to set milk,
holding as it does, an even tempera-
ture of about 60 degrees.
A plug blew out of the boiler in the
creamery engine-house, Saturday morn
ing, and for while created quite
commotion.
Eathan Griffith, one of our old land
marks. was in town Saturday. claiming
that he never felt better in his life.
Langstaff's machinery yard wears
lively appearance these days.
Our inland waters are being visited
every week by men who supply the
Dubuque market with fresh fish. Every
pond and lake along the Mississippi is
dragged by their nets till scarcely a
sun fish can be caught with hook and
line. 1t is time this thing was stopped
and these marauders bro't to canding
punishment.
The roads leading into the country
are in a deplorable condition and vet
the overseers don't propose to do any
work on them until after harvest Then
they will pillow up the good roads pre-
paratory for the fall rains to wash off.
Admirable system.
Gov. Dewey spent "a few hours in town
last week, conversing with friends. The
Governor looks well.
Peter Hail and Fred Johns, old resi-
dents of Georgetown, and well-to-do
farmers, dincd at the Ostermier Osterly,
on Thursday of last week.
Since the late floods our street wears
the appearance of the beds of river
that had dried up or taken to another
channel.
The rich mans COW has twin calves,
while the poor mans often goes farrow.
Apropos-a certain poor man in town
owns fine COW and calf that he priced
very much, and thought he would sell
the calf for 80 this fall, but the calf
died, and a certain rich man bought n
scalloway cow for low price and she
had twins and they wax fat
George NARROW, one of the righteous
men of the Hurricane, took recreation
in town last week and enjoyed the hospi-
tasities of his friend Hunt. George is
always welcome wherever he goes.
The face of the cheerful farmer is
now overcast with dark shadow. He
is ruined. The wheat has got the rust,
the oats are down fiat and wont fill, the
corn is broken at the second joint and
the old sow is dead. They are u most
unfortunate class when they happen to
lose few cocks of hay in a summer
shower.
A very respectable delegation of the
Masonic fraternity, of this place, will be
in attendance ut the dedication service
of the new Masonic hall, at Platteville.
on Wednesday.
Jacob Neufang has improved his
premises with coat of paint.
/ Hop poles and grape vines suffered a
good deal of damage, in the late storms.
Bad outlook for the beer and wine bust
ness.
Mr.. William Artz, of Beeman, Iowa.
good-looking brother of Dr. Arts, is
spending few days in town. He has
been suffering, of late, from Iowa mala-
ria, and comes over to get the benefit of
the pure Wisconsin breezes.
wrote, last week, the boys were lar
ing their heads in the limpid waters,
and your typo said laying" | didn't
mean the boys had put their heads to
soak. Not much.
Miss vina Zeller spent few
days, last week, with her uncle
and aunt, in the Harrison woods.
She prefers this settlement to a '.lodge
in some vast wilderness.
Miss Nellie Kinney was in Dubuque,
last Friday. This correspondent did
not learn the object of her visit.
The young man who took his girl two
quarts of ice cream, Saturday evening,
is practical economist